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He weighed just four pounds when he came into the world, grew up without knowing his own legal name,

and walked out of childhood so damaged that murder eventually felt to him like a relief.

Donald Henry Gaskins killed and ruled South Carolina for years before anyone noticed,

and by the time they did, the number of victims was almost impossible to count.

This is the story of Pee-Wee Gaskins.

Donald Henry Gaskins was a teenager the first time he heard his own full legal name.

It came from a judge.

A judicial officer read it out loud during his first court appearance.

And Gaskins reportedly had no idea that's who he was.

He had been pee-wee his entire life, a nickname handed to him at birth because he

weighed just four pounds, and nobody expected much more from him than that. You reach your teenage

years and you genuinely don't know your own name. That's not a quirky footnote on the edge of a

larger story. That's the foundation.

And here's what I want you to hold on to as we go through this.

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