# The Meanest Man in America: The Mind of Donald Gaskins

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Podcast: [True Crime](https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-7158337)
Published: 2026-05-26T23:00:02+00:00
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He was a small man with a monstrous reputation, a serial killer who christened himself "the meanest man in America" and boasted of a private graveyard for his victims. Convicted of nine murders but claiming a toll of over 100, Donald Gaskins represented a unique depths of human cruelty. This documentary brings together leading psychologists and criminology experts to analyze the making of a psychopath. Through archival footage, interviews, and chilling excerpts from his own confessions, the film dissects Gaskins' personality—from his traumatic childhood to his reign of terror across South Carolina—attempting to understand how a human being could embrace evil so completely and what his case reveals about the outer limits of criminal violence. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

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