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The Ordered Hit on Rudolph Tyner (Episode 213)

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Pee Wee Gaskins sliced Hazel Brazel’s throat and called it his first murder.

1. Black True Crime covers the ordered hit on Rudolph Tyner and the path that led Pee Wee Gaskins into the story. 2. Kayla and Kristen host the episode, and Kristen’s first appearance as a married woman becomes part of their opening banter. 3. The episode asks how Rudolph Tyner’s prison stay and Pee Wee Gaskins’ violence ended up intersecting through a contract killing. 4. William B. Moon and Myrtle Moon were shot to death on Saturday, March 18th, 1978, while working at their convenience store near Myrtle Beach. 5. Rudolph Tyner and Carlton Davis were arrested in Carlton’s house about a mile from the crime scene on March 19th. 6. Investigators found a shotgun at Carlton Davis’s home that was directly linked to the murders. 7. Tyner admitted during questioning that he killed William and Myrtle Moon. 8. The hosts say the Moon couple were known as good people and had a grown son named Tony Chimo. 9. Tony Chimo allegedly wanted someone who could reach Rudolph Tyner in prison and finish the job. 10. That search led him to Pee Wee Gaskins, who was described as the meanest man in America. 11. Donald Henry Gaskins was born on March 31st, 1933, in Florence County, South Carolina, to Aaliyah Parrott. 12. The hosts say he was the youngest of five children and that he barely received attention from his mother. 13. They also say he did not learn his legal name until his first court date. 14. As a one-year-old, Donald drank kerosene left within reach, and the episode says he had seizures for the next two years. 15. He grew up at 5'2" and was bullied by classmates, siblings, and adults around him. 16. By age 11, he had dropped out of school and was working full-time at a local car repair shop. 17. Donald later joined Danny and Marsh in a group they called the Trouble Trio, and the hosts describe burglaries, prostitution, and sexual violence. 18. After a prison sentence, Gaskins escaped by hiding in a garbage truck and later returned to prison after more offenses, including the assault of a 12-year-old girl. 19. The episode’s tone is loose and conversational, with Kayla and Kristen breaking up grim details with jokes, reactions, and side comments. 20. Listeners who follow South Carolina true crime, prison histories, and offender biographies will get the most from this episode. 21. Listeners looking for a clean, fast, lightly detailed crime summary may want to skip this one.

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A blunt true crime conversation that treats violence as a choice.

The episode stays locked on a killer who, by his own account, split his crimes between "coastal kills" and "serious kills," and the hosts keep circling that logic without smoothing over what it means.

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You get a grim, blunt conversation about Pee Wee's crimes, his daughter Shirley, and the way one man could be a good dad and still choose violence.

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