Dennis Bellamy, 28, was lured from North Charleston and murdered on October 10, 1975. According to accounts, he and his 15-year-old half-brother Johnny Knight were promised payment for stolen guns; Bellamy was taken into woods behind a trailer in the Prospect community and shot in the back of the head. Knight was later brought to the same spot and killed as well. Their bodies were buried in a shallow grave.

The graves came to light after Walter Neeley confessed in November 1975 and led law enforcement on December 4, 1975, to a burial site on land near the killer’s home where multiple sets of remains were recovered. Donald Henry Pee Wee Gaskins was identified as the perpetrator. In May 1976 a Florence County jury found Gaskins guilty of Bellamy’s murder and he received a death sentence; that sentence was later overturned and Gaskins pleaded guilty to multiple murders, receiving concurrent life terms. Walter Leroy Neeley was also convicted in Bellamy’s killing and sentenced to death.

Does anyone have additional information about Dennis Bellamy, his movements before October 10, 1975, or people who might have known him in North Charleston?