Dennis Bellamy was 28 when he was lured to a trailer home in Prospect, South Carolina, on October 10, 1975, to confront an acquaintance, Donald Pee Wee Gaskins, over stolen guns. His 15‑year‑old half‑brother, John Henry Knight, was killed the same way that day to ensure his silence.

The case moved after a Gaskins associate, Walter Neeley, confessed to police on November 14, 1975, saying Gaskins had admitted killing several missing people and identifying burial sites. On December 4, 1975, investigators recovered the bodies of eight victims, including Bellamy, from shallow graves on Gaskins’s property in Prospect.

A Florence County jury found Donald Gaskins guilty of Bellamy’s murder in May 1976; a death sentence followed. Walter Neeley was also charged and convicted in connection with Bellamy’s death and received a death sentence that was later commuted to life. Have readers with memories of Prospect in 1975 or information about Bellamy’s life come forward?