Jessie Ruth Judy was 22 when she was killed in the summer of 1974. According to accounts, she was present with her former boyfriend, 36-year-old Johnny Sellers, when Sellers confronted Donald Henry Pee Wee Gaskins about money from the sale of a stolen boat. Gaskins reportedly shot Sellers in the back of the head and then stabbed Judy to death because he feared she could identify him and report his crimes.

The killings were described as part of Gaskins’s efforts to silence witnesses and conceal his criminal activities. Gaskins was later arrested; subsequent investigations connected multiple bodies to his property in Prospect, South Carolina, and he pleaded guilty to numerous murders, including the deaths of Judy and Sellers.

Are there family members, friends, or local residents who remember Jessie Judy and can share what she was like or any details about her life in 1974?