In September 1975, 13-year-old Kim Ghelkins, a white female, was last seen in North Charleston, South Carolina, while staying at the home of local man Donald Pee Wee Gaskins. Investigators later found some of her clothing at Gaskins’s residence, and he was arrested on a lesser charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor as that inquiry proceeded.

Questioning of Gaskins’s associate Walter Neely led to a confession that Gaskins had buried multiple victims near his Prospect, South Carolina, property. On December 4, 1975, police excavated a burial site and recovered the remains of eight people, including Kim. Gaskins was later charged in connection with those deaths; he was convicted in the murder of Dennis Bellamy in May 1976 and ultimately entered a plea admitting guilt in multiple murders, receiving concurrent life terms.

If anyone knew Kim, her last known movements, or has information about who may have seen her in North Charleston in 1975, please share what is remembered.