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Case Description
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On April 10, 1975, Avery Leroy Howard, a 34-year-old resident of Charleston, South Carolina, was tragically murdered by Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins, a notorious serial killer. Gaskins shot Howard to death, and on the same day, also stabbed to death Dianne Bellamy Neeley, who was Howard's girlfriend and the estranged wife of Walter Neeley, one of Gaskins's closest friends and criminal associates.

The motive behind Howard's murder was Gaskins's fear that Howard might disclose his crimin ...Read More
Victim Details

Avery Leroy Howard

Male

Charleston

SC

1975-04-10

34

Avery

Leroy Howard

11/17/2025