Lady of the Dunes

"Lady of the Dunes"
One of the most recent reconstructions of Lady of the Dunes, created in 2010.
Born	1925 – 1954
Status	Identified
Died	c. July 1974 (aged 20–49)
Cause of death	Homicide by blunt force trauma
Body discovered	July 26, 1974 Provincetown, Massachusetts, U.S
Resting place	Saint Peters Cemetery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, U.S.[1]
Other names	"Provincetown Jane Doe"
Known for	Unidentified victim of homicide
Height	5 ft 6.5 in (1.69 m) - 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)(approximate)
Website	Facebook page

Lady of the Dunes (also known as Lady in the Dunes) is the nickname give for Ruth Marie Terry, a woman whose dead body was discovered on July 26, 1974 in the Race Point Dunes, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her body was exhumed in 1980, 2000, and 2013^[2] in efforts to identify her and her murderer. The murder is unsolved.^[3][4][5]

The case was featured on the television series Haunting Evidence in 2006.^[6]

References

1. Boston Globe
2. de Sturler, Alice (April 22, 2014). "Book Alert: the Skeleton Crew". defrostingcoldcases.com. Retrieved August 26, 2014.
3. Richardson, Franci (March 24, 2000). "Police exhume 'Lady of Dunes' in hopes of DNA ID". The Boston Herald. Archived from the original on June 29, 2014. Retrieved May 15, 2014.(subscription required)
4. Allen, Ernie (February 10, 2012). "Computerized Skull Reconstructions". Retrieved March 24, 2014.^{[permanent dead link]}
5. "New clues in Provincetown's Woman in the Dunes case point to Bulger connection". wickedlocal.com. March 1, 2012. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
6. "Haunting Evidence: Season 1, Episode 9". IMDb.com. Retrieved March 24, 2014.