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Episode 35 | Ruth Marie Terry & The Mystery of Lady of the Dunes, Provincetown, Mass

#NewEnglandcrimestories #Provincetown #Massachusetts


#ladyofthedunes #ruthmarieterry


After 48 years, Massachusetts' oldest unidentified murder victim has finally been given a name. Ruth Marie Terry. She was brutally murdered and left in a secluded area of Cape Cod in beautiful Provincetown. We learn about the legacy of the the search for her identity and all questions it poses: Who is Ruth? How did she get there? Who is responsible? Who are authorities looking for? What brough her to the Cape that summer? So many questions. Very few answers.

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This is an open case and anyone with information about either Guy Muldavin's or Ruth Terry's whereabouts in Cape Cod, Massachusetts and New England from 1973 to 1974 is asked to call police at 1-800-KAPTURE, emailing MSPTips@pol.state.ma.us or by texting 226787


Rory Gene Kesinger is still missing


The Lady's marker


Ruth Marie Terry in her younger years


Photo of Ruth's body in the dunes in Provincetown

FBI seeking information about Ruth


Sources


Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCf4M0DADjE&list=PL0LzXDjQtfgFteO-xxlt1eFpV88czI53b https://www.youtube.com/c/CrimeoftheTruestKind/playlists


Police Seek Info on Man ‘Lady of the Dunes' Married Months Before Her Death - NBC Boston

https://www.nbcboston.com/investigations/lady-of-the-dunes-husband/2881407


Ruth Terry family history - SFGate

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/lady-of-the-dunes-family-history-17552900.php


The Creepy Husband - Boston Globe

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/03/metro/husband-lady-dunes-killed-provincetown-1974-also-suspected-seattle-double-slaying-1960/


The Clark Brothers = Daily Mail

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3975992/How-Hadden-Clark-Bradfield-Clark-s-brother-killed-Laura-Houghteling-Michele-Dorr.html


The Disappearance of Sarah Pryor, Mass.gov

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/sarah-pryor


What we know about Lady of the Dunes - Boston Globe

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/31/metro/heres-what-know-about-lady-dunes-her-unsolved-murder/


Golden State Killer DeAngelo

https://allthatsinteresting.com/joseph-james-deangelo


Alleged Bear Brook murderer Terry Rasmussen

https://www.wmur.com/article/case-timeline-man-known-as-bob-evans-connected-to-6-killings/8643018


Historic Mysteries

https://www.historicmysteries.com/lady-of-the-dunes/#:~:text=This%20case%20is%20%E2%80%9Cthe%20oldest,a%20heroin%20overdose%20in%201996.


Lady of the Dunes DNA - Cape Cod Times

https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/crime/2022/10/31/lady-of-the-dunes-dna-provincetown-massachusetts-victim-identity-headless-body/69605688007/


Lady of the Dunes 2000 Exhumation

https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/405343412/3FBA0D5F8DD94F91PQ/8?accountid=9675


Ruth Terry’s background - New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/us/provincetown-body-lady-of-the-dunes.html


The Husband - Boston Globe

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/03/metro/husband-lady-dunes-killed-provincetown-1974-also-suspected-seattle-double-slaying-1960/?event=event12


Lady of the Dunes IDed, now where is her husband - NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lady-dunes-identified-nearly-50-years-now-police-want-info-husband-rcna55476


Rory Kesinger

http://oakhillresearch.blogspot.com/2016/08/rory-kesinger.html

https://medium.com/crimebeat/the-incredible-life-and-mysteries-of-rory-kesinger-9b1af855f401


How Ruth was found - Cape Cod Times https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/crime/2019/04/14/new-look-at-old-lady/5113488007/


Chief Meads, Provincetown - Wicked Local https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/archive/2011/12/27/former-provincetown-police-chief-james/39478504007/


DA Philip A. Rollins https://www.chapmanfuneral.com/obituaries/Philip-A-Rollins?obId=20701907

Lady of the Dunes in Provincetown

https://www.provincetown-ma.gov/618/Lady-in-the-Dunes


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