Lady of the dunes

Fifty years ago, an unidentified woman’s body was found in the dunes of Provincetown. The NBC10 Investigators explain what it took to find answers for the “Lady of the Dunes.”

The NBC10 Investigators bring you the story of the “Lady of the Dunes,” a woman found murdered in a Cape Cod town in July 1974. Decades later, she and her killer would be identified.

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Former detectives on Cape Cod say evidence was thrown away and contaminated years before a slain woman was identified as Ruth Marie Terry.

Two longtime Provincetown Police detectives who worked the Lady of the Dunes murder case believe the case may have been solved years ago. For the first time, they’re speaking out about missteps in the investigation.  They say key evidence was thrown away and contaminated and believe mistakes and roadblocks stalled the case and may have prevented a killer from...

Leaps in DNA testing capabilities are helping investigators with decades-old cases that have gone unsolved until now.

When a driver discovered a human skeleton along the side of on Interstate 195 in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, in 1985, investigators got straight to work, trying to piece together clues in an effort to learn who the remains belonged to. The process was thorough and painstaking, with law enforcement even creating a facial reconstruction out of the skull. But they couldn’t…

New technology is helping to bring answers to old questions, as in the case of of Keith Olson, found along Interstate 195 in Fairhaven in 1985.

Investigators determined that Ruth Marie Terry was killed by her husband, Guy Muldavin.

The “Lady of the Dunes” case, which involved what had been Massachusetts’ longest-unidentified homicide victim, has been officially closed after nearly 50 years as investigators declared Monday that she was killed by her husband.

A detective pivotal in helping to solve the “Lady of the Dunes” case has retired from the police department in Provincetown, Massachusetts, after being blacklisted by the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office. District Attorney Robert Galibois sent a letter to the Providence Police Department, notifying it that his office had placed Detective Meredith Lobur on its Brady list,...

The NBC10 Boston Investigators have been looking into the disturbing writings of Guy Muldavin, the main suspect in the Lady of the Dunes murder case. The woman was found dead 49 years ago in Provincetown, Massachusetts. It was a disturbing scene in the Race Point Dunes on July 26, 1974. A woman’s body was discovered, and her identity was unknown…

The NBC10 Boston Investigators look into the disturbing writings of the man suspected in the Lady of the Dunes murder case and whether he may have been a serial killer.

The family of murder victim Ruth Marie Terry travelled across the country to Provincetown, Massachusetts, for a final goodbye. Our team was invited on their private journey into the dunes where her body was found.

The family of Ruth Marie Terry traveled across the country to Provincetown for a final goodbye.

NBC10 Boston was there as Richard Hanchett visited Provincetown and scattered some of the ashes of his mother, Ruth Marie Terry, who was only recently identified as the Massachusetts murder victim known only as the “Lady of the Dunes.”