FBI identifies "Lady of the Dunes" murder victim 50 years after grisly Cape Cod crime
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The identity of Massachusetts' oldest unidentified homicide victim has been revealed publicly, almost 50 years after the infamous murder took place.
Authorities identified the victim as Ruth Marie Terry, a woman born in Tennessee who was 37 at the time of her death, during a Monday news conference. Federal and state agents shared updates about their investigation into the woman previously called "Lady of the Dunes" because authorities had been unable to identity her for decades.
Terry was found dead on July 26, 1974, in the sand dunes roughly a mile east of the Race Point Ranger station in Cape Cod, according to police, who estimate that she was killed several weeks before the discovery.
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