There is a desolate beauty to the dunes near the very edge of Cape Cod, where the windswept shores are battered by the Atlantic and little more than scrub brush and trees can survive. It was here where an adolescent girl and a dog found a body, the head nearly severed and hands gone, on a July day in 1974.
The discovery by Provincetown, Massachusetts, set off a mystery that has captivated investigators to this day. Though a key piece of the puzzle has just been solved. On Monday, the FBI announced that they finally had a name for the heretofore unidentified victim, a woman who became known as The Lady of the Dunes: She was Ruth Marie Terry, a 37-year-old woman from Tennessee.
