The murderer of the Lady of the Dunes in 1974 has been unmasked
After finally identifying the body found on a beach 49 years ago last October, the police discovered that the murderer was her husband, who has since died.
PostedAugust 31, 2023, 6:47 AM
Ruth Marie Terry was on her honeymoon when she was murdered.
FBI
On July 26, 1974, a family discovers a corpse in the dunes of Cape Cod, in Provincetown, Massachusetts. It is that of a naked woman, whose head, almost severed, rests on folded jeans. His hands were also severed and the left side of his skull was crushed. Investigators will determine that it was this blow to the head that killed her, probably 3 weeks before her body was discovered.
However, it is impossible to identify the victim, despite years of blood, DNA, facial reconstructions and robot portraits. Nicknamed the “Lady of the Dunes”, she became the state’s oldest unidentified homicide victim. Until October 2022, when the FBI managed, thanks to a genealogical investigation, to finally put a name on this body. It was Ruth Marie Terry, 37 years old at the time of her murder and coming from Tennessee. All that remained was to find his killer.
The photos released by the FBI after the identification of the body to find his killer.
AFP
Knowing the name of the victim made it possible to find the culprit relatively quickly, since it was her husband, Guy Muldavin, 51 at the time, investigators announced on Monday, as we learned. NBC. They discovered that he and Ruth had gone on a trip in 1974 shortly after they were married in 1973 or 1974, and that he had returned alone in his wife’s car, explaining that she had died. Terry’s brother had wanted to investigate with Muldavin to find out what had become of his sister, but the husband had given another version, explaining that they had argued during their honeymoon and that he had no more news. ‘She.
Guy Muldavin was also a suspect in the murder of a previous wife and her daughter.
Massachusetts State Police
Investigators have come to the conclusion that Muldavin murdered his wife, especially as he was also a prime suspect in the disappearance of his estranged wife and daughter-in-law in the Seattle area in the years 1960, prosecutors said. But he will not answer for any of his crimes since he died in 2002.
He had studied in Switzerland
Muldavin was an antique dealer who used several names, Raoul Guy Rockwell or Guy Muldavin Rockwell. He had notably been educated in Switzerland, according to the newspapers of 1960 which spoke of him when he was wanted for the death of his second wife, Manzanita Mearns and the daughter of the latter Dolores Ann, 18 years old at the time. Pieces of their bodies had been found in a septic tank in their home, when Muldavin had just married a new wife. He was arrested in New York while also being prosecuted for fraudulently extracting money from his new mother-in-law to buy antiques. But in the end, he had never been charged.
2023-08-31 04:47:09
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