They knew she was a redhead, but they didn’t know her name. She was called “The Lady in the Dunes,” a woman who was unknown and unclaimed. Her grave read “Unidentified Female Body – Found Race Point Dunes, July 26th, 1974.”
Now, we know her name, Ruth Marie Terry, and more about her.
WATD’s Christine James files this story on the decades-long search for answers that started the day she was found:
The site of the Lady in the Dunes grave in Provincetown in July of 2019. Photo credit: Christine James.