Learn more about Ruth Marie Terry, whose gruesome murder is the subject of the Oxygen documentary Lady of the Dunes: Hunting ...

Find out how Richard Hanchett's journey to find his mother led to the discovery of the Lady of the Dunes' real identity.

Terry, a young Tennessee woman who gave her newborn up for adoption in Michigan in 1958, became known to Massachusetts police as “The Lady of the Dunes,” an unidentified murder victim found on ...

The windswept dunes of Cape Cod have long held a dark secret - a brutal, unsolved murder of now-identified Ruth Marie Terry, that has haunted investigators and true crime enthusiasts for decades.

The three others were taken to Cape Cod Hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. The crash is under investigation. Auzzy Byrdsell can be reached at austin.byrdsell@globe.com.

Terry, a young Tennessee woman who gave her newborn up for adoption in Michigan in 1958, became known to Massachusetts police as "The Lady of the Dunes," an unidentified murder victim found on a ...