Ruth Marie Terry (September 8, 1936 – c. July 1974), also known as Lady of the Dunes, was a formerly unidentified murder victim found on July 26, 1974, in the Race Point Dunes in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her body was exhumed in 1980, 2000, and 2013 in efforts to identify her killer. On October 31, 2022, the FBI field office in Boston announced that the victim had been identified as Ruth Marie Terry. Background Ruth Marie Terry was born on September 8, 1936, in a mountainside shack in Whitwell, Tennessee to Johnny and Eva Terry who died at the age of 23. In 1956, Terry married Billy Ray Smith, but the marriage was short-lived and they quickly divorced. She left Whitwell the following year to work at the Fisher Body automotive plant in Livonia, Michigan. In 1958, she gave birth to her son, Richard, but Terry was unable to care for him due to financial difficulties. She allowed the superintendent of her workplace, Richard Hanchett Sr., to adopt her son in return for him paying off her expenses. After the adoption process was finalized, Terry left Livonia and moved to California. In 1972, Terry reached out to her son, but he was not ready to meet her due to a drug overdose which left him in a coma for 18 days. On February 16, 1974, Terry married antiques dealer Guy Rockwell Muldavin in Reno, Nevada. Four months before her death, they visited her family in her hometown. Ruth's grand-niece, Brittanie Novoglonsky, said her family noticed that Terry "wasn't herself" whenever she was with Muldavin. She also said that Muldavin acted as if he owned Terry and made her inaccessible to her family. The couple then visited Terry's half-brother, Kenneth and his wife, Carole, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Kenneth and Carole Terry later recalled the two saying they were going to travel the United States to look for antiques. Kenneth Terry noted that they also spoke about returning to Massachusetts as they were leaving. In the late summer of 1974, Muldavin returned to Tennessee to tell Terry's family that she had gone missing from the couple's California home. According to Terry's sister-in-law, Jan Terry, Muldavin stayed for a short time and simply told them that he didn't know where Terry was. Terry's brother, James, traveled to California where he hired a private investigator to find her. The investigator told Terry's family that all