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In 1974 the killer of the Lady of the Dunes was unmasked
Last October, police finally identified a body found on a beach 49 years ago and discovered the killer was her husband, who had died.
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Ruth Marie Terry was on her honeymoon when she was murdered.
FBI
On July 26, 1974, a family found a body in the Cape Cod dunes of Provincetown, Massachusetts. His hands were also severed and the left side of his skull was crushed. Three weeks before her body was found, investigators would determine that this blow to the head killed her.
However, despite years of blood, DNA, facial reconstructions and robotic sketches, the victim remains impossible to identify. Nicknamed the “Lady of the Dunes,” she became the state’s oldest unidentified homicide victim. Until October 2022, the FBI manages, thanks to genealogy, to finally put a name to this body. Ruth Marie Terry was 37 years old at the time of the murder and from Tennessee. All that remained was to find his killer.
Photos released by the FBI after identifying the body to find her killer.
AFP
Knowing the victim’s name made it possible to track down the perpetrator relatively quickly, as her husband at the time, Guy Multavin, 51, investigators announced Monday. NBC. They discovered that he and Ruth had gone on a trip in 1974, shortly after their marriage, and that he had returned alone in his wife’s car, explaining that she had died. Terry’s brother wanted to know what happened to his sister with Muldavin, but the husband gave another version, explaining that they had an argument on their honeymoon and that he had no news. ‘She.
Guy was also a suspect in the murders of Multa’s previous wife and her daughter.
Massachusetts State Police
Investigators have concluded Multavin killed his wife, especially since she was the prime suspect in the 1960 disappearance of his wife and daughter-in-law in the Seattle area, prosecutors said. But he would not answer for any of his crimes after his death in 2002.
Educated in Switzerland
Multavin was an antiques dealer who went by the names Raoul Guy Rockwell or Guy Multavin Rockwell. It is notable that he was educated in Switzerland, according to 1960 newspapers that spoke about him when he was wanted for the deaths of his second wife, Manzanita Mearns, and daughter of Dolores Ann, who was 18 at the time. When Mulda married a new wife, their body parts were found in the septic tank of their house. He was arrested in New York for defrauding his new mother-in-law to buy antiques. However, he was not charged till the end.
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