The Lady of the Dunes
Despite being the ‘holy grail’ of cold cases, she’s still not been identified after nearly 50 years.
The Lady of the Dunes case has puzzled local law enforcement and web sleuths across the globe for the past four decades. However, in 2015, the case was brought to the forefront of popular culture when author Joe Hill believed he saw the woman on screen.
The woman was found beneath long grass by a young girl walking her dog on the 26th of July 1974 in the Race Point Dunes of Provincetown, Massachusetts. She was nude and looked to have been sunbathing when she was killed, police would later find out, between one to three weeks earlier.
Laid face down on a green blanket, the woman could only be described as aged between twenty-five and 35 years old and had long red hair pulled back in a ponytail. Her minimal clothing — Wrangler jeans and a blue bandana — was propped under her head, being used as a pillow.
Though there were no signs of a struggle, her hands had been cut off, and her head had almost been removed from her body. During her autopsy, it was revealed that much of her expensive ‘New York…
