BOSTON — Authorities in Massachusetts, who earlier this week stated that they had lastly recognized the “Girl of the Dunes,” the lady whose mutilated physique was discovered on Cape Cod in 1974, at the moment are in search of details about a person she might have married.
The late Man Rockwell Muldavin is believed to have married Ruth Marie Terry in February 1974, just some months earlier than the 37-year-old Terry’s physique was present in Provincetown, in response to an announcement Wednesday from state police, Provincetown police and the Cape and Islands district lawyer’s workplace.
Investigators are asking anybody with details about the whereabouts of Terry or Muldavin in New England in 1973 or 1974 to contact them.
Muldavin, described as an antiques seller who additionally used the names Raoul Man Rockwell and Man Muldavin Rockwell, was a suspect within the deaths of a earlier spouse and a stepdaughter in Seattle in 1960, in response to media stories on the time. He was caught in New York Metropolis and charged with “illegal flight.” He died in California in 2002, in response to his obituary.
The demise of the “Girl of the Dunes” was one of the vital enduring and irritating homicide mysteries in Massachusetts.
A younger woman out for a stroll discovered the physique within the dunes in Provincetown in July 1974. The girl was bare on a seaside blanket together with her fingers severed — so she couldn’t be recognized by her fingerprints, officers stated. Her cranium was crushed and he or she was practically decapitated. The reason for demise was decided to be a blow to the pinnacle and authorities imagine she was killed a number of weeks earlier than her physique was discovered.
Joseph Bonavolonta, particular agent in control of the FBI’s Boston division, stated at a information convention Monday that Terry, who was initially from Tennessee, was recognized utilizing investigative family tree, using DNA evaluation together with conventional family tree analysis and historic data.
Terry, whose aliases embody Teri Marie Vizina, Terry M. Vizina and Teri Shannon, additionally had ties to Michigan and California, authorities stated.
Authorities for many years tried to establish her by exhuming her stays, performing clay mannequin facial reconstruction, and releasing age-regression drawings of her face. Investigators had lengthy stated she had lengthy pink or auburn hair and that they believed she was someplace between 20 to 40 years outdated.
They stated Monday that the subsequent step is figuring out her killer.
