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Re: LADY OF THE DUNES: WF, 27-49, found in Provincetown, MA - 26
July 1974
By: Scorpio Date: December 12, 2022, 10:25 pm
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Family Describes ‘Earth-Shattering' Realization of Ruth Marie
Terry's 1974 Death
Days after authorities announced she had been identified, family
members are shining new light on the life of a woman whose body
was found in 1974 on Cape Cod.
The life of Ruth Marie Terry — the woman known for decades only
as "The Lady of the Dunes" — took a tragic twist after she
married Guy Muldavin in 1974.
Her family describes Terry as a loving and caring person who was
a free spirit and wanted to explore life outside of where she
grew up in Tennessee. She last visited her family four months
before her body was discovered in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
"It was just earth-shattering to know that somebody so beautiful
and so loved and so bright was taken like that," her
great-niece, Brittanie Novonglosky, told the NBC10 Boston
Investigators in an exclusive interview. "She was just
brutalized and left that way with no dignity."
Novonglosky said her grandmother told her Terry oozed love and
was a loving person.
After almost five decades of living with the unknown, Terry's
family's search for her ended in the dunes of Cape Cod, hundreds
of miles away from her roots in Tennessee.
Investigative genealogy finally put a name to the composite face
of the victim brutally murdered in Provincetown on July 26,
1974. Novonglosky described the outcome of the case as "very
shocking," "very crazy" and "very sad."
"It's very, very sad for us, because she was up there for 50
years all by herself," said Novonglosky.
She told us her mother and grandmother never stopped searching
for Terry, not knowing she was buried in Provincetown all these
years in an unnamed grave. They last knew she was in California
with her boyfriend, Muldavin, who sources tell us is the focus
of the investigation into her murder.
It was a vicious crime. Terry's skull had been crushed, her head
nearly decapitated. Her hands were severed and several teeth
were pulled.
According to a marriage certificate obtained by the NBC10 Boston
Investigators, Terry married Muldavin in Reno, Nevada, five
months before her body was discovered. Her family met Muldavin
the year before Ruth disappeared, but they had no idea about his
disturbing past.
Sources say that Muldavin, who is now dead, was also known as
Raoul Rockwell, and that he was being eyed in the brutal killing
of his wife and stepdaughter in Seattle in 1960. He was never
charged with the murders.
That crime made headlines, with newspaper reports describing the
horror. Human remains found in a septic tank of the family's
home and business. Muldavin was front-page news when he was
arrested in New York later that year for unlawful flight for not
giving testimony related to the mutilation of human remains.
Novonglosky said her family remembers Terry wasn't herself when
Muldavin was by her side. She said Terry was almost inaccessible
when she was with him, and it was like he owned her, that she
was his property.
When asked about her thoughts in the wake of learning Muldavin's
history, Novonglosky responded, "Knowing what we know now and
seeing it, it would be very shocking if it wasn't him."
She added that it was Muldavin who told her family Terry went
missing. Novonglosky's great-grandfather then travelled to
California and hired a private investigator, who told them all
of her belongings had been sold and that she left the state.
Novonglosky wants people to know Terry was loved, was beautiful
and deserves justice.
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Re: LADY OF THE DUNES: WF, 27-49, found in Provincetown, MA - 26
July 1974
By: Scorpio Date: December 13, 2022, 5:02 pm
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