The mystical murder of the “woman in the dunes” still evokes passions and unexpected versions.

The “woman of the dunes” Lady of the dunes) the named corpse lay face down on the sand. Leslie saw that the woman was naked and that her clothes were neatly folded and tucked under her head. He returned to his parents and immediately told them what he had seen. The girl’s father went to see the horrible find and reported it to the police, writes the site hystoricmysteries.com.

Another girl, Sandra Lee, who is now a detective writer, said she had also seen a dead woman from Dune a couple of days before Leslie found the body, this time she was also walking in the dunes with her dog. Sandra claimed to have noticed that the woman had a head injury. He also said he saw an incision in the woman’s neck. But Sandra was afraid to tell anyone about it, so the remains are officially believed to have been found by Leslie.

The crime scene of a woman in the dunes.

When the police arrived at the crime scene, they found the victim lying on a green beach towel. The Wrangler jeans and a blue scarf were folded and placed under the head instead of a pillow. Where his hands were supposed to be, he was blowing lots of pine needles. The assailant almost shrugged and clenched several teeth. Detectives speculated that her hands had been cut and her teeth were pulled out to make it difficult for officers to identify her. On one side of his head was an injury caused by a blunt object: Investigators discovered that it was this blow that killed him. There were also signs of sexual abuse on her body.

About 46 m from the site of the victim’s remains, tire markers were found. There were also two pairs of feet near the corpse. The researchers estimated that the woman could have been killed about two weeks ago.

Promising information was found at the start of the study. Pathologists discovered from the rest of the victim’s teeth that he had undergone high-quality dental procedures, including dental crowns. Such dental repairs, called New York style, were very expensive.

The victims could be between 20 and 49 years old. According to more precise estimates, his age could have been between 25 and 39 years old. The 1.6m tall woman had a sporty physique and had brown hair tied in a ponytail. The fabric under his body was untangled. This could mean that she was asleep at the time of the crime, knew her assailant, or that her body had been brought from somewhere else.

Homicide investigation

It would have been easier to find this woman’s alleged murderer if the police had identified the victim. In an attempt to discover who this woman is, detectives reviewed numerous reports of missing persons. Another line of research was directed at professional dentists. Another team of detectives was looking for a car that could leave tire marks. Police once again unearthed the area around the crime scene, but found no evidence.

Who was the woman in the dunes?

The victim’s photo robots were announced to the public, and the police received several calls. Detectives were contacted by a Maryland woman, fearing it may have been her missing sister. Like the victim, her sister had brown hair. The sisters lost contact when the catfish moved to Boston. However, the police never confirmed that it was the same person.

Another version also caught the attention of detectives. A year before the Cape Cod murder, bank robber Rory Gene Kesinger escaped from the Plymouth County correctional facility. She matched the victim’s overall profile, and the police thought it might be Jane Doe from Provincestown. However, DNA samples taken from R. G. Kesinger’s mother denied it and the police quickly rejected R. G. Kesinger’s last name.

Was Dune’s wife filmed in Nasru?

One of the craziest theories of this murder is also one of the most interesting. He was raised in 2015 by Stephen King’s son Joe Hill. After reading about the case in the media, he watched the classic Jaws movie when he saw a woman as the victim. One of the filmmakers who appeared on stage, who was filmed on Martha’s Vineyard Island, was wearing jeans and a blue scarf over his head. In addition to the similar clothing, the statistician was also strikingly similar to the victim in physical appearance.

Filming for Nasra started in May 1974, just a couple of months after the Cape Cod murder, and Provincestown is just hours from Martha’s Vineyard Island. The idea that the victim was filmed in this movie seemed too “tense,” but at least one FBI agent noted that “strange ideas have helped unravel frozen cases.”

Who killed the woman in the dunes?

Although the murderer, as the identity of the victim, remained unknown, the police suspected several men. The most serious suspect was the infamous gang boss James Bulger, nicknamed Whitey. He frequented the area and was seen in a women’s society as the victim. Bulger, who has been involved in drug and weapons deals, spent a lot of time at the Crown & Anchor bar in Provincestown.

He and his favorites often tried to hide the identities of the victims with a smile. In addition, J. Bulger wore size 10 shoes, the same feet were found in the dunes next to the murdered.

A woman strangled by Mr. Bulger was found in a swampy area on the Neponset River in eastern Massachusetts. Like the Dune woman, it was missing teeth. However, the police have yet to prove Bulger’s guilt. In 2018, he was killed by a prisoner in prison.

Reconstruction of the victim’s face.

A woman from the dunes was buried on St. However, in Peter’s cemetery, the police have withheld her head for the ongoing criminal investigation. The first clay facial reconstruction was done in 1970. In 2010, a new tech scanner helped recreate his facial features.

DNA test

His remains were exhumed even twice. In 1980, forensic experts took blood samples from his remains. However, the data obtained did not provide any new information about the killer. The victim was exhumed for the second time in 2000: her DNA samples were compared to those of R. Kesinger’s mother. As already mentioned, they did not coincide.

Genetic genealogy in this case

Detectives do not lose hope that one day they will clarify the case. In 2019, Michael O’Keefe, the Cape Cod District Attorney, launched a new investigation into the murder of a Dune woman. It intends to use genetic genealogy, an investigative method in which officials use genetic databases to locate relatives of a victim or suspect. In 2018, the method had already helped detectives find suspects in 28 cases, including “Golden State Assassin” Joseph James DeAngelo, who was discovered after nearly 50 years of searching.

Cape Cod is still waiting for answers

Almost 50 years later, the brutal murder of a woman in the dunes still hung over Provinstown like a black cloud. The dune woman is “the longest undetected person in Massachusetts” (Bragg). Leslie Metcalfe, who found the woman’s body in the dunes, is also not alive, died in 1996. On a Cape Cod Times website, Leslie’s sister Alyssa, who was 10 years old at the time of the woman’s murder Dune said the case continued to worry the people of Provincestown.

“It just caught our eye then. I think a lot of people in this city worry about this case because they want to know who that woman was. She is a great mystic,” he said.