For nearly fifty years, the Lady of the Dunes was Cape Cod’s most enduring mystery. Found savagely murdered and mutilated in the remote dunes of Provincetown in 1974 it seemed her identity would be forever unknown. In 2022 she was finally identified as Ruth Marie Terry.
Filmmaker Victor Franko worked tirelessly for two years attempting to give the Lady of the Dunes her name back through his documentary. Whether directly, or indirectly, he succeeded.
Repeatedly told he was ‘chasing ghosts’ and to ‘let it go’ Victor persevered. The process led to visiting rustic dune shacks, creepy cemeteries, iconic Provincetown night spots, Boston’s infamous Combat Zone, and correspondence with convicted serial killers. Over time the project became about more than just a dead girl in the dunes.
The documentary shone new light on the Lady of the Dunes case. This book pulls the curtain back on the Wild West that was Provincetown in the 1960s and 1970s thanks to those who were there at the time in a true crime thriller with a splash of historical fiction.
Table of Content
Introduction
Prologue
Chapter 1, The Story of the Lady of the Dunes
Chapter 2, The First Step
Chapter 3, The Dam Has Burst
Chapter 4, Peggy Sue
Chapter 5, Needle In A Haystack
Chapter 6, A Garden, A Babysitter, and A Bartender
Chapter 7, Restricted
Chapter 8, Like A Grain of Sand
Chapter 9, I Don’t Care What You Say
Chapter 10, The Shoot Day One
Chapter 11, The Shoot Day Two
Chapter 12, The Shoot Day Three
Chapter 13, Dear, Hadden Clark
Chapter 14, Why Didn’t You Get A P.O. Box?
Chapter 15, God Bless You Always
Chapter 16, Laura
Chapter 17, Diary
Chapter 18, A Visit With Whitey
Chapter 19, RAD
Chapter 20, Judy
Chapter 21, Happy Halloween
Chapter 22, The Premiere
Chapter 23, Ruth Marie Terry
Epilogue, Frank’s Letter to Lady of the Dunes (Ruth Marie Terry)
Final Note From the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
References
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