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Ruth Marie Terry's murder went unsolved - until DNA testing put the pieces together, connecting her to a killer of Washington State.

Ruth Marie Terry's murder went unsolved - until DNA testing put the pieces together, connecting her to a killer of Washington State.

In another win for DNA sites, Terry was eventually identified, as was her killer...and that is what brings us to 'The Evergreen State.

In another win for DNA sites, Terry was eventually identified, as was her killer...and that is what brings us to 'The Evergreen State.

When the ‘Lady of the Dunes’ was identified last year, after almost half a century, as Tennessee woman Ruth Marie Terry, suspicion quickly centred on the man she’d married shortly before her death. The revelation, along with further details about his questionable past, left a family friend ‘speechless’ – and now Guy Rockwell Muldavin has been confirmed as the Cape Cod victim’s killer. Sheila Flynn reports

Guy Rockwell Muldavin, who died in 2002, married Ruth Marie Terry just a few a months before her mutilated body was found on a Cape Cod beach in 1974

Guy Rockwell Muldavin, who died in 2002, married Ruth Marie Terry just a few a months before her mutilated body was found on a Cape Cod beach in 1974

Guy Rockwell Muldavin, who died in 2002, married Ruth Marie Terry just a few a months before her mutilated body was found on a Cape Cod beach in 1974