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Lady of the Dunes podcastAuthor: Gannett
The body of a young woman, who appeared to be in her 20s, was found in the dunes area east of the Race Point Station in Provincetown, Massachusetts, shortly after 6 p.m. Friday on July 26, 1974. An autopsy was to be performed the next morning. In a small news story on the bottom of Page 1 of the Cape Cod Standard-Times was the first time the public would hear about the unsolved Lady of the Dunes homicide that has lingered now for 45 years. This is a podcast about the Lady of the Dunes case, and other unidentified bodies, skeletal parts and cold cases in our region with Cape Cod Times reporter Mary Ann Bragg. Language: en-us Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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'Lady of the Dunes' podcast: Episode 4
Sunday, 6 October, 2019
Leo “Skip” Childs of Truro was working at his father-in-law’s gas station the summer of 1974 when word spread that a woman’s body had been found in the dunes in Provincetown. Now 45 years later, Childs has a part-time job mowing the church cemetery where the unidentified victim — known now as the Lady of the Dunes — is buried. In the latest episode of the Lady of the Dunes podcast, Childs and his wife, Margie, a Provincetown native, talk about their memories of the year the victim was found and their impressions of the impact of the unidentified woman’s death on the town.
