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The oldest
unidentified homicide victim

in Massachusetts...

This is a legendary case.

Over the decades,
there have been many theories

about what could've happened
to her.

Why would you throw away the
evidence to an unsolved murder?

Anything that could lead
to the identification

of the Lady of the Dunes
was gonna be met

with resistance from the top.

All my life, I've always
wondered who my mom was.

She is Ruth Marie Terry.

We find out who the victim is,
and then it's like,

okay, now who killed her?

She met this guy.

Shortly after that,
they got married.

Nobody knew anything
about the guy.

Then she vanishes.

This table here is just all
the stuff I've been, you know,

ever since I found out
about my mom,

about Ruth,
I started gathering all,

any information I would get,
you know.

These pictures here
and the one here,

she's like 15, 16-years-old.

This shot here, you can really
see resemblance there of me

and her, especially
when I smile, you know.

That's where I got
that beautiful smile from.

This is this is the one

that when her and Guy
got married.

After, you know, Ruth and Guy
went to Tennessee

and met the family,
then they left.

They really never heard
from Ruth again.

It was difficult

because her family had
no idea about his past.

Guy Muldavin, according
to the files that I read,

he was born in New York City.

Guy Muldavin was adopted.

His father had issues
with alcohol and mental illness.

Guy moved with his mother
to the state of New Mexico.

Years later,
his dad purchased land

and properties in Provincetown.

Around that time,

Guy taught at some sort of
acting academy,

and that's where he met
his first wife, Jo Ellen Loop,

and then she became pregnant

and eventually ended up living
in Seattle.

At that point,
Guy had created a business

for himself of selling antiques.

He was an antiquity dealer,

and, you know,
he had a silver tongue.

He seemed to be a womanizer.

There were stories that,
you know,

he liked to entertain women
in the antique shop after hours.

He drew women to him, like
as if he was this, you know,

Rudolf Valentino
kind of character.

But what made part of
this difficult for us

also is that Guy Muldavin had
so many aliases.

Some are the official ones,
some are made-up names.

Guy Muldavin. Guy Rockwell.

And there was Raoul Rockwell.

There was Raoul Guy Rockwell.

- Raoul Muldavin.
- Guy Rockwell Muldavin.

And he switched those three
around multiple times.

He just had so many aliases.

He taught Ruth
how to use fake names.

We will never know
completely who Guy was.

He was married for
about a decade to Jo Ellen Loop.

That marriage ends, and very,

very quickly, he marries
another woman.

Manzanita Mearns was
40-years-old.

Manzanita met Guy Rockwell
in the spring of 1955

in his antique store.

She and her 18-year-old
daughter, Dolores,

moved to Seattle
to live with him.

In 2019, I started working on
the case

of Manzanita and Dolores.

At the time, I'd not heard
of the Lady of Dunes.

The story of Manzanita Rockwell
and Dolores Mearns

unfolded in a strange manner.

In April of 1960, Guy Rockwell
approached an attorney and said,

"My wife Manzanita abandoned me.

I need a divorce."

He was granted the divorce
within three months

because she never showed
up to contest the divorce.

And just days later,
he marries Evelyn.

July 29, 1960, Guy Rockwell
marries Evelyn Emerson,

whom he had been dating
for about four months.

The Emersons were
an established family.

Guy Rockwell came
to Evelyn's family

and had a plan to make
money with his antique dealings.

He said he could travel
to Canada

and purchase $8,000 in antiques,

bring them back over the border,
and sell them for $16,000,

and he was in the process
of raising funds.

In order to avoid paying
customs and taxes,

he was going to take
the antiques back

to the United States
in a speedboat by night,

smuggling merchandise, you know,
by the light of the moon.

The Emersons thought
this was a fantastic idea,

and Evelyn Emerson's mother
wrote Guy Rockwell a check.

August 3, 1960, Guy Rockwell
calls Evelyn Emerson, tells her,

"I'm at the airport, I'm on
a flight to Vancouver tonight.

Be in touch soon."

That was the last time
they hear from him.

So, seven days goes by,
and they contact their attorney.

The attorney contacts
the police department,

said, "I want to report
a missing person

who stole my client's money."

Detectives got Guy Rockwell
charge with larceny.

That next day, an arrest
warrant was issued for him.

He abandoned Evelyn Emerson
and took off with $8,000

and told this crazy story
about going to Canada.

Just a constant charade of lies,
mis-truths, different stories.

It's never-ending.

It's like he was incapable
of telling the same story twice.

Meanwhile, no one had heard
from Manzanita or Dolores

in all this time.

About four months,
and there was no sign of them.

Detectives, as they
were collecting information

regarding his background,

they of course immediately heard
about Manzanita and Dolores.

Manzanita had two other children

who lived with her ex-husband
in Canada.

So, they contacted Manzanita's
ex-husband and Dolores'

father, William Mearns.

And William Mearns told
the investigators

that he had not heard
from Manzanita

since March 12th of 1960.

That was very strange
because she would come see her

other two children every month.

She wouldn't miss.

At first it was just,
"They're gone.

Where are they?"

But then Seattle police began
finding evidence

of a horrific crime.

Interview, take one, marker.

My name is Christina Mearns.

Manzanita Mearns was
my grandmother,

and Dolores Mearns was my aunt.

My grandfather, William,
and my grandmother, Manzanita,

they had three children, and she
chose to divorce my grandfather

and married Raoul Guy Rockwell.

My grandmother couldn't take
the girls

that were younger
because they're not of age.

Dolores made that choice to go
when she graduated

and then started college
in Seattle.

My mother and my aunt

stayed with my grandfather
in Vancouver.

My aunt remembers meeting
Guy Rockwell a few times.

She doesn't remember
him being loving.

Very cold and distant.

I don't think he ever tried
to have conversations

with the other kids.

My mom and my aunt both
have talked about knowing

of something going wrong with
my grandmother, Manzanita.

Because she came from Seattle to
Vancouver like clockwork,

and all a sudden, one month
she didn't show up.

She'd never not shown up before.

When three weeks or so went by,

William Mearns called
Guy Rockwell on the phone

and said, "Let me talk
to Manzanita," and Guy Rockwell

told William Mearns,
"She and Dolores left,

I don't know where they went."

The second week of August 1960,

detectives talked to
William Mearns.

This isn't the type
of family circumstance

that you would typically see
people just turn their back on.

So, detectives were
having to backtrack

to the first weekend of April
to try

and figure out what
was going on.

Dolores Mearns attended
her English 101 class

on Friday, April 1st,

and then she didn't come
to school on Monday.

Manzanita worked as a clerk

at the Seattle Trust
and Savings Bank downtown.

She worked on Friday, April 1st,
and again, like Dolores,

did not show up on Monday.

Several months have gone by.

No one's heard from Manzanita.

No one's heard from Dolores.

The only person who said
that Manzanita and Dolores

just ran away was Guy Rockwell.

And Guy Rockwell goes
from getting granted a divorce,

to remarrying and then
disappearing from his new wife

within the same seven-day
period, just months

after Manzanita and Dolores
disappeared.

Meanwhile Guy's neighbor
started to smell this scent.

Guy had told his neighbor
that it was spoiled crab

that he had thrown away and
it was just the smell of that.

So, detectives became worried

that something
more sinister had happened

to Manzanita and Dolores.

August 26, 1960,

the police went to
Guy Rockwell's residence,

who now was still missing.

This was his residence,
and this was his antique shop.

They recognized
that the septic tank

had been cemented over recently.

And over the next few days,

they picked out pieces
of human remains.

Body parts cut up,
the bones were sawed.

Some of the hair was burnt.

Slowly the investigators were
able to move upstairs

into the attic area.

And then they stumbled

upon what clearly was
a gruesome crime scene.

They find teeth,
they find blood.

It was clear to the coroner
that the body parts

belonged to a young woman
around the age of 18-years-old.

The initial analysis
identified a blood type of O,

which ended up being consistent
with both Manzanita and Dolores.

It became front page news.

My mother and aunt,

all of their friends
at school were told,

don't talk to these girls
anymore.

Divorce wasn't a common thing
at that time.

But then the murders happening,

most families were terrified
of being involved with it.

In September 1960,
there was tremendous speculation

that Guy Rockwell fled
the country.

So, at this point,

detectives received information
from eastern Washington.

Something troubled state
police detectives in a river.

Two human legs were recovered
in the Colombia River

in eastern Washington.

The legs had
unique characteristics.

But, in 1960, there is no DNA.

Detectives started the process
of trying to pin down details

about Manzanita from
a physical standpoint.

To identify remains,

you need someone personally
identified by a family member.

They were able to say,
"Hey, Mr. Mearns,

tell me about
your ex-wife's feet,"

and they got
the same description from

both William Mearns and
from Manzanita's adult sister.

They thought that these were
the body parts

of my grandmother.

Manzanita Rockwell and
her daughter, Dolores Mearns,

went missing in April of 1960.

In their efforts to locate
Rockwell as a fugitive,

detectives canvassed rental car
agencies from downtown Seattle.

Guy Rockwell rented
a cargo truck five days after,

and he put 319 miles on it.

The Colombia River is
about 137 miles from Seattle,

so do the math.

It's almost a perfect accounting
of the mileage

compared to where you would've
had to drive to dump those legs.

I just remember thinking,

how can human beings do this
to each other?

It was like, I don't understand
what was going through

this person's head that he could
cut up somebody

he married as well as
a young girl.

Guy Rockwell had
just disappeared.

This guy's a fugitive from the
law. We need to find him now.

He's wanted for questioning
in a double-homicide.

This case went from
a larceny fugitive to an awful,

gruesome, horrific
double-murder.

By the time Seattle police
start putting this case together

and they find the remains,
Muldavin's already gone.

He fled.

And he's the only one
that had the answers,

and he's the only one
that had an explanation of

where Dolores ended up

and where Manzanita
eventually ended up.

So, the manhunt is
far and wide.

10-4

It's not in Washington.

It goes all over the country.

They were reaching out to police
in Canada, England, Spain,

just trying to find out
where Guy Muldavin was.

This is a photocopy
of the original

jurisdictional contact list
that Seattle PD reached out to.

They contacted dozens and dozens
and dozens

of jurisdictions,
just bombarding

them with the information.

I mean, Ohio must have 30
departments that we contacted.

Pennsylvania, 25 plus.

International jurisdictions,
two more pages.

Seattle PD got the word out.

Everyone was looking for
Guy Rockwell.

December 1, 1960,

the FBI located Guy Rockwell
living in Manhattan,

in New York City.

I do not know
the exact circumstances,

but I know that at some point

the FBI received
credible information

that he was
in that jurisdiction,

and that kind of narrowed
the focus.

He was living under
the alias of Michael Strong.

As to why Guy Rockwell ended up
in New York,

he was born there,
and New York City is probably

a place someone felt that they
could remain somewhat anonymous.

Guy Rockwell was interviewed
for about two weeks

about the murders.

Guy Rockwell never admitted
to killing Manzanita and Dolores

directly,
but he told them he was

"morally responsible"
for their deaths.

So not confessing,
but communicating,

bouncing around the topic
in such a way

that you would walk out
of the room saying, "He did it."

But it's impossible
to answer the question of

whether there was enough to
charge Guy Rockwell for murder

in 1960 without having lived
in that era.

He wasn't charged back then.

But he's got a larceny warrant
so he was extradited to Seattle.

Guy Rockwell received a prison
sentence for grand larceny,

for stealing money
from the Emersons.

Guy Rockwell was released
from jail sometime in 1962

after serving about 13 months.

He was never charged
for the murder of Manzanita

and the murder of Dolores.

It's hard to stomach
that he didn't get charged.

If the police in Seattle
would have held Guy

after the murder
of my grandmother and my aunt,

he should have been life
in prison.

That was about 14 or 15 years
before he had met my mom.

They're letting
these jackasses out of prisons,

you know,
that committed violent crimes.

It's like, the hell's
wrong with you people?

When you talk about what if...

Yeah, if somebody
would have taken the time

to look into his other wife,

he never would have met
my Aunt Ruth.

The last time we saw
Aunt Ruth in '74,

we never saw her
or heard from her again.

It was just a mystery.

I would love nothing more
than to find out what happened.

In 2022,
detectives contacted our family

and told us about
a 50-year-old cold case

and believed that Guy Muldavin
had something to do with it.

Basically they needed anything

that could fill in
their time-line and certain gaps

that they had of where Guy was.

I sent them all the information
they wanted that I had from Guy.

I started putting this
together after talking to

the police department
about Provincetown.

That's how I remember him,
always a pipe in his mouth.

This was in 1974,

so this is the year
that he married Ruth.

This is the year before
he was married to my aunt.

We don't know what happens
to Guy Muldavin

immediately after Ruth,

but we do know that he goes on
to get married once again.

Guy Muldavin met my aunt
in 1975.

My Aunt Phyllis was
a free spirit.

She was an artist,

but she never knew
how to act her age,

so it made for a real fun
playmate for us,

and she always seemed very happy
and smiling.

She met Guy
at an EST training seminar.

EST was some sort of
a self-development program

that existed in
the '60s and '70s.

She was excited about him
at that time.

An actor, artist,
antique dealer.

After a, as my
Aunt Phyllis put it,

whirlwind courtship,
I think just a few months.

She divorced her husband.

They got married,
and he became part of our life.

In those years
when I knew Guy, 1975 to 1980,

Guy was a little loud,
used his hands a lot.

It was all about him
and all his stories.

Basically Guy wanted to be
the center of attention.

He had stories about everything.

I don't know what percentage
of those stories were true.

Nobody knew the true,
real Guy Muldavin.

And I think that's probably when
my aunt realized the dark side.

My aunt would say his eyes got
dark and his look changed,

and she would just leave
the room.

After my aunt passed away,

my mom and I were cleaning out
her house.

Here's a piece
from my aunt's journal.

"My second husband had
a dark side

that I surfed around
to avoid the unknown of that."

"I was totally still
in love with Guy.

I could never get answers from
about why he behaved the way

he did without ever justifying
it or any explanation.

I'm still trying
to piece all of this together."

During the years
that he was with my aunt,

Guy wrote what he described
as a cookbook called

"Cooking with Rump Oil."

It is so bizarre,
and so twisted.

And just so troubling.

Couldn't make any sense of it.

"To my wife, Phyllis Smirle.

Phyllis has proved to me
that love, beastology,

and rump oil can walk
together hand in paw."

That makes more sense
than anything else in this book.

My Aunt Phyllis and Guy Muldavin

only lived together for about
four-and-a-half to five years,

and at that point,
she made him leave.

I've often wondered
how my Aunt Phyllis kicked Guy

out without becoming
a victim herself.

He became a radio talk show host

and he was on the radio
every week.

"Muldavin has introduced
programs dealing with

homosexuality,
the erosion of culture,

and his belief that
killing has become a habit."

After we were able to identify
the Lady of the Dunes

as Ruth Marie Terry, it was
such a ruckus from the DA.

Basically, kind of had
a little temper tantrum.

Detective Lobur,
she was the driving force

to get this case solved,
and yet,

not only did she
not get any accolades for it,

she got persecuted for it by
the district attorney's office.

After the case was solved,
the newly elected

Cape and Islands
District Attorney

launched an investigation
into Detective Lobur's actions.

A detective pivotal
in helping to solve

the Lady of the Dunes case...

The new DA who had no role
in identifying Ruth Marie Terry

claimed that I acted improperly,

that I didn't have the authority
to do the exhumation,

that I didn't have
the proper certificates.

It sounds crazy,
but, you know, there was

retribution for identifying her
and using the FBI to do it

and probably being a woman and
being an outsider from Boston.

I did an exhumation.
I know what the procedures are,

and she didn't do
anything wrong.

They didn't persecute me.

I insisted on having
what they call a Brady hearing,

laying everything out, why
the exhumation was necessary,

how the exhumation
was authorized.

The ultimate decision was
the DA's,

and I was placed on a Brady list
for doing the exhumation

without proper authority.

I had always said
there would be retribution.

The DA's office sent this
letter to Provincetown Police,

notifying them
that Detective Meredith Lobur

had been placed
on their Brady list,

which compromises
her integrity in investigations.

A Brady violation is saying
that an officer is

untrustworthy,
they don't follow procedures.

It questions their credibility.

Which basically just kills
their career.

Detective Lobur got the FBI
involved, and that's what led

to identifying
the Lady in the Dunes.

Because of the Brady List,

I couldn't risk questions
about my credibility

impacting the case
or the outcome of a case,

so I voluntarily retired
in 2023.

I was basically forced
to retire.

Knowing the ramifications,
would I do anything differently?

No.

50 years later,

Massachusetts' longest
unidentified homicide case,

the Lady of the Dunes,
has officially been closed.

Investigators concluded
Ruth Marie Terry was killed

by her husband,
identified as Guy Muldavin.

I got a call
from the state police officer

from Massachusetts,

and he informed me that they
were going to close Ruth's case.

The state police
never revealed what evidence

they used to close the case

and say Guy Muldavin was
the most likely suspect.

There's so many cases.

You know, domestic violence is
so prevalent

in so many homicides.

She was referred to
as the Lady of the Dunes.

The DA says Muldavin is
also a prime suspect

in the disappearance of another,

earlier wife and stepdaughter
in Seattle.

You have a man who's suspected
of dismembering his wife

and a step-daughter, and
then you have this book...

...where there are these recipes
and these creatures,

these images that he drew--

animal, human-like, and some
of the recipes are so troubling.

And there's this specific one
called Cape Cod Shid,

and when you look at
that image that he drew,

and you compare it to Ruth's
hair, there are similarities.

Julia Cowley,

who has analyzed some
of the most horrific cases

involving serial killers
in the country,

sharing her expertise in
the murder of Ruth Marie Terry.

"The tender look
will become one of despair."

You have to think
that perhaps that was the moment

he watched the life go out
of her eyes,

when she realized,
he's going to kill me.

And it's horrifying.

Is he writing about Ruth?

Is he writing about the moment
he murdered her

in the dunes of
Provincetown, on Cape Cod?

Kind of ironic that
he put that picture in there.

It was nuts.

The craziest part of the whole
thing is that somehow,

he marketed himself on radio
a few times, on television.

He was interviewed.
He was on a cooking show.

As you read it,
it just makes you sick.

Her family remembers
how Ruth wasn't herself

when Muldavin was by her side.

I really would like
to know why.

Why would he--
why would he kill her?

What did that accomplish?

And I just hope
since 1974, he's been in agony.

Muldavin was alive until 2002.

Had they had that DNA,

maybe this case would
have been solved decades ago.

I wish he was still alive
so he could face what he did.

Unfortunately, I don't think
Guy Muldavin ever got

what he deserved.

For the family of
Ruth and Lady of the Dunes,

nothing brings your family back
or gets you over all the trauma,

but I'm sure it's nice to have
him listed as the reason for it.

It doesn't haunt me anymore.

I'm happy for the family.
I'm happy for her son, Richard.

That was my mom,
and to have somebody brutally,

you know, beat her like that,
you know, to death.

I just...
it's really hit me at my core.

We drove to Provincetown,

and, you know, we're gonna
have a small get-together

around her burial site.

I want to touch the ground
where my mom is.

I'm still waiting for Richard
to come back to real life

and that he'll go back
to the way we used to be.

Everybody's got trauma
in their life,

but it matters
how you deal with it

and go forward
to face that trauma.

You know, it's about going to
the cemetery tomorrow

and, you know,
putting that closure there.

It's gonna be
a little bit rough tomorrow,

to be perfectly honest with you.

Yeah.
- It's gonna be good.

Probably gonna hurt like hell.

Until recently,
I didn't really know, you know,

I'd never really
heard of Provincetown before.

Yeah, this town looks so cool.

What I really wonder about is,
you know,

where did my mom walk
around here?

You know what I mean?
Did she know anybody here?

One of the main reasons to come
here was to say thank you.

I want to say thank you
to the community for, you know,

providing her a place
at the cemetery.

For today.

Thank you so much
for coming, man.

Richard invited us to come up
to Provincetown, Massachusetts,

to have a service.

In the name of the Father
and of the Son

and of the holy spirit.

Our sister, Ruth, has gone to
her rest in the peace of Christ.

May Ruth's soul and the souls
of all the faithful departed,

for the mercy of God,
rest in peace.

I want to thank y'all
for coming.

I thank God for
the DNA test that...

you got me to do.

I thank God for all the Terrys.

You guys are wonderful people.

You made me feel so at home, and
you made me feel like family.

You know what I mean?

And I want to thank you all
from the bottom of my heart.

You know.

What a day, man.
I felt your dad, man.

It was like, I felt him.

I'll show you him,
down the street.

He's resting over there.

No worries.

So, there's my father,
there's my mother.

Chief Meads was the kingpin
in all of this.

He had the thoughtfulness
to preserve her,

give her a proper burial
at the church.

Man.

I was emotional,
like, seeing my father,

what his face would look like
if he was at home

and they found out who she was.

God bless him.
God bless him.

Man.

Did you talk
to Meredith at all?

- Pardon?
- The detective, Meredith?

- Over there?
- Yeah.

See the girl with the glasses?

- Okay.
- Meredith!

She devoted most of her life
to solving my mom's case.

Meredith is
an outstanding person.

- Hi. How are you?
- How do you do?

- I'm good. How are you?
- I'm doing well.

You're a gentleman.

- Thank you.
- It's nice to meet you.

- You as well.
- How are you doing?

Ah, I have no idea.

You know,
it was a horrible thing.

But from that horrible thing,
it brought me to my family,

you know what I mean?

I didn't know who I was.

I didn't know
that I had a real family.

If it wasn't for what
you people did, you know,

what the police did,
what the community did,

none of this
would've been possible.

You know what I mean?

And all my life I wondered
what...

who am I?

Like, you know,
where I come from?

And I never in a million years

thought I would ever find any
of these answers,

and I just want to
thank you all.

You know what I mean?

Thank you all
for doing what you did.

That's what it was
all about-- today.

Thank you.

I feel hopeful

because of the ultimate
resolution of this case.

We know her name, and...

she has a family.

Well, you all
kept my mom front and center.

- Well, she's at peace now.
- Now she is.

Yeah.

There was this reunification

and a family got
their loved one back,

and somebody got to go home.

You know, for this huge part
of the town's history

for the past five decades
to be solved,

a bleary-eyed town
sort of was like, "Say what?"

You could feel it.
It was like a crackling energy.

I think collectively there was,
like, this sort of resolution.

It was, like,
a kind of relief in a way

that we now know who she is.

It was a good day.
It was a really good day.

I'm just happy that there's
a name on that grave,

and hopefully Ruth
is resting peacefully, finally.

I believe the reason I'm here
is so I can tell my mom's story.

So, it's like,
what's why I'm here.

I ended up losing my career
because of this.

But of course it was worth it.

I'd do it all over again
and twice on Tuesday.