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A Jane Doe revealed. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Lebe.

And this is Ghost Town. On the summer of 1974, during Cape Cod's peak season,

12-year-old Leslie Metcalf was walking with her family in Race Point Dunes,

just two miles east of Provincetown, Massachusetts.

There, the middle schooler made a grisly discovery in the sands, one that would

take nearly 50 years to solve. After almost half a century and countless hours of investigation,

the case became the oldest unidentified dead person in Massachusetts, which was eventually,

and bizarrely, and thankfully, solved. We covered it as a mini back on

October 9th, 2020 when it was still unsolved and the niche in a remote theory about it being

our point of reference. But I have news for you. In 2023, the case was actually solved and finally closed. So, today on Ghost Town,

we tackle the case in its entirety, a case that came to be known as the Lady of the Dunes.

On July 26, 1974, the Metcalf family was visiting Provincetown, the lively beach town on the northern tip of Cape Cod. Leslie Metcalf, then 12, and her parents and their friends, had been hiking back to the province lands visitor center. Leslie's younger sister, Alyssa, stayed behind. A couple of the Metcalf friends' dogs were also on the hike following the group from behind.

Suddenly, one of them caught a scent. Quote, the dog kind of started barking at something as they were hiking across,

so my sister went to follow and see what the dog was barking at, Alyssa Metcalfe recounted.

That's when she found the body.

Alyssa speaks for her sister Leslie, who died in 1996.

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