Imagine you're a 12-year-old, an out-for-a-summer stroll on the beach with your family and friends.

You're throwing a stick for your friend's dog when suddenly the dog gets super agitated

and whiny and takes off into the dunes.

You follow the dog and stumble upon the source of its agitation.

The naked body of a woman, her head nearly severed, both hands missing and very obviously dead.

Such was the experience for Leslie Metcalfe at Race Point Dunes in Provincetown, Massachusetts

on the afternoon of July 26th, 1974.

Leslie's awful discovery would kick off a true murder mystery that prevails to this day.

Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Higan.

I'm a writer and an actor who's never found a dead body on the beach but can assure you

that if I did, I'd run for the dunes.

Or rather, run for the boardwalk behind the dunes because that's where this mysterious lady

was laying.

The lady of the dunes they'd come to call her.

And warning strangers, I'm about to dive into some graphic, disturbing description here.

The Auburn-haired woman laid face down on a beach towel.

Her head rested on a pair of Wrangler jeans and a blue bandana, as though she had just

been sunbathing when in fact, she had been bludgeoned.

Her skull had been so badly damaged that her facial features were impossible to make

out.

And of course, because her hands were missing, there was no chance of identifying her

through her fingerprints.

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