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subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners. Listen or

discretion is advised. From A&E, and E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast. On May 14th,

14th, 1977 in Miles Standard State Park near Plymouth, Massachusetts,

at a little after 1 p.m.

Ruth Masters leaves her young family, hops on her bike, and starts

down a path leading into the woods. As she rounds a bend, the air grows still, and she hears

a slight rustle in the trees.

A man emerges from the tree line with a 22 rifle in his hands.

He cracks the butt of the weapon across Ruthmaster's skull and drags her limp body back into the woods.

Two hours later, Ruth's husband Wayne and her daughter Pam, then nine years old, begin to worry.

I remember a lot of the stuff that we did when dad started to think

that it was too late that she hadn't come back yet. And I remember riding the bike path up and

back. I remember driving around in the car with him

looking for her. As night falls, Ruth Masters is still missing and law

enforcement prepares to search the park beginning the next morning at Sunup. Over 100 people weighed

into more than 25 square miles of forest and fields and worked their way through

the underbrush. Less than 150 feet off one bike path, they find Ruth Masters

lying on her back. Her skull crushed and body mutilated. George Madsen and Warren

Attino are Plymouth detectives and members of the search team.

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