July 26, 1974. Barnes Stable County, Massachusetts. The new decomposed body, the young woman is

discovered at the race point dunes outside of Provincetown. The woman has been murdered by a

blunt force trauma to the head, which has nearly been severed from her body, but she carries no

identification. In spite of an extensive investigation, police are unable to uncover the identity of

the victim or her killer, so she simply becomes known as the Lady of the Dunes. Over the years,

there have been a number of intriguing leads in the case, including a potential connection to an

infamous mobster and an alleged sighting of the victim in one of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters

of all time. After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to a brand new episode of the trail went cold. I am your host

Robin Warder and today we are going to venture back into a gruesome but very interesting subject

for true crime buffs, unidentified decedents. Today's case is another request by a poster from

the Unsolved Mysteries message board at the sitcoms online forum, who goes by the handle Unsolved

88. Unsolved 88 was the one who requested that I cover the Lorraine Ron case several months back,

and he is always sending me suggestions. And since I was in the mood to do another episode about

an unidentified decedent, I decided to choose this case, so thank you Unsolved 88. You might recall

that back in May, I did an episode on the Eldorado Jane Doe, a young woman who was murdered in

Eldorado, Arkansas, in 1991. Even though she had several friends who knew her as Mercedes,

it turned out that the victim had been living under several different false names for years,

and to this day, no one knows her true identity. As a result, she is known as Eldorado Jane Doe.

Sadly, there are thousands of more cases just like this, where a male or female victim is found

deceased, and when their identity cannot be established, they become known as either John Doe

or Jane Doe. They remain that way indefinitely until their true identity is uncovered, but unfortunately,

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