July 26th, 1974, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

The new decomposed body of a young woman is discovered at the Race Point dunes outside of Provincetown.

The woman has been murdered via 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. Oh, uh, I'm not. Oh, uh, uh,

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There's a... Oh, uh, uh, 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 Unsaw 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 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,

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