Remains found in Florida in 1985 have been identified as a Maryland native who went missing in 1968.
Mary Alice Pultz was born in Rockville, Maryland, in 1943, but left with her boyfriend in 1968 and lost contact with her family, the St. John’s Sheriff’s Office (SJSO) said in a press release. Her boyfriend at the time, John Thomas Fugitt, would go on to murder his male roommate in 1981.
Fugitt, who also went by the alias Billy Joe Wallace, was sentenced to death for the murder but died in prison before he could be executed.
On April 10, 1985, some construction workers in St. Augustine, Florida, found the remains of a white woman in a shallow grave on Crescent Beach. An initial investigation put the woman’s age between 30 and 50 years old at the time of her death, and due to the circumstances of where her body was found, her death was ruled a homicide.
The case quickly went cold. In…
