News about Michael O'Keefe

Inmates discuss what life really looks like behind bars and what it means to be a prisoner 'ostrich.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 21, 2024
The Mid North Coast Correctional Centre (MNCCC), a 14km west of Kempsey and 455 kilometers north of Sydney, opened in 2004 and holds about 1,000 prisoners. On its fringes, it has minimum security sections for male and female prisoners, but the majority of prisoners are held in two separate maximum security segments. Killers, gangsters, rapists, and armed robbers are all incarcerated within its walls. There are women who will spend only weeks in jail, as well as men who will never be convicted. Daily Mail Australia was given an exclusive tour of MNCCC and discovered a jail where prisoners are encouraged to learn for themselves, but not one cent if they opt to play up. Inmates are seen giving hand signals (main), a confiscated shiv and cell (insets), and a member of the immediate response team.

The 'Lady of the Dunes' cold case was identified by the FBI in Cape Cod in 1974. 'Lady of the Dunes' mutilated remains were discovered in 1974.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 31, 2022
Officials identified the 'Lady of the Dunes' murder victim, whose body was discovered on the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1974, as Ruth Marie Terry of Tennessee, using investigative genealogy. Terry, a 37-year-old girl, was discovered in the dunes in Provincetown in July 1974. Officials suspect she was naked on a beach blanket with her hands cut off, so she could not be identified by her fingerprints. Her skull was fractured and she was nearly dead, and she was almost decapitated. The cause of death was discovered to be a blow to the head, and authorities suspect she was killed a few weeks before her body was discovered. Nonetheless, her killer has yet to be identified. Authorities are hoping that the woman's identity would help solve one of Massachusetts' most popular unsolved murders.