Murder Victim's Family Shares Their Sorrow After She's Identified by police as Jane Doe #59 – Was She Murdered by Manson?

Murder Victim's Family Shares Their Sorrow After She's Identified by police as Jane Doe #59 – Was She Murdered by Manson?, Reet Jurvetson, a 19-year-old Canadian, accustomed in Los Angeles in the summer of 1969 to appointment a man alleged John whom she had met in a coffee boutique in Toronto.

"She was ardent by him," says LAPD algid case detective Lou Rivera. "She told accompany she was extenuative money so she could appear appointment him in L.A."

Once she arrived, the bistered hippie absitively to stay. She beatific her parents a postcard adage she was blessed and that she had begin a nice apartment. She told them not to anguish about her.

The postcard was the endure they would apprehend from their daughter. Now, 46 years later, her ancestors knows what happened to her – and algid case detectives are aggravating to actuate who dead her.

As Months and again Years Passed, We Absurd She Was Authoritative a New Activity for Herself'

Reet was the youngest babe of Estonian immigrants who fled for Canada during the World War II. She grew up in Montreal during the 1950s and 1960s, area she sang in a adolescence choir and sewed her own clothes.

She was "very artistic," her sister Anne said in a statement.

"Reet developed a aftertaste for chance and abandon as a teen. Afterwards admission top school, she confused to Toronto to reside with her grandmother, area she begin plan at the column appointment and met John at a coffee boutique afore dematerialization to L.A.

"As months and again years passed, we absurd that she was authoritative a new activity for herself," wrote Anne. "As time passed, however, we accustomed no added news. We were consistently acquisitive that she would re-establish acquaintance with accompany and family. But no one anytime had any new information. However, not already did we doubtable she had been killed."

When a birdwatcher spotted a asleep physique dressed in a dejected corduroy jacket, jeans and amber covering boots circuitous in close backcountry off L.A.'s arresting Mulholland Drive, on November 16, 1969, the ancestors was not notified. With no missing bodies address filed, the badge had no way of anecdotic the body. The case went cold.

The asleep body, dubbed Jane Doe #59 by the coroner, had been stabbed in the close added than 150 times.

"I don't anticipate robbery was a motive because she was still cutting her rings," says Rivera, about the abandoned attack. "It looked like rage," he says. "It was a bedlamite or adulation gone wrong."

Was Killing Affiliated to Manson Family?

The timing and MO fueled belief that the annihilation was affiliated to the belled Manson Ancestors killings. Just three months earlier, a few afar from area Reet's physique was begin extra Sharon Tate and several others were atrociously stabbed to afterlife by the Manson Family.

Ruby Pearl, a babysitter at Spahn Ranch, the Manson Ancestors hangout, told badge that Jane Doe #59 looked like a hippie alleged Sherry from Simi Valley who afraid out at the ranch, but annihilation anytime came of the tip.

Jane Doe #59's character remained a abstruseness for added than 46 years until endure June if a acquaintance of Reet's who was analytic abomination websites saw Reet's post-mortem photograph and alleged Anne, the sister, who again contacted law enforcement. DNA taken from the victim's blood-soaked bra akin Anne's.

"Finally, afterwards all these years, we are faced with harder facts," said Anne. "My little sister was berserk killed. It was not what I capital to hear. I can hardly butt how she could accept been stabbed over 150 times. It is devastating. I try to draw abundance from the coroner's address that at atomic she was not raped, nor were there traces of drugs or booze in her system.... Nevertheless, I am abashed to anticipate of how awfully abashed and abandoned she accept to accept acquainted as she died."

Anne wrote that her parents, now deceased, "never anticipation to address Reet missing to the police."

"They anticipation that she was just active her activity about and that eventually account from her would about-face up," she wrote.

In October, detective Rivera and his accomplice detective Veronica Conrado interviewed Charles Manson in Corcoran Prison in California as allotment of the analysis of the case.

"No new leads were learned," Rivera says, but he adds, "We can't aphorism out that the Manson Ancestors was involved."

Rivera and Conrado are bent to break Reet's murder, and analyze the abstruse man alleged John who Reet went to L.A. to visit.

"He is the best advance we have," Rivera says. "No one deserves what happened to her. Someone ability be out there who is amenable and it is our job to acquisition out who it is and accompany them to justice."
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