The Los Angeles Police Department has released sketches of two men considered persons of interest in the 47-year-old murder of a young woman found near a Manson Family murder site. Reet Jurvetson, 19, flew from Canada to Los Angeles in 1969 to meet a man named Jean whom she’d met in a Montreal coffee shop, People magazine reports. Her body was found six miles from the site of the Sharon Tate murders on Mulholland Drive later that year. She had been stabbed over 150 times.
Reet Jurvetson. Photo: LAPD
But police interviewed a witness in Montreal this summer who told them that she remembers seeing Jurvetson with two men named Jean at a coffee shop. The LAPD created sketches of the pair based on the witness’s description.
Detectives have said that while they cannot say conclusively that Jurvetson’s death is related to the Manson murders, due to the timing and location of her body, they cannot rule out a potential connection.
Jurvetson’s family had believed that she had started a new life in the U.S., so never reported her missing. Her body was not identified until April 2016 when investigators matched DNA on her bra with a sample provided by her sister.
Police are also attempting to find people who lived in Jurvetson’s building in Hollywood. If you have any information about the murder of Jurvetson, contact LAPD’s cold case unit at 213-486-6810.
Main image: Sketches of the two men [LAPD]