16 nov 1969 anni - Reet Silvia Jurvetson HOMICIDE

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Reet Silvia Jurvetson was born on September 23, 1950 in Sweden. A Canadian citizen, Reet was of Estonian descent. In the late summer of 1969 she left her home in Montreal to visit a man named either "John" or "Jean" in CA.

She had become acquainted with John/Jean while working at a Toronto post office several months before her murder. According to family and detectives, Reet had been "absolutely smitten" by John/Jean, and saved her earnings so she could travel to meet up with John/Jean after he had relocated to CA. According to a witness, John/Jean had been a medical student with a slight French accent.

On October 31, 1969, Reet wrote a postcard in Estonian to her family, describing her "general satisfaction" with life in LA and encouraging her parents to maintain correspondence with her. She also sent a postcard to her closest friend; these were the final contacts she had with friends or family. She wasn't reported missing because her family assumed she was off being adventurous.

In the postcards, Reet stated that she had decided to stay in CA, and that she had found an apartment within a 4-story building called the Paramount Hotel. The individual who had lived across the hall from her, named M. Lindhorst, is considered a person of interest in the case, and investigators hope Lindhorst would be able to give more info on John/Jean.

On Sunday, November 16, 1969, 19-year-old Reet's fully-clothed body was found in a dense bushland off Mulholland Drive in LA by a 15yo boy who had been birdwatching. She died of multiple stab wounds, predominantly to her neck, about 2 days before her body was found, having been dumped in the ravine at the side of the drive. A tree branch had prevented her body from fully rolling the ravine and into a canyon; her body lay against this branch just 15ft down the ravine. She was found on the south side of Mulholland Drive between Laurel and Coldwater Canyons. She had died 24-48hrs earlier.

She was found about 15 ft down a ravine on the side of Mulholland Drive in LA, approx. 0.3mi east of Bowmont Drive in the Hollywood Hills. Crime scene photos show that she was found near a telephone pole. Based off of measurements on Google Maps, Reet's body was found approx. 0.27mi east (driving distance) of where Marina Habe's purse had been found in the 8800 block of Mulholland Drive near Bowmont Dr.

Reet had been stabbed 157 times in the neck, chest, and torso with a "common pen knife." Some of these wounds had severed her carotid artery. She had defensive wounds on her hands. She had no drugs or alcohol in her system, and she had not been sexually assaulted. It's believed she'd been transported to where she was found, discarded in an upright position, and that her killer was right-handed. She was not a victim of a robbery or "any form of sexual assault" before her murder, and she had no drugs or alcohol in her system. She'd been killed about 2hrs after having eaten a meal.

The body was not identified for 47 years, during which she was known as Jane Doe 59. She had dark brown hair and green eyes, and was described as 5’8-5’9.5 and 112-120 lbs. She was believed to be between 20 and 23 years old, and had vaccination scars on her left arm and left thigh. She had a birthmark on her right buttock as well as a 0.25in horizontal scar beneath her left breast. According to her Wikipedia page, “She had also received several silver amalgam fillings in both her upper and lower jaw.” The body was fully clothed when found: she was wearing a blue jacket, blue denims, and riding boots. She was also wearing multiple rings.

In June 2015, a friend of the Jurvetsons came across Jane Doe 59 while looking through NamUs. The friend noticed a resemblance between Reet and a post-mortem photograph of the woman's face, and reached out to Reet's sister Anne. Anne submitted a DNA sample to law enforcement for comparison, and in April 2016 it was formally announced that Jane Doe 59 had been identified as Reet Jurvetson.

The third person of interest, alongside Lindhorst and John/Jean, is J/J's roommate, a man with a mop top, possibly also named "Jean", who informed one of Reet's close friends in spring 1970 that he and J/J had lived with Reet in LA the previous year. This roommate claimed that Reet left the two men of her own volition.

However, after several weeks with no contact, her parents sent someone to the return address on the postcard, only for them to be told that Reet had vacated the apartment several weeks before. The LAPD is investigating, but the case is currently unsolved.

Some suspect that Reet is a possible victim of the Manson Family, though the LAPD have "discounted this possibility." Her case has also been mentioned in Zodiac forums. The main suspect in her case is John/Jean. Reet was found off of Mulholland Drive, just as Rose Tashman and Marina Habe were six and ten months earlier, respectively.

Reet's murder has been mentioned multiple times in various Zodiac forums and online spaces, often in conjunction with other cases above. This is how I found out about her murder, hence the Connection tag on this event.

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WRITE-UP COMPLETION DATE: January 26, 2025

Cases mentioned above that are also present on this timeline: Marina Habe, Rose Tashman
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