LOS ANGELES —
Los Angeles police Wednesday said they’re investigating whether a newly identified young woman found stabbed 150 times in 1969 is connected to the Manson family killings.
Investigators have interviewed Charles Manson, 81, about the woman and are now trying to track down a man known as either “John,” or the name’s French pronunciation, “Jean,” Detective Luis Rivera said. The Manson interview, which took place a few months ago, turned up no new information, Rivera said.
In December, police used DNA to identify the woman as 19-year-old Reet Jurvetson of Montreal. Her identity had gone unknown for 46 years, and she had become known as Jane Doe No. 59 until her sister recognized a photo of the young woman’s body posted online.
“After all these years, we are faced with hard facts,” Jurvetson’s sister, Anne, said in a statement released through police. “My little sister was savagely killed. … I am horrified to think of how terribly frightened and alone she must have felt as she died.”
