LOS ANGELES — The identification of a 19-year-old Canadian woman found savagely stabbed to death in Los Angeles in 1969 has brought some closure to her last living immediate relative but also resurrected decades-old speculation that her murder is connected to the Manson family killings. Los Angeles police said the woman as Reet Jurvetson of Montreal.
Her body was found Nov. 16, 1969, by a birdwatcher in dense brush off Mulholland Drive, 6 miles from the site of the Manson family killings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others.
Jurvetson, who had been stabbed 150 times, wasn’t carrying identification.
Police made the identification using DNA after Jurvetson’s sister recognized a photo of the body posted online.
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