Posted on 04/27/2016 6:55:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Jurvetson's body was found Nov. 16, 1969, by a birdwatcher in dense brush off the iconic Mulholland Drive. She had been stabbed 150 times and didn't have identification.
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After going unidentified for years, Jurvetson eventually became known Jane Doe No. 59. The location and timing of her killing, just a few miles away from several Manson family murders, has long fueled speculation that Jurvetson's case was connected.
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Police said they used DNA to identify Jurvetson after her sister recognized a photo posted of the young woman's body online.
The sister, Anne Jurvetson, told People that the "free-spirited and happy" teen went to Los Angeles after meeting and becoming smitten with "John."
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"It is such a sad, helpless kind of feeling to always question, to never know," she said. "After all these years, we are faced with hard facts. My little sister was savagely killed."
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For years, rumors have swirled about other possible Manson family victims - hitchhikers who visited them at the ranch and were not seen again, runaways who drifted into the camp then fell out of favor.
The same jailhouse confessions that helped investigators initially connect the band of misfits living in the Panamint Mountains to the gruesome killings that terrorized Los Angeles hinted at other deaths. Manson follower Susan Atkins boasted to her cell mate on November 1, 1969, that there were "three people out in the desert that they done in." Other stories surfaced. In the absence of bodies, they were forgotten.
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In the late 80’s early 90’s in the Southwestern area of Missouri there were like 3 or 4 women who went missing in the same time frame, the 2 I specifically remember were walking to their cars across a parking lot and just vanished. Never found. And then there is the “springfield three”. Two teenagers and a mother just disappeared out of their house in Springfield Missouri one night, no clues, nothing, just vanished.
She had a close call.
I remember hearing an estimate of how many serial killers the FBI thought were operating in the US at a specific time. I don’t remember what it was, but it was scary.
Live long and carry.
Very. I lost track of her but remember she never mentioned anything about what happened, maybe to her family but I don’t think so. I know her mother once told my mother they didn’t know anything about what happened to her.
Her body was found soon after her murder in 1969 and the photo was put in the L.A. paper soon after that. Her family in Canada had recently received a postcard from her, so it was awhile before they realized she wasn’t staying in touch. Still, it seems like they’d think to contact authorities and make inquiries, or hire a private investigator, maybe in the 1970s, instead of waiting for the internet to be invented to check online!
The social security administration can also determine if the person is still alive, and will forward mail but not reveal whereabouts. The missing person can choose whether to respond or remain estranged.
I’ve wondered if perhaps a lot of young women disappear in abortion clinics. Don’t many young girls go without telling anyone? Don’t many clinics have contracts with crematoria for disposal of fetal remains? Wouldn’t it be easy to dispose of women’s bodies too, if the hush money is good enough?
That’s Leslie Van Houten.
Lynette Squeaky Fromme is out and has a Facebook page.
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