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Forgotten 'Manson victim' old Police Sketches angers sister
Angry sister of 19-year-old forgotten 'Manson victim' hits out at the 'inaccurate' forensic sketch that was used to try and identify her after she was killed 47 years ago
- Los Angeles police identified body of woman found stabbed 150 times in 1969 near site of the Manson family killings as Reet Jurvetson
- Her sister, 73-year-old Anne Jurvetson, said original forensic sketches of the body were 'inaccurate'
- She said: 'Unfortunately, these drawings were clearly inaccurate, as anyone can see, and did not resemble her in the least'
- Jurvetson's body was found on November 16, 1969 in dense brush off Mulholland Drive, six miles from site of the Manson family killings
- She had been stabbed 150 times and didn't have identification with her and became known as Jane Doe No. 59
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The sister of the 19-year-old Canadian woman found stabbed to death in 1969 near the site of the Manson family killings said the original forensic sketches of the body were 'inaccurate.'
Police recently identified the woman as Reet Jurvetson, who moved to Los Angeles from Montreal the year she was killed, and lost contact with her family shortly after the move, police said.
After going unidentified for years, Jurvetson eventually became known as Jane Doe No. 59.
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The sister of the 19-year-old Canadian woman, identified as Reet Jurvetson, found stabbed to death in 1969 near the site of the Manson family killings said the original forensic sketches of the body were 'inaccurate'
 
On Wednesday, Los Angeles police identified the body of a woman found stabbed 150 times in 1969 near the site of the Manson family killings as Reet Jurvetson (pictured), of Montreal
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Her sister, 73-year-old Anne Jurvetson, said in a statement posted on a memorial website that the forensic sketches bore little resemblance to her sister, ABC News reported.
'Some people thought they recognized her,' Anne Jurvetson wrote in the memorial.
'Unfortunately, these drawings were clearly inaccurate, as anyone can see, and did not resemble her in the least.'
Jurvetson's body was found on November 16, 1969, by a birdwatcher in dense brush off iconic Mulholland Drive, about six miles from the site of the Manson family killings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate, the wife of director Roman Polanski, and four others.
Jurvetson, who was born in Sweden and grew up in Montreal, had been stabbed 150 times in the upper torso and neck.
She was not carrying identification which led to her becoming known as Jane Doe No. 59.
In 2003, an LAPD detective submitted a piece of biological evidence to be uploaded to a national database for unidentified missing and deceased victims, according to ABC News.
An initial breakthrough in the case came last June when a family friend looking through the database recognized her.
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Her sister, 73-year-old Anne Jurvetson, said in a statement posted on a memorial website that the forensic sketches bore little resemblance to her sister, noting they were 'clearly inaccurate, as anyone can see'
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Anne Jurvetson told People that the 'free-spirited and happy' teen who had a 'taste for adventure and freedom' went to Los Angeles after meeting and becoming smitten with 'John'.
Anne Jurvetson said her sister, the youngest in the family, sent her family a postcard saying she had found an apartment and was happy but that they never heard from her again after that.
'Initially, we believed that Reet was probably in search of more autonomy, and therefore we waited for her to get in touch with us,' she wrote.
Jurvetson's parents never reported her sister missing not realizing she had been the victim of a crime.
Though she now knows her sister's fate, Anne Jurvetson said she still has a lot to come to terms with and is hopeful that media attention on the case leads the killer or killers.
Tate was killed in her home, along with four others, on August 9, 1969, three months before Jurvetson's killing.
Though detectives have not found any concrete link between Jurvetson and the Manson family killings, they haven't ruled it out, Los Angeles police Detective Luis Rivera said.
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the fact they still linking victims to those animals years later its so sad.