Her slaying has long been feared to have been connected to the Manson family murders, but as of April of this year, police still had no concrete evidence linking the killings. The witness remembers meeting Reet Jurvetson and a man named “John or Jean” at a café in Montreal, police said. Detectives initially suspected the Manson family of Jurvetson’s murder because their other victims had been stabbed to death, Rivera said. 59 — later identified as Jurvetson — was killed because she had witnessed another suspected Manson family slaying, the killing of John Phillip Haught. But Simon Wells, author of the Manson biography “Coming Down Fast,” found out that Manson family members were present when Haught died.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 10, 2016 13:00 UTC