Thursday, November 16, 2023

Jane Doe 59 on This Day in History

 

This day in history: On this day in 1969, the fully clothed body of a white female was located in a dense bushland off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, California by a 15-year-old boy who had been birdwatching. The victim had died of multiple stab wounds—predominantly inflicted to her neck—approximately two days before her body was discovered dumped in the ravine at the side of the drive. A tree branch had prevented her body from rolling fully down the ravine and into a 699-foot-deep canyon, and her body lay against this branch just 15 ft down the ravine. 

In total, the victim had been stabbed 157 times. 

The body had been informally known as "Sherry Doe" and officially as "Jane Doe 59."

In June 2015, the body had finally been identified as Reet Silvia Jurvetson, a Swedish-born Estonian-Canadian woman.

The case remains unsolved.


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