After graduating from high school, Reet moved to Toronto and found work at Canada Post and lived with our grandmother, Johanna Päts. Then, in the fall of 1969, she went to California and decided to settle there. As time passed, we received no more news. Attempts were made to reach her, but they proved fruitless. As months and then years passed, we thought she was trying to create a new life for herself. We were always hoping that she would re-establish contact with friends and family. We were perplexed, but we never once suspected that she had been killed.
After all these years, we have the truth of what happened to my sister, Reet. It was not what I wanted to hear. But this terrible murder occurred, and I now have a lot to come to terms with. There is a sense of closure, but there are still so many questions to be answered. Meanwhile, I am grieving with deep sorrow in my heart.
Reet has been identified, but the murderer has not. I realize that even though all these many years have passed, someone, somewhere might know something. I am asking any person who might have information related to my sister's time in California to write to or call Detective Luis Rivera at the Cold Case Homicide Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. (Email of Luis Rivera: 26694@lapd.lacity.org , Telephone: 213-486-6826 )
Thank you,
Anne Jürvetson
Note: Memorial service will be held Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 7 p.m. Montreal St John's Estonian Ev. Lut. Church, 4345 Marcil Ave.
