16. 1969. Los Angeles, California.

The murdered body of a young white female is discovered on a ravine overlooking Mulholland

Canyon. She has been stabbed 157 times, but since she cannot be identified, the victim

simply becomes known as Jane Doe 59. 46 years later, DNA testing officially identifies

her as 19-year-old Reed Jervitson, a Canadian citizen who had traveled to LA before she went

missing. While their speculation about potential involvement from the Manson family, and a

mystery surrounding an alleged unidentified boyfriend, Reed's murder remains unsolved.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail, went cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder, and we've got a pretty unique cold case to cover today,

the unsolved murder of Reed Jervitson. As you probably know, the trail went cold as

a Canadian produced podcast, and this is a story which has garnered a lot of media coverage

up here, even though the actual crime itself took place in the United States.

Reed originally hailed from Montreal and went missing after she traveled to Los Angeles

in 1969, and her family completely lost contact with her. It would be nearly five decades later

when Reed's sister was contacted by friends who thought Reed bore a striking resemblance

to Jane Doe 59, an unidentified young woman who was murdered in LA around the same time

Reed went missing. DNA testing would confirm that Reed and Jane Doe 59 were the same person,

which provided her surviving family with some form of closure, but since we don't know

who murdered Reed, this is still an unsolved case. Given the location and time period when

this crime took place, their speculation that the Manson family might have been behind

Reed's murder. However, recent developments have since pushed the investigation towards

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