John Getreu was around 30 years old at the time of the murders, living in Palo Alto and working at Stanford Hospital.
Getreu was around 30 years old at the time of the murders. In 1974, he was living in an apartment on Alma Street in south Palo Alto and working at Stanford Hospital . His stepdaughter testified that they had previously lived on Roberta Drive in Woodside , and he had driven almost daily on Sand Hill Road past the spot where Janet Taylor’s body would be found.In February 1973, Leslie Perlov was 21.
On Feb. 13, 1973, a Tuesday, she was last seen alive as she left work for the day around 3 p.m. It is speculated that, as she often did, she stopped on the way home to take a walk in the hills west of Stanford’s campus. She was missing for three days before her car was found parked off Old Page Mill Road. Her body was not far off the road ; she had been strangled, apparently with her own scarf.In March 1974, Janet Taylor was 21.
On March 24, 1974, a Sunday, the housemate dropped Taylor off at Stanford because her car wasn’t working. She had dinner with friends at their home on Gerona Road and left around 7 p.m., saying she intended to hitchhike home to La Honda, about 15 miles away. Her housemate was working that evening — at the Miramar Beach jazz club Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society — and Taylor said someone needed to let their dogs out.
The following morning, a delivery driver for Peninsula Creamery saw her body on the south side of Sand Hill Road near Manzanita Way. She had been strangled, apparently with her own sweater.Two murders on the Stanford campus around the same time also remained unsolved for decades — and one still is. • Early on the morning of Sept. 11, 1973, David Levine, a 20-year-old Stanford junior, was stabbed to death outside Meyer Library (
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