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A Murder, a Cigarette, and a 50-Year Mystery: Cops Think They've Cracked Woman's Slaying Inside Volkswagen Beetle
Nearly 50 years after 24-year-old Jeanette Ralston was found strangled in the back seat of her Volkswagen Beetle, an Ohio man ...
A fingerprint found on a cigarette pack helped solve a 50-year-old cold case in California
An Ohio man has been charged in the decades-old murder of a California woman after authorities linked him to a fingerprint ...
DNA found on cigarette carton leads to major break in 1977 San Jose cold case murder
In 1977, 24-year-old Jeanette Ralston was found strangled to death in the back seat of her Volkswagen Beetle. The San Mateo ...
DA: Pack of cigarettes, DNA match solve woman’s 1977 strangling near San Jose bar
Willie Eugene Sims will be extradited from Ohio nearly five decades after the death of 24-year-old Jeanette Ralston, ...
Suspect in 1977 San Jose murder identified with fingerprint on a pack of cigarettes
An Ohio man has been arrested in connection with a 1970s murder case after San Jose police investigators say his fingerprint ...
50-year-old cold case solved with help from fingerprints on cigarette pack
An Ohio man has been charged in the 1977 murder of 24-year-old Jeanette Ralston after authorities linked him to fingerprints ...
Bay Area mom's cigarettes lead to arrest in brutal slaying, officials say
Santa Clara County investigators announced this week there's been an arrest in the strangulation death of Jeanette Ralston in ...
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Fingerprint on pack of cigarettes leads to arrest in San Jose cold case homicide
A man has been arrested nearly 50 years after a young mother was murdered in San Jose. Willie Sims, 69, is accused of strangling a 24-year-old Jeanette Ralston near a bar on Almaden Road in 1977.