Posted on 05/16/2025 6:17:36 AM PDT by simpson96
Nearly half a century after a young California woman was strangled, officials say a thumbprint on a carton of cigarettes has led to an arrest.
Willie Eugene Sims was arrested in Jefferson, Ohio, in connection with the death of Jeanette Ralston, according to a Friday statement from the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.
Sims, 69, has been charged with murder and was arraigned on Friday in Ashtabula County Court before being sent to California.
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A thumbprint found on Ralston’s cigarette carton in her car was found to match Sims’s last fall after law enforcement had asked to run the print through the FBI’s updated system, prosecutors said.
Earlier this year, officials from the district attorney’s office and San Jose police went to Ohio to collect DNA from Sims. Prosecutors say it matched the DNA found on Ralston’s fingernails and the shirt used to strangle her.
“Every day, forensic science grows better, and every day, criminals are closer to being caught,” District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement. “Cases may grow old and be forgotten by the public. We don’t forget and we don’t give up.”
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Here is a great site to follow cold cases. The Ralston case is currently on page 3. The work The Woodlands, TX, Othram does is phenomenal:
A rope and tree is all that is necessary for justice to run its course.
If it was a Colo. case, he’d be released.
Never too late.
And there is no Statute of Limitations on murder in California.
“In California, there is no statute of limitations for murder, meaning that charges can be filed at any time after the crime has been committed.”
Hope her family will get the justice they’ve been waiting for since 1977.
Is it me? Do I just have tunnel vision? Most of the violent crime seems to be one way. Black on white. Even many of the TV crime shows display this. This country needs to man-up and address this form of warfare on white people. Never once do I hear racism as a motivating factor...and it needs to be, no matter the consequences. And if the crowd roars, “you’re a hater, racist!” Just answer, “I know you are, but what am I.” And repeat.
DNA UNDER HER FINGERNAILS
Being a babe in the 1970s typically didn’t end well.
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