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Jeanette Ralston Cold Case
Jeanette Ralston’s murder case, which was unsolved for nearly 50 years, was recently solved when Willie Eugene Sims, 69, was charged with her murder. Ralston, a 24-year-old woman, was found strangled and sexually assaulted in her Volkswagen Beetle near a bar in San Jose, California, on February 1, 1977.
Cold-case investigators used a fingerprint from a 1977 pack of cigarettes and a DNA match to implicate Sims in Ralston’s death. The fingerprint was found on a carton of Eve cigarettes in Ralston’s car, and DNA evidence from Sims matched that found on Ralston’s fingernails and the shirt used to strangle her.
Sims was arraigned on one count of murder and faces a maximum prison sentence of 25 years to life. He was previously convicted of assault with intent to commit murder and robbery in Monterey County, California, in 1978.
Ralston’s son, Allen Ralston, expressed gratitude for Sims’ arrest, saying it was a great birthday present for him.
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“Your honor, the cigarettes would have killed her eventually anyway.”
Sims was arraigned on one count of murder and faces a maximum prison sentence of 25 years to life. He was previously convicted of assault with intent to commit murder and robbery in Monterey County, California, in 1978.
Of course it wasn’t his first rodeo.