California’s Santa Clara County (TCN) — Authorities recently accused a 69-year-old Ohio man with strangling to death a 24-year-old woman he met at a bar almost 50 years ago after analyzing.
The DNA and fingerprints on a pack of cigarettes. On February 1, 1977, Jeanette Ralston, 24, was discovered dead “wedged tightly in the backseat of her Volkswagen Beetle”
In the parking lot of an apartment building, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. According to an autopsy, she was sexually assaulted.
And strangled to death by a long-sleeved garment knotted around her neck. Additionally, investigators think that Ralston’s suspected murderer attempted to set the car on fire, but it failed.
According to Ralston’s acquaintances, she was last seen on January 31, 1977, just before midnight, leaving Lion’s Den Bar in San Jose.
With an unidentified male. At the time, no arrests were made, and the matter was abandoned despite the efforts of the police.
When authorities discovered a fingerprint that matched Willie Sims on one of Ralston’s cigarette packets in August 2024, there was a breakthrough.
