Prosecutors in California used new fingerprint and DNA evidence to arrest Willie Sims in connection to the 1977 killing of ...

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, ...

Willie Eugene Sims, 69, of Ohio, was taken into custody this week and charged with murder in the January 1977 slaying of 24-year-old Jeanette Ralston, Santa Clara county prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Nearly half a century after a young woman was strangled to death, officials say a thumbprint on a packet of cigarettes has ...

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A young mother told friends that she’d be “back in 10 minutes.” She never returned, and the police in San Jose have now charged a man in her death.

Nearly 50 years after 24-year-old Jeanette Ralston was found strangled in the back seat of her Volkswagen Beetle, an Ohio man has been charged with her 1977 murder — thanks to a fingerprint left on a ...

An Ohio man has been charged in the 1977 murder of a woman in San Jose, California due to a fingerprint found on a pack of ...

A 48-year-old cold case in California has been solved after a thumbprint on a cigarette pack matched a suspect through the FBI's updated database. Willie Eugene Sims, 69, was arrested in Ohio for the ...

The prints matched those of 69-year-old Willie Eugene Sims in Ohio. Earlier in 2025, investigators went to Ohio to collect Sims' DNA, which was found to match with DNA discovered on Ralston's ...

Willie Sims, a 69-year-old living in Jefferson, Ohio, is accused of strangling a then 24-year-old Jeanette Ralston with a shirt and leaving her dead in the backseat of her Volkswagen on Feb.

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.