Using DNA and fingerprints in a package of EVE cigarettes, the Office of the District Prosecutor of Santa Clara Clera accused a 69 -year -old Ohio man from the murder of a woman who met in a bar in San José almost half a century ago.
According to information published by Santa Clara County, Willie Eugene Sims is accused of strangling to the death of Jeanette Ralston with a long -sleeved shirt on February 1, 1977. Friends of Ralston said they saw her alive for the last time when she left the Lion’s Den Bar in 1500 Almaden Road in San José with an unknown man shortly before midnight of January 31, 1977.
The defendant appeared before Judge Harold Specht in the court in Jefferson, Ohio, where his transfer to California was ordered. If they are convicted, SIMS faces a penalty of between 25 years and life imprisonment.
The district prosecutor Jeff Rosen declared: “Every day, forensic science improves and criminals are getting closer to being captured. Cases can age and be forgotten by the public. We do not forget or give up.”
The case was resolved thanks to the collaboration between the Homicide Unit of the San José Police Department and the unresolved case unit of the Prosecutor’s Office. This unit was established in 2011. Since then, the Prosecutor’s Office has resolved more than 30 cases of unsolved murder since 1969.
According to Fox News, the victim’s son (who was 6 when his mother died) said he was very grateful for the work done by the Prosecutor’s Office, and for the closure that this crime could have.
The prosecutors said that Sims was a satin soldier of the army assigned to Fort Ord, an old American military base in Marina, California, at the time of Ralston’s murder. He was “condemned in 1978 for an assault to commit murder in Monterey County” and subsequently “moved outside the state before his DNA could be entered in Codis, the state DNA database,” they added.
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