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

Ralston was found dead in the back seat of her Volkswagen Beetle on Feb. 1, 1977, in San Jose, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. Her body was found in the carport area of ...

Investigators say DNA evidence connected Willie Sims, 69, to the 1977 strangulation death of Jeanette Ralston in San Jose.

A DNA match helped lead to the arrest of an Ohio man accused of murdering a California woman almost 50 years ago.

DNA from a packet of cigarettes has linked an Army private stationed at Fort Ord to a nearly 50-year-old murder, per Santa Clara County deputy district attorney Rob Baker.

Willie Sims, a 69-year-old former Army private now living in Jefferson, Ohio, was identified as the suspect who allegedly strangled Jeanette Ralston to death with a long-sleeved shirt in early ...

A man has been arrested nearly 50 years after a young mother was murdered in San Jose. Willie Sims, 69, is accused of strangling a 24-year-old Jeanette Ralston near a bar on Almaden Road in 1977.

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. 1 ...