Using DNA and fingerprints on a pack of Eve cigarettes, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office has charged a 69-year-old Ohio man with the murder of a woman he met in a San Jose bar nearly a half-century ago.
Willie Eugene Sims is accused of strangling Jeanette Ralston to death with a long-sleeve shirt on Feb. 1, 1977.
The defendant was scheduled to be arraigned Monday at noon in Jefferson, Ohio, where he is awaiting extradition to California. If convicted, Sims faces 25-years-to-life in prison…