A nearly 50-year-old cold case in San Jose, California, has seen a breakthrough with the arrest of a suspect in the 1977 murder of Jeanette Ralston.
The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced the development on May 6.
Jeanette Ralston, a 24-year-old living in San Mateo, was found dead on February 1, 1977.
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Her body was discovered in the back seat of her Volkswagen Beetle, parked near an apartment complex.
Ralston was last seen leaving the Lion’s Den Bar on Almaden Road just before midnight on January 31, 1977, with an unidentified man. Friends reported her missing shortly after.
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