Nearly half a century after a young California woman was strangled to death, officials say a thumbprint on a carton of ...

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

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

Gary Gene Ramirez pleaded no contest to murdering Karen Stitt in February after being extradited from Hawaii in 2022 ...

A thumbprint on a cigarette pack helped solve the 1977 murder of Jeanette Ralston nearly half a century later.

A 48-year-old cold case in California has been solved after a thumbprint on a cigarette pack matched a suspect through the ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- The man charged with the brutal murder of 15-year-old Karen Stitt from 1982 finally received his sentence in a Santa Clara County courtroom on Monday. The investigation went cold ...

But the investigation went cold. A thumbprint ... about 68 miles south of San Jose, prosecutors said. The year after Ralston’s death, a jury in a separate case convicted Sims of an assault ...