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Holy Smokes! Thumbprint on Carton of Cigarettes SOLVES 1977 Murder

Holy Smokes! Thumbprint on Carton of Cigarettes SOLVES 1977 Murder

Update: 2025-05-131
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Just before midnight on January 31, 1977, Jeanette Ralston leaves the Lion's Den bar in San Jose, California. She never arrives home and the next morning her body is found wedged in the back seat of her VW Beetle in a carport of an apartment complex not far from the bar. She had been strangled and possibly sexually assaulted. Investigators found evidence and a sketch of a possible suspect was done, but the case went unsolved and ran cold. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the murder of this single mom and how investigators eventually located a possible suspect in 2024 using a thumbprint found on a carton of cigarettes at the scene of the crime in 1977.  

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Holy Smokes! Thumbprint on Carton of Cigarettes SOLVES 1977 Murder

Holy Smokes! Thumbprint on Carton of Cigarettes SOLVES 1977 Murder

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