San Jose Becomes First Major US City to Solve 100% of Homicides Over Three Years

In an era where most American cities struggle to crack even half of their murder cases, this blue-state city has defied all odds.

For comparison, the national homicide clearance rate stands at just 57.8 percent, according to Statistica.

Yet between 2022 and 2024, San Jose maintained a 100 percent solve rate, even pushing beyond with successful resolutions of long-dormant cold cases — a feat that places the city in a league of its own.

One such cold case involved Jeanette Ralston, a young mother murdered in 1977. The trail had long gone cold, but a modern re-scan of old evidence unearthed a match, the Washington Examiner reports.

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