Police confirm they have found who killed a Montreal teen nearly 50 years ago | 24CA News
After a decades-long investigation, an unsolved chilly case is cracked and the household of 16-year-old woman from Montreal who was raped and killed lastly has solutions.
Police in Longueuil, Que., gave a long-awaited replace Tuesday into the disappearance and slaying of Sharron Prior. The teen went lacking after she got down to meet pals for pizza in Montreal’s Pointe-St-Charles neighbourhood in March 1975.
Prior by no means arrived on the pizzeria. Her physique was discovered 4 days later in a wooded space in Longueuil, on Montreal’s south shore.
Earlier this month, police confirmed they’d a suspect within the unsolved case: Franklin Maywood Romine. The improvement got here after DNA proof surfaced in June 2022 — practically 50 years after Prior’s loss of life.
Longueuil investigators requested the physique of Romine, who died in 1982, be exhumed from a West Virginia cemetery and endure DNA testing. Police mentioned in addition they had different clues linking Romine to the case.
Romine, who had a protracted legal file, was in Montreal on the time of Prior’s loss of life however wasn’t thought-about a suspect, in accordance with police.
Investigators mentioned Tuesday that DNA take a look at outcomes confirmed that Romine was the killer that police had searched for practically 5 many years within the Montreal teen’s homicide.
“Since the suspect in this file is deceased, the confirmation of identity therefore closes this cold case and will not lead to any charges in Canadian courts,” the police power mentioned in a press release.
— with information from The Canadian Press
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