On May 23, Canadian police announced that they have solved the 1975 cold case rape and murder of 16-year-old Sharron Prior
On May 23, Canadian police announced that they have solved the 1975 cold case rape and murder of 16-year-old Sharron Prior. On March 29, 1975, Prior left her family's Montreal home to meet friends nearby at Marina’s Pizzeria. She never made it there and three days later, her body was found. She had been sexually assaulted and repeatedly beaten before she suffocated on her own blood. Read the full article. Canadian police said Tuesday they have solved one of the highest-profile cold cases in Quebec history, linking the 1975 rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl to a West Virginia man who died more than 40 years ago. Police in Longueuil, Quebec, said that DNA evidence allows them to be 100% certain that Franklin Maywood Romine murdered teenager Sharron Prior in the Montreal suburb. The body of Romine, who was born in 1946 in West Virginia's second largest city of Huntington and died in 1982 at the age of 36 in Verdun, Montreal under mysterious circumstances, was exhumed ...