2023-05-24 07:00:00
With the help of DNA technology, guilty of rape and murder of 16-year-old girl
In 1975, 16-year-old Sharron Prior disappeared from her home in Montreal, Canada, to meet friends at a pizzeria. His body was found three days later in a forest and for 48 years the police could not find the culprit. However, with the help of DNA, police identified Franklin Maywood Romine as responsible for Sharron’s rape and murder. He matched a suspect’s description and his car matched the tire tracks found next to the teenager’s body. Franklin’s DNA was collected at the crime scene in 1975, but there wasn’t enough technology at the time to use it. In 2019, the sample was sent to a lab in West Virginia and found compatible with Romine’s relatives via genealogy websites. Sadly, Romine passed away in 1982. The police exhumed the body for a DNA test, which was compatible. Sharron’s mother, Yvonne Prior, who is in her 80s, took the news “with emotion”, police reported. Sharron’s younger sister Doreen commented on the resolution. “Solving Sharron’s case will never bring Sharron back, but knowing her killer is no longer on this earth and can no longer kill brings us to closure,” she said.
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