On March 29, 1975, the family of Sharron Prior waited for the reliable 16-year-old to come home for dinner in Montreal’s Pointe-Saint-Charles neighbourhood. She never did.
Four days later, Prior’s body turned up in an abandoned lot in Longueuil, on Montreal’s South Shore. She’d been savagely sexually assaulted and murdered.
For nearly half a century, her killer’s identity eluded police detectives and Sharron’s family.
But now, new DNA testing tools have proved conclusively it was Franklin Romine — an American who’d been living in Montreal at the time of the murder.
It is the first time that Y-chromosome analysis and genetic genealogy have been used
