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Sharron Prior, a Montreal teen who was found dead in 1975, was raped and killed by Franklin Romine, an American from West Virginia, investigators said on Tuesday.
The cold case, which had puzzled detectives for 48 years, was solved thanks to new DNA testing techniques and the persistence of Prior’s family, who fought to keep her death from being forgotten.
“The solving of Sharron’s case will never bring Sharron back,” Doreen Prior, one of Sharron’s younger sisters said at a news conference,
