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Technology Resolves Canada’s Rape & Murder Mystery After 48 Years!

After 48 years, the case of rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl in Canada has been resolved. When the suspect’s body was taken out from the grave and his DNA was tested, all the facts surrounding the Montreal incident became clear.

Sharon Prior, 16, went missing after meeting her friends at a pizza parlour in 1975, and her death was discovered three days later in a nearby forest. The suspect in the case at the time was American citizen Franklin Romine. He was in Montreal at the time of the incident and had a long criminal record. He has also encountered security officers in Montreal and West Virginia several times.

He was also found guilty in one case, but in the case of Sharon’s murder, he escaped the realm of doubt. Franklin died at the age of 36 in 1982. The case investigation showed that the tyres on the car near where the body was discovered in the jungle matched the tyres on Franklin’s car.

However, due to a lack of evidence, the police were unable to convict anyone. Even DNA samples taken from the body after the incident failed to produce any findings.

However, those samples were kept safe for decades. In 2019, the Montreal Police sent the DNA samples to the West Virginia police in the United States and matched them with Franklin’s relatives.

The DNA study showed that the DNA samples recovered from Sharon’s body matched the DNA of Franklin’s relatives. After this report, the murder case of Sharon got closed.

Isha Das

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