Ontario/Canadian True Crime - 1975 murder of Montreal teen Sharron Prior solved after new DNA evidence

The murder of Montreal teenager Sharron Prior has been solved, 48 years later. At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Chief Inspector of the Major Crimes Division Pierre Duquette of the Longueuil police service revealed a scientific breakthrough in the field of genetic genealogy led them to identifying the perpetrator of the 1975 cold case. Biological tests have 100 per cent confirmed that Franklin Maywood Romine, born on April 2, 1946, was the killer that police had been trying to identify for nearly five decades, he said. Subscribe to CTV News to watch more videos: https://www.youtube.com/ctvnews Connect with CTV News: For the latest news visit: http://www.ctvnews.ca/ For a full video offering visit the CTV News Network: http://www.ctvnews.ca/video CTV News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CTVNews CTV News on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/discover/CTV-News CTV News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CTVNews CTV News on Instagram: https://instagram.com/ctvnews/ CTV News on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/CTVNEWS --- CTV News is Canada's most-watched news organization both locally and nationally, and has a network of national, international, and local news operations.