On May 23, 2023, Longueil police announced that DNA testing confirmed that a West Virginia man who has been dead since 1982 raped and killed a teenage girl in one Canada’s most notorious cold cases.
The body of Franklin Romine was exhumed May 2, 2023 at a rural cemetery in Putnam County after DNA evidence linked him to the death of 16-year-old Sharron Prior. However, police and prosecutors petitioned a Putnam County judge to exhume Romine’s body to retrieve DNA from his remains in hopes of conclusively determining he was Prior’s killer.
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