48-year-old cold case solved using DNA evidence.
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Canadian police have solved a 48-year-old cold case of a teenager's rape and murder using DNA evidence, linking the crime to a West Virginia man who died over 40 years ago. Franklin Maywood Romine, who had a long criminal history, was found to have murdered 16-year-old Sharron Prior in 1975 in Montreal. Romine's body was exhumed from a West Virginia cemetery for DNA testing, which matched a sample found at the murder scene. The case had gone unsolved for decades, and Prior's mother had spent her life searching for her daughter's killer.
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