A deceased West Virginia man is tied to unsolved sexual assault and murder of 16-year-old girl

After 45 years, one of Canada’s most notorious cold cases has finally been cracked. Canadian authorities have linked the 1975 rape and murder of 16-year-old Sharron Prior in Longueuil, Quebec with Franklin Maywood Romine, a West Virginia man who died in 1982. Romine had a substantial criminal background— Escape from the West Virginia Penitentiary in 1964, rape in Parkersburg, West Virginia in 1974, and he was on the run in Canada by the time Sharron …

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