Canadian police have identified the accused who killed a 16-year-old girl after raping her in 1975, 48 years later, but the criminal is no longer in this world.
A foreign news agency According to the report In 1975, a 16-year-old girl named Sharon Pryor, a resident of Montreal, Canada, left home to meet her friends and disappeared.
When Sharon Pryor did not return home, the family contacted her friends, but the friends said that Sharon Pryor did not even reach the pizza restaurant. Police began searching for the girl and three days later her body was found on a beach in Montreal.
As soon as the incident was reported, the police started an investigation, however, many years have passed, but despite the investigation of more than 100 suspects, the police did not reach any final conclusion and no arrests were made.
This week, Canadian police said they were 100 percent sure the 16-year-old girl was killed by a man named Franklin Maud-Romain, who lived near the victim’s home.
It was a mystery that took more than 4 decades to solve. The police took a (DNA) sample of the girl from the crime scene in 1975, but this sample was not enough to be presented in any court.
The authorities kept the girl’s DNA with the hope that one day technology will help identify the 16 killers.
The preserved samples were sent to a lab in West Virginia in 2019, after which they were matched to relatives of the accused with the help of a genealogical website.
Canadian police revealed that Franklin Maud-Romain, the man accused of killing the girl, had died in 1982, but the DNA of the accused’s brothers closely matched that of the victim. On the basis of the said DNA, when the grave of the accused Franklin was exhumed, the DNA of the victim was 100% matched with the DNA of the accused.
On checking the crime record, it was found that he was involved in other crimes besides rape.