Quebec police to give update on 1975 murder investigation after identifying suspect

MONTREAL — Police in a Montreal suburb are scheduled to provide an update today on the investigation into the 1975 slaying of a 16-year-old girl after exhuming the remains of a suspect earlier this month. 

The rape and killing of Sharron Prior has gone unsolved since she disappeared after setting out to meet friends at a pizza parlor near her home in Montreal’s Pointe-St-Charles neighbourhood.

Her body was found three days later in a wooded area in Longueuil, Que. on Montreal’s South Shore.

Last June, DNA evidence led police to suspect Franklin Maywood Romine in her death.