Montreal-area police say they are working with law enforcement agencies in Canada and the United States to determine whether a man newly linked to a 1975 cold case may have been responsible for other unsolved murders.
Investigators in Longueuil, Que., south of Montreal, said Tuesday that DNA evidence establishes with certainty that Franklin Maywood Romine raped and murdered 16-year-old Sharron Prior nearly 50 years ago.
Now police say they’re trying to find out whether Romine—a career criminal who died in 1982 at the age of 36—may have had other victims.
“We are already working on it, but not only in Canada, we’re also working with the FBI to see if there’s any link with other cold cases in the U.S.,” Longueuil police Sgt.-Det. Eric Racicot, who investigated the Prior cold case, told reporters….