How a detective used DNA technology to identify a teenage girl's killer, 50 years later
CTV
On CTV W5, Noovo Info journalist Marie-Christine Bergeron reveals stunning answers to a decades-old cold case -- the murder of 16-year-old Sharron Prior in 1975 -- blown open by scientific evidence.
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In 1975, 16-year-old Sharron Prior was kidnapped in Montreal after leaving home to meet her friends at a local pizzeria.
Three days later, she was found in a wooded area just outside Montreal. She had been tied up, raped and beaten to death.
"Sharron was a lively little girl. The community of Pointe-Saint-Charles liked her a lot, and she had a lot of friends," said Eric Racicot, a detective sergeant at Longueuil’s police department, in an interview with CTV W5.
Racicot took on the case in December 2021. He was the 14th investigator to try to crack the case police had been investigating for 48 years. By the time it reached his hands, 120 suspects had been identified.
Racicot was determined to solve the case with the help of advancements in DNA technology.
