A 63-year-old woman from Trois-Rivières has been arrested for the murder of Louis Valentine, a man killed in 2000 just months after winning the lottery.

The Missing Persons and Unsolved Cases Division of the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) arrested the suspect on Thursday evening for murder and indignity to a corpse.

In a press release, the SQ stated that the woman is expected to appear Friday at the Trois-Rivières courthouse. Searches were underway early in the day.

Louis Valentine was last seen in Laval in August 2000, at a friend’s home. His disappearance was reported to the Trois-Rivières-Ouest Police Department in February 2001, and the SQ emphasized that a criminal theory has never been ruled out.

A few months before his disappearance, in December 1999, Louis Valentine had won a large sum

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