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A 63-year-old woman has been arrested and charged in Trois-Rivières, Que., with second-degree murder and the desecration of a corpse in the death of a man who was killed 25 years ago after winning the lotto.

Quebec provincial police say investigators from its Missing Persons and Unsolved Cases Division arrested Aline Girardin Thursday evening for the killing of Louis Valentine in the fall of 2000.

Girardin allegedly stabbed Valentine to death between August 28 and September 4 that year and then allegedly cut up, froze and buried his body, according to the charge sheet.

Authorities say the victim, who was a resident of Laval, Que., north of Montreal, had won a large sum of money the year before, in December 1999, and moved to Trois-Rivières

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