CANADA Canada- Louis Valentine, 43, lottery winner, met female, stabbed, cut up, frozen & buried, Laval, Quebec, Aug.,'00, *Arrest Aline Girardin, 63, 2025.*

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Sep 26, 2025

Woman arrested in lottery winner’s 2000 cold case murder: Quebec police

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.

www.cp24.com

Louis Valentine went missing in Trois-Rivieres, Que. in 2000. A woman has been arrested for his killing. (SQ)

Quebec police are searching a home and apartment in Trois-Rivières on Friday after a woman was arrested for murder in connection with a missing person from 2000.

The SQ (Sûreté du Québec) said Aline Girardin, 63, was arrested on Thursday for the murder of Laval resident Louis Valentine.

The 43-year-old won the lottery in 1999, moved to Trois-Rivières a month later and met a woman, police said. He was last seen in Laval in August 2000 at a friend’s house, and his family reported him missing in February 2001.

“She’s going to appear in court this morning and the searches are ongoing in an apartment and a house on Rue Corbeil,” said SQ spokesperson Eloise Cossette.

Girardin lives in Nicolet, Que., and is charged with second-degree murder and desecration of a corpse.

“[She] caused the death of Louis Valentine by stabbing him, thereby committing second-degree murder,” the charge sheet from Quebec prosecutors (DPCP) reads.

The second charge says she cut Valentine’s corpse up, froze and buried it.''

 

[dotr]

Sep 26, 2025 #ctvnews #ctvnationalnews #canadiannews
Police are searching a home and apartment in Trois-Rivières on Friday after a woman was arrested for murder in connection with a missing person from 2000.

 

[dotr]

26 September 2025 Google translate.

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/09/26/meurtre-resolu-25-ans-plus-tard--la-famille-de-laccusee-ny-croit-pas

''He describes his sister as a loving, humanistic and spiritual woman who believed very much in positive energies.''

 

[sunspun]

I wonder why she's been arrested at this time, over 20 years after the murder? Was she ever a suspect or POI in the early investigation?

How much was his lottery win, just out of curiosity?

 

[dotr]

I wonder why she's been arrested at this time, over 20 years after the murder? Was she ever a suspect or POI in the early investigation?

How much was his lottery win, just out of curiosity?

rbbm

Accusée du meurtre d’un gagnant à la loterie il y a 24 ans

La SQ a annoncé avoir arrêté une femme de 63 ans de Trois-Rivières soupçonnée d’avoir tué Louis Valentine, un homme porté disparu depuis 2001.

ici.radio-canada.ca

'According to the Crown prosecutor in the case, Julien Beauchamp-Laliberté, it was a "Mr. Big" operation that led to the arrest of the accused.'

''The objective of this type of undercover operation is to bring undercover officers into a suspect's daily life, in order to create a bond of trust with them in order to extract information and obtain confessions.
This technique, which has been the subject of several decisions by the Supreme Court, has sometimes been challenged.

After her appearance in the morning, Aline Girardin was released by the court, as the court did not consider that she was a danger to society. She is expected to return to court on November 29.''

Laval lottery winner's cold case disappearance leads to arrest, murder charge -- 25 years later

Laval lottery winner’s cold case disappearance leads to arrest, murder charge — 25 years later

montrealgazette.com

''Specialists from Quebec’s forensic sciences lab, including a forensic anthropologist, were deployed as warrants were being executed at an address on Corbeil St.

While police did not provide more details on the charges facing the suspect, multiple reports on Friday said the woman was alleged to have murdered Valentine, then dismembered his corpse and froze the remains before finally burying them.''

 

[LadyL]

I wonder why she's been arrested at this time, over 20 years after the murder? Was she ever a suspect or POI in the early investigation?

How much was his lottery win, just out of curiosity?

apparently only $210,000
doesn't seem like enough to murder for

 

[sunspun]

rbbm

Accusée du meurtre d’un gagnant à la loterie il y a 24 ans

La SQ a annoncé avoir arrêté une femme de 63 ans de Trois-Rivières soupçonnée d’avoir tué Louis Valentine, un homme porté disparu depuis 2001.

ici.radio-canada.ca

'According to the Crown prosecutor in the case, Julien Beauchamp-Laliberté, it was a "Mr. Big" operation that led to the arrest of the accused.'

''The objective of this type of undercover operation is to bring undercover officers into a suspect's daily life, in order to create a bond of trust with them in order to extract information and obtain confessions.
This technique, which has been the subject of several decisions by the Supreme Court, has sometimes been challenged.

After her appearance in the morning, Aline Girardin was released by the court, as the court did not consider that she was a danger to society. She is expected to return to court on November 29.''

Laval lottery winner's cold case disappearance leads to arrest, murder charge -- 25 years later

Laval lottery winner’s cold case disappearance leads to arrest, murder charge — 25 years later

montrealgazette.com

''Specialists from Quebec’s forensic sciences lab, including a forensic anthropologist, were deployed as warrants were being executed at an address on Corbeil St.

While police did not provide more details on the charges facing the suspect, multiple reports on Friday said the woman was alleged to have murdered Valentine, then dismembered his corpse and froze the remains before finally burying them.''

Very interesting, re: Mr. Big operations! I've never heard of these. I'll have to look up anything on the previous ones, sounds like it would be interesting.

 

[Sillybilly]

Very interesting, re: Mr. Big operations! I've never heard of these. I'll have to look up anything on the previous ones, sounds like it would be interesting.

Just a starter for you

Mr. Big (police procedure) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org