SQ arrest woman in connection to murder of lottery winner in 2000
Posted September 26, 2025 9:40 am.
Last Updated September 26, 2025 4:46 pm.
A 63-year-old woman from Trois-Rivières has been arrested and charged 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.
She appeared in court via video conference on Friday and was charged. She was released with conditions. The Crown did not oppose her release.
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 of money in the lottery. The following month, he moved to Trois-Rivières and met a woman.
The SQ did not immediately specify whether this woman was the one arrested Thursday evening. The provincial police force also did not reveal what helped break the deadlock in the investigation 25 years later.
On Friday morning, the SQ was conducting a field search for evidence in collaboration with specialists from the Forensic Sciences and Legal Medicine Laboratory, including a forensic anthropologist.
They confirmed later to have found Valentine’s remains.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
