Quebec woman arrested for allegedly killing, dismembering lottery winner in 2000
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MONTREAL – Quebec provincial police have arrested a 63-year-old woman in the death of a man who was killed in 2000 just months after winning the lottery.
Aline Girardin was arrested Thursday and later charged in Trois-Rivières, Que., with second-degree murder and the desecration of the corpse of Louis Valentine.
A charge sheet alleges Girardin stabbed Valentine to death between Aug. 28-Sept. 4, 2000, and then allegedly cut up, froze and buried his body.
Provincial police say Valentine won a large sum of money in the lottery in December 1999, and moved the following month to Trois-Rivières, where he met a woman.
He was last seen in Montreal’s northern Laval suburb in August 2000 and was reported missing by family about six months later.
The force said forensic specialists were helping investigators carry out a search at a home in Trois-Rivières to find evidence in the case.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 26, 2025.