Boyfriend arrested many years after lady’s killing in Maine, police say – NBC Boston

Practically 4 many years after a lady was discovered lifeless in her Maine house, her then-boyfriend was arrested on a homicide cost, police stated.

Stephen Bouchard, now 63, was arrested Friday within the 1987 killing of Alice Hawkes, whom he lived with in Westbrook when she died, Maine State Police stated.

Hawkes’ physique was discovered about 10:55 p.m. on Oct. 4, 1987, after her landlord helped open the door to the house, state police stated in an unsolved murder web page about Hawkes. Her boyfriend had requested for assist, saying he’d gone to city to do errands and located when he acquired again that he was locked out.

In Friday’s announcement that Bouchard was being charged, police stated that the case was reinvestigated in 2025, main the lawyer common’s workplace to hunt a homicide cost, which a Cumberland County grand jury handed down on Thursday.

Police did not say what led to the choice to hunt prices towards Bouchard, now of Winslow. It wasn’t instantly clear if he had an lawyer who might communicate to the cost.