The Maine State Police arrested a Winslow man on Friday in connection with the 39-year-old murder of Alice Hawkes in Westbrook.
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At approximately 2:17 p.m., State Police Major Crimes Unit-Unsolved detectives arrested Stephen Bouchard, 63, of Winslow, on a charge of murder after a Cumberland County Grand Jury indictment handed down on Thursday.
He was transported to the Cumberland County Jail.
Bouchard was Hawkes’ live-in boyfriend when her body was found in their Westbrook apartment on October 4, 1987.
Previous reporting claimed that Bouchard was out playing golf on October 3 and that he discovered her body the next day with her throat slashed.
Her death was quickly ruled a homicide, and an investigation was conducted, but the case went cold.
The Major Crimes Unit-Unsolved conducted a full reinvestigation of the case last year, which led the Maine Attorney General’s Office to seek murder charges for Stephen Bouchard.
It is not clear what new evidence was discovered to support the charges against Bouchard.
