Overview

• The 42-year-old mother was found bound and suffocated on her couch in Le Fidelaire on July 20
• Autopsy results released July 24 confirmed mechanical asphyxia by strangulation and/or suffocation and suggested third-party involvement
• Her 36-year-old brother called the gendarmerie to confess the killing and was placed under involuntary psychiatric hospitalization after an initial police hold
• Court records show the suspect had prior convictions for violent offences and lacked any known psychiatric treatment
• Investigators are examining his untreated psychotic disorders, mystico-religious delusions and substantial cannabis consumption