Police say genetic testing has been used to confirm a homicide victim found in Quebec in 1979 was a woman who had been reported missing months earlier from Ontario.

Police say Pamela Harvey was reported missing from Sudbury, Ont., on Christmas Day 1978 at the age of 23.

In March 1979, the body of an unidentified woman who police say was murdered was found in St-Eustache, Que.

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Police say Harvey’s family provided DNA samples in 2018 to a newly launched RCMP-led missing persons program.

In 2025, a forensic dentist was able to connect Harvey’s case with the unidentified homicide victim and followup tests by the Quebec coroner’s office confirmed the match.

Police say detectives determined the person believed to be responsible for her killing died in 1979.

A spokesperson with the Quebec provincial police would not provide further comment about the presumed killer or details about the homicide investigation.

The Montreal Gazette reported on March 21, 1979, that an unidentified young woman found by two hunters in a wooded area of St. Eustache had been shot twice in the head.

The police spokesperson reached Tuesday would not confirm whether the two cases are connected.

A jury has found a man who drowned his two children in their Laval, Que., family home in October 2022 guilty on all charges.

Kamaljit Arora, 49, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of his 11-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter, whose names are covered by a publication ban.

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The jury also found Arora guilty of attempted murder of his eldest daughter and of strangulation of his wife, Rama Rani Arora, who survived the attack.

In a written admission at the beginning of the trial, the accused admitted to drowning his youngest children, but his lawyers argued the acts were not premeditated and he was experiencing a relapse of depression first diagnosed in 2020.

The Crown had maintained the evidence pointed to a well-thought-out plan to commit the crimes.

While first-degree murder conviction carries an automatic life sentence without possibility of parole for 25 years, the case will return to court in May for sentencing on the other counts.

A 35-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in the killing on Thursday of a Montreal convenience store owner.

Xavier Gellatly was formally charged today at the Montreal courthouse in the killing of Chong Woo Kim.

Provincial business records indicate Kim is the owner of the Fleur Bleue convenience store on Berri Street where the murder occurred.

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Montreal police were called to the scene at 7:30 a.m. Thursday where they found Kim unresponsive inside the store.

Paramedics confirmed the man’s death at the scene.

Police arrested Gellatly later in the day at Complexe Desjardins, a downtown office tower and mall a few kilometres from the scene, after an extensive search.

The case is scheduled to return to court on May 4.

Montreal police say they are conducting searches in an investigation connected to the death of a teenager shot dead by police on the city’s South Shore.

Nooran Rezayi, 15, was killed by Longueuil police after officers responded to a 911 call on Sept. 21 about a group of allegedly armed youth in a residential neighbourhood.

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The shooting is being investigated by the province’s police watchdog — Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes — which has said the only gun seized at the scene belonged to the officer who shot the teen.

Montreal police are conducting a parallel investigation into the events that led to Longueuil police being called on the group of young people.

The searches are taking place in several communities on the South Shore including Beloeil, Brossard, Candiac, Longueuil, and St-Philippe.

Rezayi’s family said in December they filed a $2.2-million civil lawsuit against Longueuil police, saying the use of force against the teenager was unreasonable and disproportionate.

Quebec provincial police say a man has been charged in the slaying of Véronic Champagne last month.

David Guertin, 41, is charged with second-degree murder and arson in his ex-partner’s killing.

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Champagne, 40, was found seriously injured inside an apartment that had been set on fire in Rougemont, Que., 50-kilometres east of Montreal.

Champagne died in hospital a short time later while Guertin had also sustained significant injuries and was hospitalized.

Provincial police say they were initially unable to question Guertin for a few weeks due to his injuries.

Guertin will appear in court in St-Hyacinthe, Que. on Wednesday.

Quebec provincial police say they’ve made a pair of arrests in what they are calling a sophisticated counterfeit ID and credit card operation.

The force’s economic crimes division says two men ages 34 and 42 face charges of production of counterfeit documents and identity theft.

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They were expected to appear virtually at the courthouse in Joliette, Que., northeast of Montreal.

The arrests come after a March 2025 raid by provincial police on a clandestine document production lab on Chabanel Street in Montreal.

At the time, police seized 1,000 forged documents and the equipment required to make them.

Police say items seized included driver’s licences, Canadian residency cards, Quebec health insurance cards, debit and credit cards, and social insurance cards.

Authorities say the forged documents were high quality and difficult to detect without the use of specialized equipment.

RCMP say a Quebec City-area teenager is facing a terrorism charge for allegedly using social media to promote the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division.

The force says the accused, who cannot be named due to his age, is believed to have produced and distributed online material with the aim of inspiring and recruiting others.

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The teen is expected to appear in court in Quebec City on Feb. 6 to face a charge of participation in the activity of a terrorist group.

The federal government describes Atomwaffen Division as a militant neo-Nazi terror group that calls for acts of violence against racial, religious and ethnic groups.

It was founded in the United States in 2015 and has since expanded, and has been listed as a terrorist entity in Canada since 2021.

An Ottawa man was sentenced in September to 10 years in prison for the promotion of hate propaganda against Jewish people that was produced for the group.