A central Maine man is accused of killing his live-in girlfriend nearly 40 years ago.
Maine State Police arrested Stephen Bouchard, 63, of Winslow on Friday. He is charged with murdering Alice Hawkes in 1987.
Bouchard was Alice Hawkes’ live-in boyfriend at the time of her death, according to police.
Her body was found on Oct. 4, 1987, in the Westbrook apartment they shared. Her throat had been slit, according to her death certificate.
Her death was quickly ruled a homicide, but despite an investigation at the time, the case went cold, according to police.
Hawkes, who was 23, grew up on Cedar Street in Bangor and graduated in 1982 from Bangor High School.
In 2025, the state police Major Crimes Unit-Unsolved started a full reinvestigation of the case, leading the Maine Attorney General’s Office to seek a murder charge against Bouchard, police said.
Bouchard was taken to the Cumberland County Jail, where he will be arraigned in the near future, police said.
