ISLE LA MOTTE, Vt. (AP) – Authorities say an 8-year-old Canadian boy was found dead in Lake Champlain on Tuesday night, and his mother will be charged with murder.
Nicholas Desnoyers-Langlois of Montreal, Quebec, was last seen alive Monday night when he and his mother entered the United States at Rouses Point, N.Y., at around 9 p.m.
His body was found about 7 p.m. in the lake, about 25 feet from shore in the Vermont town of Isle La Motte, an island in Lake Champlain just south of the Canadian border. An autopsy will be done today.
Louise Desnoyers, 48, who police said was despondent over recent marital problems, was found Tuesday morning in a shed on the other side of the island, along the east shore.
She was hospitalized at Northwest Vermont Medical Center in St. Albans for what authorities first described as life-threatening, self-inflicted injuries, but her condition “has since improved,” Sgt. John Flannigan of the Vermont State Police said.
Desnoyers will be arraigned in Grade Isle District Court “when physically able to appear,” Flannigan said.
Using helicopters, boats and sheriff’s deputies, searchers spent the day Tuesday searching the island and the water around it.
Montreal Police Spokesman Officer Robert Mansueto said Tuesday the woman and the child were reported missing on Monday by the woman’s husband, Real Langlois. He said the women’s family had been told she had been found in the United States.
A broadcast was issued by Canadian authorities for Desnoyer’s vehicle to check the welfare of Louise Desnoyers and her son.
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