The case of a 48-year-old carpenter accused of killing a Corrections Canada employee was back before the courts Friday.
And the crown is trying to see if new evidence can link him to other crimes.
"It's DNA results, most of it," crown prosecutor Eliane Perreault explained, saying that they turned over new evidence to the defence. Claude Larouche's new lawyer will now study it and determine their next step in late April. Larouche is charged in the first degree murder of 37-year-old Corrections Canada employee Natasha Cournoyer.
Perreault says they're also waiting on other test results, explaining the investigation into Larouche is continuing and even expanding.
"We're looking at other files also to see if there's any other link we can do."
Among those files: that of a prostitute who says Larouche may be the man who attacked her two weeks before Cournoyer's murder.
Cournoyer went missing in early October from her work in Laval. Her body turned up days later in Pointe-aux-Trembles by the St. Lawrence River.
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