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Boyfriend charged with first-degree murder of Cheryl Bau-Tremblay

WATCH ABOVE: Alexandre Gendron, 35, has been charged with the first-degree murder of girlfriend Cheryl Bau-Tremblay in Beloeil. Global’s Billy Shields reports.

BELOEIL – Alexandre Gendron, 35, has been charged with the first-degree murder of girlfriend Cheryl Bau-Tremblay.

He appeared in Saint-Hyacinthe court Friday.

Police found Bau-Tremblay’s body inside the couple’s Beloeil home Thursday night.

Gendron has faced at least eight other criminal charges, dating back to 2005.

Bau-Tremblay was five months pregnant and had been missing since Saturday, Aug. 1 after apparently leaving home on foot without her keys or credit cards.

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Police are outside the home of Cheryl Bau-Tremblay, Thursday, August 6, 2015. Billy Shields/Global News

Bau-Tremblay had just come back from a trip to Magog in the Eastern Townships.

Officers entered the Alexander Street home Thursday afternoon where the 28-year-old mother-to-be was last seen.

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