The Horrific & Disturbing Case of Joseph Albert Guay

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00:07Hey guys, it's Mort from Mortis media here. My friend briefcase is unfortunately not feeling

00:16all that great today. So I'm going to take over and narrate today's video. I hope you

00:22will enjoy. Joseph Albert Guay was born in Quebec on September 22, 1922. He was a French

00:35Canadian and a Roman Catholic. He was the youngest of five children. His father was a brakeman

00:44who had worked for the Canadian National Railways that was tragically killed in a train accident

00:51when Joseph was five. He grew up to be known as a kind and charming person. Whenever he

01:00had money to spare, he was always very generous with it. He was polite and courteous. As a

01:09young man, he sold watches and jewellery on commission. He seemed to be a natural and

01:16very persistent salesperson. When World War Two broke out in 1939. He started working at

01:24Canadian Arsenals Limited at Saint Malo in Quebec. In 1940, Joseph met Rita Morel. And in August

01:361941, they were married. And they moved into a modest apartment in the lower town section

01:44of Quebec. Towards the end of the war. Joseph left his job at the Arsenal and became a full

01:52time jewellery salesman, moving with his wife to seven islands. Using his home as a base of

02:00operations. He traveled from one river town to another, impressing the customers with his

02:07fluent sales talk. He sold engagement rings, crucifixes, and watches, mostly on payment and storming plans.

02:17And he picked up watches in need of repair, and sent them to Quebec to be fixed by general who

02:25had a

02:26workshop there. In 1945, his wife Rita gave birth to their first child, a girl. Everyone said that they

02:36had a happy marriage. But after the baby was born, the marriage started to have problems. In the summer

02:44of 1947, while on a visit to Quebec, Joseph visited the lower town cafe. And he started talking to a

02:54waitress named Marie-Ange. They got on very well. And she was impressed with his charming manner and

03:05smooth talking. They started meeting two or three times a week, mainly at her parents home, where their

03:14teenager still lived. She introduced him to her parents as Robert Ange, hiding the fact that he was

03:23married. Joseph was totally besotted with Marie-Ange, and even gave her an engagement ring. After a while,

03:35Rita discovered that her husband was having an affair with the teenage girl. Infuriated, she went to the

03:42girl's parents, where she confronted Joseph and his teenaged mistress, and told the parents all about

03:49their daughter's married boyfriend, who had a child. The parents were very angry, and asked the teenager

03:58to leave their house. Joseph always had a plan and arranged for his young mistress to stay with a close

04:07friend named Marguerite. And her husband. This was a good short term solution. But Joseph wanted to see

04:19Marie-Ange whenever he wanted. So rented an apartment for himself and his mistress. He spent the next few

04:27months dividing his time between his mistress and wife. A very strange arrangement that worked for him,

04:36but did not please either of the two women in his life. There were constant arguments with Rita.

04:43As the young Marie-Ange was growing up, she realized this was not how she wanted to live her life,

04:51and decided to leave Joseph. He was very upset. He had considered that maybe he could divorce Rita.

04:59But at the time, divorce was hard to get in Catholic Quebec. Again, he had another idea.

05:08If he could not get a divorce, he would become a widower and kill his wife.

05:15On May 7, 1949, a Philippine Airlines plane blew up and fell into the sea near Manila, killing 13 people.

05:28It was later discovered that an admirer of a woman whose husband was aboard had hired a couple of former

05:36convicts to conceal a time bomb on the plane. The crash and its aftermath were reported in the Canadian

05:44press. And when Joseph read this, he thought that this would be the perfect way to kill his wife.

05:52On his next trips flying out of Quebec to sell his jewelry, Joseph noted carefully when the plane would

06:00be over the river and went over land. He knew that when a plane blows up in the air, it's

06:07far more

06:08difficult to reconstruct what happened if the plane plunges into water than if it crashed on land.

06:16Early in August, Joseph's plan was starting to take shape. He traveled to Bae Comu,

06:23Bae Comu by a river boat, taking two suitcases full of jewelry that he hoped to sell. He found business

06:34in the summer very slow. So he stored the suitcases in a warehouse and sailed back to Quebec, arriving on

06:43August 17. He thought he had a perfect plan. So approached his friend, General Rue, a skilled watchmaker,

06:53who was the brother of Marguerite. He asked General Rue to build a bomb. General Rue had been crippled by

07:06tuberculosis and was incapable of walking. But he was very skilled at mechanical work. Joseph also enlisted

07:16the help of General Rue sister Marguerite to assist with his plan. She was given the job of buying some

07:25dynamite, detonating caps, and a length of fuse. She went to a hardware store and found that it was

07:34impossible to buy dynamite in Canada without signing for it. So she signed a fictitious name, telling the

07:42clerk that she was making the purchase on behalf of a woman who wanted to blast some tree stumps.

07:49Joseph asked his wife to fly to buy a common to collect his stored suitcase. And on the afternoon of

07:58Thursday, September 6, he went to the Canadian Pacific Airlines ticket office and made a reservation for

08:06her on the 1020 plane to buy common on the morning of the ninth as it was the earliest date

08:13space available.

08:15He also invested 50 cents in a $10,000 flight insurance policy on his wife,

08:22naming himself as sole beneficiary. He also had a $5,000 policy dating back from 1942.

08:34The day of the flight arrived, Friday, September 9, 1949. And Joseph left his mother in law's house

08:44to pick up the bomb from general. It was ready for him, packed in a cardboard carton,

08:50and set to go off at 1045. The two men wrapped it in brown paper, tied it with string,

08:59and they wrote fragile on the packet in bold letters, and addressed it to a non-existent person

09:06named Alfred Ploof at Bayekumu. They used a real person as the sender and decided on one

09:15Delphys Bouchard of Saint-Simon, a town 100 miles from Quebec. Joseph then took the bomb in a taxi

09:26to the railway station, where he met Marguerite. She arrived at 815. He gave her the package,

09:34and she took it by taxi to the airport, where she arranged to have it shipped out on flight 108

09:41that

09:42morning. Then she returned to Quebec in the same taxi. Rita went to the airport and boarded the plane.

09:52At 1025 AM, the eastbound Canadian Pacific Airline DC-3 left Quebec, on a scheduled run more or less

10:03following the course of the Saint Lawrence River. The flight known as flight 108 had started at 9 that

10:11morning in Montreal, and its ultimate destination was Seven Islands, a fishing village on the north

10:18shore of the St. Lawrence. On board were 19 passengers, including three small children and a crew of four.

10:27All of them Canadian, except for three men from New York, who were the president, the president

10:35designate, and vice president respectively, of the Kencott Copper Corporation.

10:41The bomb was designed to explode at 1045, at which time, by Joseph's calculations,

10:51the plane would be over the first wide stretch of the St. Lawrence. But there was a slight issue.

10:58Flight 108 was five minutes late leaving Quebec. 10 minutes out of Quebec, the pilot Captain Pierre

11:07Laurent, who was a veteran of seven years flying, and whose wife was expecting a baby at any moment,

11:14was advised by radio telephone from the control center, that he could skip the stop at Forestville.

11:22The captain acknowledged receipt of the message. 10 minutes later, at 1045,

11:30while the plane was cruising in fair weather, it blew up. Those who heard it looked up,

11:38and saw a puff of white smoke billow out of the left side of the plane. Then they saw it

11:44veer sharply

11:45to the north, and within a few seconds, went out of control, and plummeted almost straight down into

11:52the trees on the side of a steep hill. Everyone on board was killed instantly.

12:00In the number of fatalities, the accident was the third worst in the history of Canadian aviation.

12:08At first, no one suspected that the crash was anything but accidental. However,

12:14the Canadian Pacific Railway, of which the airline is a relatively modest subsidiary,

12:21was profoundly dismayed at what apparently could have been explained only as a failure

12:27of either its manpower or its equipment. Joseph and his two accomplices had thought that after an

12:35initial flurry of excitement, the incident would be dismissed as just one of those things.

12:42What they didn't reckon on was that Canadian Pacific was so concerned at the possibility of being held

12:50responsible for the crash, and liable to pay substantial damages to the victims, relatives,

12:57and the company would thoroughly investigate the disaster. As the investigation started,

13:05it soon became apparent that the plane had blown up before it crashed.

13:11Investigators had spoken to a couple of local witnesses, who reported hearing an explosion while the plane

13:17was still in flight, and had seen objects tumble from it before it fell to earth. There was evidence

13:25that the plane's engines were still turning over when they struck the ground. The tips of both propellers

13:32were bent forward, which to engineers meant that they had still been spinning when they hit.

13:39Furthermore, although the plane had gone down nose first, which would normally have flung people into

13:46it towards the front, body parts were found at the rear of the plane, which suggested a strong rearward thrust.

13:55So the question was, what had made the plane explode? There were still traces of gasoline in its battered

14:03tanks. And there had been no fire, which eliminated its own fuel source as the cause. Could it have been

14:11a

14:11defect in some piece of the plane's accessories, radio batteries, carbon dioxide fire extinguishers, and so on?

14:19Enough traces of each were discovered to make it fairly certain that none had exploded.

14:26One thing that particularly worried the investigators was that the first person to reach the crash site

14:32reported of smelling something that reminded them of dynamite, which was most certainly not an accessory

14:40on any plane. The condition of the wreckage left little doubt as to where the explosion had occurred.

14:47The investigators traced all the parcels on board, and it didn't take long for them to focus their

14:54interests on this last parcel. Nobody named Alfred Ploof was known in Baicomu, and Delphi Bouchard said she knew

15:06nothing about any such shipment. They spoke to the baggage clerk at the airport, who recalled that the

15:14taxi driver had taken the parcel into the terminal for a woman. The investigators also looked into the

15:21background of all the passengers. Then they traced the taxi driver who had taken Marguerite to the airport.

15:31But who was the female passenger in the taxi? The investigators told the taxi driver to hang around

15:38when he had dropped her off at her apartment house and get a good look at her when he came

15:44out.

15:44But Marguerite was keeping a low profile and never appeared. Tired of waiting, the taxi driver knocked on

15:53the door and pretended that someone had phoned for a cab. Unfortunately, a friend of Marguerite answered

16:01and said no one had called for a cab. Fortunately, a police officer recalled that Marguerite's son,

16:10by her first husband had once been brought up for a hearing in juvenile court. The police explained the situation

16:18to a judge who agreed to telephone Marguerite and asked her to come and see about her son. Maternal anxiety

16:27and fear

16:27of the law combined lured her from her apartment. As she stepped outside, the taxi driver was waiting in his

16:36cab and took a

16:37good look at her. However, she was wearing dark glasses, which she had not done on the ride to the

16:43airport.

16:44And he was therefore unable to identify her unequivocally. The investigators decided to continue biding their time.

16:53One investigator was less patient, unable to keep his exciting adventures to himself. He got in touch with

17:01an elderly reporter who he knew that worked for Le Canada, a French language morning paper published in

17:08Montreal and tipped him off. The reporter wrote a story that without mentioning names said that police

17:15were hot on the tail of a woman who had delivered an unusual package to the airport. The story appeared

17:22on

17:22September 15th, but Joseph apparently did not see it. On September 18th, he got together with Marguerite for the first

17:32time since the

17:33crash, visiting her at the apartment, to which at his request, she had invited Mariange. In the course of the

17:42little rendezvous,

17:44Joseph told Mariange that he hoped that after he had observed a decent period of mourning,

17:50the two of them would be able to live happily together. The following day, Joseph read the newspaper

17:57story in Le Canada, and he returned to Marguerite in a considerably less sentimental mood and told her

18:06they were in serious trouble. But he added resourcefully that he had an excellent solution.

18:14Marguerite should commit suicide. And while she was at it, she should leave a note behind explaining

18:21that she had put a bomb in the airplane because she thought Joseph would be a passenger on it.

18:27That night, Marguerite called her doctor and asked him to get her admitted to a hospital.

18:35While in hospital, she swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. And on September 23rd,

18:42she was released from hospital and returned home where she was questioned by the authorities.

18:49She readily admitted that she had taken a package to the airport. And she said that she had done it

18:56as a

18:56favor to Joseph and that he had told her the package contained a statue. She was held on a charge

19:05of

19:05attempting suicide with sleeping pills. Now fully aware that Joseph had given Marguerite the bomb,

19:12the police went looking for him. When they found him, he was arrested on the charge of murdering his wife.

19:21Joseph was sent to the Quebec jail, where he strangely told another roommate about the bomb and revealed

19:29that Jenneru had made it. The inmate told the police and they went around to see Jenneru.

19:37He admitted that he had made the bomb for Joseph and told them how, but he insisted

19:43that he had been under the impression that it was used to blast tree stumps.

19:51The trial of Joseph Albert Guay began on February 24th, 1950. By then,

20:00he had become a very well known figure in Canada. The trial lasted two and a half weeks. The weather

20:08was icy cold, and the temperature was dropping to minus 25. But that didn't prevent would be spectators

20:16from lining up outside the courthouse hours before the doors were opened, hoping to get in

20:23to see the events unfold. Joseph did not testify in his own defense. His only display of emotion came

20:31towards the end of the trial, when Mary Ange took the stand and declared that she didn't love him

20:38anymore. On March 14th, the all male jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to death by hanging.

20:48Joseph decided not to appeal the verdict. At his trial, a lot of evidence against him was given by

20:55Marguerite and Jenneru. Joseph decided to pay them back, so dictated a long statement implicating the

21:04brother and sister in the crime. Jenneru was arrested on June 6th, 1950, and Marguerite was also arrested on

21:12June 14th, 1950. The authorities decided to try them separately. The trial of Jenneru began in November of

21:22that year, and he was convicted and sentenced to death shortly after. After the verdict, on January 10th, 1951,

21:32Joseph was hanged. Jenneru was hanged six months later, on July 25th, 1952. Marguerite went on trial and was also

21:47convicted. Following the guilty verdict, she was sentenced to death. This was carried out on January 9th, 1953.

21:57She was the 13th and last woman to be hung in Canada.

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