10. Joseph A. Guay’s Route Out of Marriage
Joseph-Albert Guay, a Quebecoise jeweler, wanted out of his marriage, and wanted out badly. He had met and wed Rita Morrel during WWII, but fell out of love soon after the couple had a child. He then met and fell head over heels in love with a 17-year-old waitress named Marie-Ange Robitaille, and using a fake name, Roger Angers, began a torrid love affair with her. However, Guay’s wife found out, and confronted the duo.
When Robitaille discovered that her lover was not the single Roger Angers, but the married-with-a-child Joseph-Albert Guay, she dumped him. Getting a divorce back then in Roman Catholic Quebec was next to impossible, so Guay decided to end the marriage via murder. Since he also happened to be drowning in debt, Guay decided to kill two birds with one stone, and make a nice bundle off his wife’s life insurance. As seen below, he went to great lengths to accomplish that.