9. Murder As An Answer
Unhappy husband and father Joseph-Albert Guay wanted to win back his 17-year-old lover Marie-Ange Robitaille, but with divorce not being much of an option, he decided to end the marriage by murdering his wife, Rita. He tried poison at first, and offered somebody $500 to do it, but he was turned down. So Guay decided to blow up his wife in a plane.
He got an associate named Genereaux Ruest to make him a time bomb out of 20 dynamite sticks, some batteries, and an alarm clock. He then got Ruest’s sister, Marguerite Pitre, to deliver a parcel containing the bomb, for placement in the cargo hold of the September 9th, 1949, Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 108 – a DC-3 that flew from Quebec City to Seven Islands, a fishing village about 300 miles away. Guay bought his wife a ticket on that plane, telling Rita that he needed her to retrieve some jewels for him.