7. Guay Discovers He Was Not as Clever a Criminal as He Had Imagined
After Flight 108 was blown up, Joseph Albert-Guay made it easy for investigators to ID him as the culprit. On the same day his wife boarded the plane, Guay had taken out a $10,000 insurance policy on her life, which he tried to cash in just three days after the plane crash. Investigators also tracked down Marguerite Pitre, who had brought a parcel for delivery by Flight 108.
Pitre admitted that Guay had instructed her to place the parcel in the plane, and eventually confessed that he had told her the package contained a bomb. Guay, Pitre, and her brother the bomb maker Genereaux Ruest, were all arrested, tried for murder, convicted, and sentenced to death. Guay was hanged in 1951, Ruest in 1952, and Pitre in 1953.