Canadian Bomber — Joseph Albert Guay
Albert wanted away from his wife. Divorce? No! Blow up a plane!
Albert Guay worked in Quebec's jewelry and watch industry in the mid-40s. He had a wife, a recent daughter, and a young mistress on the side. In 1948, rumors about his relationship with a woman nearly half his age reached the ears of his wife, Rita.
The young mistress, Marie-Ange Robitaille, was thrown out of her house. Desperate because his young love is now homeless, Albert asked his friend Marguerite Ruest to take her in.
In a year, Marie-Ange would leave Albert to move back home, and his wife Rita would take their daughter and move in with her mother.
Albert now had nothing, so he hatched a plan. He had to kill his wife. Then he could be with Marie-Ange. But, how should he do it? He asked a buddy to slip his wife some poison, who refused.
Alberts's plan evolved. He was taking inspiration from a news article in the New Yorker that was reporting on an airplane bombing in the Philippines. He thought that a bombing would be harder to link back to himself.
He asked the brother of his friend Marguerite to build a bomb using dynamite, batteries, and an alarm clock. Marguerite bought the explosives while her brother Généreux, who was a clockmaker…