Collateral Damage - The Bombing of Flight 108 (QC)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

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🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Episode 092 - On the morning of September 9, 1949, a DC-3 Canadian Pacific passenger plane, CP Flight 108, on a routine small hop flight up the St. Lawrence River crashed into the remote forest of Sault-au-Cochon, Quebec. All 23 aboard, 19 passengers and 4 crew, were killed instantly. Thanks to eyewitness reports of an explosion and first responders reporting the odour of dynamite, it was quickly determined that the crash was the result of sabotage. A Quebec City jeweller, J. Albert Guay quickly became the main suspect, his wife, Rita Morel, had been on the plane and determined to be the sole target. She'd recently discovered his affair with the teenage beauty Marie-Ange Robitaille. Guay also took a $10,000 travellers insurance policy out on his wife the day he bought her plane ticket to the ill fated flight. The other 22 killed were merely collateral damage so one man could get what he wanted. Guay was quickly picked up with his two unlikely accomplices, a wheelchair bound watchmaker and his 44 year old sister, who'd been smitten with Guay. They were charged with multiple counts of murder. As the three were tried a story of betrayal, infidelity and greed emerged shocking the nation. All three were hanged for their participation in what was, up to that point, the third worst air disaster in Canadian history.Sources:Crash of a Douglas C-47-DL near Saint Joachim: 23 killedCBC: To murder his wife, he killed 22 more: The Sault-au-Cochon plane crash of 1949Roger Lemelin in MacLeans Magazine - My Friend Guay 1951Douglas DC-3C (CF-CUA c/n 4518) Canadian Pacific AirlinesVICE She Was the Last Woman Executed In Canada. She May Have Been InnocentNew Yorker 1953 article by EJ Kahn - It Has No NameNewpapers.com search for Albert Guay Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Mike here, I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to Dark Poutine early and
0:04.7	add free on Amazon Music, included with Prime. You're about to listen to a historical episode
0:10.8	of Dark Poutine. After episode 149, you will find Scott is no longer with the show.
0:16.9	In an effort to maintain continuity and offer listeners as many episodes as possible,
0:22.1	we are leaving the episodes in which he co-hosted intact. Thank you.
0:30.0	Welcome to Dark Poutine. I'm Mike Brown, creator and host with me as usual. Is my good friend
0:48.2	and co-host, Scott Hemmanway. Say hello, Scott. Good and talk, everybody. Good and talk. Yeah.
0:58.1	Is that mean hello in Germany? I guess I don't think it means good evening. Wow, hey.
1:02.8	It is what a coincidence is evening. Yeah, okay. So when do I give everybody?
1:09.2	Dark Poutine is not for the faint of harder squeamish listener discretion is strongly advised.
1:13.6	We're not experts on the topics we present nor are we journalists or two ordinary Canadians
1:19.0	chatting about crime in the Dark Side of history. Let's get to it. Put on your tooke. It is getting
1:24.3	cold out. It is. Grab yourself a double double and an animal bar is time to scarf down some
1:54.7	time.
2:06.0	Oh my goodness. Episode 92. What's that backwards? 29? Yeah. Okay, I don't know how that
2:17.8	has no bearing on anything. That was just a test. He passed it. Well done. Thank goodness. Well done.
2:27.7	92. Kiwis on with the show. This week we're headed to the province of Quebec, the home of Poutine.
2:40.6	Our story begins along the St. Lawrence River 66 kilometers north in an unorganized
2:47.1	territory called Sout-O-Caux-Chon. There on the morning of September 9, 1949 an eel fisherman's
2:55.6	tranquil morning was shattered. Looking up, Patrick Samard saw a plane flying low overhead.
3:02.8	He watched for a few moments when he saw and heard what he called an explosion in the front
3:08.4	third of the plane. He witnessed debris and seat cushions falling from the badly damaged
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