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for everyone

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around

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350 to 400

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million years ago, give or take

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a meteorite into the atmosphere

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and crash to us landing

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on total island in what's now

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known as the province of quebec

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the meteorite was estimated to be

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about two kilometers in diameter

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and the force of it's impact completely

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changed the terrain the

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crater or impact structure

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left by the meteorite is about

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fifty kilometers in diameter

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an area known today as the shall

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of while region located an

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hour or two east of can big city

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lot of the crazy like directly

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under the celeron river

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the root of the area by some of

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the most unique landscape our planet

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has to offer rolling terrain

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dense forest fjords headlands

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and base the

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local tourism website describes

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a fully nice you are talking

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to a mythic landscape in a lake

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and leaving behind quote a

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particular magnetism and energy

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the visitors stop breathe and

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reawakened their senses

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the shower while region is a nature

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lovers heaven and because it's also

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an internationally protected unesco

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world bias see reserve hopefully

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it will stay that way it

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will be area has had an incredible

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and magnetic history it

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hasn't been immune from attracting

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tragedy

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it was a warm sit kinda morning just

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after ten forty am and

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thirty five year old fisherman patrick

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seema michelle of while

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region checking the ill traps

2:03

headset on the celeron result he

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was fishing a long stretch of on

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populated an undeveloped shoreline

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need a hamlet known as soto to

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show located about forty

2:16

kilometers east as cubic city

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he heard the sound of the planes engine

2:21

or the head and while it seemed to

2:23

be a bit louder than usual he

2:25

thought nothing of the sand but

2:28

then all of a sudden there

2:30

was an explosion or the head

2:33

the fisherman turned his head and saw

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a passenger plane with white smoke

2:38

billowing out of it almost as

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though it had been hit by something or

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shot out of the air he

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had never seen a plane flying solo

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over the area and against that backdrop

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as a clear sky he could clearly

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see debris falling from the plane

2:55

that only it feeds sharply

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to the left and plunged news

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first behind a tree line a top

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and rocky bluffs leaving only

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a flurry of white smoke in it's

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vote three didn't hear

3:08

any kind of landing and at first

3:10

he wondered if he had imagined the whole

3:13

thing he decided it couldn't

3:15

has been a dream and started climbing

3:17

up in nearby hate to see if he could get

3:19

a better view of the terrain after

3:23

finding a good vantage point he

3:25

peered out over the area and

3:27

saw something nestled in the bushes

3:30

at the top of another hill

3:32

the wreckage of a white plane

3:38

a crew of five man will working

3:40

alongside railway tracks closer

3:42

to where the wreckage landed when they

3:44

heard the explosion like

3:46

a crash of thunder they

3:49

ran from a place on the tracks

3:51

through the trees towards the steep

3:53

area where the plane same down

3:56

one railway work it would tell reporters

3:58

that they thought they had signed the plane erupted

4:01

in flames that was surprised

4:03

to find that it wasn't although

4:05

parts of the plane was scattered throughout

4:07

the bush and lined the forest floor

4:10

a large part of it remained intact

4:13

and quite there was no fire

4:15

at all just a mass of wreckage

4:17

and all those bodies the

4:20

shop to work is said they would never forget

4:23

what they saw that day as long as

4:25

they list a quote from the montreal

4:27

gazette the front of

4:29

the plane seem to the in one piece

4:31

and it was jammed with broken and

4:34

twisted bodies as if they'd been

4:36

thrown forward in the crash

4:38

the rail work is described seeing

4:40

body parts said had been torn off

4:43

and it was clear to them that they would children

4:45

on board

5:14

it seems likely that they were no survivors

5:17

and is they're worth it was nothing that

5:19

the railway workers could do in

5:21

a straight as shock they hurried back

5:24

to their work site to reported

5:27

rescue teams that investigators took

5:29

a while to get to the wreckage even

5:32

today the terrain and the sol

5:34

of wire region remained virtually untouched

5:37

and can only be navigated with an off

5:40

road vehicle and inexperienced

5:42

guides but this

5:44

was back in nineteen forty nineteen

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just after world war two and

5:48

there were even less options rescue

5:51

team started arriving in the afternoon

5:54

some taking a train to the final

5:56

railway stop and then continuing

5:58

on foot to this the wreckage side

6:01

a track that talk about an hour andorra

6:04

to drive in motor cars as far as

6:06

they could before the road ended hadn't

6:08

even so that trek to make as

6:12

the days light started to fade

6:14

the teams of investigators and undertakers

6:17

assistance used torches to

6:19

eliminate their way through the terrain

6:22

the plane had crashed a top a

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wooded hillside in a nature wildlife

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area called kept her mom hitting

6:30

him rocky bluffs as it fell

6:32

splintering the trees under the

6:34

fourth there were also pieces

6:36

of the plane found in tree branches

6:40

just as the sunset the

6:42

first responders came upon the main

6:44

part of the wreckage with i saw

6:46

that same horrific site that

6:48

was etched into the railway workers

6:51

minds the body jammed

6:53

together mangled the remains

6:56

of the passengers virtually indistinguishable

6:58

from the remnants of their belongings

7:03

from witness descriptions investigators

7:06

knew that the plane had gone down

7:08

knows first swinging most

7:10

of the person's is into the same area

7:12

of the plane they were also

7:15

passed will remain scattered on the forest

7:17

floor some sound over two

7:19

hundred feet from the wreckage it

7:22

took three days to remove

7:24

the deceased as some their journey

7:27

that required the rescue teams to carry

7:29

all the remains a mile and a half

7:31

down the slope to and away seeing medical

7:34

train carriage

7:39

a small number of salvageable items

7:41

was sounds including what appeared

7:43

to be storage receipts the two suitcases

7:46

containing jewelry that had been

7:48

stored at a warehouse in the city

7:50

of bay como located

7:52

north east of could back sissy

7:56

that's exactly where the plane was

7:58

hit it it would be identified

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as canadian pacific airlines

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flight one

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eight

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operating a kid back aways route

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from montreal north east to

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bake como

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one stop along the way

8:12

the aircraft was a douglas d

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c three two engine propeller

8:16

plane with a capacity of twenty

8:18

one to thirty two passengers

8:21

after a stopover act big city

8:23

to let some passengers off and boards

8:25

and new one the plane took off

8:27

again only five minutes later than

8:29

scheduled for the final leg

8:32

of the journey unfortunately

8:34

it never made it to it's final destination

8:37

only twenty minutes into the flight

8:40

it crashed to the grounds oh

8:43

for crew members on board were killed

8:46

he rode pilot captain pierre

8:48

lauren was a seasoned flyer

8:51

having flown and bomber raids all

8:53

over europe he was a husband

8:55

and father and his wife was heavily

8:58

pregnant with their second child

9:00

a child who would never meet their

9:02

father his copilot

9:05

first officer gordon alexander

9:07

perished on the flight as well

9:09

along with first engineer a

9:11

meal terry and and the stewardess

9:14

or flight attendant gertrude

9:16

mckay the

9:18

media began to report more facts

9:21

about the terrible tragedy and release

9:23

the names of the full crew and nineteen

9:25

passengers who died there were

9:28

many questions plane

9:30

travel had begun to be more widely

9:32

accepted no longer just

9:34

an option for the wealthy class

9:36

and it was assumed that plane travel

9:38

was safe the public was

9:40

shocked to learn that they were children

9:43

on the flight one

9:45

child was just a baby parents

9:48

hungry poll bouchard and his

9:50

wife referred to only as

9:52

mrs h bouchard we're all

9:55

on the flight returning home

9:57

after a vacation mother

9:59

and the had been identified by

10:01

heart broken relatives that

10:03

father henri paul was still

10:06

unaccounted for according

10:08

to the passenger manifest he

10:10

was sitting crisis to what was believed

10:13

to be the original location of

10:15

the block

10:16

in fact that

10:18

seat was completely missing

10:20

investigators momentarily wondered

10:23

if perhaps he was involves although

10:25

it seem like an unlikely prospect

10:28

since his wife

10:28

the baby were with him

10:31

a few days after the crash

10:34

hundred paul's relatives were told that

10:36

there were leftover remains at the morgue

10:38

that likely belong to him that

10:41

it was a false start because they

10:43

belonged to someone completely unrelated

10:45

to the crash once the

10:47

mistake was known rescue teams

10:49

were sent out to calm the woods

10:51

again that hungry pulls family

10:54

were told to prepare for the possibility

10:56

that his body may have been broken

10:58

beyond recognition it

11:02

was almost to her respect to saddam

11:06

the other passengers who boarded the plane

11:09

at the start of the journey and montreal

11:11

included three new york business

11:13

executives from a cop a company

11:16

identified as russell j parker

11:18

ah sir a d stork and

11:20

o p stannard the

11:23

plane final destination the

11:25

city of bay como was

11:27

and is a farce three center for

11:29

the pulp and paper industry in

11:32

two of the passengers and callanan

11:34

and bill shula were employees

11:37

of the ontario paper company and

11:39

st catharines ontario also

11:42

on board with to inspect his for the bank

11:44

of montreal see so on phrase

11:47

and a are calla as well

11:49

as twenty four year old mechanic garage

11:51

are now line or delay who

11:53

also perished on the flight

11:55

returning home after a visit to montreal

11:58

to see his sister

12:00

the last passenger who boarded at

12:02

montreal was forty seven year

12:04

old beatrice a lot a

12:06

widow who was also visiting

12:08

relatives

12:13

pretty big city still play that some

12:15

passengers disembarked making

12:17

waves and new passengers to board

12:20

including high school teacher harold

12:22

pie and to married women

12:24

mrs are dorette and mrs

12:27

j gay the identities

12:29

of the married women will all reported

12:32

using their husbands initials and

12:34

surname that mrs gays first

12:36

name was return and she was

12:38

a twenty eight year old housewife and

12:40

mother of one the today

12:43

was the only crash victim his

12:45

face was distinguishable when the wreckage

12:48

was found although it was badly

12:50

bruised he left behind

12:52

a grieving husband and four year old

12:54

daughter who had to face the prospect

12:57

of life without her there

12:59

was another married woman on the

13:01

plane mrs ah shut i don't

13:04

was accompanied by her three children

13:06

fourteen year old daughter fleurette thirteen

13:09

year old son jean claude and

13:11

an unnamed eleven month old baby

13:13

boy whose body was found

13:15

in his mother's protective grip when

13:18

they were both recruited the

13:20

only person from the family who remained

13:23

with the one who wasn't on the flight

13:25

the father romeo shepherd joe

13:27

who was devastated to learn his

13:29

entire family were killed on

13:32

the way home from a family visit

13:34

and come back city

13:36

with twenty three

13:38

fate fallacies the crash as

13:40

flight one hour eight was determined to be

13:43

the third worst accident in

13:45

the history of canadian aviation

13:47

at the time it was eclipsed

13:49

by to only a crashes and the

13:51

nineteen forties

13:53

the nineteen forty three crash of

13:55

a be twenty four bomb a jet that killed

13:57

twenty four military man just

13:59

not of montreal three

14:02

years after that in nineteen forty

14:04

six an international commercial

14:06

flight crashed soon after taking

14:08

off from new sunland killing all

14:11

thirty nine people on board

14:13

a key factor in both those crashes

14:16

was unfavorable weather conditions

14:19

that on the day that flight one of eight

14:21

crashed the skies would clear

14:24

an investigation into the crash was

14:26

immediately opened by canadian

14:28

pacific airlines

14:32

after a preliminary investigation

14:35

the airline released a statement that

14:37

read in part early inquiries

14:39

by line officials reveal no

14:41

explanation of the accident although

14:44

the possibility of an explosion

14:46

in the luggage is not ruled out

14:49

the rear end of the plane it was

14:51

said was fairly well and tax

14:53

and all controls at the front were believed

14:56

to be intact as well the

14:59

airline stated that there was nothing

15:01

to indicate the crash had been caused

15:03

by the weather or any mechanical

15:05

issues with the plane adding that

15:07

over sixty million passengers

15:09

had been flown on that root without

15:12

any incidents behind

15:15

the scenes so despite the initial

15:17

explosion that caused the crash

15:20

the plane itself had not caught

15:22

on fire investigators

15:24

had found that the propellers were bent

15:26

forward in a way that indicated they

15:28

were spinning right up until the moment

15:31

of impact when the plane crashed

15:33

into the hillsides search engine

15:36

failure was obviously not the

15:38

cause of the crash after

15:41

canadian pacific airlines announced

15:43

that they could not rule out the possibility

15:45

of an explosion in the luggage compartment

15:48

a coroner's jury was scheduled

15:52

carina palmer so found no

15:54

evidence of gross negligence and

15:56

agreed with the airline that the likely

15:58

cause of the crash the could be a mysterious

16:01

explosion originating from

16:03

one of the luggage storage compartments

16:06

that particular section of the plane

16:08

was near the i'll that led from the cabin

16:11

to the control room on the left

16:13

side of the plane the

16:15

passenger seat that was closest to that

16:18

compartment the seat that hungry

16:20

paul boucher had been occupying

16:22

had since been found a quarter

16:25

of a mile from the main site of the rec

16:27

indicating that it had been expelled

16:30

from the plane while it was still

16:32

the

16:33

and his body was finally located

16:36

at two weeks after the crash

16:38

a similar distance from the wreckage

16:41

at least his family got closer

16:46

when it came to figuring out how whatever

16:48

it was that had exploded ended

16:50

up on the plane in the first place investigators

16:53

spoke to airline and aviation authorities

16:56

who provided information about the procedures

16:59

for checking in passengers and luggage

17:01

this led them to zero

17:03

in on the kid back city stop her

17:07

because it was the final destination

17:09

for some passengers a special

17:11

section of the planes luggage compartment

17:14

had been designated to ensure their

17:16

luggage could be easily retrieve leading

17:19

space behind to stole the luggage of

17:21

the new passengers getting on along

17:23

with a number of parcels and packages

17:25

to be sent via email the

17:28

reason this luggage compartment became

17:31

a focus of the investigation was

17:33

that this was where the explosion was believed

17:35

to have happened investigators

17:38

started looking into the passengers who goes

17:40

off the ones who got on

17:42

their luggage and of course those mail

17:44

packages they

17:47

examined an itemized every

17:49

entry in the a male logbook

17:51

learning that all the packages on board

17:53

had been registered by established

17:56

shipping companies that

17:58

is except

17:59

the one

18:01

the only possible in that luggage

18:03

compartment that wasn't from a shipping company

18:06

had apparently been dropped off by

18:08

a woman in a taxi at the last

18:10

minute an

18:12

airport employee he remembered her

18:14

as tall stocky and dressed

18:17

all in black as she rushed

18:19

to get her parcel on board the plane

18:21

before it deposit just minutes

18:23

later according

18:25

to the logbook the box weighed

18:28

about twenty five pounds or just

18:30

over ten kilos it was

18:32

stamped with the word fragile and

18:34

according to the address label it was

18:36

to be sent to a misstep alfred

18:38

pluto at one ac laval

18:41

street bay como investigators

18:45

looked into this person and soon

18:47

realize the name and address was

18:49

fake so the next step was to search

18:52

for the mysterious woman independently

18:54

starting with low casing the taxi

18:57

driver who had driven her to the airport

19:00

he described her as an elegant woman

19:03

who actually made the trip miserable

19:05

ordering him to drive slowly and

19:07

be careful because her parcel was

19:09

fragile the taxi

19:12

driver wasn't as suspicious person

19:14

so just wrote it off as her being

19:16

saucy when they arrived

19:18

at the airport she told him to wait

19:21

so he could drive her back home he

19:24

told investigators he didn't know

19:26

her name that what he did have was

19:28

the address said he dropped her off it

19:32

investigators decided to stay out

19:34

the street hoping that they would find

19:36

this mysterious woman in black

19:39

meanwhile a journalist

19:42

for the canadian press decided to make

19:44

some phone calls of investigation

19:46

himself the admins

19:48

i had been tipped off to a story

19:50

that a woman had taken a taxi

19:52

from a downtown railway station

19:55

to the airport with apostle to

19:57

be shipped on that fateful flight

20:00

when the journalist found out that the police

20:02

had located the taxi driver the

20:05

spent a full day investigating

20:07

and making phone calls to find out

20:09

more convinced that there was something

20:12

nefarious going on well

20:14

he didn't land the name or identity

20:16

of the woman in black what he

20:18

did discover was that she was just

20:21

a runner someone else had given

20:23

her the possible fired

20:25

up about unraveling a mystery

20:28

the journalists started reporting on his

20:30

own games before the police will nice

20:32

the information publicly this

20:35

effectively ruined a stakeout

20:37

operation funerals

20:40

were being arranged for the victims of the crash

20:42

the media began referring to the mysterious

20:45

woman as lock whole bowl

20:47

or the raising in french

20:50

and for a time the investigation

20:52

stalled

20:55

it can days after the crash

20:57

there was a lucky break a man

20:59

came forward to tell the police said he

21:01

knew who the woman in black was

21:04

it was his youngest sister and

21:06

the man told investigators that if

21:08

they went to see her she would

21:10

be able to tell them who was responsible

21:13

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21:15

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24:48

thing

24:48

marguerite

24:57

peta was a middle aged mother as to

25:00

who lived in lower town and area

25:02

of the historic neighborhood of comeback

25:04

city now known as old come

25:07

back the police

25:09

didn't have much tracking to do because

25:11

she was actually in hospital it

25:14

appeared she had tried to take her own

25:16

life by overdosing on a sedative

25:19

which was grounds for arrest since

25:21

suicide was a lethal in canada

25:23

at the time petrified

25:26

the told the police at the morning of september

25:28

ninth the day of the plane crash

25:31

she received an unexpected phone

25:33

call from a friend and business associate

25:36

who lost her to rush and meet him

25:38

at the train station he

25:40

said he needed her to do him a saver

25:44

according to marguerite her friend

25:47

acid her to a storage locker that

25:49

contained a box the

25:51

carefully picked it up and passed

25:53

it to her slowly telling her

25:55

that it was a fragile statue that his

25:57

wife was supposed to take with her on

25:59

lot of town

26:01

the plane that unfortunately his

26:03

wife had a silly left for the airport

26:06

with asset but there was still

26:08

time to rush it onto the plane

26:10

since the scheduled flight hadn't left

26:12

yes marguerite was

26:14

only too happy to help her friend

26:17

out the instructions

26:19

were as follows moderate

26:21

was to take the box to the airport

26:23

and proceed directly to an agent

26:25

to check it in as a man if

26:28

she happened to see the man's why say

26:31

she wasn't to bother her with the package

26:33

as she would be preoccupied with boarding

26:35

the plane marguerite

26:37

told police that she did exactly

26:40

as instructed and then and

26:42

court the same sexy back home

26:44

again then he was told

26:46

that the package likely contained dynamite

26:49

murder read was shocked the

26:52

police took their important new witness

26:54

in protective custody pending

26:57

charges for attempted suicide

26:59

they announced to the press plate we

27:02

have definite proof that explosives

27:04

were placed aboard the plane to get rid

27:06

of a woman and we believe we can

27:08

prove who did it

27:12

the name of moderates friend and

27:14

business associate with j l

27:17

beg j as thirty one year old

27:19

married father of one who lived in

27:21

quebec city why

27:23

was twenty eight year old reached a gay

27:26

one of the passengers who boarded flight

27:28

one hour late during the stop over there

27:31

you recall rica was the only

27:33

victim whose face was still able

27:35

to be recognized through the bruises

27:39

after her death her husband

27:42

is a albay gay sounds himself

27:44

a single father to the couples four

27:46

year old daughter as

27:48

it turned out he was already known

27:50

to first responders because they

27:52

intercepted him as he walked up

27:54

to the wreckage after learning

27:56

about the crash and the hours after

27:58

it happened j will bear and

28:00

his brothers in law had driven to the area

28:03

and track do that to way the crash

28:05

site seem to be after

28:07

investigators told them to turn

28:09

back because there were no survivors

28:12

he begged them to get to the boss him

28:14

of what caused the crash yeah

28:17

bad gay had been responsible for

28:19

organizing a lavish funeral

28:21

for rita ordering a five

28:23

foot cross made up of red roses

28:26

to lay on top of her coffin in

28:28

the middle of the cross was a separate hot

28:31

made up of white roses and inscribed

28:33

with the words from your beloved

28:35

l bear then after

28:38

the service he was observed shaking

28:40

hands with every person who came

28:42

to pay their respects and was seen

28:44

taking leave from his own grieving

28:46

to console the loved ones of the other

28:48

passengers on the flight

28:57

aside from the fact that j l beg

28:59

gay was the one who would given that package

29:02

to moderate peter he otherwise

29:04

seem to be an ordinary grief stricken

29:06

husband that when investigators

29:09

did some quick digging around they

29:11

soon made an interesting discovery

29:14

just two months beforehand gl

29:16

bear had been charged with attempted

29:18

assault with a deadly weapon after

29:21

using it to threaten a young woman

29:23

who was also believed to be his mistress

29:27

the assault charge had been downgraded

29:29

to illegal possession of a weapon

29:31

but the circumstances and timing

29:33

in the context of the plane crash

29:35

was highly suspicious

29:37

and there was more

29:39

they discovered that in the weeks before

29:41

the plane crash jail bear had

29:43

taken a life insurance policy

29:46

in his wife return name which

29:48

would pay ten thousand dollars in

29:50

the event of her death and

29:52

when he purchased had plane ticket

29:55

he paid fifty cents to purchase

29:57

an additional flight insurance

29:59

policy lump

30:01

if his wife died in an accident

30:03

on that specific flight the

30:06

pay out would be thirty thousand

30:08

dollars which today would be

30:10

worth over three hundred and fifty

30:12

thousand and it would all

30:14

go to him as beneficiary

30:21

on september twenty third nineteen

30:23

forty nine two weeks after

30:25

the bombing police said out to pick

30:27

up j l beg gay and bring

30:30

him to the station for questioning he

30:32

had been staring at the same as his in law's

30:35

spot he suddenly left for his mother's

30:37

place which is where the police found

30:39

him he was arrested and the

30:41

next day charged with murdering

30:43

his wife return

30:48

investigators continue to gather

30:50

evidence and conduct interviews the

30:53

media had been reporting everything

30:55

by new about the mysterious event

30:58

and the people who may have been involved

31:01

the trial the full picture would come

31:04

out at this point it was

31:06

clear that the case boil down to

31:08

this yeah i'll be

31:10

gay decided his wife had to

31:12

die so he put her on that plane

31:15

along with a bomb the

31:17

back locals were outraged when

31:20

they realize all those other passengers

31:22

were just collateral damage in one

31:24

man's quest to murder his was

31:27

then cynical locals remembered

31:29

a recent tragedy in toronto

31:31

where a boat caught fire and a hundred

31:34

and thirty two passengers were tragically

31:36

killed they were reportedly

31:38

many sarcastic comments made

31:40

that j l bad guy had probably

31:42

hired someone to set the ship or blaze

31:45

just to get rid of the pitch he no longer

31:47

wanted dark humor

31:49

that it drives home just has senseless

31:52

and absurd the crime was

31:57

they'll be gay themed unsafe

31:59

i hear the rest not to mention

32:02

the possibility that if he was found

32:04

guilty he would surely be sent

32:06

to the gallows in fact

32:08

he boldly threatened to sue the government

32:11

for a loss of earnings saying

32:13

he'd been unfairly detained the

32:16

public weren't having it at

32:18

the preliminary hearing held in the weeks

32:21

following his arrest mobs of

32:23

angry people congregated to

32:25

get a glimpse of him some of them

32:27

spitting at the man who took down

32:29

a plane of innocent people including

32:31

two families just because

32:34

he was having problems in his personal

32:36

life

32:38

after the hearing a trial was scheduled

32:41

but there was some news that caused a delay

32:44

you remember there was three passengers

32:47

on the plane who were business executives

32:49

from a new york city cop a company

32:52

one of the men russell j parker

32:54

had an eighteen year old son who

32:56

was obviously devastated by his

32:59

father's day just

33:01

two months after the crash patrick

33:03

papa was arrested and charged

33:06

for armed robbery he told police

33:08

he needed money for a flight from boston

33:10

to montreal adding quite

33:13

i was going to canada because i wanted

33:15

to get revenge and kill the man

33:17

responsible for my father's death

33:20

the man who had the bomb put on the plane

33:22

before takeoff

33:26

the result of this information is

33:28

yale big a defense counsel

33:31

ask for adequate protection for his

33:33

clients at trial just in case

33:35

there was another shot at his life

33:38

in a statement to the media the

33:40

lawyer comment is about the presumption

33:42

of innocence how it would be a tragedy

33:45

to add twenty fourth victim and era

33:48

to an already lengthy list

33:54

jl bad days trial for the

33:56

murder of his wife started in february

33:59

of the next

33:59

the year nine

34:00

fifty

34:02

in his opening address the crown

34:04

prosecutor told the court that three witness

34:07

testimony they were going to prove

34:09

that j l beg gay orchestrated

34:11

the purchase of dynamite the construction

34:14

of a time bomb and the placing

34:16

of that bomb onto the flight that he

34:18

had already booked his was fun

34:21

that he spent a great deal of essay

34:23

coming up with a plan to make sure they would

34:25

be no incriminating evidence

34:27

found on the plane wreck but something

34:29

back side which led to his arrest

34:33

and then void and three the testimony

34:35

of eighty crown witnesses the

34:37

court heard the story of what jay

34:39

there day did and

34:41

strange strange tale

34:48

if l beg gay was

34:50

born in september as nineteen

34:52

seventeen the youngest of

34:54

five children and a working class

34:56

kid big city family when

34:59

he was just five his railway

35:01

workers saw that tragically passed

35:04

away in a train accident and

35:06

the family moved to a poorer area

35:08

of quebec city he's

35:11

speaking arabic it's customary

35:13

to give children to hyphenated

35:15

christian names but many people

35:18

choose to guy by the second name and

35:20

their daily life so

35:22

albert was what his friends and

35:24

family called him and childhood but

35:26

as you grow up he developed a need to

35:28

set himself apart from others

35:31

sir others swapped out the joseph

35:33

for just the lesson say forming

35:35

the distinctive name of j l

35:38

there the

35:40

node a coup in a new york have written

35:42

by aj com junior described

35:45

shall bear as someone who always

35:47

made an impression on people as flashy

35:50

dresser with handsome features curly

35:52

black hair and and engaging smile

35:56

you went out of his day to churn people

35:59

and hurt

35:59

he had been using his charisma to

36:02

hustle since he was young by

36:05

age sixteen he was a regular in

36:07

the area someone who bought and

36:10

sold things for profit like watches

36:12

and jewelry and as his hustle

36:14

started paying off he liked

36:16

to make a public so as giving money

36:19

to those who need is it what

36:21

is so much because he was a charitable

36:23

person but he enjoyed the attention

36:25

he received from his generosity and

36:28

he also enjoyed having people are

36:30

him say this the

36:33

world war two started the federal

36:35

arsenal became the main employer

36:37

in the comeback city region in

36:40

fact most of the people in the lower

36:42

town area were employed there to

36:44

help produce firearms to be used

36:46

in the war the i'll

36:48

bet it would usually have been drafted

36:50

to the military to says but

36:52

he managed to avoid it by applying

36:54

for a deferment during

36:57

this time he worked at the arsenal

36:59

as a machine operator and supplemented

37:02

his income with his jewelry resell

37:04

business eventually saving

37:06

enough to become one of the few residents

37:09

of the area who owns a motorcar

37:12

the for that

37:14

soon after he started working at the

37:16

arsenal a woman named rita

37:19

morale had caught his eye the

37:21

couple then aged in their early

37:24

twenties married that year

37:26

and moved into a modest apartments

37:33

marguerite peter the woman who

37:35

carried the package on board the plane

37:38

worked at the arsenal to and

37:40

fact that's where she met his yale

37:42

big gay marguerite

37:44

was in her mid thirties nine

37:46

years his senior and his flashy

37:48

personality impress her the

37:51

reportedly had a rough childhood

37:53

that became a rough adulthood and

37:55

she established a reputation as

37:57

a hard industrious woman with

37:59

hostage com he

38:02

had two children one from

38:04

her first marriage and another from

38:06

her second although it was reported

38:08

that she'd given birth to many more children

38:11

who weren't in her care

38:15

marguerite was working at the arsenal

38:18

she grew very fond of jail

38:20

bay flaccid that someone

38:22

with such drive and promise would pay

38:24

her attention she considered herself

38:27

a wrong or to lower than him on the social

38:29

class ladder they

38:31

soon established a quid pro quo

38:34

time business relationship with

38:36

j l bear lending her money from

38:38

time to time when she needed it and

38:40

in exchange she was available

38:42

to help them out when he needed it although

38:47

moderate told people she looked at

38:49

yale bear like a son her

38:51

own husband wasn't so convinced

38:54

and accused her of having an affair with

38:56

the younger man it doesn't

38:58

appear to be any evidence that this was

39:00

the case and both parties denied

39:02

it in fact is our best

39:05

golf to when he heard the rumors saying

39:07

have you seen her

39:09

after

39:13

world war two ended in the ass

39:15

and olfactory shut down all

39:17

those workers were out of a job

39:20

marguerite was always on the lookout for

39:22

opportunities to earn money and

39:24

while she still didn't suffer fools lightly

39:27

she was generally quite agreeable

39:29

when it came to say

39:30

the business deals

39:32

he became known as the woman to see

39:34

if you needed to lay low by

39:36

a legal alcohol or have an

39:38

abortion performed facing

39:41

the same employment prospects jail

39:44

bear end up his jewelry side

39:46

hustle and decided to use his home

39:48

as a base for a traveling salesman

39:50

job he would pedal his

39:52

ways engagement rings watches

39:55

and other trinkets and local comeback

39:57

towns using his charm and

39:59

curry my to deliver winning sales

40:01

pitches he saw opportunity

40:04

said business deals where ever he went

40:07

when his clients told him they had broken

40:09

watches he devised a steam

40:11

why he would offer to repair them as

40:13

part of his service that

40:16

he wasn't repairing them himself

40:18

he was just the middleman he

40:21

took him to an associate a skilled

40:23

watchmaker and repayment he was

40:25

set to be a wizard with his hands

40:28

and pass the word costs as his own

40:33

while his business interests seem to go

40:35

well his family always

40:37

seemed printers disaster the

40:40

house was broken into and jewelry

40:42

was stolen one of his businesses

40:44

burn down more than once and

40:46

just months before the plane crash

40:48

that would kill his wife her car

40:51

had suddenly burst into flames

40:53

while being inspected by a mechanic

40:56

that poor mechanic would spend months

40:58

in hospital being treated said burn

41:00

injuries each

41:02

time these disasters happened jail

41:05

bare would always expressed relief

41:07

that he was insured and then

41:09

he would receive a lump sum from his insurance

41:12

company along

41:15

with these odd occurrences so he

41:17

liked being thought of as a charitable

41:20

man and was involved with a catholic

41:22

fraternal or men's only organization

41:24

called the knights of columbus who

41:27

promoted charitable endeavors and

41:29

also provided financial security

41:31

to their members yeah

41:33

i'll be had been recommended by local

41:36

priest for the highest honor in the

41:38

knights of columbus but he was

41:40

rejected at the last minute when i discovered

41:42

he had a substantial amount of deaths

41:45

in his name that he didn't seem to be

41:47

paying down yeah

41:49

there was devastated because he wanted

41:51

the clout that sound that all

41:54

he had to do to get the same attention

41:56

was to lend money to people

42:01

one guy he approach to moderate

42:03

pizza with an alpha she needed

42:05

money and this suited him well because

42:07

he knew someone who desperately needed

42:09

a place to stay his teenage

42:11

mistress mari ours robots

42:16

there was in his late twenties when he

42:18

met the seventeen year old waitress at

42:20

a cafe she worked although

42:22

she apparently told him she was nineteen

42:25

then he wasn't exactly truthful either

42:28

leading her to believe he was a successful

42:31

businessman and eligible bachelor

42:35

they struck up a conversation sell

42:37

to attraction and started a relationship

42:41

yea i'll bear it was of course and

42:43

a say and he fell madly in

42:45

love with the young the waitress reach

42:48

i was busy keeping house and caring

42:50

said a two year old daughter leave now

42:52

too busy to give him all the attention

42:55

he clearly crazy that

42:57

mario's was on income did with

43:00

seemingly endless time and energy

43:02

to devote to her new suitor the

43:04

first few months where a whirlwind

43:08

that at some point murray i was

43:10

discovered that he hadn't been truthful

43:12

about who he was that he

43:14

was married the very opposite

43:17

of an eligible bachelor that

43:19

he declared he was planning to leave his

43:21

was eventually and use this to

43:23

manipulate mario's into continuing

43:26

the affair

43:29

the problem was divorce wasn't

43:31

a viable option in the nineteen

43:33

forties the roman catholic church

43:35

still had a high level of influence

43:37

over social and political masses in

43:39

quebec there is i'll bear

43:42

cells he had no choice but to continue

43:44

the a say in secret mary

43:48

on she did introduce him to her parents

43:51

but she told them that his name was roget

43:54

all yea and he was a successful

43:56

businessman and eligible bachelor

43:59

the courted several times a week

44:01

and her parents were thrilled when he

44:03

presented her with an engagement ring

44:06

while it seemed like a very important

44:08

gesture to make it really wasn't

44:10

that brand for a traveling jewelry

44:12

salesman who had many engagement rings

44:14

in inventory it was an easy

44:17

way to keep up the worries with her parents

44:20

that in other situations murray

44:23

on struggled to keep the sordid

44:25

nature of their relationship a secret

44:28

then she said something that she shouldn't

44:30

have and people started talking marguerite

44:33

pida was often called upon to smooth

44:35

things over not

44:38

that the couple had to hide completely though

44:41

yeah i'll bear had started taking mari

44:43

owns with him on his sales trip

44:45

to local towns and cities in can

44:47

beg and he always introduced

44:49

her as his wife

44:52

the whole thing

44:54

blew up eventually though when the room

44:56

as that jail bear had been having an

44:58

affair with a teenager reached his

45:00

way then retire

45:02

learn the name and identity of the young

45:05

woman she showed up at marie

45:07

on just parents' house to tell them the

45:09

truth the main day new

45:11

as roget on jay was not

45:13

a bachelor he was a married

45:15

father of one nine to jail

45:18

big gay the had

45:20

three to five that this revelation

45:22

would mean the end of this sordid affair

45:24

and she could have her husband back it

45:27

it backfired mary owns his

45:29

parents was so angry at the deception

45:31

that they threw their daughter out of the house

45:34

prompting her to contacts i'll bear

45:36

to help her find somewhere else to live

45:39

the cold in a say that from as friends

45:42

asking marguerite peta and

45:44

her husband to put mariani up

45:46

at their apartment and j l

45:48

de would pay them link

45:51

marguerite was always eager to get

45:53

involved with new business deals

45:55

especially when it came to sail bed

45:58

though he was more than happy to have

45:59

the

46:01

marianna moved into the apartment

46:03

at the end of nineteen forty eight

46:05

about nine months before the plane

46:07

crash

46:11

just a month or two after that it was

46:13

the winter months of nineteen forty nine

46:16

and eighteen year old mari on decided

46:18

she'd had enough of the situation

46:21

was jail bear and the problems

46:23

that it caused with her parents he

46:26

decided to end the a say and return

46:28

home arranging with her parents

46:30

to send him money for a train fare

46:32

and to meet her at the station yeah

46:36

big a follows her on to the train

46:38

and threatened to make is seen as she didn't

46:41

get off immediately the

46:43

great work he took her

46:45

back to the apartment and after she was

46:47

asleep he hid her gloves and close

46:50

it was freezing outside and

46:52

he knew that she wouldn't be able to escape

46:55

without them the

46:58

next morning see this her on her face

47:00

several times a cruel

47:02

act designed to humiliate her

47:04

and render her too embarrassed to go

47:06

out in public and it

47:09

worked she stayed put for

47:11

a while longer at least

47:15

in the meantime risa gay decided

47:18

she was set up with her husband's antics

47:21

trying to shut down be say i hadn't

47:23

worked so in a rage she packed

47:25

some things to pay daughter lease

47:27

and moved in with her parents until

47:29

she could figure out for next move they'll

47:34

be i wasn't to say about this

47:36

as he thought he still had mari on

47:38

in his clutches that she was

47:40

getting set up to not

47:42

only was his abusive behavior

47:44

ramping up but she started to

47:46

realize that he was never going

47:49

to leave

47:49

there's wall

47:51

as soon as she was able mary

47:53

orange escaped back to her parents

47:58

they'll be new he the show up

48:00

there sorry he tracked her down to

48:02

a restaurant where she was working as a

48:04

waitress one night

48:06

as she was walking through the dawkins

48:09

narrow streets to work he

48:11

accosted her with a gun threatening

48:13

to shoot himself and maybe her

48:15

as well if she didn't return to him

48:18

mariano told him to leave her alone

48:21

and he fired a few shots in the air

48:23

to prove a point when a police

48:25

officer heard the commotion jail

48:27

bay ran off and the officer escorted

48:30

mario on to the restaurant where she worked

48:32

and waited there for a while and case a

48:34

man with the gun showed up

48:38

when jail bear sort the coast was clear

48:41

he entered the restaurant i only to be

48:43

arrested on the spot for attempted

48:45

assault with a deadly weapon yeah

48:48

moderate peta to hire a lawyer for

48:51

him he was able to reduce is charged

48:53

to one count of carrying a gun a

48:55

legally with a sign of twenty

48:57

five dollars now

49:00

bed didn't give up lightly days

49:03

after he was released from prison he

49:05

was able to convince mario's to

49:07

meet up with him saying that he had something

49:10

urgent to tell her he

49:12

said that his wife reset believe

49:14

that mario's head besmirched or

49:16

damage their family name and

49:19

was planning on having her arrested

49:21

it wasn't true and it was a completely

49:23

nonsensical por can make that

49:26

mario and was terrified the

49:28

i'll bear suggested she needed to go

49:31

to montreal to lay low until

49:33

the coast was clear and he

49:35

offered to go with her the

49:37

this as her only option she

49:39

agreed in

49:42

montreal mary aren't sore a whole

49:44

different side of jail bear he

49:46

acted as though they will already married

49:49

and was really making an effort treating

49:51

her much better than she was used to

49:53

funding shopping sprees and generally

49:56

being attentive to her name he

49:58

continued to a mind the he was going

50:01

to leave his wife and then they

50:03

could finally get married for real

50:06

he tries to that plane tickets for them

50:08

both to fly from montreal to

50:10

bay como soaring along

50:12

the stunning north shore of the same

50:14

celeron river where his wife

50:17

would meet her death and a twisted pile

50:19

of metal marianna

50:21

was a six the most of the way

50:24

so she didn't think much of the fact

50:26

that is i'll bear had moved to a vacant

50:28

window seat with a watch and hand

50:31

intently timing the journey as

50:33

he watched that

50:34

rainy the window

50:38

a week later mariano realized

50:40

she'd been hot again the code

50:43

yea i'll bear she was sick of his stories

50:45

and his promises and she was leaving

50:47

again to return home so good

50:51

the allowed her to walk cat that handed

50:53

her a note that read i love

50:55

you terribly will be together again

50:57

very soon there was

50:59

a p s on the lesser instructing

51:01

her to destroy it

51:03

that she didn't

51:06

they'll be a guy thought long and

51:09

hard about his predicament

51:11

clearly had no self awareness about

51:13

his abusive treatment and manipulation

51:16

of mariani and concluded

51:18

that the only reason she wanted to leave

51:20

him was just because he couldn't marry

51:23

her because he was already married

51:25

to rita he decided

51:27

that marrying mary on was the ultimate

51:29

solution to all his problems

51:32

the only thing that would ensure both

51:34

of them lived a happy life he

51:36

had to win her back more

51:40

wasn't an option they'll be

51:42

had thought about killing retire before

51:44

but now his personal situation

51:46

had devolved to a point where he decided

51:49

to explore that ideas some more

51:53

the oh sorry had to keep his jewelry business

51:55

afloat sorry he flew back to

51:57

bay como with two suitcases

51:59

the jewelry to sell as he continued

52:02

to flesh out his plan

52:05

something was off that cinema and

52:07

business was not booming so

52:09

he cut his losses and returned farm

52:11

keeping the see cases of jewelry and

52:14

storage at bay como said

52:16

next time

52:19

they plan to get rid of his wife became

52:22

his primary focus that

52:24

he knew that he couldn't be the one to

52:26

kill return it was well known

52:28

that he was an unfaithful space

52:30

and the couple were all but estranged

52:33

since risa and they daughter were living

52:35

with her parents they'll

52:37

be a new that if reach our was to be

52:39

killed all eyes would be on

52:41

him sorry he had to work out a

52:43

way to cause her death without

52:45

any chance of it coming back on him

52:48

he decided that the first step was to get

52:51

back into his wife's good graces

52:53

at least for appearances he

52:56

showed up at his in law's house and

52:58

pleaded with her to reconcile their families

53:00

the good telling her that he had seen

53:03

the error of his ways return

53:05

took him back again in good faith

53:09

there are now that the couple were not estranged

53:11

any more jail their discussed

53:13

his idea with a few associates

53:16

that he said

53:16

he could trust

53:18

the one of them was deeply alarmed

53:20

by what he was suggesting and wrote

53:22

an anonymous letter to retire saying

53:24

quite what's wrong because

53:26

something is going to happen to you this

53:29

was an early august about a month

53:32

before the plane crash the

53:34

night was so say that she likely

53:36

didn't know what to make of it less

53:38

alone what action she should be taking

53:40

his any

53:42

in the meantime is i'll bear identified

53:45

two people that would be able to help

53:47

him with his plan moderate

53:50

peta was one the yoga

53:52

was her older brother john every

53:54

rule way he was a bachelor

53:57

of around fifty years old who use

53:59

crutches in a wheelchair he

54:01

had tuberculosis of both ships

54:03

which caused him much pain restricted

54:06

movement and cause the deformity

54:08

of his lind the on every

54:10

struggled to walk for his fast

54:13

and agile has made up for the loss of

54:15

function in his legs and he earned

54:17

a living as a skilled watchmaker the

54:20

in jail bear had that side hustle

54:22

repairing broken watches for clients

54:25

the on every with the watchmaker he took

54:27

them to for repair now

54:30

to persuade the brother and sister juri

54:32

to help him out with this new plan jail

54:34

bay wanted to leverage the fact that bar

54:37

it had financial issues of their own

54:39

marguerite owed him six hundred dollars

54:42

and he promised her that he would write the debt

54:44

off if she agreed to help them the

54:46

also promised to pay your neighbors some

54:49

money to get out of a pickle he wasn't

54:51

as well as giving him a discount on jewelry

54:54

with the possibility of buying him a new

54:56

car is everything went well after

55:00

agreeing to terms tasks were

55:02

assigned and everyone went on

55:04

their way

55:08

yeah obey regime to the so of

55:10

read conciliation with his voice

55:12

taking risa on a week long vacation

55:15

where he made a special romantic

55:17

s it to be kind to her he

55:19

loved bombed her just like he had

55:21

with

55:22

carry on

55:23

like are you hoping she would tell everyone

55:25

the good news about their successful

55:27

reconciliation that would

55:29

later served to alleviate any possible

55:32

suspicion that he was involved

55:34

in her death

55:37

the couple returned from a vacation

55:39

he checked in with his brother sister

55:41

accomplices to see where they were up to

55:43

with their tasks marguerite

55:46

had been tasked with buying dynamite

55:48

and she gave a false name when signing

55:51

off on the purchase of twenty half

55:53

pounds sticks of dynamite destination

55:55

caps and a length of fuse at

55:58

the trial she has the fi the is i'll

56:01

bet told her it was to clear some farmland

56:04

and she knew nothing of the bomb john

56:07

a room he would testify that jail

56:10

bear said he needed to blossom tree

56:12

stumps and asked him to put together

56:14

a destination device for that purpose

56:17

you're never had no idea where to start

56:20

sorry the two men put their heads together

56:22

and decided a time bomb would be constructed

56:25

with a battery a detonator and detonating

56:28

cat as well as an alarm clock

56:30

to set the time that the bomb would it's

56:32

lord

56:34

his version was first built without

56:36

the dynamite and when the detonator

56:38

went off at the same time the men

56:40

she is they had just built

56:43

a time bomb the likes of which had

56:45

never really been seen in canada before

56:50

they'll be still hadn't made a final

56:52

decision about how he would use the

56:54

bomb but he was leaning towards

56:57

a plane crash that way

56:59

he could eliminate rita and avoid

57:01

being blamed for it it's

57:03

highly likely that he'd been inspired

57:05

by another aviation tragedy

57:07

that happened a few months earlier in

57:10

may have nineteen forty nine a

57:12

domestic philippine airlines passenger

57:14

jet exploded and plunged into

57:16

the sea near manila killing thirteen

57:19

people the canadian press reported

57:22

on the tragedy and the development including

57:24

the announcement of an arrest it

57:27

would come out that a jealous man had hired

57:29

some criminals to conceal a time

57:31

bomb on the plane that his romantic

57:33

rival was going to be on the

57:36

assumption was that jail bear had followed

57:38

the news and was inspired to book

57:40

a test flight to bay como

57:43

were in a sick mario and was completely

57:45

unaware that there was an alternate reason

57:48

for the flight yeah

57:50

i'll bear decided a plane crash

57:52

was the way to guard that

57:55

he had a new challenge it was

57:57

to figure out a way to get risa

57:59

onto

57:59

the plane in the first place

58:02

treble wasn't typically

58:03

the thing that married women did without

58:05

their husbands sorry he had to come

58:08

up with a persuasive reason he

58:11

remembered those two suitcases

58:13

of jewelry that he had put in storage

58:15

in the city of bay como oh

58:17

he had to do with persuade retire

58:20

to fly up this and complexity

58:22

and bring them back it

58:24

was the perfect solution and

58:26

she wouldn't be coming back rika

58:29

wasn't really enthusiastic about the prospect

58:33

but since he'll they would husband had

58:35

been making a noticeable s that lightly

58:37

and she felt he was sincere about

58:39

reconciling their family she

58:41

agreed to do

58:44

yeah bear went to the canadian pacific

58:47

airline ticket office and purchased

58:49

a return ticket for his life on the next

58:52

available plane to bake como

58:54

which left in three days he

58:56

knew that if everything went to plan

58:58

she would not be needing that return

59:00

ticket but it was still important

59:03

to deflect any future speculation

59:05

of his involvement the

59:07

same time he also purchased

59:09

the slight insurance policy which

59:12

paid out in the event of a crash

59:14

he'd already keyed up that life insurance

59:17

policy and reaches name a few weeks

59:19

earlier and he called to confirm

59:21

that the policy was still active

59:24

read had died on that exact flight

59:26

by accident he would be paid

59:29

thirty thousand dollars which

59:31

he reportedly intended to used to

59:33

fund his new life with marionettes

59:39

with all those details confirmed jail

59:42

based focus on three remaining

59:44

tasks one maintain

59:46

appropriate attentiveness to his wife

59:49

and child right up until risa

59:51

was on that plane to

59:53

make sure that john a rule was on track

59:55

to finish engineering the final version

59:57

of the bomb and three

1:00:00

the up marguerite to deliver the package

1:00:02

the airport and and sure it

1:00:04

gets on the plane

1:00:20

it was september the ninth nineteen

1:00:23

forty nine the day of the flight

1:00:25

and jail bear woke up early

1:00:27

to finish off the bomb package with john

1:00:30

a ruse all they had to do

1:00:32

with set the detonation time on the

1:00:34

alarm clock and armed the device

1:00:37

when it came to setting the time jail

1:00:39

bear had done his homework his

1:00:42

plan was to the plane to plunge into

1:00:44

the sail around river one of the

1:00:46

largest rivers in north america

1:00:48

with the width of between one and two

1:00:50

kilometers and thanks to that

1:00:52

crater left by the meteorite millions

1:00:55

of years ago the river has a depth

1:00:57

of up to two hundred and fifty feet

1:01:00

the height of it

1:01:01

the three story building

1:01:03

he figured it would be impossible to

1:01:05

investigate the wreckage deep underwater

1:01:09

during that case flight he took with

1:01:12

mario's he determined that after

1:01:14

takeoff it took twenty minutes

1:01:16

before the plane started flying directly

1:01:19

over the river the flight he

1:01:21

booked reach around was scheduled to leave

1:01:23

at about him twenty am they

1:01:25

the time i was set to ten forty

1:01:27

five with that

1:01:29

yeah i'll bear and john a route carefully

1:01:32

wrap the small bit heavy possible

1:01:34

and labeled it as fragile in bold

1:01:37

letters along with fictional names

1:01:39

and addresses for the sender and the

1:01:41

destination everything

1:01:43

had to look completely normal so

1:01:46

as not to raise any suspicions

1:01:49

the clock was literally taking

1:01:51

now sorry from this point on everything

1:01:54

had to be carefully time to schedule

1:01:58

packaging hand they'll be as next

1:02:01

stop was the railway station

1:02:03

where he'd arrange to meet marguerite

1:02:05

peta at eight thirty am carefully

1:02:08

handed her the package along

1:02:10

with money to pay for the airports

1:02:12

shipping charges as well as a return

1:02:15

taxi fare marguerite

1:02:18

arrived at the airport in quebec

1:02:20

city just in time to rush

1:02:23

the package up to the air male desk

1:02:26

the agent notice said the smallish

1:02:28

box with the fragile lobel with

1:02:30

much heavier than it appeared to be

1:02:32

this would normally have been grounds for

1:02:34

inspection or a woman any time

1:02:37

because the plane was due to take off any

1:02:39

minute the agent went

1:02:41

against his better judgment and less it

1:02:43

through that thing he would later

1:02:45

say he greatly regretted because

1:02:48

it may have prevented the tragedy

1:02:51

in any event the fragile boxes

1:02:53

carefully strapped into the front left

1:02:55

side luggage compartment just

1:02:57

in time now

1:03:00

if the plane had taken off at exactly

1:03:03

the scheduled time the bomb would

1:03:05

have detonated directly over the celeron

1:03:08

river just as i'll bear had planned

1:03:11

but unfortunately it was like

1:03:13

it was only about four minutes but

1:03:16

jail bear had not allowed any

1:03:18

wiggle room in the timing say when the

1:03:20

bomb detonated at ten forty five

1:03:22

am the plane had only been

1:03:24

in the aces sixteen minutes what

1:03:27

this meant was instead of plunging

1:03:29

into the river and sinking to the boss

1:03:32

him it hurts hold on to rocky

1:03:34

bluffs and shattered in a forest

1:03:41

israel bears murder trial

1:03:43

a ticket sales desk employee

1:03:45

testified that he and his four year old

1:03:48

daughter came to the desk a few

1:03:50

hours later to inquire about

1:03:52

the flight rita gay was on when

1:03:54

he was told the plane had gone down

1:03:57

he became hysterical

1:04:00

an insurance company representative

1:04:02

told the court that just a week after

1:04:04

the crash he tried to claim the insurance

1:04:06

payout there

1:04:08

was also testimony from a pilot

1:04:10

a chemistry professor airport agents

1:04:13

medical legal experts railway

1:04:15

investigators aeronautical engineers

1:04:18

and other experts about the various

1:04:20

scientific tests conducted that

1:04:22

led them to determine that it was likely a

1:04:24

sudden boom that had been stripped into

1:04:26

the front left to luggage compartment

1:04:29

the ratio of a dynamite explosion

1:04:31

was sound in the wreckage with physical

1:04:33

evidence from a smashed dry cell

1:04:35

battery that decimated the blast

1:04:38

and pieces of an alarm clock that likely

1:04:40

time the explosion this

1:04:42

part of the trial was long and technical

1:04:45

testimony not for

1:04:47

the once distraught when a walk in the

1:04:49

prisoners dot yeah i'll bear

1:04:51

cel asleep

1:04:55

even though all the passengers had died

1:04:57

on the flight the crown only had

1:04:59

to prove that shall bear intentionally

1:05:02

murdered his wife rita gay

1:05:05

the coroner went through her autopsy

1:05:07

result howling the court that

1:05:09

practically all of the barnes and her body

1:05:11

were broken fiscal shattered

1:05:14

her lungs had burst open and it

1:05:16

was an itemized list of damage

1:05:18

to each of her organs the

1:05:20

cause of death was a general hemorrhage

1:05:22

as a result of a crushing of the head

1:05:25

and while it was possible that it was a result

1:05:27

of the explosion there was nothing

1:05:29

to indicate that recent was dead before

1:05:32

the plane crashed into the mountainside

1:05:35

photograph of her badly bruised

1:05:37

and broken body were admitted into evidence

1:05:40

resulting in order bull gasps

1:05:42

from those in attendance yeah

1:05:44

i'll be broke his composure for the first

1:05:47

time and wept he had asked

1:05:49

friends at reaches funeral if they thought

1:05:51

she had suffered there was no

1:05:53

evidence that she didn't

1:05:55

then

1:05:58

it is time for mario

1:05:59

are you going to try to take the stand

1:06:02

the public was so desperate to hear

1:06:04

her story that they lined up at the courthouse

1:06:07

at midnight the night before to

1:06:09

make sure they got a seat the

1:06:11

teenager had effectively been reduced

1:06:13

to tabloid fodder in the months since

1:06:16

j l bas arrest understand

1:06:19

seat how the two year of say she

1:06:21

had with him before the plane crash

1:06:23

and testified that she had no knowledge

1:06:25

about his

1:06:26

the plan

1:06:28

he said that he contacted her after

1:06:30

the crash in the brief window of time

1:06:32

before he was arrested and she told

1:06:34

him she was sorry to hear about the death

1:06:37

of his was there's only

1:06:39

comment was that it was too bad

1:06:41

and then he changed the subject asking

1:06:44

mario's is she still loved him

1:06:47

he told the court quite i

1:06:49

said i was quiet at harm and that my

1:06:51

family didn't want me to go out with him

1:06:53

he said that was all right because he couldn't

1:06:56

go out with anybody for six months

1:06:59

really it was all part of his plan

1:07:01

to deflect any suspicion

1:07:09

as you remember the reason the police

1:07:11

were able to identify the woman in

1:07:13

black was because ten days

1:07:15

after the crash and main came forward

1:07:18

and said she was his sister marguerite

1:07:20

peter of should be noted that

1:07:22

this brother wasn't zone over the

1:07:25

watchmaker but a different sibling

1:07:28

the parents her in hospital where they

1:07:30

were told he tried to kill herself

1:07:32

by overdosing on said it is

1:07:34

because attempted suicide was illegal

1:07:36

in canada at the time a week

1:07:39

or so later she was charged

1:07:43

like a business associate marguerite

1:07:45

wasn't facing the death penalty although

1:07:48

it would have been highly ironic if she

1:07:50

were to be found guilty of attempted

1:07:52

suicide and sent to the gallows to be

1:07:54

killed by the state instead

1:07:57

he was up for a possible two year prison

1:07:59

the

1:08:02

her trial for attempted suicide

1:08:05

which started just a few weeks before

1:08:07

j l bears trial for murder forty

1:08:09

one year old marguerite p dot denied

1:08:12

that she ever tried to kill herself

1:08:14

and said that she'd actually gone to hospital

1:08:16

for a completely different reason you

1:08:20

remember investigators had stayed

1:08:22

out for street off as a taxi driver

1:08:24

gave them her address but she

1:08:26

was nowhere to be found this

1:08:29

was no coincidence she

1:08:31

told the court that jail big guy

1:08:33

had already tipped her off arriving

1:08:35

at her house and a panic waving a

1:08:38

copy of the latest newspaper

1:08:40

he pointed to that article by edmunds

1:08:42

chefs that announced the police were looking

1:08:45

for a woman in black and he told

1:08:47

marguerite that it was only a matter of time

1:08:49

before they would be knocking at her door

1:08:52

and then it would be over for her

1:08:55

marguerite testified that at this

1:08:57

point he told her the apostle

1:08:59

that she korea to the airport had

1:09:01

actually contained a bomb he

1:09:04

replied you told me the person

1:09:06

only contained a statue and

1:09:09

he said it didn't matter that would make

1:09:11

no exception for her she

1:09:13

would be blamed for killing the twenty three

1:09:15

passengers onboard flight one i wake

1:09:17

he said and if she wanted to avoid

1:09:19

being sent to the gallows she had

1:09:22

two options leave town

1:09:24

immediately or kill herself

1:09:26

now before the police could find

1:09:28

her after

1:09:30

dishing out some handy tips are planning

1:09:33

a suicide at harm he told

1:09:35

her that whatever she decided she

1:09:37

was to leave a note taking full responsibility

1:09:40

for the bomb the story

1:09:42

she was to give about motive was

1:09:44

that she thought it was i'll bear on

1:09:46

the plane and she wanted to kill

1:09:48

him in an effort to get her six hundred

1:09:51

dollar debt to him at risk and off when

1:09:54

yeah bear left after delivering

1:09:56

this grim news moderate

1:09:59

with terrorists the and later that

1:10:01

evening she was taken to hospital with

1:10:03

severe abdominal pain likely

1:10:06

caused by all the stress dr

1:10:09

corroborated this testifying

1:10:11

that he prescribed a sedative to treat

1:10:13

her abdominal pain and it caused her

1:10:15

to fall into a deep sleep blood

1:10:18

test showed no sign of overdose

1:10:20

and marguerite pete out was acquitted

1:10:22

of attempted suicide

1:10:24

after

1:10:28

moderate told her older brother that

1:10:30

she was in hospital because a man threatened

1:10:32

her and told her to kill herself he

1:10:34

called the police straight away before

1:10:38

posting officers course up to jail

1:10:41

big gay he was awarded a check

1:10:43

for a thousand dollars from the knights

1:10:45

of columbus the catholic manzoni

1:10:48

organization hope that would bring him

1:10:50

com said and alleviate the cost

1:10:52

of reaches funeral and he graciously

1:10:55

accepted it detective

1:10:57

working on the case would describe him as having

1:10:59

the goal of the can now horse

1:11:03

in closing arguments the crown

1:11:05

prosecutor would tell the court that j

1:11:08

l big gay had tricked his two

1:11:10

accomplices into taking part

1:11:12

in his scheme to kill his wife

1:11:14

giving them serious task to carry

1:11:16

out but for innocent reasons

1:11:18

like blasting land or tree

1:11:21

stump

1:11:23

there wasn't much to

1:11:25

work with when it came to a defense

1:11:27

and his lawyer asked the jury to decide

1:11:30

whether the crash was an accident or

1:11:32

a crime

1:11:33

right

1:11:34

with a crime than it was the most

1:11:36

atrocious most barbaric

1:11:38

a most abominable in history

1:11:40

but even if illicit trade this

1:11:42

does not mean

1:11:43

the accused is responsible for

1:11:45

this abominable tragedy

1:11:48

the

1:11:49

the offensive case essentially consisted

1:11:51

of a collection of witnesses who testified

1:11:54

that jail bear had a habit of

1:11:56

buying insurance it wasn't

1:11:58

indicative of his guilt

1:12:03

the three week trial made some many

1:12:05

sensational headlines and

1:12:07

roused more interest as the days

1:12:09

when tom the final day

1:12:11

the court room was packed right up

1:12:13

against the side of the judges bench

1:12:16

the jury took only seventeen minutes

1:12:19

to return with a guilty verdict

1:12:21

zale bad guy stood expressionless

1:12:24

behind the brass railing of the prisoners

1:12:26

box staring at his feet

1:12:29

the judge was overcome with emotion

1:12:31

and struggled to speak it soon as

1:12:33

he told the thirty two year old that there was no

1:12:36

name said a heinous

1:12:37

then he committed plate

1:12:40

the hatred you had your wife

1:12:42

and device that know that you made

1:12:44

you committed

1:12:45

diabolical crime of what you've been

1:12:47

accused the vicious passion

1:12:49

which drive you to the conquest of a young

1:12:52

girl who was disgusted with you lead

1:12:54

you to this incredible thing of not

1:12:56

hesitating to bring death to twenty

1:12:58

two other person's to rid yourself

1:13:01

of the mother of your child your

1:13:04

punishment will be to be hanged by

1:13:06

the

1:13:06

june twenty third next

1:13:09

and to death

1:13:14

it would like to come out that the plane crash

1:13:16

wasn't the first time j l beg

1:13:18

gay had tried to murder his wife

1:13:21

about five months beforehand

1:13:23

he reportedly approached reportedly approached of

1:13:25

the family and offered him five hundred

1:13:28

dollars to murder rates had by poisoning

1:13:30

her wine the friend how

1:13:32

jail bear he was crazy and

1:13:34

refused to do it

1:13:38

after the guilty verdict is i'll bear

1:13:40

was moved to board i prison and montreal

1:13:43

to a white his trip

1:13:44

the guys

1:13:45

he tried to tell his story to magazines

1:13:48

and his death sentence cel apparently

1:13:51

to teach readers a moral lesson

1:13:53

and to get some money to put aside for his

1:13:55

five year old daughter while

1:13:58

where he also wrote a link the

1:14:00

statement to the crown prosecutor where

1:14:02

he not only admitted his own guilt

1:14:05

but said that he had not acted alone

1:14:08

as it appeared he was angry that

1:14:10

he was to be hanged while his accomplices

1:14:13

marguerite peta as on a relay

1:14:15

got away scot free when

1:14:18

investigators asked him to give more

1:14:20

details he said they had

1:14:22

been in on it from the beginning

1:14:26

the crown felt

1:14:28

there was enough evidence to charge john

1:14:30

ivory with being an accessory to murder

1:14:33

since he was the one that put the bomb together

1:14:36

that his trial they when new witnesses

1:14:39

a few acquaintances knew he was building

1:14:41

the device but he gave them inconsistent

1:14:44

excuses for why it was needed

1:14:46

from blasting farmland to blowing

1:14:48

fish out of a lake another

1:14:51

acquaintance testified that the night before

1:14:53

the plane crash she overheard

1:14:55

johnny roots how sale day it

1:14:58

will be ready on time and

1:15:00

as the news broke that the plane had

1:15:02

crashed into the forest he

1:15:05

was overheard

1:15:05

the that with not the way

1:15:07

it was supposed to happen

1:15:10

john a move away was found guilty

1:15:12

of being an accessory to murder and

1:15:14

was sentenced to death

1:15:18

the meantime his sister had been

1:15:21

arrested again after testifying

1:15:23

at his trial she was charged

1:15:25

with intimidating witnesses and perjury

1:15:28

and finally accessory to

1:15:30

murder the even though

1:15:32

marguerite purchase that dynamite

1:15:35

she always maintained that she had no

1:15:37

idea that package she carried to the

1:15:39

airport contained a bomb until

1:15:41

after the crash okay

1:15:44

fell apart when another taxi driver

1:15:46

friend testified that moderate had

1:15:48

come to him with a strange proposal

1:15:50

this was just before jail big

1:15:53

gay decided the bomb would be put

1:15:55

on the plane he

1:15:57

asked him to take lisa for a drive

1:15:59

in his taxi along with

1:16:02

a package that contained a time bomb

1:16:04

and he would be told when the time i was going

1:16:06

to go off so he would know when to

1:16:08

jump out of the car it

1:16:11

was a wild plan that required a

1:16:13

taxi driver to blow up his own

1:16:15

vehicle to kill a stranger he had

1:16:17

no motive to want dead when

1:16:20

he refused to have any part of it marguerite

1:16:23

backtracked and claimed she was only

1:16:25

joking just

1:16:27

like her brother marguerite peter

1:16:29

was found guilty of being an accessory

1:16:32

to murder

1:16:34

on

1:16:41

january the twelfth nineteen fifty

1:16:43

one thirty four urology a

1:16:46

big day walk to the gallows

1:16:48

at board i present the last

1:16:50

words translated from french were

1:16:53

at least i die famous eighteen

1:16:57

months after that fifty two urology

1:16:59

on a rural way was taken to the galleries

1:17:02

in his wilshere he was hanged

1:17:04

while he was sitting down forty

1:17:07

three year old marguerite made her own

1:17:09

trip to the gallows on january ninth

1:17:12

nineteen fifty three she

1:17:14

was the thirteenth and last woman

1:17:16

to be hanged in canada

1:17:20

it would come out later that well known

1:17:22

kid back journalist a novelist

1:17:24

roget lemme lay actually

1:17:26

lived next door to jail big gay

1:17:28

for a time and reported from

1:17:31

his trial the

1:17:33

would go on to write a novel based

1:17:35

on the story that before that he

1:17:37

wrote a long form article that was published

1:17:39

in my claims magazine and nineteen

1:17:41

fifty one in the piece titled

1:17:44

my friend again the murderer the

1:17:46

novelist wrote that he and others

1:17:48

immediately suspected zale bay

1:17:51

was responsible for the crash when they

1:17:53

discovered his wife was on the plane

1:17:56

shall bear he said quite

1:17:59

the revenge he didn't everything talked

1:18:01

of everything yet knew nothing

1:18:04

he waved his sin hands as he talked

1:18:06

to illustrate his conversation

1:18:08

he was completely irresponsible imaginative

1:18:12

get devoid of any

1:18:13

the practical

1:18:17

light one hour wait the so tightly

1:18:19

tragedy isn't it

1:18:21

oh yeah as one of the first instances

1:18:23

of in flight bombing amount of the

1:18:25

worst mass murders in canadian

1:18:27

history is i'll be guy

1:18:30

likely would have gotten away with it if

1:18:32

the flat out of left on schedule

1:18:35

it would have plunged into the depths

1:18:37

of the celeron river leaving an

1:18:39

underwater crime scene that would be very

1:18:41

difficult if not impossible

1:18:43

to investigate they would have

1:18:45

been no identification of that package

1:18:48

strapped to the left side of the plane and

1:18:50

no tracking it back to the mysterious

1:18:52

woman in black which blew the case

1:18:54

open

1:19:04

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1:19:08

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1:19:10

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1:19:13

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1:19:15

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