Villainous Montrealer persuades mistress to kill wife, then kills her

Photoshop collage reenactment of Langlais
 killing Rita Genest

 Here's the tale of the horribly manipulative Roland Genest who persuaded his girlfriend to kill his wife at their home at 3455 Gascon Ave. on May 30 1951 and went on to murder that same homicidal girlfriend two years later.
   Marie-Paule Langlais met Genest while she was riding her bicycle and the two hit it off in 1950.
     Genest said that he felt lonely because his wife Rita Genest didn't like to leave the house much.
  They had been married three years and had no children.
   So he proposed to his new-mistress Langlais that she should kill his wife to allow them to spend more time together.
   He gave her a key and an iron bar and she did the deed, covering it up the murder with a fire.  
    Police quickly noticed blood on the carpet and a smashed skull, and a later autopsy proved that Genest had not died of fire. She didn't smoke anyway.

Roland Genest

  However Roland had an alibi, as he was playing pool with his brother-in-law, so he was eliminated as a suspect.
   Fast forward to May 1953 when Genest and his girlfriend Langlais were hanging out and apparently got into a fight.

Marie Langlais

   Langlais is said to have worked at the St. Jean de Dieu mental hospital but by this time was making a meagre living at a cookie factory and living in a room on Delorimier.
  Genest, 34, now unemployed, was living with his parents on Letourneau.
   Langlais became super aggressive, according to Genest, and he was forced to defend himself against her attack.
   The story didn't seem credible.

Langlais after death  
1953 (Allo Police)

   Langlais killed her and dumped her naked body in the snow on a farm in Ile Bizard with 32 stab wounds and throat slashed.
   Genest went overboard likely to make it more difficult to recognize Langlais, but some whispered that the killing was a Satanic occult thing.
 
Genest ditched all evidence meticulously all around town.
   Nobody could identify Langlais, so police issued an open call to examine her body.
   Over 100 did so, some legitimately believing it was a lost relative and others just out of morbid curiosity.
   The victim's mother and two sisters eventually showed up and told police about Genest, a former Montreal Transit Commission trolley trackman.
   He eventually confessed.
   Justice Wilfrid Lazure didn't buy Genest's story that Langlais had attacked him with a bat.
   Genest was hanged at Bordeaux Prison on Aug 28, 1953.

Roland and Rita