They would write letters like this: I am writing about what you said on the subject of nutrition. Date of murder: September 1988 Date of arrest: October 6, 1989 Date of birth: May 16, 1947 Perfil vctimas: Solange Boilard, 21 (his legal wife) Victim profile: Disembowelment while trying to perform surgery on her Location: Burnt River, Ontario, Canada Status: Sentenced to life in prison on January 18, 1993 Thriault remembered that Gabrielle had a stiff pinky finger (the one that he hadn't already cut off with the wire cutters), and told her to put her hand on the kitchen table. While others were told to cut off their toes to prove their loyalty to their master. [1] Thriault's followers, including 12 adults and 22 children, lived under his totalitarian rule at the commune and were subject to severe physical and sexual abuse. After her leg healed a bit she tried to escape again, but a few days later she went back to Rock. He also acquired a new interest in sex and sexuality one which was not entirely appreciated by his wife or his inlaws. The young members of the Ant Hill Kids were routinely sexually abused, nailed to trees so other children could hurl stones at them and held over fires. Texas cult convict murdered, served time for beating death of girl and sex abuse of boy Failed prophecies and predictions don't deter Christian fundamentalists from spreading doomsday message Theriault was arrested and charged with murder the following year after another cult member, whose arm had been hacked off by Theriault with a meat cleaver, told hospital authorities what had happened. Thriault received a life sentence, which he was serving when he was murdered at Dorchester Penitentiary in 2011. He poured boiling water on Claude; another time he made Claude sit down on a lit stove. Before burying the woman, he removed a rib, which he wore around his neck. Raised a Catholic, Theriault converted to the Seventh-day Adventist Church and adopted their way of life. When Gigure began to cry, Thriault grabbed the axe and threatened to cut off all of Maryse's toes himself. He was arrested for assault in 1989, and convicted of murder in 1993. Members were not allowed to speak to each other when he was not present, nor were they allowed to have sex with each other without his permission. . Eventually, Thriault's finances gave way, and the local credit union repossessed his Thetford Mines residence; Francine washed her hands of Roch, and Roch took up with Gisle. A strange dynamic took hold of the group, with all the women (except Maryse Grenier, who hated being with the commune) competing for Rock's attention. These "surgeries" included injecting a 94% ethanol solution into stomachs, or performing circumcisions on the children and adults of the group. I do not want to be a fat and plump servant. Thriault was their elected face to the outside world. In 1993, Thriault was sentenced to life in prison for the gruesome murder of his wife, Solange Boilard, who was yet another victim of his "medical" intervention, after he disembowelled her. He also passed it over Nicole's tummy the day she gave birth for the first time. There are two versions regarding what happened that night. "Sitting behind him (at the hearing) brought back all the memories of the time, when I weighed 80 pounds and had to help the authorities capture him. He was arrested for assault in 1989, and convicted of murder in 1993. The film stars Luc Picard as Thriault, and Polly Walker as Paula Jackson, the social worker whose investigation revealed the crimes. According to this version, Samuel was crying that night and keeping Veer awake. 5.7K 189 comments Best Add a Comment RyanBDawg 1 yr. ago The leader of this cult, Roch Thriault, was brutally stabbed to death in 2011, after killing him the guy walked up to a guard and said: "That piece of shit is down on the range. Dr Groesbeck reassured Thriault that there was nothing Rock could have done to save her, but Thriault informed Groesbeck that God had named Groesbeck as Thriault's guide. Even Maryse Grenier wasn't willing to testify against Rock. [1] Thriault made another member, Gabrielle Lavalle, stitch her up using needle and thread, and had the other women shove a tube down her throat and blow through it. Thriault convinced Alex Joseph to perform a post-mortem marriage by proxy for himself and Solange, to make "official" what he had only recognized for himself: the marriage between "Mose" and "Rachel" and Joseph even threw in an ordination for Thriault, which named Thriault as king over Lot 4, Concession 5. Roch Thriault was released in February of 1984. He ordered his wives to pluck Claude's pubic hair bald. And in May of 1984, he moved the band to their new home, and began the construction of a new cabin, as isolated as their old home had been. Lavalle's report allowed further investigation into Thriault's actions, exposing the wider abuses at the communes and Solange Boilard's murder. Every issue of Serial Killer Magazine, every Ultimate Collection, trainscript, FBI file and more! The children were also deprived of education except Rock's own brands of religious education and sex education. Ted Williams once said it was his goal in life to walk down the street [and have] folks say there goes the greatest hitter who ever lived. He read more, On September 28, 1542, the Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrives in San Diego Bay while searching for the Strait of Anian, a mythical all-water route across North America. Jacques, Maryse, Claude, Solange, and Guy Veer were released on their own recognizance on the condition they not return to the cabin; Thriault and Lavalle were denied bail as they were held to be a danger to society. [6] The Ant Hill Kids raised money for living by selling baked goods, and members who did not bring in enough money were also punished. With reports from The Associated Press and The Canadian Press, Roch Theriault is shown in this 1981 file photo. When he awoke two hours later, a clot had formed in Gisle's leg, which had swollen. The group buried her then disinterred her a few days later. He claimed it would cure Veer's headaches, as well as the excessive masturbation that was "causing" Veer's respiratory difficulties. He punched Solange in the neck, knocking her out. The cult leader had 22 children with women he held under his sway. They were a doomsday cult whose beliefs were based on Seventh-day Adventist Church beliefs. Roch Thriault ([k te.jo]; May 16, 1947 - February 26, 2011) was a Canadian cult leader and convicted murderer. The others have tried to adapt to a new life without him. It is very true that I nibble, a damnable fault which I will never again repeat. These are more like giant, professionally produced graphic novels. 4 Cults You Might Not Know About - Mental Floss. Lo Marc Faucher, who had joined the Healthy Living Clinic with his wife and child and who had given Thriault all of their money, loaded his meagre possessions and his family into a wagon and headed back for civilization. But after Gabrielle escaped for a third and final time the police caught up with Theriault and he was he was jailed for chopping off her arm and sentenced to 12 years in jail. This included removing teeth, botched circumsicions and even castrations. So Rock encouraged his followers to hit up their parents. In 1988, he used a knife to disembowel his wife Solange Boilard during a cult ritual. Followers were made to wear identical tunics to represent equality and their devotion to the commune. Rock was sweet-talking everyone who came to assess his dominion. She had been undergoing treatment for leukemia in Qubec City, and things seemed to be going well. He claimed that he wasn't the "leader" of the group; that the commune was a democracy and that they lived "in peace and without any promiscuity." For some, this was all too much. Rock became convinced that he was pregnant with his deceased wife Solange. This is a savings of over $100! They wandered from town to town, down the Fleuve Saint-Laurent, for a month. In early November, 1980, Guy Veer joined the commune. However, Thriault decided that the child needed to be circumcized. Members were forced to break their own legs with sledgehammers and children being nailed to trees. July 26, 1989, Rock became drunk. The next day, she went to a women's shelter, but returned to the compound on prompting from Jacques. He taught himself the work of the Old Testament and the idea the end of the world was coming manifested. Sick Theriault married every female follower he had and impregnated them all to ensure his cults numbers would swell in the future. The beast would also beat them with a belt and batter followers with hammers. He established them in Sainte-Marie, in the Beauce region, about 65km south of Qubec City. Matthew Mellon, the billionaire banking heir, died suddenly at a rehab facility in Cancun, Mexico. He explained that in the hierarchy of the group, Veer was a slave, and that if he underwent the castration he would become a eunuch, which would be a step up. A notorious cult leader and convicted killer has been found dead inside Westmorland correctional centre in Dorchester, New Brunswick. The director of the hospital at which Thriault was confined began referring to the patient as "Moses," and expressed his scorn for the public that had reflexively assumed that just because Thriault had a different lifestyle and had been sent for evaluation, he was crazy. All of our Serial Killer Magazines and books are massive, perfect bound editions. Yolande Guinnebert, who had joined the group with her friend Gabrielle Lavalle at the resort at Lake Rosseau, headed back to France, claiming that her passport had expired. Obituary: Adelard "John" Boilard. Despite being behind bars Theriault fathered four more children during conjugal visits with several of his many. We will remember him forever. He called them the "Ant Hill Kids" because they worked together like a nest of ants. He made his followers eat excrement and dead mice. Death date: 24 February, 2003, Monday. In 2000, Thriault was transferred to Dorchester Penitentiary, a medium-security prison in Dorchester, New Brunswick. This was all built by his two male and nine female followers four of whom were pregnant, and all of whom were also responsible for the commune's ten children, ranging in age from one to fifteen. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Everyone pleaded guilty to all charges laid against them relating to Gabrielle's amputation; Rock netted twelve years (later reduced to ten years because of Rock's "genuine remorse and concern for the victim" in the words of the court), Jacques five years, Chantal two years less one day, and Nicole eighteen months. His subsequent defeat of King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings marked the beginning of a new era in British history. Nicole (Chainey) Boilard, 78, of Chicopee, passed away on April 16, 2021, surrounded by her loving family, after a long-fought battle with Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease. Thriault next claimed that he had the ability of resurrection. But unable to live unless she was under Theriault's spell, she soon returned. At the time of his death in 2011 he was continuing to serve out a life sentence, having been denied parole in 2002. Too drunk to finish, he called Chantal over to finish the job. Thriault claimed to be a holy being, and started performing unnecessary amateur surgical operations on sick members to demonstrate his healing powers. After an olive oil and molasses enema, he. The Murder of Solange Boilard, member of the Ant Hill Kids cult. And although the memories of their violent childhood will never leave them, they claim they won't pass anything on to their children. However, Rock did succeed in concealing the birth of two more children, as well as hiding all knowledge of Solange's death from her family and from the police. He claimed that he had saved these kids from the self-dissolution of drugs and put them on the right track. On March 23, 1980, Thriault organized a party. This massive 8.5 x 11 perfect bound book contains over 150 pages of rare interviews, letters, documents, transcripts, art and articles about serial killer, John Wayne Gacy. Finally Gabrielle, who had already had her private parts burned, eight of her teeth removed and part of her breasts sliced off, fled. Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you care. Younger followers were also not safe children were held over fires, nailed to trees and sexually assaulted. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. He threw a knife at Francine, and at Marise. No one would fight back; it would be like raising a hand against God himself. Solange invited her parents to the ceremony, and on advice from their priest they decided to attend, if only to show Solange that they still loved her. On September 28, 1920, a Chicago grand jury indicts eight members of the Chicago White Sox on charges of fixing the 1919 World Series. Third, the cutting-off of health food and missionary literature supplies from their former friends, the Seventh Day Adventists. But one night in September, a drunken Mose became angry with Veer for some infraction, and decided that he should stand trial for his crime of the previous March. On November 11, 1967, he married Francine Grenier, a girl from the next town over. He also started drinking again after two years sober first communion wine, then beer and cognac. If it is stealing, I did not realize it. In one instance he took one of the women, Solange Boilard, after she complained of a stomach ache, punched her in the stomach, jammed a plastic tube up her rectum to perform a crude . It was Geraldine's time.". Meanwhile, Thriault was ingratiating himself to the doctors. Here, he met Gabrielle Lavalle (from Qubec) and Yolande Guinnebert (from France), who joined his retinue. After that, Gigure became "Mose's" main enforcer. [Francine Laflamme]. This massive perfect bound Ted Bundy collection includes art, articles, rare interviews, documents, letters, transcripts and the serial killers entire FBI file. Lived: 16253 days = 44 years. Between 1977 and 1989 he held sway over as many as 12 adults and 26 children. Thriault received a life sentence, which he was serving when he was murdered at Dorchester. Thriault loaded the band into their vehicles and set out. Ballston Lake, NY MINA BOILARD OBITUARY Boilard, Mina CLIFTON PARK Mina Boilard, age 80, of Clifton Park, died on Tuesday, March 27, 2018, surrounded by her loving family. We are happy to say that the Serial Killer Trading Cards are back! Gabrielle Nadeau went into a coma and died shortly thereafter. Gabrielle, however, did not. But then, according to a letter Thriault wrote to the spirit of the deceased, "a strange force entered my arms and tore the bindings from me. He was their Papy; his wife Gisle was their Mamy, and with the collective welfare checks of everyone in the group, they had a monthly budget of $1 400 Canadian. And Roch's Adventist ministers began to fear that this group of disaffected youth were more attracted to Thriault personally than they were to the Church. I understand it very well because of the Law of Death in which it exists, but within myself I am well. In April of 1978, Thriault was voted out of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, on Zita's initiative. She said that the women who had not been married were lonely. Correctional Service Canada confirmed to QMI Agency that the death of Theriault, 63, on Saturday is being investigated as a homicide. Lavallee testified against Theriault during his trial, describing years of brutal abuse that included having one of her teeth ripped out of her mouth with a pair of pliers. They accused the government of trying to persecute the group, trying to force them to disband by witholding welfare, a gross infraction of their rights as citizens. And as he became bored, he began to drink again. He prescribed himself a case of beer for any pains. . Between this, and his interest in a number of topics that gave the illusion of a penetrating intelligence for which he was often praised (even by psychiatric evaluators after his ultimate arrest), he came to crave attention. Thriault, a self-proclaimed prophet under the name Mose [m.iz], founded the Ant Hill Kids in 1977. Nicole Ruel (20) Believing himself to be a vessel of God and capable of curing all sickness, Theriault took matters into his own hands with devastating consquences. As his power grew, Theriault even got his followers to break their own legs with sledgehammers, sit on lit stoves and shoot each other in their shoulders. Here's the knife, I've sliced him up." 1.8K 2 Police raided Synanon, and a drunk Dederich was arrested in his Lake Havasu home on December 2, 1978. If you're sensitive to graphic accounts of gross domestic violence, don't read this. A charismatic speaker, he soon persuaded others to join his religious movement and the Ant Hill Kids cult was born. No one questioned by the police was at all upset or even embarrassed of what had happened, or of having involved a twelve-year-old boy in the decision process. First, there was the outstanding debts. Random, Interesting, Amazing Facts - Fun Quizzes and Trivia - Mental Floss. Police are calling his death a homicide and a 59-year-old inmate at the penitentiary has been arrested in connection with the incident. In 1993 he pleaded guilty to Solange's murder and was sentenced to life in prison. His religious cult became increasingly bizarre and cruel, and soon social workers and police were investigating reports of abuse of the women and children and eventually the deaths of Boislard and an infant. They worked in their tunics, and when tripping over these became inconvenient and dangerous, Roch commissioned new uniforms: dark blue wrap-around short shrifts. Rock sr would sometimes have the children masturbate him, or watch as members of the group masturbated one another or themselves, believing this to be the proper method of sexual instruction. He himself became "Mose," or Moses, leader of the exodus from the depraved modern world. He also ordered Jacques to be circumcised, his whole glans removed. The next morning, Samuel was found dead. Mellon was the ex-husband of Jimmy Choo co . MADHATTERDESIGN@GMAIL.COM, FORBIDDEN PHOTOS OF A LADY ABOVE SUSPICION, MIKADROID: ROBOKILL BENEATH DISCO CLUB LAYLA, MOH - INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD, ARTICLE "THE ICEMAN" RICHARD LEONARD KUKLINSKI, Like old school VHS Covers? Rock saw to the care of his own children; the mentally deficient Paul Veer had been taken on to look after Grenier's bastards. (n.d.). Jacques used the acetylene torch to cut a piece off the drive shaft of one of the old junk cars they had in the yard; Rock heated this metal until it was red-hot, and pressed it against Gabrielle's stump. She was born in Arthabaska, Quebec, Canada, on Jan. 27, 1943, the daughter of the late Armand and Rachel (Gardner) Chainey. On another occasion, he shot a .303-calibre bullet through her shoulder. His followers were no longer able to speak to one another without his permission and couples could not have sex without his say so. Theriault believed the world was going to end in 1979 and that he alone was a saviour to protect mankind from evil. Cowed and afraid for her life, Gisle agreed to return to the compound. If anyone fell asleep, he'd smack their head with a four inch thick club. The group was refused funding on the basis that the group constituted an institution, rather than a family. He was sentenced to five years' supervised probation, fined $5,000 and ordered to no longer run. Montreal - Francois Theriault, son of former cult leader, Roch "Moses" Theriault, said he wasn't surprised when he heard his father was found dead in his jail cell earlier this year. Thriault was charming to young women and was a good speaker. During this time, Roch sr developed some severe ulcers, which had to be excised surgically, and later developed complications from the surgery. Jacques and Maryse were charged with neglect towards their oldest daughter, now five, and Claude and Solange Boilard were similarly charged for their treatment of Simon Ouellette, now three. Dorchester, N.B. He pulled eleven of Claude's teeth with a pair of pliers, when there was nothing wrong with Claude's teeth. But the court ordered an independent assessment, and that team, including Dr Rhal Huneault and Dr Martine Miljkovitch, recommended that the children be returned to Burnt River immediately. On August 16, 1989, she made it to a hospital, and concocted some story to explain the missing arm. Even when local businessmen began filing in to the police station to complain about Thriault's inability to pay outstanding bills, the police's hands were tied. The Boilard family name was found in the USA, Canada, and Scotland between 1861 and 1920. It is also packed with unusual trivia, exclusive interviews with the both killers and experts in the field and more information that any other resource available to date. However, Rock did succeed in concealing the birth of two more children, as well as hiding all knowledge of Solange's death from her family and from the police. In 1978, Thriault was removed from Seventh-day Adventist Church. Paranoid that his followers were conspiring against him he later forbade them from talking to each other without his permission. Although he was having sexual congress with her on a regular basis, to keep up appearances he made a bed in the back of his truck, so that it would appear that his scruples forbade him from sleeping with a woman to whom he was not married. Obsessed with anatomy and medicine, Theriault performed crude intestinal surgery on Boislard by slicing open her abdomen and ripping out a piece of intestine with his bare hands. After sending Jacques to fetch Gisle from her parents' house, he made a call to Dr Jess Groesbeck. The Adventists weren't convinced. But despite making it to safety she was too brainwashed to live away from the control of the cult leader. Roch did nothing to stop them, but made it clear that Faucher was evil in the eyes of God. At one point, Gabrielle's uterus prolapsed; after a hard day of working, the organ actually protruded three inches outside her vagina. To see more documents/articles regarding this group/organization/subject They, the commune, would become God's chosen, but only if they made a righteous life for themselves in the scrub of these Appalacian foothills. Rock attempted to fix it himself, punching the uterus back inside Gabrielle's body and fashioning a wooden cone and truss to plug everything up. He used all of the nine women as concubines, and probably fathered most of the children in the group. EXETER TWP., Pa. A Berks County woman is behind bars without bail on criminal charges in connection with the killing of her 3-year-old daughter. In 1978, in preparation, Thriault moved his commune by hiking to a mountainside he called "Eternal Mountain" in Saint-Jogues, in the sparsely populated Gasp Peninsula, where he claimed they could all be saved. how old was dabi when he faked his death 0 items / $ 0.00 chateau montelena cabernet sauvignon 2018 estate Menu texas state baseball camp how to stop cursor from blinking in microsoft word Theriault, 57, was sentenced in 1993 to life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Solange Boislard, a long-time member of the survivalist cult. Roch-Sylvain said that although he understands how people could rejoice at the demise of his father, "I never wanted it to end this way.". When two police officers showed up at the compound, however, Thriault repelled them. 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", When their father drank, his sons knew he would pay them a "visit.". Roch Thriault (pronounced "Rosh Terry-o") was born in the Saguenay Valley of Qubec on May 16, 1947, to Hyacinthe and Pierrette Thriault, the second of seven children and the eldest boy. Based on the testimony of former cult members, Thriault was probably delusional and may have actually believed he could do miracles. Jacques Fiset left; Thriault told the others he had been taken by the Devil. The county Children's Aid Society began watching the commune like hawks. Roch (now calling himself "Rock," the anglicization of his French name) commissioned an A-frame cabin, a two-storey house with a kitchen, a bakery, a maple sugar shack, a smokehouse, a root cellar, and a stone "sanctuary" or altar upon which he would commune with God. 2:53. My eyes saw things that went beyond them. The authorities realized he was a delusional crank, but without any proof he was a dangerous delusional crank, they released him under his own recognizance. It was also a place of merriment, where Thriault would organize skits and songs. With this, the systematic sex abuse of his female followers also became more profound but in addition to this, he began to exert control in ever increasingly sinister and violent ways. He beat one of his horses to death with a chain, and ordered Claude to burn the body. As for the others, all of this served only to make them more obsequious. He fathered more than 20 children with nine mothers and the group's numbers swelled to 40. Make a life-giving gesture While he lazed, the members of the cult built an entire town, like worker ants. "That night, July 26, 1989, he hacked off my right arm, not only my hand, he took off part of my right arm.". He had undergone treatment for depression at l'Hpitale Robert Giffard, the same hospital that had declared Thriault "mentally sound." The police razed their cabin on the Gasp to the ground, and bulldozed the ashes. He soon proved to excel at this. But the police were called, and the constable filed a charge of aggravated assault against Rock Thriault. The media began to portray him as a gentle mountain man that had run afoul of a prejudiced industrial society. Rock's lawyers made a deal that Rock would plead guilty to this charge if no further charges were brought against him. The procedure in question occurred after an Ant Hill Kid named Solange Boilard complained of a stomachache. He was sentenced to life in prison for her murder in 1993.