Thriault maintained multiple wives and concubines, impregnating all female members as a religious requirement, and fathering 26 children. He claimed it would cure Veer's headaches, as well as the excessive masturbation that was "causing" Veer's respiratory difficulties. Second, the constant police surveillance to which they had been subjected since Auclair's death. Gabrielle Lavallee, who had her right arm hacked off by Theriault in 1989, said yesterday he deserves to stay in jail forever. The Boilard family name was found in the USA, Canada, and Scotland between 1861 and 1920. Theriault's original goal was to form a free-thinking commune where people could listen to his teachings and live in freedom as equals. 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. Chantal Labrie's parents obtained a court order for a round of psychiatric tests for their daughter. His two sons from his marriage with Francine Grenier, Roch jr (12) and Franois (10), were coming to live with their father in the commune. This perfect bound Serial Killer Calendar book includes detailed facts and trivia about serial killers for every day of the year. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. The group was based primarily on religious themes, such as women's obedience to men, polygamy, harsh punishments, the righteousness of the leader and the sinfulness of the followers, and living miracles. winter storm, Southern Ontario digs out of snowstorm, snowfall warnings still in effect for parts of Eastern Canada, Woman missing more than 30 years and thought to be dead found living in Puerto Rico nursing home, AI model can detect Alzheimers disease with over 90 per cent accuracy, new research finds, Trump pitches a sequel, but shies away from attacking rivals, Bus with 40 children crashes in French Alps; 21 injured, 'I had to get over here and help': 3 incredible acts of compassion by Canadians in Ukraine. By 1977 he had amassed to himself a number of followers: Solange Boilard (21) 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. In 2008 some of Theriault's poems and artwork went up for sale on an American website, called MurderAuction.com, that promotes killers as celebrities. The alcoholic and delusional Theriault apparently thought he was driving the devil out of them. I only know that I will not repeat them. Thriault formed the cult in 1977 in Sainte-Marie, Quebec with the goal to form a commune where people could freely listen to his motivational speeches, live in unity and equality, and be free of sin. If the parents refused, it would only reinforce what he had always said about them; if they agreed, the group would have money to continue its way of living in isolation. Claude Ouellette was paired with Solange Boilard, and Jacques Fiset with Nicole Ruel. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) But there still wasn't enough evidence to press further criminal charges against Thriault. He claimed God himself had warned him to prepare himself and his commune for the end of days. Some of the women in Solange's family wept and not for joy. After a new member of the cult, an escapee from a mental hospital, beat a child at the compound, Theriault performed surgery on the child. He was born on May 15, 1934, a son of . Meanwhile, Thriault was ingratiating himself to the doctors. For some, this was all too much. All of the accused pleaded not guilty. Greg Lupson. He and Thriault (polygamist and self-proclaimed healer) became good friends. Sick Theriault married every female follower he had and impregnated them all to ensure his cults numbers would swell in the future. Former cult leader Roch "Moses" Theriault was found dead in his cell at the correctional centre in Dorchester, New Brunswick. She was born on. I saved myself from Royal life, Harry says & insists 'sharing's an act of service', Love Island's Olivia Hawkins breaks silence as she returns to the UK, Loose Women star lined up to be Strictly's first contestant in wheelchair, Coronation Street fans horrified as Amy Barlow is raped in disturbing scenes, News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. He conveniently left out the parts about food rationing, abuse, or his polygamous harem. A few nights later, Nicole Ruel (whom Roch had married to the uninterested Jacques Fiset) confided that she and Mose had had intercourse while everyone else was working. 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. Claude kept it on overnight, which caused irreperable damage to his testicles which, of course, prompted Thriault to operate: he used a razor blade to cut open Claude's scrotum and plucked out an infected testicle with his fingers, then cauterized the wound with a hot piece of iron. Grenier said later that she actually would have preferred Paul Veer to look after her children, over Rock Thriault. The next morning, Samuel was found dead. He would regularly masturbate into the jar, in his "sanctuary" and in his bedroom, in an attempt to bring Solange back to life through reverse birth. On Sept. 28, 1988, one of the women, Solange Boilard, 32, complained of stomach pains. Claude managed to escape into the woods, where he stayed until Thriault was sober once again. Thriault, a self-proclaimed prophet under the name Mose, founded the Ant Hill Kids in 1977. In 1993, Thriault pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the death of Solange Boilard, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. . 2:53. In March of 1978, Geraldine Gagn Auclair was admitted to the Healthy Living Clinic. [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. These are not the kind of flimsy magazines or tiny paperback novels that you are accustomed to. But the terrifying truth of what was happening at Burnt River, Ontario, was only laid bare when, physically broken and brutally abused, one of his followers escaped and alerted authorities to the horrors of life as an Ant Hill Kid. After passing Gabrielle's examination, Veer was permitted to stay at the commune in the storage shed, away from Thriault and his "family." Thriault claimed to be a holy being, and started performing unnecessary amateur surgical operations on sick members to demonstrate his healing powers. Though most of the girls still living with their parents, the whole group would often spend the weekend crashing at Gisle's on the couch, on the floor, wherever there was space. get yours now before they are gone forever. The police raided the compound, arrested Thriault and Samuel's parents, and relocated the seven children to foster homes. "He was a shark," said Francois, "he needed to see blood.". Matthew MacDonald of Port au Port, N.L., is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Roch Theriault. When the Jonestown Massacre occurred on November 18, 1978, Thriault followed the story with keen interest he even claimed to have had a vision of the event a year before. Roch responded by having her strip naked, lay on his "operating table" (a dirty kitchen filled with rusted and dirty sharp objects), punched her in the stomach, then shoved an enema inside her, before finally cutting her stomach open, and ripping out a piece of . Her body was found in 1989 at the cult's camp near Lindsay, Ont., 70 kilometres northeast of Toronto. Following the cult's formation, Thriault began to move away from being a motivational leader as his drinking problem worsened, becoming increasingly totalitarian over the lives of his followers and irrational in his beliefs. It was fatal. Gabrielle thought that this would be an act of mercy for the infant. When he awoke two hours later, a clot had formed in Gisle's leg, which had swollen. One night in February, 1987, Rock threw a hunting knife at Gisle, creating a wound three inches deep in her thigh which immediately began gushing blood. Sometimes Gisle would become jealous of the attention the girls lavished on Roch; but as he had expressed interest in becoming a priest, and had committed to total sobriety, she came to regard this as absurd even if she realized it wouldn't take much for Thriault to seduce any one of them. In late February, Theriault was killed by a fellow inmate at Dorchester Penitentiary in New Brunswick. Theriault, known as Moses, manipulated and physically abused his followers, including hacking a woman's right arm off. Please help this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. He poured boiling water on Claude; another time he made Claude sit down on a lit stove. Born in 1947, Theriault was a bright boy but dropped out of school when he was just 13 and this is when his disturbing obsession with the end of the world began. The story of Theriault and Lavallee is told in Savage Messiah, a new TV movie airing on The Movie Network and Movie Central. Their sentence was to be banned from shopping in Linsday ever again. This is a savings of over $100! [9] Boilard died the next day from the damage inflicted by the procedures. 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. But it was the warped abuse of another follower that saw Theriault finally brought to justice. He whipped Gabrielle in the eye with his belt. Lavalle's report allowed further investigation into Thriault's actions, exposing the wider abuses at the communes and Solange Boilard's murder. We pay for videos too. HISTORY reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate. As for the others, all of this served only to make them more obsequious. He was released from the hospital early, judged fit to stand trial for obstruction of justice, and given a one-year suspended sentence. Dorchester, N.B. A follower would sometimes be asked to cut off another follower's toes with wire cutters to prove loyalty. The Murder of Solange Boilard, member of the Ant Hill Kids cult. Solange White . 2023 A&E Television Networks, LLC. He once used a meat cleaver to chop off the hand and part of the arm of Gabrielle Lavalle, one of his concubines. Berks Regional News. "That night, July 26, 1989, he hacked off my right arm, not only my hand, he took off part of my right arm.". Between Mass and his father's forced door-to-door White Beret literature distribution campaigns, Roch developed an abiding hatred for Catholicism in particular and organized religion in general. He began eating meat and junk food. He appointed Jacques Gigure, the baby's father, to be the judge, "Mamy" Gisle would be the prosecution, Claude Ouellette the lawyer for the defence. Jose Pelletier (20), Jacques Fiset (mid-twenties) When cults stand-off Shelly Katz/Getty Images They said that talking publicly about their father frees them from the horrors they lived through. Mostly shockingly he ordered them to break their own legs with sledgehammers, get them to sit on lit stoves and shoot each other in the shoulders. He punched his first-born son, Roch jr, in the face when he refused to wrestle his brother Franois. ONTARIO, CANADA On September 28, 1988, Roch "Mose" Thriault, leader of a bizarre religious sect called the Ant Hill Kids, subjected one of his followers to insane and sadistic impromptu surgery that killed her. Thriault next claimed that he had the ability of resurrection. Prognosis: negative. "[16], The 2002 film Savage Messiah depicts Thriault's crimes against his followers and the ensuing legal recourse. His followers were no longer able to speak to one another without his permission and couples could not have sex without his say so. 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. Retrieved March 2013, from, Kovalchik, K. (2010, February 16). His home life wasn't getting any better, either. Although the magazine takes this subject very seriously and in no way attempts to glorify the crimes describe in it, it also provides a unique collection of rare treats (including mini biographical comics, crossword puzzles and trivia quizzes). Get email updates with the day's biggest stories. Another member was castrated by Theriault, who also abused a 2-year-old boy. For other inquiries, Contact Us. 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. In fact, retreating into the woods for a couple of days became a common tactic for Claude, Gabrielle, Gisle and the others. When she went back to her bed, blood started coming out of her mouth, and she died. Sometimes he would hold two women's children over a fire and threatened to throw one of them in; he loved watching his wives beg for their own child to be spared. In 1978, Thriault was removed from Seventh-day Adventist Church. Adelard Boilard found in 12 trees View all When the child then died, Theriault castrated the man as punishment. Death Roch Thriault was found dead in his cell, February 26, 2011, at Dorchester Penitentiary, in New Brunswick. He was transferred to the Orsainville Detention Centre in Qubec City. Did no one check the corpse? Not only was he making money in this enterprise, he was also attracting followers. Theriault would hit them with a belt initially, but this escalated and they were soon being attacked with hammers. Thriault was found guilty of assault for the amputation of Lavalle's arm and received a sentence of 12 years imprisonment. At the time of his death in 2011 he was continuing to serve out a life sentence, having been denied parole in 2002. Third, the cutting-off of health food and missionary literature supplies from their former friends, the Seventh Day Adventists. Lavalle's report allowed further investigation into Thriault's actions, exposing the wider abuses at the communes and Solange Boilard's murder. Roch Thriault ([k te.jo]; May 16, 1947 February 26, 2011) was a Canadian cult leader and convicted murderer. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. He made his followers eat excrement and dead mice. They would go back into the bush and start all over again: this time on Lot 4, Concession 5, in Somerville Township, Burnt River near the town of Lindsay, in Victoria County, Ontario. Warning: This story contains details that may be disturbing to some readers. Roch Theriault was a twisted religious extremist who forced his brainwashed followers to endure a campaign of horrific abuse across two decades in Canada. (2011, February 28). While he lazed, the members of the cult built an entire town, like worker ants. Even when the police came, at the behest of the families of some of the girls, they refused to speak. Roch became fascinated with the Old Testament, with its strict codes of masculine authority; he was also fascinated with Apocalypse, with its message of violent retribution for sin in the end times and the division of the human race into the elect and the reprobate. The whole thing seemed to be over. If you want to be a man, you have to learn how to teach your woman a lesson." In particular, he once tried to resurrect a woman he had killed by sawing the top off her corpse's skull and masturbating into the cavity. They worked in their tunics, and when tripping over these became inconvenient and dangerous, Roch commissioned new uniforms: dark blue wrap-around short shrifts. Victoria County, however, had different ideas about welfare than they had in Qubec. Thriault designed and assembled a rough sawmill from a chainsaw, a snowmobile engine, and some bicycle parts. 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. In 2009, Theriault tried to sell his artwork on a United States-based website MurderAuction.com, which called itself a "true crime auction house" and was willing to sell some of Theriault's drawings and poetry. They were deprived of sleep, of food, and of hygeine. Roch Thriault, Jacques Gigure, Maryse Grenier, Gabrielle Lavalle and Guy Veer were all charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm to Samuel Gigure. He also started drinking again after two years sober first communion wine, then beer and cognac. But life within the Ant Hill Kids cult had already begun to take an even more sinsiter turn. There was to be no parental access, as the Court believed Thriault to be a manipulative despot who posed a significant risk of molestation and exploitation. Credit Solution Experts Incorporated offers quality business credit building services, which includes an easy step-by-step system designed for helping clients build their business credit effortlessly. In 2009, they published a book about their experience. Ross, S. (2010, January 13). At first, Rock was distraught, and tried killing himself in a number of ways he tried to get Jacques Gigure to shoot him, then he tried to overdose on Tylenol Extra Strength tablets, and finally he tried to drown himself. He had one of his wives break Claude's legs with a sledgehammer. Along with Clifford Olsen and Paul Bernardo, Thriault is considered one of Canada's most notorious criminals. In spite of their childhood, the two men took back control of their lives. It took the police six weeks to find Thriault. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. He eventually pleaded guilty to Solanges murder and was jailed for life in 1993. At the age of six, the family of this boy who would later say he played with wild bears moved the family to the community of Thetford Mines, in the Eastern Townships. I love you, When Roland Ernest Boilard was born on 4 September 1912, in Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine, United States, his father, Joseph Sigfroi Boilard, was 39 and his mother, Josephine Marie Gamache, was 41. Too drunk to finish, he called Chantal over to finish the job. The 83-page Court ruling also suggested that the testimonies of Huneault, Miljkovitch, and the sympathetic CAS agents, francophones all, were more the result of a cultural prejudice of sympathy for any French-speaking community in a predominantly English environment, than of objectivity or concern for the welfare of the children in the group. Rock had hated the child, and said it bore the mark of the Devil; he had often beaten it. With no pain relief or anaesthetic, he then rammed a plastic tube into her rectum and poured olive oil and molasses into the tube, claiming it would ease her problems. Rock became convinced that he was pregnant with his deceased wife Solange. The only condition: that her eldest daughter, the girl she had borne before her days with the cult and who was now nearing puberty, remain behind destined to become the next of Rock's wives. Solange Boilard, who was killed with a kitchen knife as part of a cult ritual. It was also a place of merriment, where Thriault would organize skits and songs. She returned to the cabin, only to find Thriault still drunk and itching to operate. In early November, 1980, Guy Veer joined the commune. If anyone fell asleep, he'd smack their head with a four inch thick club. Lavalle underwent harsh treatment at the Ontario commune during the late 1980s, suffering welding torch burns to her genitals, a hypodermic needle breaking off in her back, and eight of her teeth being forcibly removed. 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. In 1988, he used a knife to disembowel his wife Solange Boilard during a cult ritual. History His many children (somewhere over twenty) are distributed among foster homes across the continent, including the 12-year-old boy who lives in Utah with Alex Joseph. This was all that was needed for the CAS to sweep in and take the kids to foster homes. Theriault, the leader of the most bizarre and violent cult in Canadian history, often physically abused his followers. Despite being behind bars Theriault fathered four more children during conjugal visits with several of his many 'wives'. He soon proved to excel at this. Francine Laflamme (18) He also removed 8 of her teeth. In 1993 he pleaded guilty to Solange's murder and was sentenced to life in prison. On the other hand, Thriault felt that now Veer was a security risk, and enjoyed tormenting him, beating him, and playing games in which he would instruct his followers to pierce Veer through the chest with knives and bleed him to death only to call them off, like God called off Abraham from sacrificing Isaac, at the very last minute. Nobody who visited the compound from Somerville had any idea of the group's strict and brutal organization; nor did they have any idea of the group's past in Qubec. 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