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. Provincial authorities had long-held suspicions about Thriault's cult due to the particularly primitive living conditions of its membership, but because the commune was officially registered as a church, officials were legally unable to investigate the adults, and could not do much except ensure the welfare of the children. Thriault and Groesbeck convinced themselves that Solange was to be the first "reverse birth," a spiritual rebirth through the belly of the male to parallel the carnal rebirth through the womb of the female. She cleared away a narrow band of exposed bone that went all the way around Gabrielle's arm. He stopped working, again using his aching guts as an excuse. When he was drunk, he'd often go on at length about his treasures, which consisted of some worthless costume jewelry the rest of the group was too terrified to do anything but feign interest. His cult, the Ant Hill Kids, was started in Quebec in 1977 and at its height had 12 adults and 22 children. And Rock would always weep the next day, after all the alcohol had left his system; he would beg God, his Master, to stop using him as a vehicle for God's cruel justice. To commemorate their new life, Thriault gave them all new names from the Old Testament. For some, this was all too much. The others had gone home to their families, Rock's spell finally broken. SERIAL KILLER MAGAZINE is an official release of the talented artists and writers at SerialKillerCalendar.com. He made his followers eat excrement and dead mice. He spent a half an hour trying to get this done, and encouraged her not to be embarrassed about losing control of her bodily functions. Thriault and his teenage son, Roch jr, also sexually molested and sometimes raped the children. Rock seperated the children of the compound into two groups: his own, chosen children, who enjoyed a privileged position in the commune; and those who were not his own, particularly the children of Maryse Grenier as well as the young Simon Ouellette, all of whom were regarded as animals and slaves. Thriault was found guilty of assault for the amputation of Lavalle's arm and received a sentence of 12 years imprisonment. Even Maryse Grenier wasn't willing to testify against Rock. In 1993 he pleaded guilty to Solange's murder and was sentenced to life in prison. Ross, S. (2010, January 13). He discovered the Mormon Fundamentalist movement, and this was how he met up with forensic psychiatrist and LDS branch president Dr Jess Groesbeck. Then he had someone else sew her wound closed, and Solange got up. I really believe that what you did doesn't come from you, but from someone much higher. Her body was found in 1989 at the cult's camp near Lindsay, Ont., 70 km northeast of Toronto. This was not unusual, and Gisle, Claude, Francine, and Marise all managed to sneak away into the bush to hide. In 1977, he and his followers attended an Adventist retreat on Lake Rosseau, in the woods of Muskoka, Ontario. He said he had a vision in which the sky was lit up with a white radiance, and the voice of God told him that the outcropping on which Roch was about to kneel was a holy place. AUBURN - Adelard "John" Boilard, 86, passed away peacefully at home on July 24, 2020 with his family by his side. I ask that you forgive me. Once he slashed Jacque Gigure's jugular with a broken wine glass. Part of this legal action involved testifying on the conditions under which the children of the compound lived. In 1978, Thriault was removed from Seventh-day Adventist Church. Theriault hated the child and said that it had the "mark of the devil" and that killing it would be only good. By the time the pandemic ended, an estimated 20 million to 50 million people were dead worldwide. During his long career, Pompey the Great displayed exceptional military talents on the battlefield. This was the first incident of what would become the ruling element in the lives of those people who had taken to following Thriault. 2023 A&E Television Networks, LLC. Thriault told his followers that he had gone into her room and kissed her, and she awakened from death but that, in the end, "You know, when God wants people, he takes them. Victoria County, however, had different ideas about welfare than they had in Qubec. The thought of ingesting such a large quantity of food in so little time discourages me, even if I work outside the entire day without eating. The man will be charged with murder this week, police said. 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. In 1993, Thriault pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the death of Solange Boilard, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. 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. Thriault next claimed that he had the ability of resurrection. This, however, only motivated Rock to be ever more despotic in order to keep control of his family. He claimed God himself had warned him to prepare himself and his commune for the end of days. The typical response, of course, was that the girls could have money, but only if they left Rock. This was all that was needed for the CAS to sweep in and take the kids to foster homes. She was born on. He once used a meat cleaver to chop off the hand and part of the arm of Gabrielle Lavalle, one of his concubines. In addition to dealing with cases of altered consciousness and dissociative disorders, he was drawn to shamanism, and with the history of polygamy. When she died the next day in agonizing pain, he sawed off the top of her head, and then sexually assaulted her. Thriault began networking. They were forbidden to go to the hospital. During his reign, Thriault mutilated several members. He would have them suspended from the ceiling, pluck out each of their body hairs individually and even used them as toilets. One day, he became enraged at Claude Ouellette for some reason no one remembers, and ordered him to walk around with an elastic band wrapped tightly around his scrotum. Her body was found in 1989 at the cult's camp near Lindsay, Ont., 70 kilometres northeast of Toronto. After a year of having been forbidden to have relations with her pre-cult husband Jacques, Maryse Grenier, the only adult woman of the group Thriault hadn't taken as his own wife, was permitted to leave with two of her three surviving children a two year old and an infant. He then made another member, Gabrielle Lavalle, stitch her up. Thriault instructed Jacques Gigure, Maryse's husband in the eyes of the law (though not in the eyes of "Mose") to cut off one of her toes with an axe as punishment. Random, Interesting, Amazing Facts - Fun Quizzes and Trivia - Mental Floss. His subsequent defeat of King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings marked the beginning of a new era in British history. During this time, Rock was also charged with obstruction of justice that occurred in connection with an incident in which he and his followers were harassing the daughter of one of Rock's children's foster parents. 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. So the group began selling fruit, and later pastry. Facebook gives people the power. "It's not looking so good, is it?" She had been partially disembowelled with a kitchen knife during a cult ritual. Shockingly Theriault avoided prosecution until TWO years later. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Rock's next treatment was to tie a piece of string around the exposed portion of uterus and yank at it like a loose tooth. Everyone else was now strongly in favour. 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. He made all of his members wear a tunic and moved them to another site in Ontario. He also acquired a new interest in sex and sexuality one which was not entirely appreciated by his wife or his inlaws. Allegedly, baby Samuel's head was flopping around on his neck, and his penis had swelled up. Allyson Ruby Boilard. 2:33. He eventually ordered her to live apart from everyone else in her own hut with her own two children, until Rock later accepted her eldest daughter into the main group. His followers wanted to stay together in the city, perhaps in a rented house. Join Facebook to connect with Solange Boilard and others you may know. Obituary: Adelard "John" Boilard. Thriault was called "father (papy)" and re-christened all members with biblical names. All Rights Reserved. Another member, Solange Boilard, was disemboweled and later killed. He was stabbed in the neck with a shiv and afterwards MacDonald walked up to prison guards and told them: That piece of s*** is down on the range. The charismatic cult leader had 22 children with women he held under his sway. She said that the women who had not been married were lonely. 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. A charismatic speaker, he soon persuaded others to join his religious movement and the Ant Hill Kids cult was born. According to Savage Messiah by Paul Kaihla and Ross Laver, Gisle tells a different story. White Sox owner Charles Comiskey immediately suspendsChick Gandil, Buck Weaver, Happy Felsch, Swede Risberg, Fred McMullin, Eddie Cicotte, Lefty read more, On September 28, 2018, the cargo ship Venta Maersk docks in St. Petersburg, Russia, more than a month after departing from Vladivostok on the other side of the country. The average age of a Boilard family member is 74. Gabrielle would act as coroner, and Roch's other six wives would act as jury. Up until recently Theriault was still being visited regularly by some of his former cult "wives,'' who had moved to New Brunswick to be close to him and have borne him more children following conjugal visits. Warning: This story contains details that may be disturbing to some readers. In 1987, social workers removed 17 of the children from the commune. In 1989, when follower Solange Boilard complained of an upset stomach, Thriault performed another amateur surgery without anaesthesia. Thriault convinced the women that all of them were his wives, and that they should bear him children. Followers were made to wear identical tunics to represent equality and their devotion to the commune. "[16], The 2002 film Savage Messiah depicts Thriault's crimes against his followers and the ensuing legal recourse. In April of 1978, Thriault was voted out of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, on Zita's initiative. Boilard died the next day. I am very well and very happy to belong to a REAL MASTER who himself belongs to the only real Master of Life. 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 all had a cathartic effect on his followers he had punished them for their sins, and they were now purified as a result. This is the best deal on the site. According to this version, Samuel was crying that night and keeping Veer awake. That is too ugly next to the man that you are. St. Petersburg parents break their silence following stabbing, daughter's death by: Chip Osowski. He was born May 7, 1922, in . Then life at the commune went back to "normal.". They reported that Roch's wedding ceremony was not what they expected, to say the least Thriault's rambling speech stressed the woman's role of subservience to the man. The one exception was Maryse Grenier, the outsider. In 1988, he used a knife to disembowel his wife Solange Boilard during a cult ritual. -- Cult leader Roch Theriault, who once used a meat cleaver to amputate the arm of a concubine, was denied parole yesterday on the grounds he represents an ongoing danger to society. Ever the conniving dictator, Theriault merely claimed time within the human plain and God's was different. Theriault would hit them with a belt initially, but this escalated and they were soon being attacked with hammers. Reluctantly, Gigure took the axe and severed one of Maryse's small toes. Pierre Zita tried approaching the parents of many of the girls, and tried to convince Gisle to leave Roch. It was first established in two Quebec towns, Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce and. The doctors later said that she had died of acute perionitis, an inflammation of the peritoneum caused by digestive fluids leaking into the abdominal cavity. He then ordered another follower to stitch up the wound with a needle and thread. The "official version" is the one that was given in court by Thriault, Guy Veer, and most of the commune members. After trying to perform an enema by shoving a plastic tube up her rectum, Thriault sliced open her stomach and pulled out her intestines with his bare hands. It was around this time that Roch Thriault discovered the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Thriault told the children that God lived underground (because flowers grew up from the ground), and that God sometimes demanded blood sacrifice as when, in a secret ritual held just for the kids, a naked Thriault disemboweled a goat that one of his daughters had hand-raised and bathed himself in its blood, arising from a pit with much pomp. Sometimes he would urinate on them, or force them to perform analingus on one another or smear themselves with each other's feces. In March of 1978, Geraldine Gagn Auclair was admitted to the Healthy Living Clinic. He was born on May 15, 1934, a son of . Gisle told Thriault that Solange's wish had been to be cremated, and Rock agreed to have the group burn Solange's body. 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. This, of course, was not to happen. Matthew Mellon, the billionaire banking heir, died suddenly at a rehab facility in Cancun, Mexico. He asked Veer to write a letter of consent, and said that he wouldn't make Veer sign it if he didn't want to sign it. Each was forced to wear an identical tunic, which was supposed to symbolise equality, but merely tightened Theriault's grip on his followers. All of these people, plus Roch, began hanging around at Gisle's apartment. [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. Allyson was born on Feb. 27, 2004 in Dover, N.H. to . Grenier's children crawled like animals and were severely malnourished; adults and children alike were, for the most part, forbidden from speaking with them. [8][pageneeded]. It was snowing, and the temperature was -10C (14F). 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. Rock also hooked up with polygamist Alex Joseph of Big Water, Utah though Joseph didn't much like Rock's attitude. But he also had a maniacal streak that triggered brutal punishment and even torture. He broke Gabrielle's fingers with a board. He had Jacques pound Gabrielle's thigh with a sledgehammer. July 26, 1989, Rock became drunk. He and Thriault (polygamist and self-proclaimed healer) became good friends. He had Gabrielle open Solange's body and pour vinegar on her internal organs, to keep worms away; then they buried her again. Only Mose was permitted to express any warmth whatsoever towards the children. 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. He was able to persuade his followers to sell their belongings, sever ties with their families, and move to a commune near Burnt River, about 100 km northeast of Toronto. Theriault believed he could cure all illness so laid her on a table and punched her in the stomach before ramming a tube into her rectum and pouring olive oil molasses into it. Roch Theriault forced his brainwashed followers to endure a campaign of horrific abuse. Their sentence was to be banned from shopping in Linsday ever again. 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. 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. 1988 (November 5): Theriault extracted eight of Gabrielle Lavalle's teeth to punish her for low pastry sales. 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. To see more documents/articles regarding this group/organization/subject He himself became "Mose," or Moses, leader of the exodus from the depraved modern world. Moses kept a piece of one of her bones tied on a string around his neck, concealed by his beard. The lowest of them all was Maryse Grenier; Thriault forbade Jacques and Maryse from sleeping together, and encouraged Jacques to beat her if she talked back to him or to Rock even though she was pregnant. I don't know if parole has ever been granted, but the prison staff always spoke very highly of Thriault. Jacques Fiset left; Thriault told the others he had been taken by the Devil. But when the police arrived on August 19 with a warrant for Rock's arrest, the compound was deserted. Police are calling his death a homicide and a 59-year-old inmate at the penitentiary has been arrested in connection with the incident. Younger followers were also not safe children were held over fires, nailed to trees and sexually assaulted. Then he masturbated into the hole, spilling his seed onto Solange's rotting brain, convinced he would be able to resuscitate her. Blood began to pour out of the hand, but Rock just went to get another beer. Anyone who hinted they wanted to leave was severely punished. This perfect bound Serial Killer Calendar book includes detailed facts and trivia about serial killers for every day of the year. This huge, perfect bound copy of SERIAL KILLER MAGAZINE is chock full of artwork, rare documents, trivia and in depth articles regarding serial murder. He pulled eleven of Claude's teeth with a pair of pliers, when there was nothing wrong with Claude's teeth. 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. Mr. Theriault founded and led a notorious sect in the 1980s. "use strict";(function(){var insertion=document.getElementById("citation-access-date");var date=new Date().toLocaleDateString(undefined,{month:"long",day:"numeric",year:"numeric"});insertion.parentElement.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(date),insertion)})(); FACT CHECK: We strive for accuracy and fairness. He was sentenced to life in prison and remained incarcerated until his death, in February of 2011. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-cult-leader-kills-one-of-his-followers. In 1993 Mr. Theriault 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 with a kitchen knife when she had what is believed to be appendicitis. A favourite punishment would be to force someone to strip naked and stand in the snow for a few hours. These are more like giant, professionally produced graphic novels. The town's local school went up to the seventh grade, and none of the Thriault kids went any further not even young Roch, who was bright, outgoing, and seemed to enjoy learning. But by the mid-1970s Theriault became convinced he was the people's saviour, the only one who could keep them safe in the war between good and evil that would lead to the end of the world. 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Along with Clifford Olson and Paul Bernardo, Thriault was considered one of Canada's most notorious criminals. Canadian Simone Boilard of Team St Michel-Auber 93 (Image credit: Bas Czerwinski/Getty Images) It's been nearly one year since Simone Boilard lay in a hospital bed after developing a nearly-fatal . (n.d.). This may have been enough to cause Samuel's death by alcohol poisoning. Theriault was finally arrested in 1989 for abuse after Gabrielle escaped for a second time. Retrieved March 2013, from, Kovalchik, K. (2010, February 16). It also includes the best true crime artwork from around the world. Sometimes he would beat or whip his followers; sometimes he would strike them with the broad side of an axe, or with a hammer. Though the members of Rock's group still had to subsist on corn and potatoes, at least now they were making some money, and everything seemed to be going well. Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. Edit Search New Search Filters (1). A notorious cult leader and convicted killer has been found dead inside Westmorland correctional centre in Dorchester, New Brunswick. Boilard remained alive and in agony until the next day when she finally died, most likely because of them digestive chemicals leaking into her abdominal cavity. Even when the police came, at the behest of the families of some of the girls, they refused to speak. When expanded it provides a list of search options that will switch the search inputs to match the current selection. Thriault told the group that the world would end on February 17, 1979, amid a storm of boulder-sized hail, earthquakes, and lightening. He punched his first-born son, Roch jr, in the face when he refused to wrestle his brother Franois. It was also a place of merriment, where Thriault would organize skits and songs. The trial lasted one hour, and the verdict was unanimous: Not guilty by reason of insanity. He had previously killed an infant named Samuel Gigure, while two of his disciples, Geraldine Gagn Auclair and Gabrielle Nadeau, died following homeopathic treatments administered to them by Thriault. 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. But as Rock became less desperate to survive, he became increasingly bored. The persistent discomfort of his digestive system fostered a certain irritability on Thriault's part; he also became obsessed with medicine, and taught himself a great deal about anatomy. Updated: Sep 28, 2020 / 11:39 AM EDT. Some of the women in Solange's family wept and not for joy. As a child Thriault was considered to be very intelligent, but dropped out of school in the seventh grade and began to teach himself the Old Testament of the Bible. "Gisle" was one such a woman. A woman called Gabrielle had endured her private parts burned, eight of her teeth knocked out and part of her breasts hacked away when she escaped the commune. That spring, Gisle, pregnant and feeling rejected by the lack of attention Roch gave her since their marriage, gave her new husband an ultimatum: either he break the commune and encourage his followers to find new homes, or she would move back in with her father. Jose Pelletier (20), Jacques Fiset (mid-twenties) Thriault, of course, would be their guide. MyKawartha Article: Former Burnt River cult leader killed in jail .
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