According to Savage Messiah by Paul Kaihla and Ross Laver, Gisle tells a different story. He squeezed Gabrielle's hand in a vice. 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. Franois, along with his brother Roch-Sylvain, gave an exclusive interview to QMI Agency Friday night about his father, who led a religious cult in Quebec and Ontario during the 1980s. It was this that gave Theriault's cult its name, the Ant Hill Kids. Gabrielle Lavalle was sentenced to nine months in jail and three years probation. When Gigure balked, Thriault began to taunt him: "What are you, a faggot? In 1993 he pleaded guilty to Solange's murder and was sentenced to life in prison. Maryse and Jacques Gigure agreed. It is this fault which causes my plumpness. Anyone who hinted they wanted to leave was severely punished. 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. My eyes saw things that went beyond them. In 2002, the film "Savage Messiah" depicted Thriault's crimes against his followers and the ensuing legal recourse. 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. 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. Home; About; Gallery; Blog; Shop; Contact; My Account; Resources Moses kept a piece of one of her bones tied on a string around his neck, concealed by his beard. I am very well and very happy to belong to a REAL MASTER who himself belongs to the only real Master of Life. I would have liked to have talked to you yesterday evening but I think it is preferable to write these things down rather than saying them for fear of talking too much. Only Mose was permitted to express any warmth whatsoever towards the children. Facebook gives people the power. Theriault was 63-years-old and his doomsday cult was finally over. Don't you have any balls? 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. . Part of this legal action involved testifying on the conditions under which the children of the compound lived. Raised a Catholic, Theriault converted to the Seventh-day Adventist Church and adopted their way of life. The man will be charged with murder this week, police said. He soon proved to excel at this. The most Boilard families were found in Canada in 1911. In addition to the assault of Lavallee, Thriault was also sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife Solange Boilard, on whom he performed a horrifically crude surgery when she was suffering from what's thought to have been appendicitis. 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). Some years later, however, looking for something else, I typed the words "soldat 1706 . Veer lost his temper, and started screaming at the child to be quiet. The Adventists, ministered by a Guadaloupean named Pierre Zita, met in a local motel room every Saturday. Theriault would hit them with a belt initially, but this escalated and they were soon being attacked with hammers. Theriault founded and led a notorious sect in the 1980s and was sentenced to life in prison in 1993 for the murder of Solange Boilard. For my part, I really believe that you were possessed by a very powerful spirit. Thriault rationed the food, and if anyone complained about anything (like hunger), he would punish them by restricting their rations. They found no signs of foul play, but Thriault swore that if anyone else died on the commune, their body would stay there. Thriault received a life sentence, which he was serving when he was murdered at Dorchester. Every issue of Serial Killer Magazine, every Ultimate Collection, trainscript, FBI file and more! Thriault was arrested for *ault in 1989, dissolving the cult, and was convicted for murder in 1993 for the death of follower Solange Boilard. He stuck a hypodermic needle in her back with an unknown concoction in it, and twisted it so the tip broke off under her skin. Sick Theriault married every female follower he had and impregnated them all to ensure his cults numbers would swell in the future. Thriault designed and assembled a rough sawmill from a chainsaw, a snowmobile engine, and some bicycle parts. On September 28, 1941, the last day of Major League Baseball's regular season, the Boston Red Soxs Ted Williams gets six hits in eight at-bats during a doubleheader in Philadelphia, boosting his average to .406. My body is very afraid of all these things. "My little girl was looking at me," said Francois, "and I told her that she'll never have to experience anything like that with me.". Please note: This is pretty gruesome. After sending Jacques to fetch Gisle from her parents' house, he made a call to Dr Jess Groesbeck. 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. He then made another member, Gabrielle Lavalle, stitch her up. We will remember him forever. Then, he held a vote to determine whether Claude should be stoned to death for offending God; when that motion was defeated, Rock took up an acetylene torch and threatened to open Claude's stomach. She had been undergoing treatment for leukemia in Qubec City, and things seemed to be going well. Cult leader Roch Theriault killed in N.B. prison - CTVNews When she died the next day in agonizing pain, he sawed off the top of her head, and then sexually assaulted her. July 26, 1989, Rock became drunk. He was the first new member of the group since the Healthy Living Clinic. She returned and as punishment, Theriault held her down and hacked off her arm. But amazingly, he escaped justice and his vile reign of abuse stepped up a gear. The group set out on foot into the hills from the village of Saint-Jogues, on July 9, 1978. Thriault wanted to bury her at the foot of the "Eternal Mountain," but she was taken by the authorities for an autopsy. And it was not until October 6, 1989 that Gisle decided to tell anyone about Solange's death unbeknownst to Gisle, the very day Rock was apprehended by the police at last. Here's the knife, I've sliced him up." 1.8K 2 He was arrested for assault in 1989 and was convicted of murder in 1993 in the death of Boilard. Roch Thriault, Jacques Gigure, Maryse Grenier, Gabrielle Lavalle and Guy Veer were all charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm to Samuel Gigure. Roch Thriault: The Horrifying Savagery (& Home Surgery) Of Canada's 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. Then he turned to Solange and said, "Rachel, are you ready? Jacques Fiset left; Thriault told the others he had been taken by the Devil. [7] [8] To see more of who died in 2010 click here 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. Ant Hill Kids - The Cult of Roch Theriault Hill Explorer But during that visit, Joseph and Thriault had an argument, apparently over the way Thriault treated his wives. But her indiginity didn't end there as, believing he could now ressurect the dead, Theriault drilled a hole into her skull and ejaculated into the cavity, ordering the men of his cult to do the same. This was the first incident of what would become the ruling element in the lives of those people who had taken to following Thriault. 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. St. Petersburg parents break their silence following stabbing - WFLA Jacques Gigure and Claude Ouellette received six months in prison and three years probation for child abandonment. I came out of the water yelling, 'God doesn't want me to die!'" They found the child's remains, and the commune members told the story of Veer beating the child. Theriault believed he could cure all illness so laid her on a table and punched her in the stomach before. The three-member National Parole Board panel also ordered Theriault, who called himself Moses, to undergo a series of psychiatric evaluations. 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. Theriault, known as Moses, manipulated and physically abused his followers, including hacking a woman's right arm off. For six months, everything went smoothly for the commune. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. On September 29, 1988, a female member (Solange Boilard) died following an operation by Moses for a stomach ache. PORTLAND - Allyson Ruby Boilard, of Sabattus, 15, passed away July 3, 2019, at the Maine Medical Center in Portland. Almost immediately the boys were subjected to their father's violent, drunken and sexual acts. In 2009, they published a book about their experience. Taking a dull meat cleaver, Thriault swung at the exposed bone. 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. Now believing himself to be a God-like being Theriault started performing surgeries on members of the cult even though he had no medical training. He himself became "Mose," or Moses, leader of the exodus from the depraved modern world. U.S. News Solange Boilard Dark Poutine podcast recap: Roch Thriault and the Ant Hill Kids Thriault was a self-proclaimed prophet who went by the name of Mose or Moses and he founded the. While Solange screamed in agony he then ripped her stomach open and pulled out part of her intestine with his hands. The media began to portray him as a gentle mountain man that had run afoul of a prejudiced industrial society. On Sept. 28, 1988, one of the women, Solange Boilard, 32, complained of stomach pains. He was born on May 15, 1934, a son of . His followers wanted to stay together in the city, perhaps in a rented house. She later waged a campaign to keep the cult leader behind bars and also wrote a book about her ordeal. Thriault and Lavalle were also charged with bodily harm with intent to mutilate Guy Veer. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. This was to be their home until God began his thousand-year reign on Earth. All of the accused pleaded not guilty. 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. 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. 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. Instead of looking at the finger, however, he stabbed her hand with a hunting knife, pinning her to the table. He was sentenced to life in prison for her murder in 1993. Thriault, of course, would be their guide. 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. 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. A charismatic speaker, he soon persuaded others to join his religious movement and the Ant Hill Kids cult was born. 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. A week later he agreed, and they were married on January 8, 1978, at an Adventist church in Montral. 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. 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. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. In 1984, the group relocated from Quebec to a new site near Burnt River, a hamlet in Central Ontario now part of the city of Kawartha Lakes. 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. Travelling to Utah on October 16, 1988, Thriault told Dr Groesbeck that Solange had died suddenly in the woods from a spontaneously-erupted vein in her esophagus. morgens kein druck beim urinieren. This may have been enough to cause Samuel's death by alcohol poisoning. In the following months Theriault's delusions grew and he became convinced the world would end in 1979. (2011, February 28). He pulled eleven of Claude's teeth with a pair of pliers, when there was nothing wrong with Claude's teeth. Get email updates with the day's biggest stories. According to Thriault, divining exact dates from the messages of God was a difficult business for mortals, as time passes differently for Him than for them. He began ordering his wives to steal from the local grocers of the town of Lindsay: dairy products, vegetables, meat, canned goods, suet, pop, toilet paper, anything and everything they needed but could no longer afford to buy. Then, picking the two-year-old up by the throat, he plunged his fist into the child's face five or six times. Roch Theriault was a twisted religious extremist who forced his brainwashed followers to endure a campaign of horrific abuse across two decades in Canada. He shot a .22 at Claude. Another cult member, Gabrielle Lavallee the woman eventually repsonsible for ending his horrific rule was ordered to stitch Solange back together while the other women blew into a tube shoved down her throat. In a few hours the child froze to death. Make a life-giving gesture Recommended treatment: Move. He was 63 years old. If anyone fell asleep, he'd smack their head with a four inch thick club. But when the apocalypse didn't come his iron grip of the believers began to slip and they questioned his teachings. He conveniently left out the parts about food rationing, abuse, or his polygamous harem. Dorchester, N.B. He made his followers eat excrement and dead mice. Despite being behind bars Theriault fathered four more children during conjugal visits with several of his many. I am going to talk to you about the last fit of anger that your Master exercised through you. It was Geraldine's time.". Theriault gave her his special brand of medical treatment. 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. Believing himself to be a vessel of God and capable of curing all sickness, Theriault took matters into his own hands with devastating consquences. Solange Boilard | News, Videos & Articles 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. He beat Nicole, three months pregnant, causing her to miscarry. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Reluctantly, Gigure took the axe and severed one of Maryse's small toes. Theriault, the leader of the most bizarre and violent cult in Canadian history, often physically abused his followers. Birth date: 26 August, 1958, Tuesday. Such was the power of Theriault's personality he ensured none of his followers blamed him for any of the abuse they suffered at his hands. And the police investigation into the brutal practises inside the Ant Hill Kids cult didn't end there. click here. Theriault was finally arrested in 1989 for abuse after Gabrielle escaped for a second time. One month later, only four days after Qubec City's Le Soleil published a story on the group entitled "They Are Happy And Free To Leave If They Wish" (which referred to Thriault as the group's "spiritual father," and which included quotes from an interview with fled member Jacques Fiset, in which he stated that the group was democratically run), ten police officers set a helicopter down on the Eternal Mountain. He called them the "Ant Hill Kids" because they worked together like a nest of ants. He broke Gisle's ribs with his steel-toed boots. 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. Veer's job, in addition to his normal responsibilities of chopping wood, storing food rations for the winter, and continuing construction on "Mose's" growing wood cabin palace, would be to babysit the group's three non-Thriault children: Samuel Gigure, age 2; Miriam Gigure, age 4; and Simon Ouellette, age 2, son of Solange and Claude during their brief "marriage." [3] Thriault used his charisma to cover for his increasingly abusive and erratic behaviour, and none of the other members questioned his judgement or openly blamed him for any physical, mental or emotional damage. After that, Gigure became "Mose's" main enforcer. One afternoon, he got exceedingly drunk. (n.d.). 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. The members of the group distributed themselves between four apartments in Qubec City, to be near their leader. He had Jaques cut off half of Gabrielle's left baby finger with a pair of wire cutters. Wearing red velour robes and a gold-colored crown-the symbols of his proclaimed role as "King of the Israelites"Thriault punched Boilard in the stomach, jammed a plastic tube up her rectum . They were forbidden to go to the hospital. But there still wasn't enough evidence to press further criminal charges against Thriault. Of a jury of ten, including Roch jr, only three voted against the new motion Jacques Gigure, Maryse Grenier, and Gisle. It is also packed with unusual trivia, exclusive interviews and much more. "We knew that it was going to happen one day or another," he said, adding that what did surprise him was that his father hadn't been killed earlier. Then in 1984 the Ant Hill Kids moved for the second time. The cult leader had 22 children with women he held under his sway. Ross, S. (2010, January 13). Between the five of them, they had lifted $453.37 in goods. 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. The charismatic cult leader had 22 children with women he held under his sway. Once he slashed Jacque Gigure's jugular with a broken wine glass. Main Menu. 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. A WARPED doomsday cult leader made members BREAK their own legs with sledgehammers and nailed sexually abused kids to trees. 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. Rock also convinced Jacques that a birthmark she had looked like "666." Thriault was their elected face to the outside world. Too drunk to finish, he called Chantal over to finish the job. 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