Thriault was their elected face to the outside world. He became involved in municipal politics, and joined le Club Aramis, the French analogue to the Shriners, which he suborned for use as his personal platform for a parody of Catholicism, despite the Catholic roots of all the other members. Thriault wanted to bury her at the foot of the "Eternal Mountain," but she was taken by the authorities for an autopsy. He poured boiling water on Claude; another time he made Claude sit down on a lit stove. If it is stealing, I did not realize it. And I don't speak lightly. When it was all done in September, the cabin consisted of a single open room with a floor made of pounded wooden rounds and with the well in the center, a ceiling made of mossy, twiggy bark-covered logs, and rooms consisting only of metre-high partitions and bedsheets hung as curtains. He claimed God himself had warned him to prepare himself and his commune for the end of days. Rock had hated the child, and said it bore the mark of the Devil; he had often beaten it. Rock also hooked up with polygamist Alex Joseph of Big Water, Utah though Joseph didn't much like Rock's attitude. That's what I saw in what you did: the throwing of the knife, the rifle shot, the harm done to Mamy. 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. 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. Initially this simply meant he adopted a healthy lifestle, shunning processed foods and tobacco. Roch Thriault was born on May 16, 1947, in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada, into a French-Canadian family, and raised in Thetford Mines. Mose declared all commune marriages, other than the one between himself and Gisle, void. These are more like giant, professionally produced graphic novels. 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. 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. He punched his first-born son, Roch jr, in the face when he refused to wrestle his brother Franois. Then he turned to Solange and said, "Rachel, are you ready? Finally Gabrielle, who had already had her private parts burned, eight of her teeth removed and part of her breasts sliced off, fled. Another member was castrated by Theriault, who also abused a 2-year-old boy. And although the memories of their violent childhood will never leave them, they claim they won't pass anything on to their children. These are more like giant, professionally produced graphic novels. Theriault's drinking and increasing paranoia made him convinced believers were spying on him and were considering leaving what he believed was his perfect cult. 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. [9] Boilard died the next day from the damage inflicted by the procedures. In March of 1978, Geraldine Gagn Auclair was admitted to the Healthy Living Clinic. Robert Boilard passed away at age 44 years old on February 24, 2003. I don't know if parole has ever been granted, but the prison staff always spoke very highly of Thriault. He was a charismatic leader who believed he was saving his followers from sin. 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. He is serving a life sentence and was denied parole in 2002. I really believe that what you did doesn't come from you, but from someone much higher. "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. 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. Theriault had earlier told the board he wanted to remain behind bars at the Dorchester Penitentiary near Moncton because he feared for his safety outside prison. 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. On November 11, 1967, he married Francine Grenier, a girl from the next town over. "Gisle" was one such a woman. Roch was their most devoted follower; he began following Adventist nutritional strictures, and quit drinking. She said that the women who had not been married were lonely. He made his followers eat excrement and dead mice. Maryse and Jacques Gigure agreed. Members were forced to break their own legs with sledgehammers and children being nailed to trees. Jacques Fiset and Claude hacked at the ground with a shovel and pickaxe where the center of the cabin would be, working all summer to dig a well; when they finally reached the water-table, Roch declared it a miracle. 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. His first swing missed. She returned and as punishment, Theriault held her down and hacked off her arm. 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. Then, Rock dislodged the hunting knife which was pinning Gabrielle's arm to the table, and took her over to a stump that was sticking out of the kitchen floor. She cleared away a narrow band of exposed bone that went all the way around Gabrielle's arm. The film starred Luc Picard as Thriault and Polly Walker as Paula Jackson, the social worker whose investigation revealed the crimes. 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. This hurt Gisle immeasurably and she fled from the cabin, but an enraged Thriault pulled her down and squeezed his hands around her throat. Thriault relayed this insight to the other girls, thus giving them the impression that Mamy had been the first to think of it. PORTLAND - Allyson Ruby Boilard, of Sabattus, 15, passed away July 3, 2019, at the Maine Medical Center in Portland. When she went back to her bed, blood started coming out of her mouth, and she died. 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? We are now looking for artists, writers and interviewers to take part in the world famous Serial Killer Magazine. Then he had someone else sew her wound closed, and Solange got up. "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. This included removing teeth, botched circumsicions and even castrations. In late February, Theriault was killed by a fellow inmate at Dorchester Penitentiary in New Brunswick. He was so drunk he kept dropping it on Gabrielle's body before he finally finished. He used the ninety-four percent ethanol solution to do more than sterilize the razor, though; he also poured some into a rubber bulb, which he squeezed into Samuel's mouth for use as an anaesthetic. In fact, Rock had so brainwashed his followers into thinking only negative thoughts about their parents that some of them begged him not to make them call. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. 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. Chantal Labrie's parents obtained a court order for a round of psychiatric tests for their daughter. Though, it's strange that Solanges death circumstances only came to light one year later after Gabrielles escape. He passed the acetylene torch over Jose's back until the skin bubbled. Thriault began networking. To expand the community as well as keep the members devoted, Thriault married and impregnated all of the women, fathering over 20 children with 9 female members of the group, and by the 1980s there were nearly 40 members. This was the first incident of what would become the ruling element in the lives of those people who had taken to following Thriault. [Francine Laflamme]. It was here that Thriault disclosed to the group his vision of the future. Theriault punched Boilard in the stomach and then proceeded to slice open her stomach with a freshly sharpened knife and rip off a piece of her intestines with his bare hands. 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. He also designed a horse-drawn treadmill to mill water from a spring on a neighbouring concession. 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 ordered his wives to pluck Claude's pubic hair bald. 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. There was no honeymoon; the group piled back in the van for the five-hour trip home, Thriault joking with the other girls all the way home. In 1880 there were 8 Boilard families living in Illinois. The trial lasted one hour, and the verdict was unanimous: Not guilty by reason of insanity. -- 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. Recommended treatment: Move. She had been undergoing treatment for leukemia in Qubec City, and things seemed to be going well. So the group began selling fruit, and later pastry. Thriault's fear of the end of the world grew, claiming that God had warned him that it would come in February 1979, and used the commune to prepare for it. However, Thriault decided that the child needed to be circumcized. They arrested Thriault for obstruction of justice, and he was ordered by the court to undergo psychological evaluation at Qubec City's l'Hpitale Robert Giffard. Please note: This is pretty gruesome. The natural scenery of Lake Rosseau apparently made a huge impression on Roch. She later waged a campaign to keep the cult leader behind bars and also wrote a book about her ordeal. This massive perfect bound Ted Bundy collection includes art, articles, rare interviews, documents, letters, transcripts and the serial killers entire FBI file. 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He used all of the nine women as concubines, and probably fathered most of the children in the group. A week later, the wound was infected, Rock decided to fill the wound with salt, olive oil, and spruce gum. He also started drinking again after two years sober first communion wine, then beer and cognac. Several of the Clinic's patrons volunteered time or financial donations including one, Lo Marc Faucher, who sold his worldly possessions to fund the Clinic and move in with his wife and child. He prostituted Gabrielle to a local grocer for some milk, meat, and cheese. View Frances Boilard's record in Biddeford, ME including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. And they weren't the only ones in the commune Theriault would visit when drunk. 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. Posted: Sep 25, 2020 / 08:53 PM EDT. Get email updates with the day's biggest stories. His major crime was to kill Solange Boilard, his legal wife, by disembowelment while trying to perform surgery on her. In June, 1978, in spite of its financial success, the Healthy Living Clinic faced some serious problems. His death is believed to be the result of an altercation with his cellmate, Matthew Gerrard MacDonald, a 60-year-old convicted murderer from Port au Port, Newfoundland and Labrador, who was charged with the killing. Join Facebook to connect with Solange Boilard and others you may know. The abuse extended to the cult's children, who were sexually abused, held over fires, or nailed to trees while other children threw stones at them. The police also pressed charges against Rock for first degree murder, but when the Court found there was insufficient evidence that the murder had been premeditated, Thriault was committed to a trial for second degree murder. Thriault was arrested for assault in 1989, dissolving the cult, and was convicted for murder in 1993 for the death of follower Solange Boilard. Ross, S. (2010, January 13). Along with Clifford Olson and Paul Bernardo, Thriault was considered one of Canada's most notorious criminals. He died on 24 November 1982, in Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Saint Peters Cemetery, Lewiston . "It's not looking so good, is it?" On Sept. 28, 1988, one of the women, Solange Boilard, 32, complained of stomach pains. Moses kept a piece of one of her bones tied on a string around his neck, concealed by his beard. His subsequent defeat of King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings marked the beginning of a new era in British history. Allyson Ruby Boilard. Thriault was not all-powerful. First, there was the outstanding debts. At breaking point, one of Theriault's wives left her newborn child, Eleazar, outside in a blizzard where the baby died. 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. (n.d.).Opinion - Blogs -, Last edited on 16 February 2023, at 19:59, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, http://www.mykawartha.com/news/article/960359--former-burnt-river-cult-leader-killed-in-jail, "4 Cults You Might Not Know About - Mental Floss", "Revealed: Murder of Canadian cult leader who performed ritual killings and beat children to death | Ottawa Citizen", "The ant hill kids. But in the end, on October 26, 1987, the court ruled that the children be made wards of the Crown. Mykawartha.com | Your Peterborough and Kawartha Lakes online newspaper . Then in 1984 the Ant Hill Kids moved for the second time. They would write letters like this: I am writing about what you said on the subject of nutrition. She had to stay with her husband, after all; it was her role in God's plan. 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. After hearing about Thriault on television, Veer decided to head into the hills. Lavalle's report allowed further investigation into Thriault's actions, exposing the wider abuses at the communes and Solange Boilard's murder. He would have them suspended from the ceiling, pluck out each of their body hairs individually and even used them as toilets. 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. You're going to be all right." Thriault, a self-proclaimed prophet under the name Mose [m.iz], founded the Ant Hill Kids in 1977. Rock collected some fragments and put them in a jar with olive oil as a preservative. [Solange Boilard] ~ master of life and death In the fall of 1988, Solange . This is a savings of over $100! William was the illegitimate son read more, On September 28, 1994, 852 people die in one of the worst maritime disasters of the century when the Estonia, a large car-and-passenger ferry, sinks in the Baltic Sea. 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. Allegedly, baby Samuel's head was flopping around on his neck, and his penis had swelled up. Death Date: 24 APR 1737 In spite of their childhood, the two men took back control of their lives. 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. After the cremation, everyone took some of the bones to keep. Obituary: Adelard "John" Boilard. Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. Thriault had Veer lie on the kitchen table as Gabrielle fetched the medical instruments: an elastic band, a razor blade, a magnifying glass, a pair of tweezers, and the ethanol. The average age of a Boilard family member is 74. In 1989, Thriault was arrested for assault after Lavalle had fled the commune again and contacted authorities, effectively dissolving the Ant Hill Kids. He was 53. Thriault claimed to be a holy being, and started performing unnecessary amateur surgical operations on sick members to demonstrate his healing powers. MyKawartha Article: Former Burnt River cult leader killed in jail . Thriault rationed the food, and if anyone complained about anything (like hunger), he would punish them by restricting their rations. 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. Prognosis: negative. Gabrielle hadn't cried out the whole time. Chantal Labrie (19) The 1993 trial came to an abrupt end when Theriault pleaded guilty. 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. Heartbreakingly, his regime of abuse could have been stopped in 1987 when social workers removed 17 of the children from the Ant Hill Kids cult. I do not want to be a fat and plump servant. 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. She was born on. He also cut a chunk from her breast, and then whacked her on the head with the side of an axe; she fled into the bush, and when she came to her senses two days later, she found that insects had laid eggs in her headwound. Home; About; Gallery; Blog; Shop; Contact; My Account; Resources The others had gone home to their families, Rock's spell finally broken. "The population, myself included, will be able to have a long night's sleep tonight," Lavallee, 52, said after the parole hearing. View the profiles of people named Solange Boilard. The whole thing seemed to be over. 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. Even Maryse Grenier wasn't willing to testify against Rock. Find the obituary of Allyson Ruby Boilard (2004 - 2019) from Sabattus, ME. 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 . The vast majority of the cult's followers abandoned Thriault after his arrest, but during his imprisonment he fathered another four children with remaining female members during conjugal visits. Paul Veer never complained of another headache. In 1993 he pleaded guilty to Solange's murder and was sentenced to life in prison. He also removed 8 of her teeth. 2023 A&E Television Networks, LLC. But he also had a maniacal streak that triggered brutal punishment and even torture. MacDonald had stabbed Thriault in the neck with a shiv, walked to the guards' station, handed them the weapon, and proclaimed "That piece of shit is down on the range.
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