Thriault claimed to be a holy being, and started performing unnecessary amateur surgical operations on sick members to demonstrate his healing powers. She had been undergoing treatment for leukemia in Qubec City, and things seemed to be going well. 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. Something went wrong, please try again later. They even made special jackets with huge inner pockets to facilitate their sprees of petty crime. Thriault and Lavalle were also charged with bodily harm with intent to mutilate Guy Veer. 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. She had talked about having a stomach ache. Make a life-giving gesture 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. Robert R Boilard was born on August 26, 1958. 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. Claude Ouellette was paired with Solange Boilard, and Jacques Fiset with Nicole Ruel. Each was forced to wear an identical tunic, which was supposed to symbolise equality, but merely tightened Theriault's grip on his followers. Posted: Sep 25, 2020 / 08:53 PM EDT. 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. 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. He was 63 years old. 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. My body is very afraid of all these things. His major crime was to kill Solange Boilard, his legal wife, by disembowelment while trying to perform surgery on her. This huge, perfect bound copy of SERIAL KILLER MAGAZINE is chock full of artwork, rare documents, trivia and in depth articles regarding serial murder. 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. Franois and Roch-Sylvain remember the disembowelling of Solange Boilard. It is chock full of artwork, rare documents, FBI files and in depth articles regarding serial murder. He used all of the nine women as concubines, and probably fathered most of the children in the group. While others were told to cut off their toes to prove their loyalty to their master. The leader cut off one of her fingers and then pinned her hand to a table with a hunting knife before hacking off her arm. Former Quebec cult leader found dead in prison - The Globe and Mail He was found lifeless in his cell at Dorchester Penitentiary about 9 p.m., local time, said Etienne Chiasson of the CSC. And doomsday cult leader Roch Theriault wanted to ensure his believers a place in heaven following what he believed was the imminent end of the world. Nicole Ruel (20) Any followers that tried to escape were severely punished when they returned. Desperate to expand his kingdom of believers, Theriault married every single female follower and got each one of them pregnant. 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. 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. Claiming to have the power of resurrection, Thriault bored a hole into Boilard's skull with a drill and then had other male members (along with himself) ejaculate into the cavity. "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. Rock had hated the child, and said it bore the mark of the Devil; he had often beaten it. Thriault was found guilty of assault for the amputation of Lavalle's arm and received a sentence of 12 years imprisonment. 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? In 1987, social workers removed 17 of the children from the commune. Gabrielle hadn't cried out the whole time. She was born on. Chapter 4: Examples of problematic group functioning This memorial website was created in memory of Robert R Boilard, 44, born on August 26, 1958 and passed away on February 24, 2003. He was using his amateur wood sculpting sales as an excuse to go out of Thetford Mines for Qubec City on the weekends to carry on trysts with women he met there. All of our Serial Killer Magazines and books are massive, perfect bound editions. According to Savage Messiah by Paul Kaihla and Ross Laver, Gisle tells a different story. 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. One member was killed by Theriault, who used a meat cleaver to remove eight teeth from her face and hand. Death Date: 24 APR 1737 In their 300-page report, they celebrated Thriault's pioneering spirit and experimental attitude regarding sexual education. He claimed that he had saved these kids from the self-dissolution of drugs and put them on the right track. The "official version" is the one that was given in court by Thriault, Guy Veer, and most of the commune members. For some, this was all too much. Thriault was charming to young women and was a good speaker. He also got into some trouble with the police during his trip to Utah, which resulted in a $75 US fine and a pair of soiled trousers. Jose Pelletier (20), Jacques Fiset (mid-twenties) Roch convinced M Auclair to check the 38-year-old cancer patient Geraldine out of the hospital and into the Healthy Living Clinic, where even Geraldine's own father was not permitted to visit. 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. Geraldine Gagn Auclair died in the Clinic. Before burying the woman, he removed a rib, which he wore around his neck. When she went back to her bed, blood started coming out of her mouth, and she died. Berks Regional News. One of Theriault's followers, Solange Boilard, was suffering from excrutiating stomach problems in 1989. Roch Theriault's crimes centered around polygamy, living miracles, and religious themes. Thats right. 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." Gisle maintained the morale (and isolation) of the commune during "Papy's" absence. Thriault had three children of his own living at the commune (one by Gisle, one by Solange and one by Nicole), but Veer was mentally unstable, and so was only fit to look after the "animals" the children that weren't of Roch's seed. This was about 67% of all the recorded Boilard's in USA. 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. In a desperate attempt to bring the cult back to his original teachings, Theriault would 'purify' his followers by stripping them naked and then whipping them. 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. Guy Veer was sentenced but later acquitted for mental incompetence and was returned to l'Hpital Robert Giffard. get yours now before they are gone forever. His death is believed to be the result of an altercation with his cell mate, a 59 year- old man, who killed Theriault and has been arrested for the killing. [10] The Correctional Service of Canada prevented Theriault's works leaving Dorchester Penitentiary, and Stockwell Day, the Canadian federal Public Safety Minister at the time, wrote to the Correctional Service to express concern that the killer was benefiting from work in prison. Edit Search New Search Filters (1). Cult leader Roch Theriault killed in N.B. prison - CTVNews Although Roch would later describe his parents, particularly his father, as abusive, Hyacinthe denies ever having beaten the boy, and even in his youth Roch himself almost never complained about his home situation. 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. 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. To make money, Thriault began selling Adventist literature door-to-door. Cowed and afraid for her life, Gisle agreed to return to the compound. The cult leader had burned women with a welding torch, put vice-grips on their nipples, and cut their fingers off with a wire cutter. All of our Serial Killer books are massive, 8.5" x 11" perfect bound editions. Even while he was in prison, three of his wives continued conjugal visits and two of the three bore him more children. In 1993 he pleaded guilty to Solange's murder and was sentenced to life in prison. Pauline Boilard Obituary (1931 - 2021) | Bristol, CT - Echovita This proved to be a success, and Rock organized the group into a company. Lavalle's report allowed further investigation into Thriault's actions, exposing the wider abuses at the communes and Solange Boilard's murder. Adelard Boilard - Ancestry.com 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. Theriault hated the child and said that it had the "mark of the devil" and that killing it would be only good. Thriault, a self-proclaimed prophet under the name Mose [m.iz], founded the Ant Hill Kids in 1977. He himself became "Mose," or Moses, leader of the exodus from the depraved modern world. 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. 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. Gabrielle, however, did not. The Canadian Cult You've Never Heard of: the Ant Hill Kids - NAMNAB During his long career, Pompey the Great displayed exceptional military talents on the battlefield. If it is stealing, I did not realize it. "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.". In 1978, Thriault was removed from Seventh-day Adventist Church. Claude Ouellette did the honours. Maryse and Jacques Gigure agreed. "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. View Frances Boilard's record in Biddeford, ME including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. All the child's mother had wanted to do was to keep her baby away from Theriault's reach. The next day, Thriault discovered what had happened, and placed Samuel under the care of Gabrielle, nurse for the group. 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. old-school old testament messiah. Compare DNA and explore genealogy for Jean Baptiste Boilard born 1645 Bournezeau, Fontenay-le-Comte, Poitou, France died 1737 Beaumont, Canada, Nouvelle-France including parents + descendants + 1 photos + 2 genealogist comments + DNA connections + more in the free family tree community. 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. [Francine Laflamme]. The film starred Luc Picard as Thriault and Polly Walker as Paula Jackson, the social worker whose investigation revealed the crimes. The group was refused funding on the basis that the group constituted an institution, rather than a family. They were forbidden to go to the hospital. Greg Lupson. Some of the women in Solange's family wept and not for joy. Maryse and Solange got three years probation. The three-member National Parole Board panel also ordered Theriault, who called himself Moses, to undergo a series of psychiatric evaluations. SERIAL KILLER MAGAZINE is an official release of the talented artists and writers at SerialKillerCalendar.com. 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. I came out of the water yelling, 'God doesn't want me to die!'" The charismatic cult leader had 22 children with women he held under his sway. Rock collected some fragments and put them in a jar with olive oil as a preservative. [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. Between the five of them, they had lifted $453.37 in goods. Within minutes, 32-year-old Solange Boilard, who complained of stomach problems, lay naked on a wooden table in one of the commune's log cabins. He methodically sprained Claude's toes; another time he used a piece of broken glass to slice Claude's arm open. "It's not looking so good, is it?" Random, Interesting, Amazing Facts - Fun Quizzes and Trivia - Mental Floss. If a person wished to leave the commune, Thriault would hit them with either a belt or hammer, suspend them from the ceiling, pluck each of their body hairs individually, or even defecate on them. Mose declared all commune marriages, other than the one between himself and Gisle, void. He then returned to Ontario, and after a couple of days, ordered Claude to exhume Solange's body. Roch Thriault | Kterrl's Favorites Almost immediately the boys were subjected to their father's violent, drunken and sexual acts. Here's the knife, I've sliced him up. He would get a small woodstove, a case of twenty-four bottles of home-brewed beer, two hens, a rooster, and one meal a day. Roch Theriault fatally wounds Solange Boislard in Ontario, Canada. MyKawartha Article: Former Burnt River cult leader killed in jail . Gabrielle Nadeau went into a coma and died shortly thereafter. He was arrested for assault in 1989, and convicted of murder in 1993. This 90 card set features the artwork of 15 noted true crime artists and will come with a numbered, signed certificate of authenticity for each set. 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 . He hit Jacques in the head with a blunt axe, and broke his ribs with a wooden club. On some occasions Theriault would even dangle cult members from ceilings and defecate on them. Thriault loaded the band into their vehicles and set out. Mother charged with homicide in death of 3-year-old daughter He broke Gisle's ribs with his steel-toed boots. After her leg healed a bit she tried to escape again, but a few days later she went back to Rock. The county coroner, Al Lackey, a friend of Thriault, claimed that it had been sudden infant death syndrome. A favourite punishment would be to force someone to strip naked and stand in the snow for a few hours. Matthew Mellon, the billionaire banking heir, died suddenly at a rehab facility in Cancun, Mexico. A week later, the wound was infected, Rock decided to fill the wound with salt, olive oil, and spruce gum. 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They hiked for two days until they found an isolated hill beside a small body of water called Lac Sec ("Dry Lake"). In 1993, Thriault pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the death of Solange Boilard, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Jacques Fiset left; Thriault told the others he had been taken by the Devil. All Rights Reserved. The beast would also beat them with a belt and batter followers with hammers. It was a whole year before Gabrielle would have the opportunity to get a partial hysterectomy at the Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay, when Rock was on his first trip to Utah. Rock also convinced Jacques that a birthmark she had looked like "666." Thriault began to assemble notes for a book (L'Affaire Mose, published in Qubec City in November of 1983). This is the best deal on the site. "The investigation is ongoing and to date no charges have been laid," said RCMP Sgt. After authorities learned about some of the activities at the ranch, they removed all of the children. His home life wasn't getting any better, either. They were deprived of sleep, of food, and of hygeine. Grotesque Details of a Cult Killing | RealClearHistory He ordered his wives to pluck Claude's pubic hair bald. Rock took a pair of scissors, and after sterilizing them in alcohol, he lanced Samuel's penis to permit urine to flow out. The others have tried to adapt to a new life without him. In spite of their childhood, the two men took back control of their lives. Theriault, the leader of the most bizarre and violent cult in Canadian history, often physically abused his followers. The Adventists, ministered by a Guadaloupean named Pierre Zita, met in a local motel room every Saturday. Boilard died the next day. 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. 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. Former cult leader Roch "Moses" Theriault was found dead in his cell at the correctional centre in Dorchester, New Brunswick. Alert, vigorous, with a clear and lively spirit and well-balanced to serve you every moment of my life. Thriault designed and assembled a rough sawmill from a chainsaw, a snowmobile engine, and some bicycle parts. Not only was he making money in this enterprise, he was also attracting followers. They found no signs of foul play, but Thriault swore that if anyone else died on the commune, their body would stay there. He threw a knife at Francine, and at Marise. Sometimes he would urinate on them, or force them to perform analingus on one another or smear themselves with each other's feces. We will remember him forever. BEHIND THE CRIMES: Murder, mutilation, abuse part of life at Ant Hill A cult leader kills one of his followers - HISTORY At his trial in 1993, even more horrific tales came to light. I'm going to treat you tonight." Roch Theriault subjected his followers to horrific abuse - until one of them managed to escape. He also found that spirituality was very attractive. After an olive oil and molasses enema, he. 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. 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. (n.d.).Local Community Forum and Information for Every Town, Village and Hamlet in Britain. Thriault encouraged them all to drop out of college; after all, Christ was coming soon, so there wasn't much point to learning skills to get by in a world that was already doomed. He was the first new member of the group since the Healthy Living Clinic. Even when the police came, at the behest of the families of some of the girls, they refused to speak. 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. The next day, she went to a women's shelter, but returned to the compound on prompting from Jacques. Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368 . He did have sex with his other "wives;" the rebellious Solange was the last to fall to his wiles. If anyone fell asleep, he'd smack their head with a four inch thick club. 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. Roch Thriault and The Ant Hill Kids - Grim Happenings The media began to portray him as a gentle mountain man that had run afoul of a prejudiced industrial society. Meanwhile, Thriault was ingratiating himself to the doctors. Then he turned to Solange and said, "Rachel, are you ready? By 10:45am, the baby was dead. It also includes the best true crime artwork from around the world. Then he inserted a tube down her throat, and told everyone else to blow and suck on the tube. 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. 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 fathered more than 20 children with nine mothers and the group's numbers swelled to 40. He established them in Sainte-Marie, in the Beauce region, about 65km south of Qubec City. The typical response, of course, was that the girls could have money, but only if they left Rock. Go to the shop Go to the shop. The cult leader had 22 children with women he held under his sway. Only Mose was permitted to express any warmth whatsoever towards the children. The Most Dangerous Cults In Recent History - Grunge.com He began whittling her arm away halfway between the elbow and the shoulder. 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. solange boilard deathfeathered friend questions and answers. Theriault would hit them with a belt initially, but this escalated and they were soon being attacked with hammers. 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. . "Marise" (18) This button displays the currently selected search type. He was found guilty of amputating Gabrielle's arm and jailed for 12 years. 202 - Live at the Sony Centre in Toronto (Night Two) Published on April 17, 2018 12:55 AM. the Conseil de guerre / court-martial that took place at Fort Frontenac to reach a verdict about the cause of the death. [13][14][15] MacDonald pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison, having already been serving a life sentence for a previous murder charge. Here, they opened the "Healthy Living Clinic," an alternative medicine venue where you could get organic foods and holistic literature to help you cure any ailment cash up front, of course. click here. 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. 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 was not all-powerful. The members of the commune were regarded as eccentric, but hard-working neighbours. But there still wasn't enough evidence to press further criminal charges against Thriault. The police razed their cabin on the Gasp to the ground, and bulldozed the ashes. ", When their father drank, his sons knew he would pay them a "visit.". He punched Solange in the neck, knocking her out. Roch Thriault was born on May 16, 1947, in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada, into a French-Canadian family, and raised in Thetford Mines. This is truly a one of a kind collectors item for anyone interested in the macabre world of true crime, prison art or the strange world of murderabelia. I wish to be a true servant to you, my Master. In 2000, Thriault was transferred to Dorchester Penitentiary, a medium-security prison in Dorchester, New Brunswick.
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