Yolande Guinnebert, who had joined the group with her friend Gabrielle Lavalle at the resort at Lake Rosseau, headed back to France, claiming that her passport had expired. To the shock and horror of the families of Thriault's followers, this was enough to keep the group together; after all, the end could come any day now. He was arrested for assault in 1989, and convicted of murder in 1993. They hiked for two days until they found an isolated hill beside a small body of water called Lac Sec ("Dry Lake"). When he awoke two hours later, a clot had formed in Gisle's leg, which had swollen. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. With this, the systematic sex abuse of his female followers also became more profound but in addition to this, he began to exert control in ever increasingly sinister and violent ways. In March of 1978, Geraldine Gagn Auclair was admitted to the Healthy Living Clinic. He himself became "Mose," or Moses, leader of the exodus from the depraved modern world. 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. When he proved himself quite capable in this enterprise, Zita began giving him workshops on quitting smoking for Thriault to run a traditional gateway for Adventist evangelism. Sometimes he would join in the matches, but then the rules changed; if you scored a hit on him, it would come out of your food rations. He made all of his members wear a tunic and moved them to another site in Ontario. Following the cult's formation, Thriault began to move away from being a motivational leader as his drinking problem worsened, becoming increasingly totalitarian over the lives of his followers and irrational in his beliefs. After her leg healed a bit she tried to escape again, but a few days later she went back to Rock. The trial lasted one hour, and the verdict was unanimous: Not guilty by reason of insanity. He also moved his family back to Thetford Mines and began developing his skills with woodworking. [1] Thriault made another member, Gabrielle Lavalle, stitch her up using needle and thread, and had the other women shove a tube down her throat and blow through it. 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. They even made special jackets with huge inner pockets to facilitate their sprees of petty crime. It was snowing, and the temperature was -10C (14F). Between Mass and his father's forced door-to-door White Beret literature distribution campaigns, Roch developed an abiding hatred for Catholicism in particular and organized religion in general. He made her cut a hole in the ice of a pond and jump in the freezing water. 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. Ever the conniving dictator, Theriault merely claimed time within the human plain and God's was different. 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. 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. 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. 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. After authorities learned about some of the activities at the ranch, they removed all of the children. Grenier's children crawled like animals and were severely malnourished; adults and children alike were, for the most part, forbidden from speaking with them. I wish to be a true servant to you, my Master. He had Gabrielle open Solange's body and pour vinegar on her internal organs, to keep worms away; then they buried her again. One afternoon, he got exceedingly drunk. They were forbidden to go to the hospital. Thriault told the group that the world would end on February 17, 1979, amid a storm of boulder-sized hail, earthquakes, and lightening. July 26, 1989, Rock became drunk. . (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. During his reign, Thriault mutilated several members. 2:53. Roch Thriault was born on May 16, 1947, in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada, into a French-Canadian family, and raised in Thetford Mines. 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. Roch Theriault forced his brainwashed followers to endure a campaign of horrific abuse. We will remember him forever. The depraved cult leader was murdered by his cell-mate, Matthew Gerrard MacDonald. He was released from the hospital early, judged fit to stand trial for obstruction of justice, and given a one-year suspended sentence. Alert, vigorous, with a clear and lively spirit and well-balanced to serve you every moment of my life. In the following months Theriault's delusions grew and he became convinced the world would end in 1979. His first swing missed. Gabrielle forced herself to remain conscious, and after forty-five minutes, Rock came back over to see that Gabrielle's whole arm had turned blue. [4][5] There, Thriault made the commune build their town while he relaxed, comparing them to ants working in an ant hill, naming the group the Ant Hill Kids. Between 1977 and 1989 he held sway over as many as 12 adults and 26 children. He squeezed Gabrielle's hand in a vice. In 1987, social workers removed 17 of the children from the commune. The procedure in question occurred after an Ant Hill Kid named Solange Boilard complained of a stomachache. Thriault was arrested for *ault in 1989, dissolving the cult, and was convicted for murder in 1993 for the death of follower Solange Boilard. 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. The three-member National Parole Board panel also ordered Theriault, who called himself Moses, to undergo a series of psychiatric evaluations. 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. 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. Retrieved March 2013, from, Dimmock, G. (2011, November 14). 1988 (September 29): One of Theriault's plural wives, Solange Boilard, complained of a stomach ache and was subjected to brutal and botched surgical operation by an inebriated "Moise." She died and was buried by his followers. Influenza is a highly contagious virus that attacks the respiratory read more, On September 28, 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the read more, On September 28, 1918, in an incident that would go down in the lore of World War I historyalthough the details of the event are still unclearPrivate Henry Tandey, a British soldier serving near the French village of Marcoing, reportedly encounters a wounded German soldier and read more. If you are interested in joining our team, contact us at [Francine Laflamme]. He made his followers eat excrement and dead mice. Then he had someone else sew her wound closed, and Solange got up. Second, the constant police surveillance to which they had been subjected since Auclair's death. The Boilard family name was found in the USA, Canada, and Scotland between 1861 and 1920. View our online Press Pack. Along with Clifford Olsen and Paul Bernardo, Thriault is considered one of Canada's most notorious criminals. As for the others, all of this served only to make them more obsequious. 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. 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. He beat Nicole, three months pregnant, causing her to miscarry. In 1988, he used a knife to disembowel his wife Solange Boilard during a cult ritual. Thriault was found guilty of assault for the amputation of Lavalle's arm and received a sentence of 12 years imprisonment. It is this fault which causes my plumpness. Taking a dull meat cleaver, Thriault swung at the exposed bone. Some of the women in Solange's family wept and not for joy. 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. He was 63 years old. They erected a tent-town, spent a week retrieving tools from the cars, and then began construction on a large communal cabin. This only served as proof that the outside world was hostile to the group's way of life, and reinforced their alienation and isolation. The group was refused funding on the basis that the group constituted an institution, rather than a family. All the child's mother had wanted to do was to keep her baby away from Theriault's reach. Solange White . (n.d.).Local Community Forum and Information for Every Town, Village and Hamlet in Britain. 2023 A&E Television Networks, LLC. The children had chores around the commune such as hand-washing the adult women's sanitary napkins. Theriault was 63 years old when he was murdered in prison by his cellmate Matthew MacDonald. St. Petersburg parents break their silence following stabbing, daughter's death by: Chip Osowski. This was not unusual, and . No one questioned by the police was at all upset or even embarrassed of what had happened, or of having involved a twelve-year-old boy in the decision process. In 1993, Thriault pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the death of Solange Boilard, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Revealed: Murder of Canadian cult leader who performed ritual killings and beat children to death | Ottawa Citizen. It was here that Thriault disclosed to the group his vision of the future. Rock was sweet-talking everyone who came to assess his dominion. He began to deliver long, rambling, drunken sermons. 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. He methodically sprained Claude's toes; another time he used a piece of broken glass to slice Claude's arm open. I really believe that what you did doesn't come from you, but from someone much higher. 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. Ted Williams once said it was his goal in life to walk down the street [and have] folks say there goes the greatest hitter who ever lived. He read more, On September 28, 1542, the Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrives in San Diego Bay while searching for the Strait of Anian, a mythical all-water route across North America. Believing himself to be a vessel of God and capable of curing all sickness, Theriault took matters into his own hands with devastating consquences. Jacques used the acetylene torch to cut a piece off the drive shaft of one of the old junk cars they had in the yard; Rock heated this metal until it was red-hot, and pressed it against Gabrielle's stump. 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. Gabrielle Nadeau went into a coma and died shortly thereafter. Mr. Theriault founded and led a notorious sect in the 1980s. But when the police arrived on August 19 with a warrant for Rock's arrest, the compound was deserted. 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 threw a knife at Francine, and at Marise. In 1989 one of his followers, Solange Boilard, was suffering from stomach problems. Click here to upload yours. Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368 . He laid the seriously ill Solange, naked, on a table and punched her in the stomach. In 1977, he and his followers attended an Adventist retreat on Lake Rosseau, in the woods of Muskoka, Ontario. Jacques Gigure and Claude Ouellette received six months in prison and three years probation for child abandonment. old-school old testament messiah. This includes ebooks of every book and magazine on the site. Nicole Ruel (20) To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Theriault believed he could cure all illness so laid her on a table and punched her in the stomach before. 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. In spite of their childhood, the two men took back control of their lives. They said that talking publicly about their father frees them from the horrors they lived through. The others had gone home to their families, Rock's spell finally broken. In 1978, Thriault was removed from Seventh-day Adventist Church. The "official version" is the one that was given in court by Thriault, Guy Veer, and most of the commune members. 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. "[16], The 2002 film Savage Messiah depicts Thriault's crimes against his followers and the ensuing legal recourse. My body is very afraid of all these things. Mose declared all commune marriages, other than the one between himself and Gisle, void. Jacques and Maryse were charged with neglect towards their oldest daughter, now five, and Claude and Solange Boilard were similarly charged for their treatment of Simon Ouellette, now three. So Rock encouraged his followers to hit up their parents. 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. It is also packed with unusual trivia, exclusive interviews and much more. Thriault was their elected face to the outside world. 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. Then he decided to put on his jewelry. He also designed a horse-drawn treadmill to mill water from a spring on a neighbouring concession. Lavalle's report allowed further investigation into Thriault's actions, exposing the wider abuses at the communes and Solange Boilard's murder. And in May of 1984, he moved the band to their new home, and began the construction of a new cabin, as isolated as their old home had been. [3] Thriault believed that the end of the world was near, and would be brought on by the war between good and evil. He had undergone treatment for depression at l'Hpitale Robert Giffard, the same hospital that had declared Thriault "mentally sound." The police wanted to take him into custody, but lacked evidence that he was a danger to himself or others; nevertheless, Thriault went willingly with them and underwent psychological evaluation. He discovered the Mormon Fundamentalist movement, and this was how he met up with forensic psychiatrist and LDS branch president Dr Jess Groesbeck. This didn't phase Thriault one bit, and his next move was to marry some of his followers together, in spite of the fact that, not only did he lack any authority to perform marriages whatsoever, his followers had actually not expressed any interest in getting married whatsoever at least not to the men Roch decided they were to marry. Number of people Lifespan in years He was eligible for parole in 1999. In June, 1978, in spite of its financial success, the Healthy Living Clinic faced some serious problems. In 1993 he pleaded guilty to Solange's murder and was sentenced to life in prison. The typical response, of course, was that the girls could have money, but only if they left Rock. The group buried her then disinterred her a few days later. A week later, the wound was infected, Rock decided to fill the wound with salt, olive oil, and spruce gum. Lo Marc Faucher, who had joined the Healthy Living Clinic with his wife and child and who had given Thriault all of their money, loaded his meagre possessions and his family into a wagon and headed back for civilization. [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. He prostituted Gabrielle to a local grocer for some milk, meat, and cheese. 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