When Roland Ernest Boilard was born on 4 September 1912, in Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine, United States, his father, Joseph Sigfroi Boilard, was 39 and his mother, Josephine Marie Gamache, was 41. Gabrielle Nadeau went into a coma and died shortly thereafter. 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. A couple of days later, Thriault decided that Gabrielle's stump was gangrenous, and used a pair of scissors to cut out the infection. Though, it's strange that Solanges death circumstances only came to light one year later after Gabrielles escape. But the terrifying truth of what was happening at Burnt River, Ontario, was only laid bare when, physically broken and brutally abused, one of his followers escaped and alerted authorities to the horrors of life as an Ant Hill Kid. The group set out on foot into the hills from the village of Saint-Jogues, on July 9, 1978. Solange Boilard (21) Chantal Labrie (19) Francine Laflamme (18) Nicole Ruel (20) "Marise" (18) Jose Pelletier (20) . 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. In 1993 he pleaded guilty to Solange's murder and was sentenced to life in prison. MacDonald stabbed him to death with a shiv a make-shift jailhouse knife and told guards after: That piece of s*** is down on the range. [8][pageneeded]. In 1988, he used a knife to disembowel his wife Solange Boilard during a cult ritual. The story of Theriault and Lavallee is told in Savage Messiah, a new TV movie airing on The Movie Network and Movie Central. History Every issue of Serial Killer Magazine, every Ultimate Collection, trainscript, FBI file and more! the Conseil de guerre / court-martial that took place at Fort Frontenac to reach a verdict about the cause of the death. But in the end, on October 26, 1987, the court ruled that the children be made wards of the Crown. Roch Thriault ([k te.jo]; May 16, 1947 February 26, 2011) was a Canadian cult leader and convicted murderer. 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 then returned to Ontario, and after a couple of days, ordered Claude to exhume Solange's body. July 26, 1989, Rock became drunk. Although Rock considered his children to be the children of God and the next generation of his religious following, their situation was utterly wretched. "[16], The 2002 film Savage Messiah depicts Thriault's crimes against his followers and the ensuing legal recourse. 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. disembowelled his wife Solange Boilard during a cult ritual. Average Age & Life Expectancy Robert R Boilard lived 30 years shorter than the average Boilard family member when he died at the age of 44. He was sentenced to life in prison for her murder in 1993. old-school old testament messiah. One poem, written in French, was titled "Le regret, c'est de ne plus jamais recommence" ("Regret is to never be able to do it again''), dated last October. 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. When the family of other cult members tried to visit them to try to talk some sense into everyone, they were treated coldly and it was made clear they were unwelcome. The children were also deprived of education except Rock's own brands of religious education and sex education. "He was a shark," said Francois, "he needed to see blood.". 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. He had undergone treatment for depression at l'Hpitale Robert Giffard, the same hospital that had declared Thriault "mentally sound." He prescribed himself a case of beer for any pains. [9] Boilard died the next day from the damage inflicted by the procedures. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Thriault was arrested for assault in 1989, dissolving the cult, and was convicted for murder in 1993 for the death of follower Solange Boilard. 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. PORTLAND - Allyson Ruby Boilard, of Sabattus, 15, passed away July 3, 2019, at the Maine Medical Center in Portland. Franois and Roch-Sylvain remember the disembowelling of Solange Boilard. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. One member was killed by Theriault, who used a meat cleaver to remove eight teeth from her face and hand. 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. "That night, July 26, 1989, he hacked off my right arm, not only my hand, he took off part of my right arm.". The group was refused funding on the basis that the group constituted an institution, rather than a family. Roch Theriault fatally wounds Solange Boislard in Ontario, Canada. Here, he met Gabrielle Lavalle (from Qubec) and Yolande Guinnebert (from France), who joined his retinue. 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. This was not unusual, and Gisle, Claude, Francine, and Marise all . At the time of his death in 2011 he was continuing to serve out a life sentence, having been denied parole in 2002. When cults stand-off Shelly Katz/Getty Images The children had chores around the commune such as hand-washing the adult women's sanitary napkins. There are two versions regarding what happened that night. A follower would sometimes be asked to cut off another follower's toes with wire cutters to prove loyalty. He burned Gabrielle's breast and genitals with the torch. First, there was the outstanding debts. 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. Gabrielle Lavalle was sentenced to nine months in jail and three years probation. He also assaulted one of his neighbours, a canoe-builder named Jean-Marc Martin, with whom Rock had had previous friendly dealings. 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. Not only was he making money in this enterprise, he was also attracting followers. He poured boiling water on Claude; another time he made Claude sit down on a lit stove. He would also nail children to trees by their clothes, and tell the other children to stone them or knife them only to call them off at the very last minute, again playing God to the children's Abraham and Isaac. Get email updates with the day's biggest stories. 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. But they now had a very pressing problem. I love you, Almost immediately the boys were subjected to their father's violent, drunken and sexual acts. Published on April 17, 2018 12:55 AM. The most Boilard families were found in Canada in 1911. This wasn't entirely successful; Jose Pelletier left Rock for good in the winter of '88-'89. [3] Thriault believed that the end of the world was near, and would be brought on by the war between good and evil. Some of the women in Solange's family wept and not for joy. 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). 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. They were deprived of sleep, of food, and of hygeine. Here's the knife, I've sliced him up. Mellon was the ex-husband of Jimmy Choo co . Solanges corpse was cremated, that's not something you can do yourself. Each was forced to wear an identical tunic, which was supposed to symbolise equality, but merely tightened Theriault's grip on his followers. 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. 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. He started strangling the women, asking if they knew that their breath belonged to him. Alert, vigorous, with a clear and lively spirit and well-balanced to serve you every moment of my life. Allyson Ruby Boilard. As far as Rock was concerned, if the rest of the world wouldn't voluntarily give them what they needed, they would have to take it. Meanwhile, Thriault was ingratiating himself to the doctors. But on November 5, Veer escaped to the village of Saint-Jogues, where he told the villagers that a baby had died after being kicked by a horse. This included removing teeth, botched circumsicions and even castrations. He shot a .22 at Claude. Finally Gabrielle, who had already had her private parts burned, eight of her teeth removed and part of her breasts sliced off, fled. Roch was their most devoted follower; he began following Adventist nutritional strictures, and quit drinking. 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. I really believe that what you did doesn't come from you, but from someone much higher. Even Maryse Grenier wasn't willing to testify against Rock. "It's not looking so good, is it?" With no pain relief or anaesthetic, he then rammed a plastic tube into her rectum and poured olive oil and molasses into the tube, claiming it would ease her problems. 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. He whittled it all the way to the bone. But the police were called, and the constable filed a charge of aggravated assault against Rock Thriault. 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. 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. Thriault received a life sentence, which he was serving when he was murdered at Dorchester Penitentiary in 2011. In October, the six-months-pregnant "Mamy" Gisle went to "Mose." A television movie about his bizarre cult, which was modeled on Old Testament themes and attracted up to a dozen adult followers, was titled "Savage Messiah''. Matthew Mellon, the billionaire banking heir, died suddenly at a rehab facility in Cancun, Mexico. He hit Jacques in the head with a blunt axe, and broke his ribs with a wooden club. 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. Thriault named the diminutive mound "Eternal Mountain," and it was here that the group made their home. Retrieved March 15, 2013, from, MacEachern, B. I understand it very well because of the Law of Death in which it exists, but within myself I am well. 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. She cleared away a narrow band of exposed bone that went all the way around Gabrielle's arm. Lived: 16253 days = 44 years. 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. 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