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The Cult Dossier · No. 059 · Apocalyptic / Doomsday
Ant Hill Kids
Roch Thériault's commune
1977 – 1989 · Sainte-Marie, Quebec; then Burnt River, Ontario, Canada
VI. THE 1970s — THE GREAT PROLIFERATION
Fully religious — apocalyptic Seventh-day Adventist offshoot
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1977 Thériault forms the group after leaving the Adventist church.
- 1978 The commune moves to a remote mountain at Saint-Jogues, Quebec, to await the end of the world in February 1979.
- 1981 A two-year-old, Samuel Giguère, dies after Thériault operates on his testicles with a knife; the child's body is later mutilated. Thériault serves two years for criminal negligence.
- 1984 Group relocates to Burnt River, Ontario.
- 26 September 1988 SOLANGE BOILARD dies after Thériault, drunk, cuts open her abdomen with a knife, has a member reach inside her, and attempts to reseal her with a needle and thread. He later exhumes the body and removes a rib.
- 1989 GABRIELLE LAVALLÉE's right arm, already partly mutilated, is AMPUTATED by Thériault. Published accounts differ on the instrument used — some say a hunting knife and blowtorch, others a chainsaw — but the amputation itself is undisputed. On 16 AUGUST 1989 she escapes and hitchhikes to a hospital north of Toronto; her testimony convicts him.
- 1993 Convicted of second-degree murder; sentenced to life.
- 26 February 2011 Killed in Dorchester Penitentiary by his cellmate, who cut his throat and carried the severed body part to the guards.
### Its people
### Roch Thériault
Moïse (Moses)
Leader, the Ant Hill Kids · 16 May 1947 – 26 February 2011 · active 1977–1989
Before the law. CONVICTED of second-degree murder, 1993, plus earlier criminal negligence. Died incarcerated.
Where things stand. Deceased 2011.
- 1977 Forms the group.
- 1981 A two-year-old dies after Thériault operates on him; two years served for criminal negligence.
- 26 September 1988 Solange Boilard dies after he cuts open her abdomen with a knife.
- 16 AUGUST 1989 Amputates Gabrielle Lavallée's right arm (published accounts differ on the instrument). She escapes the same day and hitchhikes to a hospital north of Toronto.
- 1993 Convicted of second-degree murder; life.
- 26 February 2011 Killed in Dorchester Penitentiary.
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### Gabrielle Lavallée
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Ant Hill Kids survivor whose escape ended the group · born c.1952 · active 1978–1989
Before the law. Never charged. The prosecution's principal witness.
Where things stand. Living in Quebec.
- 1978 Joins the commune.
- 1980s Subjected to escalating mutilation, including dental extractions with pliers and a knife driven through her hand.
- 1989 Thériault amputates her right arm. Accounts differ on the instrument used; the amputation itself is undisputed.
- 16 AUGUST 1989
- 1993 Her testimony convicts Thériault of second-degree murder.
- 1993 Publishes L'alliance de la brebis.
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