EP127: The Ant Hill Kids

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In the late 1970s, in Quebec, Canada, a group of young people were looking to find meaning and purpose in their lives. They found that meaning and purpose after meeting a charismatic man named Roch Theriault. Roch was a devoted follower of the Seventh Day Adventist religion, and soon this group of young people decided to cut ties with all of their friends and family, and follow Rock into the wilderness of Quebec to form a new society and way of life from scratch. They soon came to believe that Roch spoke to God and everything he did was as a result of his conversations with God--even when it came to viciously punishing them, or eventually when Roch did things where members ended up dead.

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Sources:
1) "Savage Messiah" by Paul Kaihla and Ross Laver
2) Roch Theriault's Murderpedia Page
3) CVLT Nation: The Ant Hill Kids: Break Your Legs With a Sledgehammer or Go to Hell
4) The Peterborough Examiner: Behind the Crimes: Murder, mutilation, abuse part of life at Ant Hill Kids commune

A SPECIAL "THANK YOU" TO PATREON MEMBER AMY W. AND LISTENER IAMSWEETVIE FOR SUGGESTING THIS CASE!

Transcript

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0:00.0	This episode may contain content of a graphic nature, including descriptions of physical and sexual violence against adults, children, and animals.
0:09.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	Hi everyone, I'm Tanya, and I'm Tlaia. advised.
0:12.8	Hi everyone, I'm Tanya.
0:14.3	And I'm T Leah.
0:15.4	And we are Crimes and Consequences, a true crime podcast. I'm goinganya. How are you today? I'm great. How are you today?
0:39.9	I'm great. I'm pretty good. Good. I'd like to welcome everyone back to another episode of
0:46.0	crimes and consequences I have a gruesome one for everyone today. I know you've
0:51.6	been hinting about this and I'm super excited
0:54.0	in a really sick and twisted way to hear this. It's horrible. There is violence
0:59.7	against children, animals,
1:02.8	What? Domestic violence, horrible, torture.
1:07.0	So if any of those things are something that you don't want to hear today,
1:11.7	I'm just warning you. Okay. Not you
1:13.9	Toulia because you're stuck here with me. But it's graphic.
1:18.3	It's gruesome. And it's a long episode. Okay. So, wow. How do I feel like my mood's going to be changed in an hour?
1:25.6	Yeah, really. I know. Before I start, if I could just ask everyone to hit the
1:31.9	subscriber follow button on whatever
1:33.7	podcast app you're listening to that would be wonderful and I'm also going to
1:37.9	add that this takes place in Quebec in the French area of Canada.
1:44.2	I'm not French.
1:45.2	I'm not French either.
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