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The Ant Hill Kids: The Cult That Shocked the World · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: Crime, conspiracy, cold cases, and murder. Things I love to
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Speaker 1: deep dive in, and a few of which we are
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Speaker 1: going to be talking about today. And let me just address, yes,
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Speaker 1: this is not my office. I am currently in Caleb's
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Speaker 1: office in Texas. Also, hence the outfit. I feel like
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Speaker 1: it was just on par with where I am. And also,
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Speaker 1: don't expect this kind of quality in any of my
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Speaker 1: future videos, but you can bask in it today. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: today we are talking about the anthill Kids. And no,
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Speaker 1: it is not a small farm town metal cover band
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Speaker 1: made up of hormonal teenagers that hate their stepdads like
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Speaker 1: I originally thought when I heard the name. It is
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Speaker 1: a cult. And quite literally one of the worst cults
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Speaker 1: I have ever personally read about. So for those of
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Speaker 1: you who don't know, here is a quick spiel of
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Speaker 1: what we're going to be getting into today. And y'all
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Speaker 1: are ready. The Ant Hill Kids were a cult led
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Speaker 1: by Rock Theriot, a maniacal French-Canadian cult leader active from
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Speaker 1: the late 90s to the early 80s. He led his
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Speaker 1: cult with a blend of paganism, old ritual testament, theology,
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Speaker 1: and mysticism. Then eventually evolved into a sadistic, disturbing, doomsday
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Speaker 1: backyard sex party that also served a side of makeshift
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Speaker 1: operation and bodily mutilation. So let's unbuckle our seatbelts, go
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Speaker 1: Mach 5 down the highway, slam on the brakes, and
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Speaker 1: deep dive through this windshield into this cult together. So
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Speaker 1: I truly didn't think I could find a cult more
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Speaker 1: up than the Children of God. And if you haven't
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Speaker 1: seen that deep dive, you should go check it out
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Speaker 1: right here. But I did, but I did. And it
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Speaker 1: all starts with Rock Theriot, or should I say Rock
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Speaker 1: Theriot because he's French, French Canadian to be exact. So
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Speaker 1: let's go back to this little shit stains beginnings and
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Speaker 1: get to know how he grew into the giant shit
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Speaker 1: stain he became. So Rock was one of eight children.
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Speaker 1: And when he was six, his family moved to a
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Speaker 1: small asbestos mining community in Quebec, Canada, where I'm from.
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Speaker 1: I'm not from Quebec. I'm from British Columbia on the
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Speaker 1: other side, on the good side. And this place was
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Speaker 1: called Fetfort Mines. And the Therios were described by neighbors
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Speaker 1: as backwoods people. From local recounts, people said that Rock's
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Speaker 1: mother was relatively normal, whatever the f * * *
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Speaker 1: that means, but Rock's father was a religious fanatic, the
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Speaker 1: first ingredient in our f * * * ed up
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Speaker 1: cult leader stew. His father was a part of an
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Speaker 1: authoritarian fascist group of Catholics called the White Berets, named
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Speaker 1: by their distinctive headgear, rebranded today as the Pilgrims of St. Michael. Essentially,
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Speaker 1: this group wanted to destroy, gain, and hand control of
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Speaker 1: all institutions over to the based in Catholicism. So Rock's
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Speaker 1: father would force his children to go around the neighborhood
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Speaker 1: and essentially knock on all the doors and beg for
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Speaker 1: money to put towards the Waiperais and their cause. So
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Speaker 1: people would be opening their doors and be met with
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Speaker 1: little Quebecois children's faces screaming, And for those of you
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Speaker 1: who don't know, that means, please give me your money,
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Speaker 1: my father is crazy. But our little shit stain, Rock,
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Speaker 1: didn't actually like going door to door begging for money,
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Speaker 1: believe it or not. He would consider them humiliations of
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Speaker 1: the highest order, and this would instill a deep hate
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Speaker 1: for the Catholic church within him that would never go away,
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Speaker 1: as we will see. But from a young age, Rock
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Speaker 1: was taught, pain. When Rock was a child with his siblings,
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Speaker 1: his father would make them all gather around a dinner
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Speaker 1: table and play a game called Bone. That sounds f
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Speaker 1: * * * ing terrifying. This game consisted of everybody
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Speaker 1: sitting around the table and proceeding to kick each other's
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Speaker 1: shins until they drew blood with either hard boots or
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Speaker 1: steel toe boots. And then the first person to say
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Speaker 1: ouch or stop or dear god my leg f *
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Speaker 1: * * ing hurts would lose. Which to a certain point,
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Speaker 1: I feel like when I was a kid we used
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Speaker 1: to like hit each other's hands and see like which
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Speaker 1: one of us ducked out first but I didn't I
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Speaker 1: didn't do it with my father and I didn't do
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Speaker 1: it to the point of bleeding so that's pretty another
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Speaker 1: ingredient in our cult leader stew. Rock would also claim
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Speaker 1: his father would push him down the stairs and lock
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Speaker 1: him in the basement cellar and one of Rock's wives
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Speaker 1: later in life would say that Rock claimed he was
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Speaker 1: beaten relentlessly by his father as a child so much
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Speaker 1: so that he had internal scarring in on his organs.
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Speaker 1: But all these claims could never be confirmed. And what
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Speaker 1: didn't help his story either is besides his neighbors saying
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Speaker 1: Rock's father was a little odd by being in the
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Speaker 1: white berets, none of the children ever actually showed signs
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Speaker 1: of nor did any of the other siblings ever claim
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Speaker 1: any of this ever happened. So you're gonna start seeing
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Speaker 1: a little pattern here of Rock being a manipulative lying
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Speaker 1: piece of shit, but we'll get more into that as well.
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Speaker 1: But back to his childhood. So Rock was widely known
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Speaker 1: as a troubled kid. He'd steal money and cigarettes from
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Speaker 1: his parents, who didn't, am I right? Just kidding. And
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Speaker 1: he would also blame that on his siblings. So he
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Speaker 1: was probably a middle child or the youngest. In a
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Speaker 1: memoir he wrote that was 173 pages long, He would
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Speaker 1: tell stories of his childhood that I don't even think
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Speaker 1: an actual child would believe to this day. He would
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Speaker 1: create these like grandiose stories that were clearly not real.
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Speaker 1: One of them being this. He said in his memoir
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Speaker 1: that when he was a child, he was walking home
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Speaker 1: from school and he came across a mother bear and
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Speaker 1: her cubs. But instead of her attacking him and killing
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Speaker 1: him like they probably would, she took him in as
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Speaker 1: one of their own and played with him for the
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Speaker 1: entire afternoon. And then he went home and was fine.
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Speaker 1: So there's that. Rock would also lie about ailments that
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Speaker 1: he had as a child to elicit sympathy, which again,
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Speaker 1: I feel like that's something kids kind of do. I
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Speaker 1: faked sick when I wanted to get out of school, so.
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Speaker 1: But am I a cult leader? Did I create a
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Speaker 1: murder mutilation cult? No. He almost had Munchausen syndrome, but
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Speaker 1: he was a complete narcissist as well, so I think
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Speaker 1: it kind of went hand in hand with each other.
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Speaker 1: He would claim to have infantile paralysis until the age
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Speaker 1: of six, claimed he was unable to speak until the
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Speaker 1: age of eight, And he claimed that he could hardly
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Speaker 1: walk until the age of 12, when he did. Everybody
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Speaker 1: knew that he did. He was just lying. He was
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Speaker 1: just a pathological liar. Now, obviously, none of his claims
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Speaker 1: were true, but there was one that rang to be
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Speaker 1: actually true, and that is that he had a disturbingly large...
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Speaker 1: It was in the book. It was in the book,
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Speaker 1: so I felt like it was important to know. I
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Speaker 1: don't know that that's real. I've not seen a picture,
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Speaker 1: but I'm just going off the literature. So Rock would
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Speaker 1: move into his teenage years and naturally at the age
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Speaker 1: of 14, he would come to the conclusion that he
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Speaker 1: was too smart for school and would drop out, which
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Speaker 1: actually he was one of the top students. He had
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Speaker 1: a very high IQ, which helped him in later years
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Speaker 1: tricking people into being in his cult, as we will learn.
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Speaker 1: So he would work shoveling snow, mowing lawns, and hanging
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Speaker 1: out at bars, as you do when you're 14. Am
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Speaker 1: I right? Just kidding. So in 1967, he met a
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Speaker 1: woman named Francine Gridier, sorry if I butchered your name,
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Speaker 1: at a dance hall and he would soon after get married.
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Speaker 1: They would move in with one another and have two
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Speaker 1: children pretty quickly after they got married. And Rock would
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Speaker 1: get a job at a fire hall doing local inspections.
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Speaker 1: Even though he didn't have a high school education, he
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Speaker 1: was able to talk his way into a lot of jobs,
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Speaker 1: regardless of him not having an education. And it was
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Speaker 1: around this time rock would start to form into the
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Speaker 1: giant adult shit stain he became. In 1971, he began
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Speaker 1: suffering from duodenal ulcers. And doctors would remove part of
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Speaker 1: his stomach to alleviate some of his symptoms. And by
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Speaker 1: the time he needed his second surgery, he had already
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Speaker 1: gathered a bunch of medical textbooks and would memorize them
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Speaker 1: so that when he went into his second surgery, he
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Speaker 1: was able to recite the surgery step by step. So basically,
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Speaker 1: he was backseat driving his own... surgery. I've never heard
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Speaker 1: anything more Canadian than that and pretentious. And the surgery
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Speaker 1: stuff will come into play later as well. Stay tuned
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Speaker 1: for that. It's up. So although getting multiple surgeries for
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Speaker 1: his ulcers, the pain would not go away, at least
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Speaker 1: according to Crybaby Rock, who was already notorious for over-exaggerating
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Speaker 1: every aspect of his life, including pain, as we know.
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Speaker 1: He was the poster boy and founding father of the
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Speaker 1: man cold, essentially. So this would lead him to become
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Speaker 1: a full-on hypochondriac, convincing people that his insides were made
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Speaker 1: of plastic, and his death was always right around the corner.
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Speaker 1: I wish. This would also lead him to become extremely
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Speaker 1: erratic because his little tummy hurt that somehow gave him
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Speaker 1: license to do whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted, without
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Speaker 1: regard for anyone else. But most noteworthy, this would cause
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Speaker 1: him to have a completely different outlook on... For example,
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Speaker 1: at the beginning of Rox and Francine's marriage, he would
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Speaker 1: make her dress very conservatively. He'd make her wear very
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Speaker 1: long dresses and cover up when they were in public
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Speaker 1: and even when they were at home. But after the surgeries,
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Speaker 1: he would demand her to wear miniskirts, crop tops, and
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Speaker 1: very explicit clothing. And he would not talk to her
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Speaker 1: about anything other than sex. So just your typical male. Basically,
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Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. He would even go as far as
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Speaker 1: to ask his in-laws if he could open a nudist
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Speaker 1: colony at their farm. And they would obviously reject his proposal,
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Speaker 1: but I can't even imagine going up to Caleb's parents
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Speaker 1: after meeting them for the first time and just pitching
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Speaker 1: that to them. So Rock is now becoming a full-blown
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Speaker 1: narcissistic piece of shit. And what's the best job for
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Speaker 1: a narcissistic piece of shit? A politician. So he would
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Speaker 1: get into his local council, but not surprisingly be voted
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Speaker 1: out very shortly after because all the ideas he would
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Speaker 1: bring to the table were extremely grandiose and would literally
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Speaker 1: bankrupt the city if they did any of them. So Rock,
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Speaker 1: still wanting a position of power, would try his hand
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Speaker 1: at working as a Freemason in the Aromas Club. Now,
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Speaker 1: the Aromas Club was a Catholic organization, He hates Catholics,
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Speaker 1: given his past with his father. So he used this
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Speaker 1: to his advantage. He would gain their trust and gain
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Speaker 1: control over the initiation ceremonies, which ushered in a lot
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Speaker 1: of new members. See where this is going? Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: where it's going. And in time, Rock would change the
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Speaker 1: rituals to reflect his own hatred for the Catholic Church. Naturally,
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Speaker 1: most of the members of the club would think he's
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Speaker 1: batshit crazy and wouldn't follow him. Rock would then drop
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Speaker 1: out of the club and replace the painkillers for drinking instead,
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Speaker 1: which is awesome. Kidding. And shortly after that, he would
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Speaker 1: soon find his cult niche, which was... women, his first
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Speaker 1: disciple being Giselle Tremblay. Giselle would grow up in a
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Speaker 1: very cold and a household. Her father would also talk
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Speaker 1: shit to her about her own mother, his wife, and
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Speaker 1: say that she had to be nothing like her own
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Speaker 1: mother because she wasn't completely devoted to him and obeyed
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Speaker 1: everything he said. So this naturally progressed into Giselle having
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Speaker 1: a string of very toxic relationships, the worst being Rock.
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Speaker 1: And this would lead to her mutilation later in the story.
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Speaker 1: They would meet in a bar and Rock, still being
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Speaker 1: married by the way, would write Giselle love letters and
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Speaker 1: convince her that it hurt him that she had the
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Speaker 1: audacity to sleep with anybody else because she had a
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Speaker 1: boyfriend at the time as well. He would also convince
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Speaker 1: Giselle that his wife was cheating on him, which she wasn't,
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Speaker 1: and he also threw in the fact that he had cancer,
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Speaker 1: but he didn't actually have cancer. I just can't imagine
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Speaker 1: sitting with a guy and being like, please tell me,
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Speaker 1: are you actually married? And he's just like, yes, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: but she is a total bitch. And she's just like,
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Speaker 1: and he's like, and I have cancer? Oh my God,
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Speaker 1: you poor baby. Yes, I am a poor baby. So
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Speaker 1: take off all your clothes. I just don't understand. So
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Speaker 1: naturally this would sway Giselle to leave her life and
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Speaker 1: spend all her free time and work for Rock. They
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Speaker 1: would sell homemade beer mugs at local fairs. Shortly after that,
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Speaker 1: Giselle would leave her current relationship and Rock would leave
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Speaker 1: his wife and his two children behind without looking back.
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Speaker 1: And Giselle and Rock would move to Benford Mines, Quebec.
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Speaker 1: And this is where Rock would become obsessed with religion,
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Speaker 1: reading the Bible incessantly and denouncing the Catholic Church. And
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Speaker 1: this is where he would find passages in the Old
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Speaker 1: Testament that highlighted that women must be submissive towards men
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Speaker 1: and started to revolve and create his own religion based
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Speaker 1: off of those passages and those passages alone. He basically
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Speaker 1: just looked for the ones he liked and it just
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Speaker 1: built a whole religion around that. He just forgot about
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Speaker 1: the whole you know, respect your neighbor and your wife,
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Speaker 1: and he just opted for women should be subservient to
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Speaker 1: their husbands. So at this point, Rock did not have
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Speaker 1: a church of his own or any kind of his
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Speaker 1: own following, really. But this is also when a Seventh-day
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Speaker 1: Adventist preacher, Pierre Zita, would move into town and start
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Speaker 1: his own church. Rock being new to the Seventh-day Adventists,
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Speaker 1: which I'm going to refer to as the SSRs, because
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Speaker 1: that is a mouthful I don't want to keep repeating,
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Speaker 1: was extremely intrigued from the start because they represented everything
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Speaker 1: Catholicism did not. For those of you who don't know,
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Speaker 1: the SDA are essentialists who preach a simple life with
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Speaker 1: an enormous amount of restriction, aka a prime breeding ground
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Speaker 1: for a cult. The SDA church is a Protestant denomination
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Speaker 1: characterized by It's observance of the biblical Sabbath, which is
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Speaker 1: Saturday instead of Sunday, like most Christian religions. And it
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Speaker 1: emphasizes on the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ. And
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Speaker 1: its fundamental creed is the Bible and the Bible alone.
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Speaker 1: Adventists are also well known for emphasizing healthy lifestyle habits,
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Speaker 1: probably the only good part of this religion. Many SDA
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Speaker 1: members practice vegetarianism and adhere to kosher laws set forth
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Speaker 1: in the book of Leviticus, such as abstinence of shellfish, pork,
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Speaker 1: and other unclean foods. If that's unclean, then call me
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Speaker 1: filthy because I love a bacon-wrapped scallop. SDA members would
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Speaker 1: also practice abstinence from illegal drugs, tobacco, and alcohol. So
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Speaker 1: Rock essentially loved the idea of the coming Judgment Day
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Speaker 1: more than anything about this religion, specifically the part where
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Speaker 1: everyone on earth would be divided into either the blessed
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Speaker 1: or the damned. Rich Rock being a narcissist, this kind
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Speaker 1: of all made sense because narcissists see themselves as better
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Speaker 1: than everyone else or as the chosen one, so he
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Speaker 1: naturally thought he would be one of the blessed. And
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Speaker 1: he also loved that his entire Catholic family would supposedly
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Speaker 1: be part of the damned group. So he basically loved
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Speaker 1: the idea of his entire family just rotting and burning
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Speaker 1: for eternity in hell. So this was right up Rock's alley.
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Speaker 1: So Pierre Zeta, the SDA church preacher, would start his
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Speaker 1: church in Rock's hometown and gain a whole congregation of
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Speaker 1: six people. It's pretty f * * * ing sad.
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Speaker 1: So he would preach in rented hotel rooms week to week.
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Speaker 1: And Rock would really enjoy these sessions because he was
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Speaker 1: able to gain the attention of all six people. But
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Speaker 1: he liked being able to bitch about his ex-wife and
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Speaker 1: just talk about all of his problems and ailments and
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Speaker 1: have the room be completely captivated. Because people would say
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Speaker 1: that Rock was extremely charismatic. That's what kind of sets
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Speaker 1: him apart from other cult leaders. He would also start
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Speaker 1: selling SDA books on behalf of the church and become
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Speaker 1: one of the top salesmen. Giselle, his girlfriend, would be
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Speaker 1: baptized in the faith as well. And they would become
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Speaker 1: a team selling these books to the public. Pierre would
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Speaker 1: also promote rock and allow him to head the therapeutic
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Speaker 1: division of the church, teaching people how to quit smoking
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Speaker 1: within five days, guaranteed. And this new position of authority,
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Speaker 1: although small, is believed to have been the fan to
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Speaker 1: Rock's cult flame, giving him a taste of true power
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Speaker 1: and control. So while Rock was busy helping people quit smoking,
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Speaker 1: the other church members were busy recruiting new young members
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Speaker 1: of the SDA church. And this is when a few
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Speaker 1: of Rock's most devoted disciples would join the church. All
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Speaker 1: of which came from abusive homes, which is usually pretty
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Speaker 1: on par for people that join cults. It's usually people
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Speaker 1: that are very lost and don't have direction in their life,
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Speaker 1: so they need that older figure to show them the way.
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Speaker 1: One of those members being Solange Boyard. Solange was raised
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Speaker 1: by an alcoholic father who would often physically and verbally
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Speaker 1: abuse her. devoted followers. And later on that would lead
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Speaker 1: to her brutal death, which we will get into later
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Speaker 1: in the video. So Rock would soon be in charge
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Speaker 1: of the new recruits. Great. Four teenage to early 20
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Speaker 1: year olds, teaching them how to be proper SDA members,
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Speaker 1: preaching eating right, freeing themselves from hate, and letting God
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Speaker 1: into their daily lives. While that all sounds not that bad,
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Speaker 1: he would also convince them to drop out of society completely,
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Speaker 1: which is step one in any cult leader, basically. They
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Speaker 1: love to separate you from your families and loved ones
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Speaker 1: so you can't think for yourself. So unfortunately, all four
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Speaker 1: of these kids would drop everything in their lives and
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Speaker 1: move in with Rock and Giselle in their apartment. They
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Speaker 1: themselves would claim that Rock was extremely entertaining morning and night.
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Speaker 1: But I'm like, where the f * * * are
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Speaker 1: these people's parents? Because at this point, they're still in
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Speaker 1: the same city. They're just, they're like 18 to 20
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Speaker 1: year olds that just left home and went to move
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Speaker 1: in with a 30-something religious guru and his wife. Their
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Speaker 1: parents were just completely fine with this. I don't understand that.
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Speaker 1: But there was one person's parents that actually showed a
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Speaker 1: little bit of concern, thank God. Rock would face backlash
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Speaker 1: from Chantel's parents, one of his other most devoted future disciples,
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Speaker 1: if you will. He would go to their house and
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Speaker 1: he would only really make it worse, saying, you know,
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Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about your daughter. I have
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Speaker 1: much experience in this lifetime. All except for murder, of course.
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Speaker 1: That is a terrible French accent. I'm sorry I butchered that.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, he basically said, I've done everything in life
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Speaker 1: except for murder. And then he laughed. So they just
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Speaker 1: assumed that he'd probably murder at some point, which he did.
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Speaker 1: which he did, and we'll get to that. But Chantel
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Speaker 1: would leave anyway against her parents' wishes and join Rock
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Speaker 1: and Giselle in their apartment as well. Rock would also
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Speaker 1: do this thing where if anybody asked him a question
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Speaker 1: he didn't know how to answer, he would just start
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Speaker 1: chanting really loudly. So they'd be like, Rock, do you
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Speaker 1: intend on sleeping with my underage daughter? And he'd just
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Speaker 1: be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to take that. I'm going to write that down.
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Speaker 1: I like that a lot. I like that a lot.
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Speaker 1: Shortly after the original four joined, two more would join
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Speaker 1: as well. Maurice Lambert, sorry if I said your name wrong,
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Speaker 1: and Josie Pelletier. Pelletier? I don't know. So in two months,
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Speaker 1: Rock had built a following of six women and two
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Speaker 1: men who all lived with Rock and Giselle in their apartment,
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Speaker 1: like I said. And this is where things would start
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Speaker 1: to go downhill or uphill, whichever one sucks more. First
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Speaker 1: thing to get weird was the introduction of massage parties.
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Speaker 1: And Giselle wasn't totally on board with this. Giselle being
18:01
Speaker 1: Rock's girlfriend. No f * * * ing kidding. And
18:03
Speaker 1: on top of the fact that there was eight other
18:05
Speaker 1: people living in her small apartment. I imagine the fridge
18:08
Speaker 1: was empty at all times. And also because six other
18:11
Speaker 1: women living in her apartment, she was watching fall in
18:14
Speaker 1: love with Rock. So Giselle, being hesitant about the whole ordeal,
18:19
Speaker 1: would lead Rock to pull out his manipulative deck of
18:22
Speaker 1: cult cards and choose the guilt trip Ace of Spades,
18:25
Speaker 1: saying that if she truly loved him and God, she
18:29
Speaker 1: would open up her heart and let these strangers sleep
18:32
Speaker 1: in her home. So Giselle inevitably would agree and Rock
18:37
Speaker 1: would continue collecting followers like Pokemon. Now, most of these
18:40
Speaker 1: followers were in their late teens to early twenties, like
18:42
Speaker 1: I said, and Rock was only in his mid thirties
18:45
Speaker 1: at this point. So most of these kids were looking
18:47
Speaker 1: to go back to school after the summer, because it
18:50
Speaker 1: was during the summer where he recruited all of them.
18:52
Speaker 1: So once fall came around, they were planning on going back,
18:55
Speaker 1: but Rock absolutely being intoxicated by the attention from his followers,
19:01
Speaker 1: was determined to devise a plan to isolate all of
19:04
Speaker 1: them and eventually and violate them as well. Just your
19:07
Speaker 1: standard cult practices. So by the summer of 1978, Rock
19:10
Speaker 1: had gathered a healthy amount of followers. But since they
19:13
Speaker 1: were planning on leaving and going back to school, like
19:15
Speaker 1: I said, Rock leaned into the beliefs of the SDA
19:19
Speaker 1: and he instilled in them previously and said that the
19:22
Speaker 1: second coming of Christ was coming soon and school was pointless. Oh,
19:27
Speaker 1: I wish my parents believed that when I was a kid.
19:29
Speaker 1: I hated school. So naturally, the kids would relent and
19:32
Speaker 1: stay with Rock. You have to understand that Rock, although
19:35
Speaker 1: he does share some similar qualities to many cult leaders,
19:38
Speaker 1: he was not off-putting at all or creepy or awkward
19:42
Speaker 1: in any means, such as cult leaders like Marshall Applewhite
19:45
Speaker 1: or Jim Jones. Rock was said to be extremely charismatic
19:49
Speaker 1: and charming. by most people, even people outside of the cult.
19:53
Speaker 1: So he essentially could talk his way into or out
19:55
Speaker 1: of anything, as we will see. So Rock would continue
19:58
Speaker 1: to teach at the stop smoking clinics where he would
20:01
Speaker 1: use to double as a recruitment center for his new followers.
20:05
Speaker 1: So at this time, the cult still revolved around healthy
20:08
Speaker 1: and spiritual living with a hint of inevitable doomsday around
20:12
Speaker 1: the corner. But some of the followers' families were growing
20:15
Speaker 1: more and more concerned about rock, naturally. So what does
20:18
Speaker 1: a cult leader do when people are starting to grow
20:20
Speaker 1: suspicious of them and their intentions? They get the hell
20:24
Speaker 1: out of Dodge. In this case, he would take the
20:26
Speaker 1: first step. I'd say step three. He'd take this third
20:28
Speaker 1: step into true culthood and move himself and his following
20:32
Speaker 1: to a little town called St. Marie, Quebec, where no
20:36
Speaker 1: one in his following had any familial connections. So he
20:39
Speaker 1: could really separate them and isolate them from anything that
20:42
Speaker 1: they knew previously and would completely depend on him. And
20:45
Speaker 1: this is where he would open the healthy living clinic
20:49
Speaker 1: under the umbrella of the SDA church. And Rock would
20:52
Speaker 1: slowly turn this entire operation into an overt cult. And
20:56
Speaker 1: step four or five, I don't know how many steps
20:59
Speaker 1: were added, step, I don't know, into any good cult
21:02
Speaker 1: is to take away any individuality at all. So Rock
21:05
Speaker 1: would force everyone to wear these super stylish uniforms. And
21:09
Speaker 1: by super stylish, I mean tunics, ankle length tunics with rope,
21:13
Speaker 1: around the waist. I just pictured Viserys from Game of Thrones.
21:17
Speaker 1: Pretty cool. Pretty cool. And the women would be forced
21:19
Speaker 1: to wear a light green tunic and the men would
21:22
Speaker 1: be forced to wear beige. And Rock being the leader,
21:26
Speaker 1: he would get to choose his own outfit, obviously. And
21:29
Speaker 1: he would choose a brown tunic. I figured he'd choose
21:32
Speaker 1: something cooler than that. I would personally, if I was
21:34
Speaker 1: a cult leader, not that I would be. I'd probably
21:36
Speaker 1: dress in like 80s Jane Fonda workout gear so I
21:39
Speaker 1: could equally look stylish and be able to run away
21:42
Speaker 1: from the police when I inevitably get caught. So Rock
21:44
Speaker 1: is now living out in St. Marie, Quebec with Giselle,
21:47
Speaker 1: his girlfriend, and his followers. And Giselle was naturally growing
21:51
Speaker 1: very weary and jealous of all of these women at
21:54
Speaker 1: this point. And to shut her up, Rock would propose
21:57
Speaker 1: to her and marry her. And he would marry her
22:00
Speaker 1: and drive to Montreal to do so in his pickup truck.
22:03
Speaker 1: And after they did get married, he would drive back
22:05
Speaker 1: to St. Marie and he would throw Giselle in the
22:08
Speaker 1: back of the truck bed that was open in January
22:10
Speaker 1: in Canada and then he would sit in the cab
22:13
Speaker 1: with Solange and Chantel, his most devoted followers. and flirt
22:18
Speaker 1: and probably get a little freaky up there. So for
22:21
Speaker 1: their honeymoon, she was literally freezing her ass off in
22:24
Speaker 1: the back of a truck bed and he was in
22:26
Speaker 1: the front seat. So eventually the other SDA leaders would
22:29
Speaker 1: grow jealous of Rock's hold on his followers and they
22:32
Speaker 1: would end up voting him out of the church, hoping
22:34
Speaker 1: that his followers would go to them. But it actually
22:37
Speaker 1: did the complete opposite. It showed that the church would
22:39
Speaker 1: just drop you at the drop of a hat if
22:41
Speaker 1: you did anything that they didn't like. So his followers
22:44
Speaker 1: grew even more devoted to Rock and would follow him.
22:47
Speaker 1: So Rock would begin molding his following together by marrying
22:51
Speaker 1: each of them off to each other. Even if they
22:53
Speaker 1: weren't remotely attracted to each other or didn't like each other,
22:55
Speaker 1: he would force them to get married to each other.
22:57
Speaker 1: And it was at this point where the cult still
22:59
Speaker 1: didn't revolve around sex completely like it would in the future.
23:02
Speaker 1: In fact, Giselle said that Rock only had sex with
23:06
Speaker 1: her to shut her up, basically. And Giselle would say,
23:09
Speaker 1: quote unquote, having sex. with Rock is like having sex
23:13
Speaker 1: with a fridge. This guy was big, by the way.
23:15
Speaker 1: He was a big, hulking man, but I just imagined
23:17
Speaker 1: him laying there, some condiments on his arms. I don't know.
23:22
Speaker 1: So by 1978, Giselle would fall pregnant with Rock's child,
23:27
Speaker 1: but she would also fall completely out of love with
23:29
Speaker 1: Rock and grow tired of him flirting with other women
23:32
Speaker 1: in her own home constantly, which is fair. And this
23:35
Speaker 1: is where the first act of violence would occur in
23:38
Speaker 1: this cult. Rock, obviously not agreeing with Giselle's decisions to leave,
23:42
Speaker 1: would punch his pregnant wife in the face until she
23:45
Speaker 1: was black and blue, and then lock her in a
23:48
Speaker 1: room for over two days without food and water. So
23:51
Speaker 1: at this point, the cult was at a crossroads. The
23:53
Speaker 1: SDA church was no longer supplying them with natural food
23:56
Speaker 1: products or literature to sell, and debt collectors were knocking
24:00
Speaker 1: at Rock's doors constantly. So Rock did what Rock does best,
24:03
Speaker 1: and he skipped town with his followers and Giselle coming
24:07
Speaker 1: along with them. So at this point he had 12 women,
24:10
Speaker 1: six men, and two children. Because if you have a problem,
24:13
Speaker 1: just run away from it. So at this point, Rock
24:18
Speaker 1: would really start spreading paranoia of the second coming because
24:22
Speaker 1: step whatever, step eight, I don't know, in cult tactics
24:26
Speaker 1: is to instill fear in everyone from leaving. So he
24:29
Speaker 1: would start instilling fear of the second coming of Christ
24:32
Speaker 1: and convince his followers this was the best course of action,
24:36
Speaker 1: to leave that is. would say the day of jesus
24:38
Speaker 1: coming back was going to be july 6th and the
24:41
Speaker 1: day of reckoning would be february 17th of the following
24:44
Speaker 1: year so he gave himself some time to think of
24:47
Speaker 1: some other to tell them which he would which we'll
24:49
Speaker 1: get to and he would convince them that he was
24:51
Speaker 1: god's personal emissary and since he was and they were
24:54
Speaker 1: completely tied to him they would make it into heaven
24:57
Speaker 1: as long as they stayed in the cult they would
24:59
Speaker 1: make it into heaven if they left They'd be burning
25:01
Speaker 1: down in hell with Satan. And he would convince them
25:03
Speaker 1: as well that they must return to nature so that
25:06
Speaker 1: when Jesus Christ did come back and he would do
25:09
Speaker 1: his 1,000-year reign, he would have a place to hang.
25:12
Speaker 1: Because apparently Jesus Christ likes to hang out in the woods,
25:15
Speaker 1: which is awesome. He would also convince them that the
25:18
Speaker 1: world was full of, quote-unquote, satanic childs out to drink
25:22
Speaker 1: your blood. Which, true. If anyone outside the church was
25:26
Speaker 1: to say otherwise, they themselves would be satanic childs. So
25:31
Speaker 1: every point you look at, he just, he had an
25:33
Speaker 1: answer for everything and as to why you can't leave
25:36
Speaker 1: the cult and you should stay. So at this point,
25:38
Speaker 1: Rock and his followers would set out on foot and
25:40
Speaker 1: find their new isolated sanctuary. And this sanctuary would be
25:44
Speaker 1: called Eternal Mountain, pretty sick name, which was a four
25:48
Speaker 1: hour walk from any sort of civilization. And they would
25:51
Speaker 1: quickly start to build a community and compound from scratch.
25:55
Speaker 1: Starting at 5 a.m. every single day, they would wake
25:58
Speaker 1: up cut down trees, haul rocks, and build while Rock
26:01
Speaker 1: unsurprisingly supervised because he had cancer and his tummy hurt.
26:06
Speaker 1: He didn't do shit. He didn't do shit except fuck everybody,
26:09
Speaker 1: but we'll get to that. And naturally, being in the
26:10
Speaker 1: middle of the woods, there was no grocery stores nearby. Or,
26:14
Speaker 1: you know, anyone that really knew how to hunt or forage,
26:17
Speaker 1: so they starved regularly. And if any of the members
26:20
Speaker 1: were to disobey Rock in any way, he would make
26:22
Speaker 1: their rations even smaller. And the cherry on top is
26:25
Speaker 1: Rock would also pull a Jim Jones card and recite
26:28
Speaker 1: sermons all through the night so his followers wouldn't sleep.
26:31
Speaker 1: So these people were starved and sleep-deprived, which made them
26:34
Speaker 1: incredibly suggestible, even more so than they already were. They
26:38
Speaker 1: would also be stripped of their own identity, Rock taking
26:42
Speaker 1: away all of their given names, and he would give
26:45
Speaker 1: them names that were from the Old Testament. And Rock,
26:48
Speaker 1: the leader of the cult, would naturally give himself the
26:51
Speaker 1: humble name of Moses, which was also the same name
26:54
Speaker 1: that the leader of Children of God was. gave himself.
26:57
Speaker 1: Very humble, very humble. So all these people are up
26:59
Speaker 1: in the forest, sleep deprived, starving, scared, and lonely. And
27:03
Speaker 1: the number of women far outweighed the number of men.
27:07
Speaker 1: And Giselle, Rock's wife, would take notice and address it
27:09
Speaker 1: to Rock. She basically said that, you know, all the
27:12
Speaker 1: women up here are miserable because they don't have partners,
27:15
Speaker 1: or most of them didn't have partners. So Rock would
27:17
Speaker 1: do a little uno reverse card and flip it on Giselle.
27:20
Speaker 1: And he would open his Bible and pick a couple
27:23
Speaker 1: scriptures that played into his favor. So he'd go into
27:25
Speaker 1: the Old Testament and find the scripture of King David
27:28
Speaker 1: and King Solomon that would declare that he should take
27:31
Speaker 1: on the difficult task of sleeping with all the women
27:34
Speaker 1: in the cult. And he would tell all the members
27:36
Speaker 1: that this was Giselle's idea, all right? She brought it
27:39
Speaker 1: up and this isn't me, all right? Giselle's crazy, but
27:41
Speaker 1: she said it, so we should do it. So it
27:43
Speaker 1: was around this time, November 18th, 1978, that Jonestown would happen,
27:46
Speaker 1: the mass... that happened in Guyana under the cult leader
27:52
Speaker 1: Jim Jones. Also, let me know if you want me
27:54
Speaker 1: to do that. I know I mentioned in every cult
27:55
Speaker 1: video that I've done so far, but let me know
27:57
Speaker 1: if you want me to deep dive on that. The
27:58
Speaker 1: People's Temple mass suicide would terrify people globally about cults,
28:03
Speaker 1: and civilians and authorities were growing suspicious of cults growing
28:07
Speaker 1: in their communities, especially in the U.S. and in Canada.
28:10
Speaker 1: So word would spread quickly about a giant French-Canadian man
28:14
Speaker 1: and his followers gathering at a place called the Eternal
28:17
Speaker 1: Mountain out in the woods in Quebec, Canada. So authorities
28:20
Speaker 1: would put everyone in the cult under a psych evaluation,
28:24
Speaker 1: but they would all pass, saying they were all sound
28:27
Speaker 1: of mind and all expressed that they were there out
28:29
Speaker 1: of their own free will. Rock would also be tested,
28:32
Speaker 1: but would unfortunately pass as well, with the psych eval
28:35
Speaker 1: people even saying, quote, unquote, Although he has slight schizophrenic
28:40
Speaker 1: hallucinations and tendencies, he was of sound mind. Listen, I'm
28:44
Speaker 1: not a doctor, but that makes no So after evading
28:47
Speaker 1: the authorities, Rock would annul all current marriages within the
28:51
Speaker 1: cult and every woman would be forced to marry Rock. What? Oh,
28:55
Speaker 1: I didn't see this coming. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's
28:57
Speaker 1: what every cult leader does. It's like there's a handbook
28:59
Speaker 1: that they all read at the same time, but there's not.
29:01
Speaker 1: So it's just... Weird. So all the women would be
29:04
Speaker 1: married to Rock and Brock alone. Most days in the
29:06
Speaker 1: cult would consist of everyone else working outside and Rock
29:10
Speaker 1: taking two or more women into his bedroom and sleeping
29:14
Speaker 1: with them all through the day and night. Some of
29:16
Speaker 1: the women were more than happy to oblige to this,
29:19
Speaker 1: but some of them were still not completely on board.
29:22
Speaker 1: but they were too scared to say anything, so they'd
29:24
Speaker 1: just go along with it. And if you think that's up,
29:26
Speaker 1: just wait, because it gets way, way, way, way worse.
29:31
Speaker 1: If you're eating a snack right now, for example, I'm
29:34
Speaker 1: gonna give you a forewarning that you're probably gonna hate
29:36
Speaker 1: whatever you're eating in the next half of this. So
29:39
Speaker 1: the women in the car naturally quickly got jealous of
29:42
Speaker 1: one another, all sleeping with the same man. What? So
29:46
Speaker 1: all of them would begin writing love letters to Rock
29:48
Speaker 1: in competition with one another. One of them would say,
29:51
Speaker 1: quote unquote, Adored Pappy, well-loved master, my heart is sliding
29:55
Speaker 1: next to your immense father's heart. You have brought a
29:58
Speaker 1: lot of peace. I am happy about the lovely family
30:01
Speaker 1: you have formed and allowed me to be part of.
30:04
Speaker 1: Thank you equally for the promise of better days. I
30:07
Speaker 1: feel very good. and being at your side, and to
30:10
Speaker 1: be one of your children, and to live simply but fully.
30:13
Speaker 1: She sucked at commas. And before finishing, I would like
30:15
Speaker 1: to tell you again before I had the impression of
30:18
Speaker 1: losing my breath the other night. I am slime. I
30:20
Speaker 1: am less than nothing. And I beg your pardon for
30:24
Speaker 1: all of the errors of my flesh. I love you, Pappy.
30:26
Speaker 1: That was another name that they gave him was Pappy.
30:28
Speaker 1: It was either Pappy or Moses. There was no in between. Love. Thursta. P.S.
30:32
Speaker 1: Please excuse my handwriting. Her name is Thursta. That's what
30:35
Speaker 1: he gave her the name of, which fits because Thursta
30:37
Speaker 1: was thirsty. Sorry, I had to. If I start sweating,
30:39
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. And also I'm nervous because this is going
30:41
Speaker 1: to get really gross really soon. So obviously Rock was
30:44
Speaker 1: loving the devoted attention from his female followers and also
30:47
Speaker 1: came to the conclusion that following the SDA scripture was
30:51
Speaker 1: devoid of purpose. It was getting kind of lame for him.
30:54
Speaker 1: He kind of wanted to make his own rules. Given
30:56
Speaker 1: that all his followers were following him and not the
30:58
Speaker 1: church per se, he decided to do whatever the he wanted.
31:02
Speaker 1: So he abandoned vegetarianism, started eating and drinking Pepsi, alcohol,
31:07
Speaker 1: and his favorite being cognac, and would consume things like
31:11
Speaker 1: potato chips, fries, just all the good stuff. And this
31:14
Speaker 1: would in fact truly lead him into his violent masochistic
31:18
Speaker 1: behavior that would make this seemingly mild-mannered cult at the
31:22
Speaker 1: time turn into the stuff of nightmares. For example, we
31:26
Speaker 1: know Rock would love to rant and rant about himself
31:30
Speaker 1: in his sermons. And if someone had the audacity to
31:33
Speaker 1: fall asleep during one of these sermons because, you know,
31:36
Speaker 1: they were all sleep deprived. Rock would take a wooden
31:39
Speaker 1: club and beat them awake. And when one of his
31:42
Speaker 1: pregnant female members ate one too many pancakes at breakfast
31:46
Speaker 1: one morning, he would beat her as well and break
31:49
Speaker 1: a couple of her ribs. But some of the more
31:52
Speaker 1: particular cruelties, however, were inflicted upon children of the cult,
31:57
Speaker 1: which is disgusting. I just, I hope this piece of
31:59
Speaker 1: shit is just rotting and rotting in hell and just
32:01
Speaker 1: being burnt and and Satan's doing all the things he
32:04
Speaker 1: did to people in hell. But anyway, at this point,
32:07
Speaker 1: Rock had impregnated almost all of the women in the
32:10
Speaker 1: cult besides one member, Maurice, which we'll talk about later.
32:15
Speaker 1: But there were also other children that were there before
32:17
Speaker 1: Rock's children came along, and they would be treated like
32:21
Speaker 1: they were less than human, to say the least. He
32:23
Speaker 1: would literally treat them like animals, making them sleep separate
32:27
Speaker 1: from their parents, often impregnated. in sheds, even if they
32:29
Speaker 1: were infants, by the way. And when one of the mothers, Maurice,
32:33
Speaker 1: six-month-old baby, was crying too much, Rock would order her
32:36
Speaker 1: to strip her baby naked and roll him in the
32:39
Speaker 1: snow until he was completely blue. Maurice being the only
32:42
Speaker 1: woman in the cult that was not wed to Rock,
32:45
Speaker 1: like I said before, because her husband was Rock's right-hand
32:48
Speaker 1: man and he let him have a wife of his own.
32:51
Speaker 1: And Maurice was not on board with with Rock at
32:53
Speaker 1: any point, basically. She only joined the cult because Maurice's
32:57
Speaker 1: husband was so devoted to Rock. Naturally, Maurice decided she
33:00
Speaker 1: was fed up with the abuse she and her children
33:03
Speaker 1: were receiving, and she wanted to leave the cult. But
33:05
Speaker 1: Rock would not let her, and this would give him
33:07
Speaker 1: an opportunity to assert his dominance within the cult. He
33:10
Speaker 1: would force Maurice's husband, Jacques, to cut off one of
33:15
Speaker 1: her toes in front of the other cult members. And
33:17
Speaker 1: Jacques would be hesitant at first, thank God. Rock would say,
33:21
Speaker 1: that if Jacques didn't cut off one of her toes,
33:24
Speaker 1: Rock would cut off all of them. So Jacques inevitably
33:27
Speaker 1: took an axe and proceeded to cut off one of
33:30
Speaker 1: Maurice's toes. And this would be the first in mutilation
33:33
Speaker 1: he made Jacques do, but Rock would do a lot
33:36
Speaker 1: of that in the future. So this would help solidify
33:38
Speaker 1: the fear of disobeying or leaving the cult completely. So
33:42
Speaker 1: February 17th, 1979, would eventually roll around. Remember, this was
33:47
Speaker 1: the day that Jesus was supposed to come back and
33:49
Speaker 1: hang out in the woods. But this never happened. What?
33:53
Speaker 1: It's crazy. What? What did Rock do? Did they all
33:57
Speaker 1: leave because they were smart? No. Rock's explanation to this
34:01
Speaker 1: would be that time just works differently in heaven. Yep.
34:05
Speaker 1: That's just, it's, I forgot to mention that before, but I, it's,
34:08
Speaker 1: that's what's, that's why, that's why he didn't come back.
34:11
Speaker 1: It's just crazy. He said that one second in heaven
34:13
Speaker 1: can equate to 40 years on earth. So the people
34:17
Speaker 1: in the cult just were in just constant fear that
34:19
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ was going to come back because there was
34:21
Speaker 1: no actual timeframe anymore. And it was at this time,
34:24
Speaker 1: Quebec city would do a piece on the anthill kids,
34:27
Speaker 1: which is the cult we're talking about right now. But
34:28
Speaker 1: it was nothing but positive feedback with the headline reading, quote,
34:32
Speaker 1: they are happy and they are free to live if
34:35
Speaker 1: they wish. That was the headline. The outside world looking
34:38
Speaker 1: in literally thought Rock was just this awesome, rugged, Canadian,
34:43
Speaker 1: free-spirited man who a lot of bitches and people like
34:47
Speaker 1: that for some reason. I don't know. They looked up
34:49
Speaker 1: to him because he had all these devoted people around him.
34:52
Speaker 1: And they thought this because their main source for information
34:56
Speaker 1: in this article came from a cult member that had
34:59
Speaker 1: left very, very early on when it was just nothing
35:02
Speaker 1: but a positive cult and said that he was even
35:04
Speaker 1: debating going back to the cult and that Rock was
35:07
Speaker 1: just this open, free-loving guy that taught him about God, etc.
35:11
Speaker 1: So that's the opinion that the outside world had on
35:15
Speaker 1: Rock and his cult. But it would garner the attention
35:17
Speaker 1: of authorities again, and they would be forced to be
35:19
Speaker 1: put under psych eval again. All passing with flying colors,
35:23
Speaker 1: except for Rock this time. Rock would be put in
35:26
Speaker 1: a mental institution to get his assessment done after his
35:29
Speaker 1: first initial one. But Rock, being the manipulative f *
35:32
Speaker 1: * *, that he was would call the press and
35:35
Speaker 1: switch the script pull the uno reverse card and say
35:38
Speaker 1: that the psych people were completely against him and that
35:41
Speaker 1: they were evil and the press would already be on
35:43
Speaker 1: his side so they would print articles about how terrible
35:47
Speaker 1: the asylum was so they would inevitably let rock go
35:50
Speaker 1: as a result of rock's manipulative tactics with the public
35:54
Speaker 1: and a lack of proper investigative journalism people were about
35:57
Speaker 1: to start dying as a result in the cult Now, Rock,
36:00
Speaker 1: if you remembered, was previously married to Francine. You know,
36:04
Speaker 1: the woman he married and had two kids with and
36:06
Speaker 1: just abandoned out of nowhere and slept with multiple other women?
36:09
Speaker 1: That Francine? Classic Rock. But after Rock made the commune
36:13
Speaker 1: into something that he could be proud of, he would
36:16
Speaker 1: convince Francine to come back with his kids to visit.
36:19
Speaker 1: on multiple occasions. And she would, she would come back
36:22
Speaker 1: because he was just this charismatic guy who nobody could
36:25
Speaker 1: say no to for some reason. But one night when
36:27
Speaker 1: she and her kids came back, Rock was showing his
36:30
Speaker 1: feet of strength. He would just like to stand on
36:32
Speaker 1: stage and just do random shit. Dude would blow bubbles
36:35
Speaker 1: on stage and everybody would be like, you know? So
36:38
Speaker 1: he was up on stage, but he was bending 12
36:41
Speaker 1: inch nails into V shapes. And everybody in the cult
36:44
Speaker 1: was clapping and singing his praises. And Francine, knowing that
36:47
Speaker 1: he's just an idiot, just burst out laughing while he
36:51
Speaker 1: was doing this. But this would be a tragic mistake,
36:54
Speaker 1: as Rock would immediately stop what he was doing and
36:57
Speaker 1: proceed to punch and kick and beat Francine while she
37:01
Speaker 1: screamed for help from the people around her. Because the
37:04
Speaker 1: whole cult was watching at this point. Not one of
37:06
Speaker 1: them said a word or did anything while he was
37:09
Speaker 1: doing this. Also in front of her children. Because at
37:11
Speaker 1: this point, they were not remotely surprised by... Rock's random
37:16
Speaker 1: bursts of rage and violence. And she would live, but
37:20
Speaker 1: she wouldn't come back to the commune after that. And
37:23
Speaker 1: from here, the violence and overall darkness would continue to
37:27
Speaker 1: escalate into new levels. As we know, Rock treated the
37:30
Speaker 1: children that weren't his own like pieces of shit. At
37:34
Speaker 1: this point, he would ban them from receiving any sort
37:37
Speaker 1: of love from their families at all. They would be
37:39
Speaker 1: forced to work every single day and sleep in sheds,
37:43
Speaker 1: even outside sometimes. Which, if you live in Canada, you
37:46
Speaker 1: know 80% of the year, especially moving up north, is
37:50
Speaker 1: pretty much not survivable. And this would be the case
37:52
Speaker 1: for one of the children. Samuel Jagar, a two-year-old, was
37:56
Speaker 1: crying one night. in the commune. And Rock, not liking
38:00
Speaker 1: the sound of crying children, decided that the only thing
38:03
Speaker 1: to remedy this would be to circumcise the child. So
38:07
Speaker 1: he would take a razor blade and do just that
38:10
Speaker 1: to the kid while it was awake. And Rock, thinking
38:13
Speaker 1: that he needed some sort of antiseptic to help, Rock
38:17
Speaker 1: would pour pure ethanol into a plastic bulb and pump
38:22
Speaker 1: it into Samuel's stomach. And before long, Rock killed the
38:26
Speaker 1: two-year-old through acute alcohol poisoning. Like, the things that he does, like,
38:31
Speaker 1: they don't make sense. Like, even I know, you know,
38:33
Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor, nor is he, but I know
38:35
Speaker 1: that pumping, you know, pure ethanol into a child's stomach
38:39
Speaker 1: is going to kill them. So he just didn't care.
38:41
Speaker 1: He had no... regard for anybody's life, especially the kids
38:45
Speaker 1: that weren't his. After he killed the boy, he would
38:47
Speaker 1: insist that the other cult members incinerate his body so
38:50
Speaker 1: if any authorities were to come up to the cult,
38:52
Speaker 1: all the evidence would be gone. He would also blame
38:55
Speaker 1: the child's death on one of the other male members,
38:59
Speaker 1: because the other cult members didn't actually know that Rock
39:01
Speaker 1: committed this crime, basically. So he would essentially create his
39:05
Speaker 1: own makeshift court, him being the judge, obviously, and some
39:09
Speaker 1: of the other cult members being the prosecutor, the defender,
39:12
Speaker 1: and jury. Naturally, it would rule in Rock's favor, and
39:15
Speaker 1: he would sentence the male member Guy Vier to be
39:18
Speaker 1: castrated with a razor blade. This guy just loved mutilating
39:23
Speaker 1: people's genitals, as you will come to see. But he
39:25
Speaker 1: would not stop there. Through the weeks following, he would
39:29
Speaker 1: often get completely obliterated off alcohol and tie Guy Viere
39:33
Speaker 1: to a tree and beat him until he was black
39:35
Speaker 1: and blue. And he often told the members to gather
39:38
Speaker 1: round and stab him to death But once they got
39:41
Speaker 1: just close enough, he would tell them to stop and
39:44
Speaker 1: would laugh and would just basically bask in the fact
39:46
Speaker 1: that he could tell his followers to do anything, even
39:49
Speaker 1: stab a man to death, and they wouldn't hesitate. Luckily, Guy,
39:51
Speaker 1: after months of abuse, would sneak out of the compound
39:55
Speaker 1: and go to authorities to tell them all the atrocities
39:58
Speaker 1: that Rock had done. So authorities, for once, would do
40:01
Speaker 1: their job and storm the compound, arresting Rock along with
40:04
Speaker 1: three members of the cult. while also having the children
40:08
Speaker 1: removed from the compound. But Rock would only rot in
40:11
Speaker 1: jail for two years. Two years. What the fuck? For
40:16
Speaker 1: killing a toddler. It's crazy. And the others had lesser sentences.
40:21
Speaker 1: And not a single member of the cult over this
40:23
Speaker 1: time period would leave the cult. They would all just
40:26
Speaker 1: sit and wait for Rock to come back. He would
40:27
Speaker 1: also manage to get three of the cult members pregnant
40:31
Speaker 1: during his imprisonment. This is the Canadian judicial system, by
40:34
Speaker 1: the way. It's just... I don't understand why they're letting
40:37
Speaker 1: this freak procreate behind bars. That is just beyond me.
40:41
Speaker 1: So in February 1984, Rock would be released from prison.
40:46
Speaker 1: And given he was banned in Quebec from having communications
40:50
Speaker 1: from the other members that also got arrested, he decided
40:53
Speaker 1: to pick up his cult and take them to Ontario, Canada.
40:56
Speaker 1: Because the laws didn't apply in Ontario, which that makes
40:59
Speaker 1: no sense. So he would move them to a 200-acre
41:03
Speaker 1: lot east of the Burnt River, where the worst of
41:06
Speaker 1: the atrocities would be committed. On this new compound, Rock
41:09
Speaker 1: would force his members to build a two-story house, a bakery,
41:13
Speaker 1: and a sugar shack where they made maple syrup. I
41:15
Speaker 1: hate that this shit stain is associated with our Canadian delicacy,
41:20
Speaker 1: but he is. And at this point, Rock had 12
41:23
Speaker 1: members and 13 children in his cult. And each member
41:26
Speaker 1: would get a specific job on the compound, whether it
41:29
Speaker 1: was building, baking, being Rock's personal hairdresser, or even being
41:33
Speaker 1: Rock's personal masseuse. Pass. Rock was struggling to keep the
41:37
Speaker 1: compound afloat, though, with how little money they had and
41:40
Speaker 1: how poorly the crops were producing in that area, because
41:43
Speaker 1: near Burnt River, The soil just didn't produce crops. So
41:46
Speaker 1: he would convince his followers to start shoplifting and begging
41:49
Speaker 1: for money outside of the compound. But when that still
41:53
Speaker 1: wasn't enough, Rock would decide to get into the fruit business,
41:57
Speaker 1: as one does. And he would send a couple of
42:00
Speaker 1: his members down to Niagara Peninsula, which was also known
42:03
Speaker 1: as Ontario's Fruit Basket. Who would have thought? So the
42:06
Speaker 1: whole plan was to bring up hundreds of pounds of
42:09
Speaker 1: fruit and sell them to the locals around their compound.
42:12
Speaker 1: And this business model would prove to be extremely successful.
42:14
Speaker 1: And he would create a company around it called none
42:17
Speaker 1: other than the Ant Hill Kids. Oh my God, she
42:20
Speaker 1: said the name of the video that we're watching in
42:23
Speaker 1: the name of the cult. Yep, that's where it came from.
42:25
Speaker 1: That's where it came from, a fruit company. So let's
42:27
Speaker 1: get into some of the atrocities. First of which were
42:31
Speaker 1: the atrocities which mostly were consensual. So Rock would take
42:36
Speaker 1: two to eight of the women to come into his
42:38
Speaker 1: room and have sex with him. And those that weren't
42:41
Speaker 1: having sex with him had to massage him. And even
42:44
Speaker 1: after Rock finished, he would make all the women pleasure
42:46
Speaker 1: themselves while he watched. He's just a giant cuck. And
42:49
Speaker 1: after that, he would encourage jealousy amongst the women. He
42:53
Speaker 1: would draw a square in the middle of the floor
42:55
Speaker 1: make them undress and beat each other naked to see
42:59
Speaker 1: who was the best women in the compound, basically. Giving
43:02
Speaker 1: and taking away points whether one got pushed out or
43:05
Speaker 1: one was able to stay in. He would even get
43:07
Speaker 1: some of the men to stand in the circle, but
43:09
Speaker 1: since he said that other men couldn't beat on the
43:12
Speaker 1: women of the cult, the men would just stand in
43:14
Speaker 1: the square and just get the shit kicked out of
43:16
Speaker 1: them by these husky forest-dwelling cutthroat women. Rock wouldn't stop there, though.
43:22
Speaker 1: He would often, at random, just beat his followers without
43:25
Speaker 1: any warning, sometimes hitting their head with the flat side
43:28
Speaker 1: of an axe or a club. He would circumcise some
43:31
Speaker 1: of the members, and one of his favorites was stripping
43:34
Speaker 1: them naked and beating on them, forcing them to open
43:37
Speaker 1: their mouths while he did it. Rock would also often
43:40
Speaker 1: force the children to join the as well, making them
43:44
Speaker 1: watch the and even making them participate in some of
43:48
Speaker 1: the scenarios. He would also force them to in front
43:54
Speaker 1: of him, and he would say that this was just
43:56
Speaker 1: a form of And if there was any kind of
44:00
Speaker 1: retaliation or disobedience from the children, he would often throw
44:04
Speaker 1: them against trees, throw them in freezing lakes nearby, crush
44:08
Speaker 1: their fingers, even nail them to trees via their clothing
44:13
Speaker 1: as a mock crucifixion and force the other kids and
44:16
Speaker 1: adults to stone them. He would even hold two babies
44:19
Speaker 1: over a fire at one point while the mothers screamed
44:22
Speaker 1: for him to stop. And he would just laugh saying
44:25
Speaker 1: that he might throw one of them in the fire
44:26
Speaker 1: for fun. He never did, but this was quite literally
44:31
Speaker 1: a horror movie that they lived in. And again, Rock
44:33
Speaker 1: had literally convinced these people that God would strike them
44:37
Speaker 1: down if they left at any moment. So it was
44:39
Speaker 1: just one of those horrible brainwashing scenarios where no one
44:44
Speaker 1: in the cult felt that they could leave or retaliate
44:46
Speaker 1: in any way until it got really, really bad, which
44:49
Speaker 1: we haven't even gotten there yet. Luckily though, Maurice, the
44:52
Speaker 1: only member that was married to another cult member and
44:55
Speaker 1: that was on the edge of leaving the whole time,
44:57
Speaker 1: and mother of the two-year-old that got poisoned by Rock,
44:59
Speaker 1: was able to leave the commune. Due to Rock feeling
45:02
Speaker 1: that she was too much of a liability because she
45:04
Speaker 1: was talking too much shit in the cult and he
45:06
Speaker 1: didn't want her... changing the other cult members' minds, essentially.
45:10
Speaker 1: So Maurice would leave and then she would track down
45:13
Speaker 1: a social worker and authorities and would tell them about
45:16
Speaker 1: all the atrocities that were happening up at Eternal Mountain.
45:19
Speaker 1: And luckily, they would go to the compound and take
45:22
Speaker 1: away the children from Rock and their mothers and put
45:25
Speaker 1: them into foster care. Thank God. But Rock did not
45:30
Speaker 1: give a shit about the kids leaving. He basically saw
45:32
Speaker 1: this whole situation as a necessary sacrifice to keep his
45:35
Speaker 1: family up fantasy land thriving. And you'd think that the
45:38
Speaker 1: police would have enough evidence to return Rock to prison,
45:42
Speaker 1: but he would play upon the sensibilities of the assigned
45:45
Speaker 1: child psychologist, who he believed this psychologist would not only
45:50
Speaker 1: exonerate Rock, but express admiration for all the work he'd
45:54
Speaker 1: done in bringing children back to the state of nature.
45:58
Speaker 1: What the It was basically painted as a victim in
46:02
Speaker 1: a prejudiced society, and it was recommended by the psychologists
46:06
Speaker 1: that the children would be given back. What? They weren't.
46:09
Speaker 1: They weren't. They weren't. But thankfully, they weren't. The request
46:12
Speaker 1: was overruled by a competent judge, and the children were
46:15
Speaker 1: taken away for good. But this broke down. something in rock.
46:19
Speaker 1: It unlocked an even more vile and violent man anyone
46:24
Speaker 1: knew that he was capable of. And the atrocities would
46:26
Speaker 1: just keep getting worse because now that the children were gone,
46:29
Speaker 1: he didn't care at all. Not that he even cared before,
46:32
Speaker 1: but let's get into it. So with the children gone,
46:35
Speaker 1: the behavior of the anthill kids deteriorated into a cycle
46:39
Speaker 1: of and violence. And Rock would grow even more dangerously
46:44
Speaker 1: unstable as time went on, burning the skin off several
46:47
Speaker 1: cultists with a welding torch, striking one of his pregnant
46:50
Speaker 1: wives so hard in the stomach that she would suffer
46:54
Speaker 1: a miscarriage. He would often use pliers to yank out
46:57
Speaker 1: the teeth of his followers just on a whim for
47:00
Speaker 1: no reason. And he would also just beat, stab, and
47:04
Speaker 1: shoot them. They were like his playthings, basically. Everybody was
47:07
Speaker 1: just just a piece of meat sitting around for rot.
47:10
Speaker 1: He'd even force one of the members, Claudette, to eat
47:13
Speaker 1: human feces and a dead mouse. And after all these
47:16
Speaker 1: acts that he would commit, he would always collapse onto
47:19
Speaker 1: his knees immediately after and beg for forgiveness from God,
47:23
Speaker 1: asking why God is making him commit all of these
47:26
Speaker 1: atrocities against his followers. So he would just, you know,
47:29
Speaker 1: blame God, blame the guy in the sky, okay? It
47:31
Speaker 1: was not any of his fault. And this is something
47:33
Speaker 1: that so many cult leaders do as well. They just
47:35
Speaker 1: say like, well, he told me to, so... I don't
47:37
Speaker 1: know what to say. By 1988, the physical cost of
47:40
Speaker 1: this lifestyle with lack of sleep, nutrition, and constant violence
47:45
Speaker 1: was beginning to show in poor health in Rock's followers.
47:48
Speaker 1: But Rock would show no mercy. Solange Boyard in particular.
47:53
Speaker 1: Solange would express how she was suffering from stomach pain
47:56
Speaker 1: at the time. And you'd think because Rock himself was
47:59
Speaker 1: constantly suffering from stomach pain from his previous surgeries, he'd
48:02
Speaker 1: have some sympathy. And because she was one of his favorites,
48:05
Speaker 1: but he didn't care. at all. And he would commit,
48:09
Speaker 1: in my opinion, the worst atrocity to Solange. So instead,
48:12
Speaker 1: he would make her undergo a makeshift operation done by
48:16
Speaker 1: Rock himself. He began by giving Solange an enema consisting
48:20
Speaker 1: of molasses, oil, and water. And then he would proceed
48:24
Speaker 1: to cut open her stomach and rip out her intestines
48:27
Speaker 1: with his bare hands, flooding the abdominal cavity with digestive acids.
48:32
Speaker 1: The cult would also watch all of this happen and
48:35
Speaker 1: not say a single word out of Complete fear. Even
48:38
Speaker 1: with Solange screaming and writhing in pain, he forced a
48:42
Speaker 1: couple of the other cult members to crudely stitch her
48:46
Speaker 1: up while she was still alive. And they would just
48:48
Speaker 1: leave her on the floor in that building, just screaming
48:51
Speaker 1: in pain until she inevitably died. hours later. But even
48:56
Speaker 1: after her death and being buried, Rock grew even more mad.
49:01
Speaker 1: Convinced he could rise her from the dead, he would
49:04
Speaker 1: force his disciples to dig her body back up, cut
49:08
Speaker 1: open her skull, and make them join him in into
49:13
Speaker 1: her decaying brain. It's just terrible. He would then cut
49:19
Speaker 1: out some of her ribs as well and make them
49:21
Speaker 1: into a necklace convinced that one day he would like
49:24
Speaker 1: adam give birth to solange by biblical means this man
49:28
Speaker 1: was was single-handedly the most evil human being i have
49:33
Speaker 1: ever come across. And I hope to God he's rotting
49:35
Speaker 1: in hell, like I've said before, and that Satan is
49:37
Speaker 1: doing all these atrocities to him and the other people
49:40
Speaker 1: that did them as well for eternity. Anyway, let's continue.
49:43
Speaker 1: Since one of the members, Gabrielle, had joined, she had
49:46
Speaker 1: always been one of the members singled out by Rock
49:49
Speaker 1: and not in a good way. He would rip out
49:51
Speaker 1: eight of her teeth just because she said one of
49:54
Speaker 1: her teeth in the back of her mouth was hurting.
49:56
Speaker 1: He would just rip out eight of them with pliers.
49:58
Speaker 1: But on July 29th, 1989, he would commit suicide the
50:02
Speaker 1: final act of torture that would bring him and his
50:05
Speaker 1: cult crashing down. Gabrielle would complain about a stiff finger
50:09
Speaker 1: and he would remedy this by impaling her right hand
50:13
Speaker 1: with a hunting knife and pinning it on the kitchen table.
50:16
Speaker 1: And he would leave her there for hours just with
50:19
Speaker 1: her screaming in pain and bleeding profusely. But she was
50:23
Speaker 1: desperate to avoid passing out because she didn't want the
50:26
Speaker 1: same thing To happen to her, that happened to Solange,
50:29
Speaker 1: because as soon as Solange lost consciousness, that's when they
50:32
Speaker 1: ended her life. So she was just trying to stay
50:34
Speaker 1: awake the whole time. And he would come back while
50:37
Speaker 1: she was still awake, but he would free her by
50:39
Speaker 1: severing her arm between her shoulder and elbow with slingshot.
50:44
Speaker 1: A box cutter. Gabrielle would somehow survive the torture though
50:48
Speaker 1: and run away to a women's shelter shortly after her
50:51
Speaker 1: arm got cut off. But one of the members of
50:53
Speaker 1: the cult would go to the women's shelter and somehow
50:56
Speaker 1: convince her to come back. And the cult member that
50:58
Speaker 1: convinced her to come back had recently had the tip
51:01
Speaker 1: of his... Cut off by Rock, just out of a whim.
51:04
Speaker 1: So you could just see how incredibly brainwashed these people were.
51:07
Speaker 1: So Gabrielle would return and a few days later in
51:10
Speaker 1: August 1989, Rock would make his followers hold Gabrielle down
51:15
Speaker 1: as he heated a drive shaft with a torch and
51:18
Speaker 1: apply it to the stump of her arm. Three days later,
51:21
Speaker 1: she would thankfully run away again to the same women's
51:23
Speaker 1: shelter and go to the hospital. But even then, questioned
51:27
Speaker 1: by police in the hospital, Gabrielle would still stick with
51:31
Speaker 1: Rock and say that he had nothing to do with
51:33
Speaker 1: it and that she got in a freak car accident.
51:35
Speaker 1: But the inconsistencies in her story didn't add up, so
51:39
Speaker 1: on August 9th, the authorities would return to the compound
51:42
Speaker 1: to search and arrest, only to find that everyone in
51:45
Speaker 1: the cult had vanished. But don't worry, this isn't some
51:48
Speaker 1: Roanoke situation, all right? We're gonna get the justice we deserve,
51:51
Speaker 1: so stick with me. The dismemberment of Gabrielle turned out
51:54
Speaker 1: to be the last straw for a lot of Rock's members,
51:57
Speaker 1: and they grew the courage to flee, along with Rock
51:59
Speaker 1: as well, but would flee not only by himself, but
52:02
Speaker 1: with his other devoted members, Nicole, Chantel, and Jacques. And
52:06
Speaker 1: they would manage to evade capture for a full two weeks,
52:09
Speaker 1: hiding in a makeshift camouflage shed in and around the
52:13
Speaker 1: compound that was there before. So clearly the police didn't
52:15
Speaker 1: search that well, but whatever. And this is when Giselle,
52:18
Speaker 1: Rock's second wife, would tell the authorities about Solange's death
52:22
Speaker 1: and he would be tried for murder. On December 18th,
52:25
Speaker 1: the judge ordered Rock Terrio to be held on trial
52:28
Speaker 1: for second degree murder. On January 18th, Rock would be
52:32
Speaker 1: sentenced to only... 10 years in prison with the possibility
52:35
Speaker 1: of parole for good behavior. And that's the Canadian judicial
52:39
Speaker 1: system in a nutshell for you. Genuinely, it's terrible as
52:43
Speaker 1: we see time and time again. On a little side
52:45
Speaker 1: note in regards to that specifically, do you know that
52:49
Speaker 1: Canadian serial killer that I talked about that murdered and
52:51
Speaker 1: mutilated over 49 women? He got charged a little over
52:54
Speaker 1: 20 years ago and he's eligible to seek parole now.
52:58
Speaker 1: So go f * * * yourself, Canadian Supreme Court. Anyway,
53:00
Speaker 1: so after Rock got charged and sentenced, most of his
53:03
Speaker 1: followers would disappear into anonymity. But a couple would go
53:08
Speaker 1: to seek help and even write memoirs about the horrific
53:11
Speaker 1: experiences that they had at the compound including gabrielle and
53:15
Speaker 1: rock's eldest sons but francine chantal and nicole would rent
53:19
Speaker 1: houses near the prison and continue to follow rock even
53:23
Speaker 1: getting impregnated by him while living there and although rock
53:26
Speaker 1: was able to charm a few of his followers and
53:28
Speaker 1: some of the prison psychiatrists even he was not able
53:32
Speaker 1: to sway his fellow prisoners. This is where it gets great.
53:35
Speaker 1: In April 1993, Rock was transferred to the Kingston Penitentiary
53:40
Speaker 1: for his own protection against the other prisoners because they
53:43
Speaker 1: all hated him. But this would be unsuccessful. Oh, what? no.
53:48
Speaker 1: On February 23rd, 2011, prison videos show Rock's cellmate, Matthew
53:54
Speaker 1: Gerard McDonald, rock in the neck to death with a shiv.
53:59
Speaker 1: McDonald would shortly walk up to the guards outside of
54:01
Speaker 1: their cell and say to them, that piece of shit
54:04
Speaker 1: is downrange. Here's the knife. I've sliced him up. That's
54:08
Speaker 1: just metal. That's pretty, I don't know what he did personally,
54:11
Speaker 1: but he did some good that day, at least. And
54:13
Speaker 1: on that MVP badass note, that concludes my deep dive video.
54:18
Speaker 1: I know it was a long one, so I appreciate
54:21
Speaker 1: you sticking around, but my God, was it interesting, disturbing
54:24
Speaker 1: and informative during my research. So I hope that you
54:27
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54:29
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54:31
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54:38
Speaker 1: It is what it is. Bye.