**Warning: This episode contains descriptions of brutality against adults and children. Listener discretion is advised.
** A direct quote from Roch Thériault contains a slur.
Thériault promised his loyal followers that he would save them from the apocalypse. He convinced them that the only way to survive the end of the world was by following his teachings and living out their days in isolation from the outside world. But the Ant Hill Kids Cult was a dangerous and violent commune, under the rule of a violent alcoholic, one of the cruellest sadists in Canadian criminal history: Roch Thériault.
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