Theriault was arrested and charged with murder the following year after another cult member, whose arm had been hacked off by Theriault with a meat cleaver, told hospital authorities what had happened. At his trial in 1993, even more horrific tales came to light. The cult leader had burned women with a welding torch, put vice-grips on their nipples, and cut their fingers off with a wire cutter. The alcoholic and delusional Theriault apparently thought he was driving the devil out of them.
Theriault also demanded sex from all of the women members in an attempt to increase the number of cult members through children. After a new member of the cult, an escapee from a mental hospital, beat a child at the compound, Theriault performed ‘surgery’ on the child. When the child then died, Theriault castrated the man as punishment. After authorities learned about some of the activities at the ranch, they removed all of the children.
The 1993 trial came to an abrupt end when Theriault pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to life in prison and remains incarcerated. This Day in History online article September 28th 1988
THOMAS, JACQUETTA murder: viz Miscarriage of Justice: Taylor, Greg & Murder Cases: Taylor, Greg
THOMAS, RICHARD: How I Caught the Killer TV -
Michigan, 1971: A newlywed groom is gunned down in front of his bride. How I Caught the Killer s2e9: Jealousy is Murder, Sky Crime 2020
This was one cold case that was about to get hot … Her [bride] repeated statements about Richard Thomas … ‘She basically became his possession at the age of 13.’ ibid.
With nothing to tie him to the scene Thomas could make his play … The failure to pin the Butler murder on Thomas was to have fatal consequences. ibid.
The detectives decided to start with their prime suspect Richard Thomas who was now sixty years old. ibid.
THOMASON, TIMOTHY: The Killer Speaks TV - Associated Press online -
March 12 1992: on the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas ... more human remains ... the victim is a male ... Scott Prince. The Killer Speaks s2e2: Timothy Thomason: Perfect Murder, commentator, A&E 2014
‘The murder – it was perfect.’ ibid. Thomason
In 2001 a California inmate named Timothy Thomason breaks the case wide open ... ‘I can’t live with it no more.’ ibid.
Hondo, Texas (AP) – A guilt-ridden California prison inmate, serving a four-year sentence in San Quentin on a grand theft charge, has been extradited to Texas to be tried for the killing 11 years ago of an Air Force sergeant outside San Antonio.
The files on the disappearance on Nov. 9, 1990, of Scott M Prince had been all but forgotten when Timothy C Thomason told California officials last May 30 that he robbed and strangled the airman with the help of two others.
Thomason told California officials he robbed and strangled the airman with the help of two others.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit by Medina County Sheriff Joe Tschirhart, Thomason said he and a female friend posed as hitchhikers on Loop 410 in San Antonio, planning to rob whoever stopped.
Prince was overpowered and robbed after he picked up the pair, Thomason reportedly said, and they then were joined by an acquaintance he identified only as ‘Mike’.
According to the affidavit, Thomason said he and his friend strangled Prince at a ranch owned by a relative of Mike, who watched, and the body was dumped near Medina Lake, about 25 miles northwest of San Antonio.
Thomason, who did not fight extradition, was charged with capital murder last week at the Medina County Jail in Hondo. He is being held without bond. Associated Press article 27th December 2001
THOMPSON, CHARLES: I Am a Killer TV -
‘I was convicted of capital murder, double murder statue, of his girlfriend and another man.’ I Am a Killer: Intended Evil: Charles Thompson s1e8, CI 2018
In April 1999 Charles Thompson was convicted of murdering Darren Cain and Dennise Hayslip. ibid.
THOMPSON, CHRIS: Signs of a Psychopath TV -
Hi, my name is Paula Thompson and my son actually is on probation and he’s trying to get in the house … Signs of a Psychpath s5e6: I Guess My Life is Over Now, 911 call
Chris is currently unemployed, and on probation from a prior assault conviction. ibid.
March 18th 2020 4:35 p.m. Des Moines Police Station: She’s basically telling me that my life is just a pathetic piece of shit. ibid. Chris
THOMPSON, DENA: The Black Widow - Guardian online -
Convicted of murder by poisoning her husband with a hot curry. In their investigation Sussex Police uncovered a twenty year career of fraud, deception, theft and bigamy. The Black Widow, Crime Channel
Eventually exposed by the mother of one of her victims. ibid.
Julian [Webb] had died of a massive overdose of drugs; Dena said he had committed suicide, but before he died he was in good health and high spirits. ibid.
Julian was dead, Lee Wyatt’s life had been ruined, but Dena had a steady flow of men replying to her ads placed in Lonely Hearts columns. ibid.
Dena was arrested and tried at Lewis Crown Court for the attempted murder of Richard Thompson. She pleaded not guilty. ibid.
In December 2003 Dena Thompson was tried at the Old Bailey for the murder of her 2nd husband Julian Webb. She was found guilty by a majority verdict and sentenced to life imprisonment. ibid.
A murderer dubbed the Black Widow was jailed for life yesterday for poisoning her curry-loving husband.
Dena Thompson, described by a judge at the Old Bailey as ‘utterly ruthless and without pity’, had already conned a string of men out of thousands of pounds. She was found guilty of killing Julian Webb, a newspaper executive, on his 31st birthday in June 1994.
A senior policeman said Thompson was ‘every man’s nightmare’ and declared that the ‘men of Britain can sleep safe knowing she has been taken off the streets.’
Thompson, 43, of Cullompton, Devon, had served time for defrauding her first husband, Lee Wyatt, and third husband, Richard Thompson, though she was previously cleared of trying to kill Mr Thompson with a baseball bat and knife, claiming she feared for her life during a bondage sex session. Guardian online article 16th December 2003
THOMPSON, ROBERT: see BULGER, JAMES