An Arizona woman and her brother have been extradited to Arizona after they tried to steal away to Canada with the woman’s 16-year-old son against his wishes and those of his father, all as part of a doomsday cult with eerie similarities to the one espoused by Chad and Lori Vallow Daybell.
Ben Thibaudeau said in court documents that his brother-in-law, Brook Hale, left a note behind saying he had “received visions” and “could not tell them what was going to happen, and that he could not tell them when he was going to see them again.”
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Spring Thibaudeau, the 16-year-old’s mother, believed she was the “chosen prophetess” of the group and her son was the “Davidic messenger,” the documents say The boy, Blaze Thibaudeau, “has strongly resisted Mother’s beliefs” and “strongly believes that Mother’s beliefs are insane,” the documents say.
Ben Thibaudeau cited the Vallow-Daybell saga in his court filing, noting the Spring Thibaudeau had severals years back “begun forming beliefs in end of the world scenarios, eerily similar to the well-publicized Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell saga … which culminated in murdered children.”
Investigators eventually caught up with the siblings and the teen, along with his sister — who had reportedly bought into the cultish beliefs — at the Alcan Port of Entry along the eastern Alaska border, where they were taken into custody in October by US Customs and Border Patrol agents, as CrimeOnline previously reported.
Spring Thibaudeau and Brooks were brought back to Maricopa County on December 15, KSAZ reported. Thibaudeau is now housed on the same floor as Vallow Daybell, who is awaiting trial on conspiracy to commit murder charges relating to the death of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, and an attempt on the life of her niece’s former husband, Brandon Boudreaux.
Vallow was shot dead in Chandler by Vallow Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, who later died, reportedly of natural causes. Cox is also believe to have tried to kill Boudreaux in Gilbert, as CrimeOnline reported.
She was sentenced earlier this year to three life terms without parole in the deaths of two of her children, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old JJ Vallow, and Chad Daybell’s first wife, Tammy Daybell. Daybell is awaiting trial on the same charges, set to begin on April 1, 2024.
Vallow Daybell’s trial in Arizona is currently scheduled to begin on April 4.
Both the Daybell and Thibaudeau cults are off-shoots of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The church has not commented on either case.
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[Featured image: Spring Thibaudeau and Brook Hale/Maricopa County Jail]
