Doomsday mom vanishes with teen son in Idaho to prepare for Second Coming: report

An Arizona family obsessed with the end times bought thousands of dollars worth of survival gear and headed off to Idaho with a teenager they believed would play a role in the second coming of Jesus Christ, according to a report.

Blaze Thibaudeau was pulled out of school by his mother, Spring Thibaudeau, without telling his father, who has reported the 16-year-old missing after she took the boy out of state with her 23-year-old daughter Abi Snarr to meet up with her brother Brooke Hale, reported East Idaho News.

“They see him as a Davidic servant (chosen individual) who plays a significant role in the Savior’s return," said his father, Ben Thibaudeau. "They feel they needed to take him to an undisclosed location where he would receive his calling and understand his role in the Second Coming. I fear for his safety, especially if my son is contentious, rebellious or belligerent. I fear that my brother-in-law would restrain him or do something that would incapacitate him.”

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The couple had regularly attended The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but the mother gradually became obsessed with books about end-of-days religious topics around 2015 and started participating in energy healing sessions.

"I requested that we go in and talk to our ecclesiastical leader," Thibaudeau said. "The bishop essentially told her she needed to stop if she wanted the marriage to survive."

Abi was the only one of the couple's four children who shared their mother's views on the end times, and she told her own husband Brayden Snarr shortly after they married in 2021 that she had a dream about the last days, and persuaded him to buy and store two years' worth of food.

“I was comfortable doing it because I think preparedness is something that we should strive for," Snarr said. "But over time, it started to get more and more, for lack of a better term, radical. It started to get more deep, and she connected with a bunch of different individuals with similar beliefs."

She spoke often with her mother and Hale about the Second Coming and watched videos of end-times pastors, but Snarr said he was still caught off guard when she begged him to leave with her and fly to Idaho to join her uncle, who read scriptures to Snarr in an effort to convince him to join the group.

“He was basically telling me that I will receive a witness after the trial of my faith and to trust God — that I’m a part of this with them, and it’s supposed to be the five of us,” Snarr said.

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Snarr called his father-in-law and said their "worst nightmare" had come true, and an Arizona judge issued an emergency order requiring Blaze to be returned to his father, who was named temporary sole custody parent. Ben Thibaudeau flew to Idaho to look for his missing relatives.

“I’m very concerned that my son is in danger and that his uncle could be the aggressor if things don’t go the right way,” Thibaudeau said.

The group is thought to be traveling in Hale's white Lexus SUV, which is outfitted for off-road driving and loaded with survival gear, and Thibaudeau received credible information they may have fled into Canada.

“They’re all good people, they’re all wonderful people," Thibaudeau said. "But getting into these dark topics has really corrupted them in a really horrible way. But they are genuinely just loving, kind people.”