Carmel compound, Thibodeau was active in voicing his perspective on the siege. Impact on the aftermath Īlmost immediately after the fire destroyed the Mt. Thibodeau was jailed in McLennan County Jail but soon released on a US$5,000 bond by a federal magistrate. Thibodeau escaped the 19 April 1993 fire that ended the Waco siege along with eight other survivors. Carmel Center in 1991 to continue playing in the Branch Davidians' band. Reportedly, Thibodeau did not show much interest in the group originally since they were a Christian band but eventually joined because of people like Steve Schneider. Thibodeau met David Koresh in the Sunset Boulevard Guitar Center in Los Angeles, California in 1990.

He attended Musicians Institute of Technology to study drumming. He lived with his single mother in Bangor and Portland, Maine before moving to Los Angeles in 1990 to pursue a music career. His parents divorced after he graduated from Bangor High School in 1987. Thibodeau was born in Bangor, Maine, to Balenda (incorrectly reported as 'Belenda' in the Waco Tribune-Herald) Ganem. He played drums for other bands after the Waco siege as well, including Grooviest Maximus. Thibodeau is a drummer for the band The Blast Addicts, and he resided in Texas as of 2020. In 2018, the miniseries Waco aired featuring Rory Culkin playing David Thibodeau and Thibodeau himself in a cameo role as an unnamed character. He (re-)married in 1997 and has at least one daughter. Thibodeau runs a website called 'Waco Survivors,' in which he archives media related to the Waco siege. In 1999, he co-authored a memoir called A Place Called Waco: A Survivor's Story with Leon Whiteson, a Zimbabwe-born novelist, critic, and architect. He stayed for the 51-day siege until escaping the fire that consumed the compound with eight other survivors. Carmel compound on 28 February 1993, when the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) conducted a botched raid. At the Mount Carmel Center near Waco, Texas, Thibodeau married Michele Jones upon Koresh's request. In the late 1980s, he attended the Musicians Institute of Technology. In early adulthood, Thibodeau sought to become a musician in Los Angeles, California, where he converted to Branch Davidianism after meeting David Koresh in a Guitar Center in 1990. David or Dave Thibodeau (born 13 February 1969) is a Branch Davidian, a survivor of the Waco siege, and a musician.

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