They’ve been known as a “dying cult” and a “homicide gang” and, supposedly, their weird beliefs had been influenced by concepts that sprang up on a preferred on-line tech discussion board. Little is in any other case identified concerning the “Zizians” apart from that the physique depend allegedly linked to the group solely continues to develop.
To this point, no less than two murders have been tied to individuals allegedly linked to the group. Curtis Lind, an 82-year-old landlord was stabbed to dying in Vallejo, California, on January seventeenth and, not lengthy afterward, a Border Patrol agent, David Maland, was shot to dying throughout a visitors cease in Vermont.
The 2 suspects in these separate (however, in keeping with police, probably associated) legal circumstances—Maximilian Snyder, 22, and Teresa Youngblut, 21—are believed to share a wedding license, although it’s unclear whether or not they’re truly married. Snyder was lately arrested for the Vallejo homicide; Youngblut has been taken into custody for the deadly incident in Vermont.
On Friday, new studies advised further killings may additionally be tied to the group. Police are at the moment looking for 32-year-old Michelle J. Zajko, who’s suspected of getting bought firearms that had been later used within the taking pictures in Vermont, NBC has reported. It has been reported that Zajko’s mother and father, Richard and Rita Zajko, had been shot to dying at their residence in Pennsylvania in 2022. The Zajkos’ deaths stay unsolved, although it’s thought of a double murder by police.
To complicate issues additional, the determine generally known as “Ziz” (who has been described because the “flagbearer” of the group, and whose on-line writings are mentioned to have impressed the group’s formation) is at the moment in custody in Pennsylvania. Ziz’s authorized identify is Jack LaSota. LaSota, who has “connections to among the key gamers within the California case,” has been charged by police with obstructing regulation enforcement and disorderly conduct, the Related Press has reported.
Much more weirdly, LaSota was beforehand considered useless. AP writes that, in the summertime of 2022, the U.S. Coast Guard responded to studies that LaSota had fallen into the San Francisco Bay. Subsequently, an obituary for him was revealed and his mom additionally appeared to substantiate he had died, AP writes. Nevertheless, LaSota subsequently popped again up in Vallejo and was mentioned to have been contacted by police on the website of yet one more crime.
It ought to be closely caveated that every one of those connections are solely alleged and there’s a complete hell of lots that we have no idea about who these individuals are or what goes. All we actually know at this level is that no less than six individuals are useless, and the entire deceased appear to share ties—if, to this point, solely tangential ones—to this group.
The tenets of the Zizian perception system are obscure, though it has been described as a philosophy that applies scientific and technological ideas to human decision-making. They’ve additionally been characterised as supporting an excessive type of veganism, and are mentioned to be an offshoot of the “rationalist” motion that was fostered on the LessWrong discussion board.
