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Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Brainwashed Zombie Praises ‘Ziz’ and Denies Killing Her Own Parents

Posted on | April 21, 2025 | Comments Off on Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Brainwashed Zombie Praises ‘Ziz’ and Denies Killing Her Own Parents

Michelle Zajko

It’s been two months since I covered the first court hearing for the three members of the “Zizian” cult, currently jailed in Allegany County, Maryland, and there have been a few developments since then worth noting. Last month, various gun-related charges were added to those already faced by Jack “Ziz” LaSota, Michelle Zajko and Daniel Blank.

Then, last week, there was a statement from Zajko:

A former Delaware County [Pennsylvania] woman who authorities say is a person of interest in the 2022 deaths of her parents released a statement earlier this week saying she did not kill them.
Michelle Zajko, 32, released a 20-page handwritten “Open Letter to the World” on Tuesday [April 15]. . . .
Rita and Richard Zajko were found shot in the head, execution-style, in their home in Chester Heights on Dec. 31, 2022. Police have said they consider Michelle Zajko a person of interest in the deaths, but she has not been charged with any crimes related to the killings.
“You, the public, are being lied to,” Zajko wrote . . . “And while I don’t promise to answer all your questions, I think the truth about my friends and I will make a lot more sense than what you’ve been reading about in the papers.”
“I’m viscerally reminded of the witch hunts, of the Satanic Panic, of the mob that burned Joan of Arc at the stake, and of the mob that ripped apart Hippolyta,” Zajko wrote. “My friends and I are being described as like Satan’s lapdogs, the devil & the Manson family all rolled into one. … These papers are flagrantly lying. … I didn’t murder my parents.”
She went on to defend Jack LaSota, a.k.a. “Ziz”, who prosecutors say is the leader of a cult-like, extremist group known as the Zizians. Authorities say the group’s members have been linked to killings in Vermont, Pennsylvania and California.
“Ziz is not my leader and I am not hers,” Zajko wrote. “What we have is called friendship, and I love her infinitely more than I could ever express.”
Two other members of the group, Felix Bauckholt and Theresa Youngblut, are accused of engaging in a deadly shootout with U.S. Border Patrol agents in Vermont in January, in which Bauckholt and an agent were killed.
Zajko and LaSota, who identifies as female, were arrested in Maryland in February after police discovered they were camping on private property. Zajko was wearing all black and had on body armor, as well as two firearms and ammunition.
Zajko said she has been treated badly by Maryland authorities, including being denied medical attention after hitting her head during her arrest.
“Everyone here is being subjected to our injustice system designed to grab people off of the streets and coerce confessions and declarations of guilt (in the form of plea deals) out of them, with little to no regard for whether their captives are actually guilty,” she wrote.

More details from the Associated Press:

Zajko . . . was questioned but not charged in connection with the deaths of her parents, Rita and Richard Zajko, who were shot and killed in their Chester Heights, Pennsylvania, home on New Year’s Eve 2022. A few weeks later [in January 2023], LaSota was charged with disorderly conduct after refusing to cooperate with officers investigating the deaths, but Zajko said LaSota was just “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
“The police lied to her & told her that I had confessed (to something I didn’t do),” she wrote. . . .
Members of the Zizian group also have been tied to the death of one of their own during an attack on a California landlord in November 2022 and the landlord’s subsequent killing in January. Maximilian Snyder, who is charged with killing landlord Curtis Lind, had applied for a marriage license with Teresa Youngblut, who is accused of shooting at the Border Patrol agent in Vermont.
“The newspapers do not seem to realize that there are multiple groups, & that my friends & I are not with Snyder,” she wrote.
Youngblut is accused of firing at Maland during a traffic stop and has pleaded not guilty to federal firearms charges. Felix Bauckholt, a passenger in the car, also was killed in a shootout.
Bauckholt and LaSota were living together in North Carolina as recently as this winter, according to their landlord, who also was renting a duplex to Youngblut in the same neighborhood. Zajko’s lawyer said Tuesday that Zajko also had been living in North Carolina before the group moved north to Frostburg, Maryland.

Translation: “We’re not in a cult. We just live together like a big happy family, which is totally NOT like the Manson family. And despite the fact that my parents were murdered execution-style, I had nothing to do with that and my cult leader — er, excuse me, I meant to say the friend I love infinitely more than I could ever express — was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.” We can all believe this, right?

Peter D’Auria of VTDigger has a bit more:

The 32-year-old Zajko, who once lived in Coventry, Vermont and owns property in Derby, according to municipal records, also faces federal firearms charges in Vermont.
Prosecutors have said Zajko bought the weapons that were in the possession of Teresa Youngblut and Felix Bauckholt, also known as Ophelia, earlier this year. In January, the pair were stopped by federal agents on I-91 in a traffic stop-turned-shootout that left Bauckholt and Border Patrol Agent David “Chris” Maland dead.
The letter reads like a hybrid of a manifesto, a list of grievances and a shaggy-dog story about a large group of acquaintances — except that it levels allegations of abuse against multiple people. Zajko expressed fear she was being followed and could be murdered, writing that she had spent the past two years “in homebrewed witness protection.” . . .
Other than denying murdering them, Zajko offered no further details on her parents’ death. She also wrote nothing about her time in Vermont, although she did briefly reference Youngblut.
Zajko wrote that she believes she may be asked to testify against Youngblut, but “I will refuse to participate on principle, as I don’t believe Youngblut is going to receive a fair trial.” . . .
[S]he wrote, “My friends and I certainly don’t call ourselves ‘Zizians.’”
But several paragraphs of the letter are taken up by effusive praise for LaSota, aka Ziz. Ziz “saved my life,” Zajko wrote. “Ziz is not my leader, & I am not her’s. What we have is called friendship, and I love her infinitely more than I could ever express.”
She claimed Ziz “rescued multiple abuse victims” and even once stopped a terrorist attack.
“I’ve never seen her do an evil thing,” Zajko wrote.

The federal firearm charges ensure that Zajko, at least, is unlikely to be released from custody anytime soon, whereas LaSota and Blank are currently charged only with misdemeanors. Meanwhile, there were courtroom fireworks in a California hearing for another “Zizian”:

Alexander ‘Somni’ Leatham

Alexander Jeffrey Leatham, a 29-year-old transgender woman charged with the 2022 attempted murder of her Vallejo landlord, had to be forcibly restrained and removed after she disrupted courtroom proceedings on [April 8], shouting what seemed to be a prepared statement claiming she fears for her life in police custody.
“I am not suicidal. I have never been suicidal. If I am killed in police custody, it was murder!” Leatham shouted. . . .
After she was coaxed out from behind the inch-thick steel doors that separated her from the courtroom, she produced a piece of paper in her hands and began reading a statement laced with conspiracy and paranoia.
She claims that a specific officer has threatened her life and that her jail has been forcibly de-transitioning her with hormones . . .
Suri Dao, another Zizian charged in the same crime as Leatham, appeared before the court remotely via Zoom, wearing a light blue prison T-shirt. In stark contrast with Leatham, Dao was soft-spoken and cooperative with proceedings. . . .
In 2022, prosecutors claim Dao, Leatham, and fellow Zizian Emma Borhanian faced eviction from a Vallejo lot where they rented space for the retrofitted box trucks they lived in. Two days before the sheriff’s office was scheduled to evict them, Dao approached landlord Curtis Lind for help repairing a leak on the property.
When Lind bent down to look at the problem, someone hit him on the head and he blacked out. He woke up to the three renters standing over him with knives drawn. The right side of his skull was shattered, and his torso was impaled with a samurai sword.
Lind drew his gun and shot, killing Borhanian and wounding Leatham. He survived by flagging down the help of a neighbor, and authorities arrested the two surviving Zizians.
Prosecutors charged Dao and Leatham with attempted murder and murder under the theory that they were responsible for Borhanian’s death.
Lind was set to testify at Leatham and Dao’s trial until he was killed in January 2025 by another Zizian, Maximilian Snyder, who is now awaiting trial for murder.

People keep getting murdered by these deranged wackos, but it’s totally NOT a cult like the Manson family, OK? Ziz just happens to be infinitely loved by his friends, but that doesn’t make him a cult leader, and all these dead bodies that keep turning up around Ziz and his friends — well, that’s just a random coincidence. Don’t believe any of what you read in those stories you find by Googling “Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult.”



 

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