Tangled web of 'Zizian cult' duo who planned to marry and were both netted for separate murders in same week

A Washington couple, who planned to marry, person been booked successful abstracted execution cases successful the aforesaid week - some seemingly linked to a convulsive California 'vegan trans cult'.

The duo, who filed for a matrimony licence successful King County, Washington successful November, person been accused of murdering a US borderline patrol cause and a state's witnesser connected other sides of the country.

Maximilian Snyder, 22, and Teresa Youngblut, 21, are present astatine the halfway of a sprawling national probe arsenic instrumentality enforcement officials analyse their alleged execution charges, links to the California-based 'cult' and its ties to different unsolved execution lawsuit successful Pennsylvania.

The brace are allegedly connected to a mysterious cult of transgender 'geniuses' who travel a trans leader.

The group, known arsenic the 'Zizians,' are highly educated trans vegan 'rationalists' who clasp fringe ideological beliefs astir transhumanism and carnal rights.

Their leader, Jack 'Ziz' LaSota, is simply a biologic antheral who identifies arsenic a woman. LaSota also utilized the sanction Andrea Phelps, and is accused of influencing followers to kill, the New York Post reported.

Snyder, an 'any pronouns' Oxford-educated information idiosyncratic and an alleged subordinate of the 'cult,' was arrested successful Northern California past Friday.

Youngblut, a biologic pistillate who identifies arsenic trans and and lists having neo-pronouns arsenic 'xe/xem/xyrs' connected societal media, was charged past week in Vermont successful transportation with the shooting of US Border Patrol Agent David Maland.

Authorities present judge the 2 cross-country murders involving the mates whitethorn beryllium connected.         

In a question filed connected Monday, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont alleges that Youngblut, also a machine subject pupil astatine the University of Washington, had been successful 'frequent contact' with a 'person of involvement successful a homicide probe successful Vallejo, California'.

Snyder, however, was arrested successful Redding, California days earlier successful transportation with the January 17 stabbing decease of a long-time Vallejo spot owner, 82-year-old Curtis Lind, according to Solano County jailhouse records.

Snyder was charged with execution and 2 enhancements connected Monday, according to tribunal records.

Without releasing the sanction of the suspect, national prosecutors said the Vallejo execution suspect, who was mentioned successful the Monday report, was besides antecedently detained, but not charged, successful transportation with a treble homicide successful Pennsylvania.

Meanwhile, successful Coventry, Vermont, Youngblut and a German national, Felix Baukholt, had been nether investigative surveillance since January 14 aft an worker astatine a adjacent edifice reported suspicious behaviour from the duo.

The edifice worker reported seeing the brace dressed successful achromatic tactical covering and protective equipment, according to the affidavit, Open Vallejo reported. The acrophobic worker besides told officials they saw Youngblut carrying a holstered firearm.

The brace were aboriginal pulled implicit by US Border Patrol agents connected January 20 for an migration inspection, according to an FBI affidavit.

Investigators said Bauckholt, a German citizen, appeared to person an expired visa, though they aboriginal learned it was successful bully standing.

However, the regular halt rapidly soured arsenic 'without warning', the FBI alleges, Youngblut drew and fired a handgun toward an agent.

Youngblut, Bauckholt, and the agent, Maland, 44, were changeable during the speech of gunfire.

Bauckholt was pronounced dormant astatine the country and Maland died astatine North Country Hospital.

Youngblut, who was transported to a aesculapian halfway successful New Hampshire for treatment, has since been charged with 2 national crimes.

The 21-year-old machine subject pupil was charged with intentional usage of a deadly limb portion forcibly assaulting oregon interfering with national instrumentality enforcement, and usage and discharge of a firearm during and successful narration to an battle with a deadly weapon.

Now, authorities person Youngblut and Snyder successful custody arsenic good arsenic 2 others believed to beryllium connected to the 'cult'.

The others, Suri Dao and Alexander Jeffrey Leatham, were arrested successful transportation with a near-fatal onslaught connected Lind, years earlier successful November 2022.

The landlord had allegedly threatened his existent tenants, Dao and Leatham, who lived successful container trucks connected the property, with eviction aft they failed to wage rent, citing a pandemic-era moratorium.

The pair, on with 31-year-old Emma Borhanian, attacked Lind with knives and a samurai sword. Lind mislaid his close oculus successful the onslaught and obtained respective different beingness threatening injuries and Borhanian was killed successful an enactment of aforesaid defence from the spot owner, records show.

Dao and Leatham, are some trans and are believed to beryllium members of the alleged 'cult'.

Lind was acceptable to present the lone eyewitness connection against the 2022 attackers earlier a court. Now, without his grounds determination volition beryllium nary witnesses to support the brutal effort connected the landlord's life.

'Mr. Lind is the lone eye-witness to this lawsuit and his grounds is captious for the People to person the quality to beryllium their case,' prosecutors wrote successful tribunal papers filed the time earlier Lind died, besides noting: 'These defendants are highly dangerous, they person some tried to flight from custody.'

In a reappraisal of the spot aft the gruesome attack, a adjacent person of Lind's called the tenant's surviving quarters 'creepy successful the extreme'.

'It was really precise uncomfortable,' Lind's friend, Thomas Young, said astir walking into the live-in container trucks.

'You kinda wanted to enactment connected a hazmat suit earlier going into it. It was truly conscionable creepy successful the extreme,' helium added.

Several assemblage members person previously, and since, travel guardant astir their concerns with the unusual and seemingly unsafe 'cult'.

Posts successful assorted online forums person attributed the November 2022 onslaught to the 'Zizians,' Open Vallejo reported.

Believed members of the 'Zizian' group, LaSota and Leatham, among others, were arrested pursuing a 2019 protestation astatine a Center of Applied Rationality, a Rationalist nonprofit based successful Berkley.

The radical allegedly blocked the exits of the Westminster Camp and Conference Center with aggregate vehicles and wore robes and Guy Fawkes masks. A Westminster worker told the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office that 1 protester had a gun, but the study was ne'er confirmed.

Community warnings posted successful online forums astir the radical mention the protestation and the 2022 stabbing arsenic grounds of their imaginable danger.

Jessica Taylor, a person of Bauckholt's, who she knew arsenic 'Ophelia,' claims she tried to support her person against the unusual 'cult'.

Taylor says she warned Bauckholt astir 'Zizians,' calling them a 'murder gang'.

She added that she fell retired of connection with Bauckholt successful precocious 2023.

It is not wide what benignant of, if any, operation the radical has.

She said the radical believes successful timeless determination theory, a Rationalist content suggesting that quality decisions and their effects are mathematically quantifiable.

The Zizians besides seemingly judge that due to the fact that determination are 2 hemispheres successful the brain, individuals tin divided their consciousness betwixt 2 personalities by waking 1 broadside astatine a time, Taylor said.

She said veganism and carnal rights are cardinal to the ideology.

A bio for an Instagram relationship that appears to beryllium to Youngblut reads, 'talk to maine astir being vegan and AI alignment'.

Snyder and Youngblut's societal media posts and accounts reportedly displayed beliefs accordant with Zizianism but their accounts person since been removed. Court records bash not explicitly necktie them to the ideology.