We are not likely to learn much more for a while about the motivations and internal communications of the small, cult-like group known as the Zizians, who have left six deaths in their wake over the past two years. But we do now know what Ziz herself said in court last week.

One figure who has been unaccounted for in the last couple of years as the so-called Zizian cult took a violent turn, Gwen Danielson, was rumored online to have taken her own life. Her father confirms that is not the case.

Ziz, aka Jack LaSota, the purported ringleader of a bizarre cult that appears to have grown out of the Bay Area and the rationalist movement, has been found and arrested in Maryland, along with one or two other figures who were also on the run from the law.