SF News One of the Zizian Cult Members Has Now Been Charged With Murdering Her Parents Michelle Zajko, a woman linked to the cultlike group that has become known as the Zizians, has now been charged with the murder of her parents three and a half years ago in Pennsylvania.
SF News Threads Connected In Story of Zizian Shot In Vermont Who Was German Math Whiz The New York Times has attempted to explain one of the still unexplained pieces of the bizarre web of Zizian "murder cult" deaths, just as a Solano County trial for two of the cult's suspects gets delayed until next year.
SF News Two Zizian Defendants Back In Solano County Court, One Seeking New Attorney There has been some movement in the cases of the multiple people tied to a small but violent, cult-like group that originated in the Bay Area several years ago. And two suspects were back in court this week in Solano County.
SF News NYT Gives Some Slightly Better PR to Berkeley Rationalist Group After Zizian Arrests The New York Times published a piece this week profiling the Berkeley-based Rationalist movement and its arguably cult-y, religious-y ways, and they never once mention the probably actual cult that spun out of their group.
Arts & Entertainment 'Mountainhead' on HBO Draws Eerie Parallels Between Billionaire Bros and Zizian Cult 'Mountainhead,' the timely new film on HBO/Max by 'Succession' creator Jesse Armstrong, is a somewhat satisfying if deeply unsettling sendup of tech-bro oligarchy and the convoluted-logic-as-wisdom rhetoric of their podcasts.
SF News Possible Suicide Cluster Linked to Zizian Group, on Top of Killings With more stories emerging of individuals whose lives were impacted by the so-called Zizian cult in the Bay Area and beyond, it's become clear that there were more victims besides the six people who were allegedly killed at the hands of group members.
SF News Sole Surviving Witness In First Zizian Murder Case Is Infirm, Has Memory Lapses In Day of Testimony The elderly man who is the sole surviving witness to the November 2022 stabbing of Vallejo resident Curtis Lind — though he only witnessed the aftermath of the stabbing — gave a day of testimony Tuesday in Solano County.
SF News Accused Murder Suspect and Zizian Cult Member Accuses Jailers of 'Detransitioning' Her In Court Outburst One of the suspected cult members who is set to stand trial for the attempted murder of Curtis Lind and the murder of fellow Zizian Emma Borhanian in 2022, Alexander "Somni" Leatham, had another outburst in a court appearance Tuesday.
SF News Purported 'Zizian' Follower Enters Not Guilty Plea In Vallejo Murder Maximilian Snyder, one of seven members of a strange, cult-like group with Bay Area origins who are currently in police custody for a series of seemingly linked crimes, made another court appearance on Wednesday.
SF News Zizians: Blog Suggests Ziz Ordered Follower to Kill Her Romantic Partner Another detail has emerged in the complicated, sordid, and violent saga of the Zizians, and it is the first to draw a direct link between Jack "Ziz" LaSota and an order compelling someone to murder.
SF News Leader of Zizians Group Speaks Out In Court Pleading for Vegan Food, Says 'I've Done Nothing Wrong' 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.
SF News 'Zizian' Group Member Arrested In Sonoma Protest Confirmed Alive, Estranged From Group 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.
SF News Arrests of Alleged 'Zizian' Cult Members Came After Another Dispute With a Landlord The three individuals tied to a cult-like group that has been linked to two Bay Area deaths and four on the East Coast were apparently up to their old tricks in rural Maryland when they were arrested on Sunday.
SF News Leader of 'Zizian' Death Cult and Two Associates Arrested In Maryland After 20 Months on the Run 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.
SF News Suspect In Vallejo Murder Distances Himself From 'Zizian' Cult, Suggests He Is Primarily Motivated By Veganism It may not get us any further in understanding actual motive in the case of a January murder in Vallejo, but we now have an extended statement from the suspect in the case.
SF News Possible Cult Leader 'Ziz,' Who Faked Her Own Death and Was Questioned In Pennsylvania Double Murder, Still at Large It feels like there are still shoes to drop in the strange case of the Zizians, whose troubling beliefs and alleged pattern of extreme violence came to light in just the last several days.
