Zajko charged for double murder of her parents.
https://thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-reports-a-zizian-trans-death-cult-member-evaded-double-murder-charges-for-years-then-the-fbi-helped-make-a-shocking-breakthrough
Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, 33, was charged in Delaware County, Pa., with multiple counts of first-degree murder, criminal homicide, conspiracy to commit murder, burglary and firearms offenses. In total, 15 felonies and one misdemeanor.
She is accused of driving hours to the home of her parents Richard and Rita Zajko on the night of New Year's Eve 2022—the night of her 30th birthday—and murdering them.
"It is piece after piece after piece of evidence that has been collected painstakingly over years," Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse said Wednesday
The case went cold for years as Zajko disappeared with members of the Zizians after she was arrested, questioned and released without charge in January 2023 near Philadelphia.
The so-called Zizians are a transgender death cult linked to at least eight violent deaths.
The group's leader is Jack LaSota, a man who identifies as a woman and uses the name "Ziz," among numerous other aliases. Its members are vegan left-wing transgender rationalists, many with elite educational backgrounds in science and mathematics. The group has frequently been compared to the Charles Manson cult.
Zajko is a biological female who identifies as transgender and nonbinary. Jail records show she uses the name "Alex."
The criminal complaint details the extensive investigative steps authorities took over more than three years to build the case against her.
Investigators say the two SIG Sauer 9 mm hollow-point cartridge casings recovered at the crime scene matched ammunition found at Zajko's former residence
Investigators say text messages recovered from the victims' phones revealed Rita Zajko had reached out to her daughter on the afternoon of Dec. 31, 2022, in an attempt to mend their strained relationship. Zajko never responded. Approximately nine hours later, Rita and her husband were dead.
"It should be noted that it takes approximately 7.5 hours to drive from the defendant's residence located in Orleans, VT to ... Chester Heights Borough, Delaware County, PA," an investigator wrote in the affidavit.
Zajko, a former bioinformatics researcher who interned for NASA in the Bay Area, wrote extensively on blogs about her hatred of "transphobes," right-wingers and Christianity. She posted frequently about "trans genocide" and how "fascists" were being empowered.
"This is a child who killed her parents, who walked into her childhood home, took her mother to her childhood playroom, and executed her," Rouse said.
Prosecutors have not stated a motive but...Family friends detail that Zajko was cold to her parents and cut off ties after she moved to California and became involved with the Zizians.
Neighborhood surveillance cameras captured a vehicle pulling into the parents' driveway at 11:29 p.m. on the night of the killings. Moments later, audio recorded a voice yelling, "Mom!" followed by a second voice shouting, "Oh my God! Oh, God, God!" Nine minutes later, two figures were seen fleeing in a vehicle.
A major breakthrough came more than two years later when Zajko was arrested alongside LaSota and Blank in rural western Maryland, where authorities recovered a cache of firearms and tactical gear in their box trucks that were converted to mobile homes. The three face dozens of charges in Allegany County, Md., including firearms and drug offenses.
After that arrest, the FBI seized Zajko's mobile phone. Investigators allege they were able to recover a digital journal containing a list titled "things we fucked up," documenting what prosecutors say were mistakes the Zizians made while attempting to conceal the murders.
"We became aware later on through phone analysis that she created what I believe is a list," Rouse said. "This included not getting rid of the shell casings that were found at the scene. This included not getting rid of the ammunition that was later recovered from her Vermont home that matched the shell casings found at the scene. This included not sending fake text messages from the phones they left in Vermont, leaving someone behind to send those text messages."
Seven alleged Zizians, including Zajko, are currently jailed across three states on charges ranging from murder and attempted murder to firearms offenses. Among those killed in cases linked to the group are U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland, who was fatally shot during an ambush, and 82-year-old Curtis Lind, a key witness in a California Zizian murder prosecution who was assassinated in a brutal knife stabbing attack before trial.
Most USA media remains silent on this stuff.