{"id":254,"date":"2026-06-24T21:17:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2026-06-24T21:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:17:36","slug":"alleged-zizian-cult-follower-charged-with-murdering-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Zizian Cult Follower Charged With Murdering Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tAuthorities in Pennsylvania\u2019s Delaware County have charged Michelle \u201cJamie\u201d Zajko, who is alleged to have ties to a cult-like group called the Zizians, with the murder of her parents, Richard and Rita Zajko, in 2022. CBS News reports that investigators had questioned Michelle, who is 33 and reportedly nonbinary, but did not charge them previously. Now, court documents indicate the authorities changed their minds. Jamie is now in custody in Maryland, where they are awaiting trial on unrelated charges alongside two others: Jack \u201cZiz\u201d LaSota (the \u201cZiz\u201d of the Zizians) and Daniel Blank.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=252\">Trump Calls Republican a \u2018Lunatic\u2019 in Chaotic Senate Meeting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tPolice found the elder Zajkos dead during a wellness check at their Chester Heights, Pennsylvania, home on Jan. 2, 2023. Fox29 reports the Zajkos had gunshot wounds in their heads. Police ruled they\u2019d died on New Year\u2019s Eve \u2014 Jamie\u2019s birthday \u2014\u00a0and the medical examiner ruled the deaths a homicide. In April 2025, Jamie\u2019s lawyer released a handwritten letter from them in which they said they\u2019d been wrongly accused of their parents\u2019 murders.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tIn the weeks before the killings, police claim Jamie had purchased a gun and burner phones, according to Fox. They also allegedly moved large amounts of cash. Investigators claim they confirmed that Jamie was among the people who entered her parents\u2019 home the night of the killing using digital and ballistic evidence. Fox reports that someone yelled \u201cmom\u201d before the lights went on in their house, and the intruders left after nine minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThese charges did not come quickly or easily. They are the product of years of careful investigative work,\u201d Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse said, according to Fox.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=250\">Shocker! Government Docs Show Trump\u2019s Reflecting Pool Vandalism Claims Are Total B.S.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Rolling Stone <\/em>reported in 2025 that police sought to interview Jamie on Jan. 12, 2023 at an airport hotel near Philadelphia where they hoped to obtain a 9 mm Smith &amp; Wesson MP \u2014 the same model used in the killings \u2014 and a DNA sample from Jamie. Jamie, <em>Rolling Stone <\/em>reported, had a master\u2019s degree in bioinformatics and had interned for NASA. Police arrested Blank and LaSota alongside Zajko.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tZajko became acquainted with LaSota and Blank through the Rationalist community \u2014 an insular community that formed online in the early aughts with the goal of \u201craising the sanity waterline.\u201d Many people, including Zajko, were introduced to the community via Harry Potter fan fiction written by Eliezer Yudkowsky in hopes of finding others who would join his efforts to stop superhuman AI, which he believed could destroy its human creators, before it was too late.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=248\">Trump\u2019s Lonely First Year in Office: \u2019They All Leave Me\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle &#8220;Jamie&#8221; Zajko, an alleged Zizian cult follower, has been charged with murdering their parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courts-and-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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