Before the shooting of border patrol officer, visitors took interest in a remote Northeast Kingdom property
https://vtdigger.org/2025/02/06/before-the-shooting-of-border-patrol-officer-visitors-took-interest-in-a-remote-northeast-kingdom-property/
A group of young people linked to multiple violent deaths left a trail of sometimes unsettling interactions with Vermonters including a realtor, an employee at an AT&T store and hotel workers.
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Youngblut and Bauckholt are two members of a loose group of people who have now been linked to at least six deaths that span three states and two U.S. coastlines including a double homicide in Pennsylvania and the murder of a landlord in California.
Many of the people appear to be highly educated and have ties to Bay Area communities of rationalists, a movement of philosophically-minded people who prize logical reasoning and are often interested in artificial intelligence and software engineering.
But members of this particular group dubbed by some Zizians, for their following of a blog written by an individual named Jack LaSota under the pen name Ziz appear to have taken those rationalist ideas in an unorthodox and extreme direction.
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