They decided they had passed away two days ago on the Great Ve. Pennsylvania State Police say it is “considered not a random act of violence.”
Ten days after Zaicos’ body was found, the Pennsylvania Troopers appeared at Candlewood Suites near Philadelphia Airport, where they received a warrant searching the room and car of the daughter of the dead couple, Michelle Zaico. . One of the troopers testified that he was looking for a handgun that was believed to have been used in the murder in the court.
The trooper knocked on the door of Zaiko’s hotel room and took her into custody. As they were leading her out of the hotel, she called out to the front desk staff and told them to tell them they were being detained by Daniel’s blank, according to a transcript obtained by NBC, trooper Matthew. -News Gibson said in court.
The troopers knew the blanks. They had previously interviewed him in connection with double murder, Gibson later testified.
The trooper headed towards the blank room and knocked on the door. The blank answered, but refused to open it, Gibson urged the troopers to return to the barracks to ask for a search warrant for his hotel room.
When they returned with a warrant, no one responded to an order to open the door. So the trooper forced it and found the second person in the blank and the toilet, Gibson said in court.
The trooper arrests Blank and marches him out of the room. Things didn’t go smoothly with the second person, identified as Lasota, a person also known as Ziz.
According to a transcript obtained by NBC News, the troopers issued the command to Lasota, but Lasota later testified, “didn’t do anything.”
“He had his eyes closed. He wouldn’t talk,” Gibson added. “He lay almost unconsciously, as if he was dead on the ground.”
According to criminal charges, Lasota was ultimately charged with obstructing investigations and disorderly conduct. The Alaska native continued playing when the mug shot was taken.
In June 2023, Lasota was released from custody after posting $10,000 bail, but was unable to return to court later, and the judge issued a bench warrant. Her whereabouts are unknown.
Friedman said he had never heard of it from Lasota since 2022 and didn’t know where his previous client was.
“I represent vegans. We believe in non-violence,” Friedman said. “This is all crazy.”
Neither the blank nor the daughter of the dead couple Zaiko has been charged in connection with the murder of their parents. However, Zajko’s name will soon appear in another murder investigation.
In January this year, a hotel employee in the northern Vermont town of Lyndonville contacted law enforcement and reported concerns about the two guests.
According to the FBI affidavit, the pair were wearing “all black tactical style clothing with protective equipment,” and the woman was holding a gun in an exposed holster. They were later identified as Buckholt, a German national, and her travel companion, Teresa Youngbrute.
By then, Buckholt had left for more than a year, and her friends in the New York area had stopped trying to contact her.
As a high school student in Freiburg, Germany, Buckholt was a national mathematics champion. In 2014, she won a gold medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics, the world’s most prestigious high school coding contest, and later won a scholarship to study pure mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Two of Bauckholt’s university friends said in an interview that she was a “passionate mathematics student” and was “fun” and “very positive.” She was a passionate member of several university groups, including the Computer Science Club and the Pure Mathematics Club, according to two former classmates.
“These are the types of people who read mathematics textbooks for fun and do mathematics problems to perform mathematics problems on the blackboard,” said Lily Horne, a 2019 graduate of Bauckholt.
While still in college, Bauckholt interned at Jane Street Capital in New York, an elite quantitative trading company.
After graduating from Waterloo with Honors, she acquired a job as a quantitative trader, leveraging complex mathematical models to identify investment opportunities and identify them alongside Tower Research Capital, a different New York company.
Buckholt made more money than most of her friends, but she wasn’t living a big life. She made sure she spent less than 10% of her pre-tax income, and her friends made large donations to charities. She considered herself an effective altruist and a person who believed in having the greatest impact on most people.
In 2018, she posted on Facebook that she had donated $5,000 to the Malaria Foundation. She said she had just finished her first tech internship and wanted to “pay a portion of it ahead.”
“Money is used to distribute ~1100 nets. This is estimated to save ~1.4 lives,” Buckholt wrote in a post shared with NBC News. “If you’re making more money than you need, too, I encourage you to consider giving a portion of it to a cost-effective charity.”
Bauckholt was highly calculated in other aspects of her life as well. She approached it like a math problem and speculated that she needed the exact amount of sleep she had to do and what to avoid, soda, coffee and more to get the best.
Buckholt’s former roommate Astra Koromatsukaia said Buckholt’s Day was “centred around ultra-controlled decisions to ensure that her mind is in the right place to perform as much as possible in the workplace. It unfolded.”
Jessica Taylor, an AI researcher involved in Berkeley’s rationalism scene, met Buckholt in 2022 at an event in New York City. A rationalistic event.
They wander around a few times during that year. At one point, their discussion focused on Ziz. Taylor said it was clear that Buckholt was fascinated by certain Gigian doctrines, such as the importance of altruism and the importance of ethical veganism.
And Taylor said Buckholt doesn’t seem to be bothered by some of the more extreme positions that the Ziz took, like “the importance of retaliation in some circumstances.”
“She seemed to think the group was more legal than the others,” Taylor said.
Taylor said she warned Buckholt to avoid the Jiz and Gigians, whom she thought were part of the “death cult.”
That was some time in the second half of 2022. Taylor knows that Buckholt didn’t take note of her advice.
Vermont prosecutors said Buckholt and her travel companion Teresa Young Brute were under surveillance for several days before US Border Patrol agents pulled the Toyota Prius this January for immigration checks. did.
The circumstances of the subsequent shootings are still under investigation. Prosecutors believe that falling agent David Malland has been hit by one of the bullets that Youngblott allegedly fired, or that he was attacked by a shot from a fellow agent. He wasn’t saying that.
Youngblut, 21, pleaded not guilty to two federal weapon numbers. Her attorney declined to comment.
Prosecutors say Youngblut and Bauckholt are traveling with a large collection of weapons and tactical equipment, including a 48-round .380 caliber jacketed Hollow Point Ammunition, ballistic helmets and night vision equipment. Masu.
When attempting to convince the judge that Young Brute should stay in prison, prosecutors said in court documents that she was working with people who were “surviving violence.” The handgun owned by Bauckholt and Youngblut was purchased by “an interested person” in a double murder in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
It appears to be a reference to Michelle Zaico, the daughter of a dead couple.
An alert sent to Vermont licensed firearm dealers by the US Tobacco Agency, firearms, explosives, or ATF “when identifying a firearm purchase made by Michelle Jacqueline Zaico, a person interested in shooting, is He said he is seeking assistance. The Customs and Border Guard officer on January 20, 2025
The alert was first reported by local news outlet Vtdigger.
Zaico owned the land in Orleans, Vermont, according to property records and court documents. It is located about 10 miles from the site of the agent shootout at the border.
Vermont prosecutors said in Young Brute’s detention memo that the person who bought the gun with her was in “frequent contact” with individuals detained in Pennsylvania during a double homicide investigation.
Prosecutors also pointed out that this same individual is a “person of interest” for yet another crime, a California murder.
The two, charged with sword attacks on the elderly California landlord Lind, are scheduled to go to trial this April, with Lind being a key witness.
However, on January 17th, Lind was stabbed to death on his property in Vallejo, police said. Seattle man Maximilian Snyder, 22, was arrested a week later and charged with Lind’s murder. Prosecutors said in court documents that Lind was killed to prevent him from testifying against suspects accused of attacking him with a sword.
The murder occurred three days before the border agent shootout. Snyder was well known to one of the suspects, Young Brute. The two who went to the same elite private high school submitted their marriage application in November.
Snyder was scheduled to be arrested Thursday, but the hearing was postponed after his lawyer told the court that she was not representing him. Court dockets show that he has not yet hired a new lawyer.
Back in Vermont, residents are trying to grasp the dizzying revelation of coastal to coastal crime, which prosecutors say is linked to two associates involved in the border agent’s shootout.
“It’s a shocking situation,” said Vincent Ilzzi, a longtime prosecutor and former senator of Essex County, Vermont.
Illuzzi said that individuals involved in the border shootout are suspected and that their companions consider it an ideal place to hide his countryside and far-reaching corners.
“It’s not off the grid, but it’s the next best,” Ilzzi said. “The country people leave you alone. No one in the street is watching you go back and forth.”
Over the days and weeks of filming, Buckholt’s friends spent hours digging into what is called Gigian and comparing notes about conversations with people they knew as Ophelia.
They suspect that she had not recognized the warning signs as she gradually became entangled in the group’s malicious activity.
“Ophelia knows well enough to know that she didn’t voluntarily reach the situation she had,” said her ex-roommate Koromatsukaia.
“This came as a result of a series of bad decisions made based on her mistakenly thinking there were no other options.
“She is very naive, altruistic and trusting,” Koromatsukaia added.
