A Washington couple, who planned to marry, have been booked in separate murder cases in the same week – both seemingly linked to a violent California ‘vegan trans cult’. The duo, who filed for a marriage license in King County, Washington in November, have been accused of murdering a US border patrol agent and a state’s witness on opposite sides of the country. Maximilian Snyder, 22, and Teresa Youngblut, 21, are now at the center of a sprawling federal investigation as law enforcement officials investigate their alleged murder charges, links to the California-based ‘cult’ and its ties to another unsolved murder case in Pennsylvania. The pair are allegedly connected to a mysterious cult of transgender ‘geniuses’ who follow a trans leader. The group, known as the ‘Zizians,’ are highly educated trans vegan ‘rationalists’ who hold fringe ideological beliefs about transhumanism and animal rights. Their leader, Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota, is a biological male who identifies as a woman. LaSota also used the name Andrea Phelps, and is accused of influencing followers to kill, the New York Post reported. Snyder, an ‘any pronouns’ Oxford-educated data scientist and an alleged member of the ‘cult,’ was arrested in Northern California last Friday. Youngblut, a biological female who identifies as trans and and lists having neo-pronouns as ‘xe/xem/xyrs’ on social media, was charged last week in Vermont in connection with the shooting of US Border Patrol Agent David Maland. Authorities now believe the two cross-country murders involving the couple may be connected. In a motion filed on Monday, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont alleges that Youngblut, also a computer science student at the University of Washington, had been in ‘frequent contact’ with a ‘person of interest in a homicide investigation in Vallejo, California’. Snyder, however, was arrested in Redding, California days earlier in connection with the January 17 stabbing death of a long-time Vallejo property owner, 82-year-old Curtis Lind, according to Solano County jail records. Snyder was charged with murder and two enhancements on Monday, according to court records. Without releasing the name of the suspect, federal prosecutors said the Vallejo murder suspect, who was mentioned in the Monday report, was also previously detained, but not charged, in connection with a double homicide in Pennsylvania. Content retrieved from: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14338283/vegan-cult-murder-Washington-California-Vermont-Zizian.html .

Danny Masterson is appealing his rape conviction after he was convicted of raping two women in May. Best known for his role in “That 70s Show,” the now 47-year-old actor has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for his crimes. In May, Danny Masterson was convicted of raping two women. In September, a judge sentenced him to 30 years to life in prison. However, according to court documents obtained by The Blast, the actor filed to appeal his sentence on November 3, 2023. His victims have yet to speak on the appeal. Before he was sentenced, both of the two women he was convicted of raping gave victim impact statements to the judge. “When you raped me, you stole from me,” said Masterson’s 2003 victim, as per the Associated Press. “That’s what rape is, a theft of the spirit.” “You are pathetic, disturbed, and completely violent,” she added. “The world is better off with you in prison.” Content retrieved from: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/danny-masterson-officially-files-appeal-181238257.html.

NEW YORK — A federal judge denied NXIVM leader Keith Raniere’s bid for a new trial, rejecting his argument that FBI agents planted evidence to frame him for possession of child pornography. In a decision issued Monday, Senior U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis said Raniere’s lawyers had cited no relevant prior cases in their argument that they should be allowed to examine the metadata embedded in photographs federal agents seized in the raid on a townhouse on Hale Drive in Halfmoon on March 27, 2018. Content retrieved from: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/judge-rejects-nxivm-s-leader-keith-raniere-s-18475355.php.