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"Zizian" Cultist Linked to Several Murders Now Charged In Parents' Homicides | Crime Alert 06.25.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news. Now, I'm Sidney Silvanni.
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  Speaker 1: We begin in Pennsylvania, where a woman with ties to
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  Speaker 1: an extremist Colt like group is charged with first degree
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  Speaker 1: murder and conspiracy in the killings of her parents. Michelle
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  Speaker 1: Zogko was a person of interest in the murders of
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  Speaker 1: Richard and Rita Zogko, who were killed in their Chester
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  Speaker 1: Heights home on New Year's Eve in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: That date was also Michelle's birthday. Earlier that day, Rita
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  Speaker 1: Zajko sent her a strange daughter, a text message saying
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  Speaker 1: she was sorry for the growing rift between them. The
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  Speaker 1: text went unanswered. Hours later, a car approached the home
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  Speaker 1: and two people got out At the front door. One
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  Speaker 1: person yelled mom Michelle was their only child. The lights
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  Speaker 1: went on, and the couple was executed. Their bodies were
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  Speaker 1: found following a welfare check on January two, twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators lack a smoking gun, but have moremultiple pieces of
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  Speaker 1: evidence showing Michelle's involvement. This includes two shell casings from
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  Speaker 1: the scene matching a gun used in Michelle's Vermont backyard.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators also recovered texts from Michelle writing she wished she
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  Speaker 1: had done things differently surrounding the homicide. The district attorney
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  Speaker 1: alleges this show she was aligned with those who pulled
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  Speaker 1: the trigger. Officials say Michelle is tied to Zizians, an
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  Speaker 1: extremist group of young computer scientists with radical beliefs about
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  Speaker 1: artificial intelligence, veganism, and gender identity. The Zizians are linked
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  Speaker 1: to six killings nationwide since twenty twenty two, including a
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  Speaker 1: Vermont Border Patrol agent in twenty twenty five, where Michelle
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  Speaker 1: allegedly provided the gun. The leader was Jack Lysoda, known
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  Speaker 1: as Z's. Last year, Michelle, Lesoda and an associate were
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  Speaker 1: arrested in Maryland on weapons charges. Lysda is also charged
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  Speaker 1: for refusing to cooperate regarding the double homicide. Michelle Zogco
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  Speaker 1: maintains her innocence and that of her group. More crime
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  Speaker 1: and Justice news after this. Next, an agonizing case from
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  Speaker 1: upstate New York. An adorable three year old girl died
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  Speaker 1: inside her family's squalid home after her body became so
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  Speaker 1: infested with lice that she became anemic. Joscelyn dai Luski
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  Speaker 1: was found struggling to breathe inside an apartment in Corinth.
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  Speaker 1: On February nineteenth, twenty twenty five, the toddler died at
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  Speaker 1: the hospital. Her cause of death ruled a homicide due
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  Speaker 1: to acute and chronic neglect. Her parents, Matthew and Samantha
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  Speaker 1: dai Luski, pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide and were
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  Speaker 1: sentenced to the maximum of up to four years in prison.
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  Speaker 1: This month, Jocelyn was so ravaged by LYS that she
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  Speaker 1: developed anemia, which destroyed her heart and other organs. She
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  Speaker 1: also had clonidine, a blood pressure medication, in her system.
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  Speaker 1: Samantha suggested that it was Joscelyn Ai and her sibling's fault,
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  Speaker 1: telling investigators that the little girl fought her too much
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  Speaker 1: when she tried to apply treatment, placing blame on her
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  Speaker 1: dead daughter. She also claimed clonadine pills were left out
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  Speaker 1: by her son, but text messages showed a conversation about
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  Speaker 1: the drug. First Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Buckley said in
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  Speaker 1: court that Matthew told Samantha she could give it to Jocelyn,
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  Speaker 1: and an Internet search on the phone looked for how
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  Speaker 1: long it stays in the system. The walls of the
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  Speaker 1: Dailuski's home were covered in grime, Garbage was scattered everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: and the carpets were matted. A dead cockroach was found
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  Speaker 1: on Joscelyn's body, and her teeth were rotten in black.
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  Speaker 1: Judge James Davis called the report the most horrific he
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  Speaker 1: had ever read, issuing a full restraining order against the
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  Speaker 1: parents from their four surviving children until twenty thirty eight.
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  Speaker 1: On Monday, Matthew told the court he wished he had
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  Speaker 1: died instead of his daughter. Following their sentencing, Senator James
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  Speaker 1: tedisco In Assemblyman Maat Simpson proposed Jocelyn's Law to increase
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  Speaker 1: the maximum sentence for criminally negligent homicide to twenty years. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: in Stafford County, Virginia, a routine traffic investigation quickly spiraled
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  Speaker 1: into something much darker, uncovering what authorities described as a chilling,
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  Speaker 1: calculated murder plot against a local family. It all started
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  Speaker 1: last Thursday with a call about a hit and run.
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  Speaker 1: A witness reported seeing a car careen off the road,
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  Speaker 1: smash into a speed limit sign, and then speed away.
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  Speaker 1: Deputies quickly tracked the vehicle down, finding it parked outside
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  Speaker 1: of Wabwah on Garrisonville Road. Inside were two teenagers, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: year old Lewis Connolly and an unnamed seventeen year old miner.
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  Speaker 1: At first, it looked like a classic case of teenage
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  Speaker 1: reckless behavior. Police found the pair with open containers of alcohol,
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  Speaker 1: beer allegedly stolen from the wahwah in food stolen from
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  Speaker 1: a nearby Buffalo wild Wings, But when deputy searched the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the car, the narrative changed completely. Alongside the
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  Speaker 1: stolen items and open drinks, authorities discovered an assortment of knives,
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  Speaker 1: medical supplies, and a notebook that detailed a meticulous plan
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  Speaker 1: to kill. According to charging documents, the two teenagers had
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  Speaker 1: been using text messages since April to plan the murders
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  Speaker 1: of the seventeen year old's parents inside their own home.
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  Speaker 1: The texts explicitly debated whether they should shoot the parents
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  Speaker 1: or slit their throats, and laid out strategies on how
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  Speaker 1: to completely avoid the home security cameras. A subsequent search
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  Speaker 1: of the seventeen year old's bedroom turned up an arsenal
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  Speaker 1: of bb guns, edged weapons, and archery equipment. Both Connolly
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  Speaker 1: and the miner have been hit with two counts of
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy to commit murder along with several lesser charges related
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  Speaker 1: to the hit and run and theft. Connolly remains behind
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  Speaker 1: bars without bail, awaiting a court appearance later this week.
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  Speaker 1: The seventeen year old miner is also believed to still
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  Speaker 1: be inn custody. For more crime and justice news, be
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  Speaker 1: TOOB With this crime alert, I'm Sydney Silvani