By james art 
The Federal Judge at Vermont on Thursday ordered Youngblut to be held indefinitely in connection with the death of Maland.
In November, Youngblut and Snyder applied for a marriage license in King County, Washington, according to records. It is unclear whether they have ever married, but they are both now in custody in the opposite ends of the country, accused of unrelated murders whose only connective tissue seems to be the crowd with which they are running.
On January 17, police claim that Snyder fatally stabbed 82-year-old Curtis Lind, who owns an industrial lot in Valecho, California, where some activists had squatted years earlier. Two years earlier the same property was the place of violent confrontation in which Lind was seriously injured And one of the activists was killed.
Three days after the deadly attack on Lind, Maland was killed on the border by Vermont in a confrontation with Youngblut and Satellite Felix Baukholt, according to authorities. Baukholt was fatally shot by federal agents who said they had returned fire after Youngblut started firing.
In the meantime were purchased by someone who federal prosecutors described as a “face of interest” in the murder of Richard and Rita Zaiko in 2022 in Chester Heights, Pennsylvania.
Zaikos’ elderly daughter, Michel Zaiko, is also linked to the West Coast activist group. Bunny registered to vote using an address in Orleans, in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.
Prosecutors said in the court documents that the buyer of the weapons was from Orleans, although they did not specify Bunny. But employees of the alcohol, tobacco, firearm and explosives baptized her, saying they were looking for information about all the purchases of weapons she made.
No one is accused of Richard’s death and Rita Zaiko.
Snyder, Youngblut and Zajko are associated with a fourth person, influential with a mysterious background, According to two people in their circle: Jack Lasota. Also known as “Ziz”, Lasota is a cult figure in the Bay Community of the Theorists of Artificial Intelligence and moral philosophers known as rationalists, and he was close to some of the people who squatted the batch in Valecho.
Baukholt, like many others in the group, was a transgender person and had a deep interest in AI, ethical reasoning and veganism, according to a former girlfriend Jessica Taylor, AI technologist and rationalist. While the authorities identified Baukholt, a German citizen, as a man, Taylor said he knew Baukholt as a woman named Ophelia.
Baukholt and Taylor met at the gathering of rationalists in New York and reached a friendship, Taylor told Wednesday in an interview with The Globe. Baukholt, a mathematician and quantitative analyst at an investment company, was easy to talk and there was little benefit to social conventions, Taylor said.
“We talked about things like effective altruism, Sam Bankman’s situation, such things,” Taylor said, citing the already created founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchanges, which collapsed in 2022.
Baukholt was also a reception of Lasota, who was known for dramatically parting with more massive rationalist groups in San Francisco, according to Taylor. In 2019 Lasota and several friends were Arrest A rationalist event in the bay area while wearing Guy Faux masks and accused of blocking those present to leave. To Blog, Lasota publishes reflections on morals, gender, ethics of violence and the risks of creating advanced artificial intelligence.
“They have this kind of anarchist, a vegan criticism of society,” Taylor said. They believed that “you can do some violence that your society does not approve of, but your society makes violence everywhere.”
In 2022, several members of the group – then live in trailers in Lindjo’s property in Valecho – allegedly attacked Lind because of a dispute over their failure to pay rent. One or more of the squats that are claimed to have stabbed Lind with a samurai sword; Lind opened a fire with a gun, killing one of them. Prosecutors accused two people in the case, which remains open.
The member of the group fatally shot by Lind, Emma Borhanyan, was one of the arrested at the opposition of 2019.
This outbreak of violence did not seem to enchant Baukholt, Taylor said.
Baukholt “seemed to protect these people more than I thought it was justified, even after the puncture incident,” Taylor said.
Taylor moved to San Francisco and lost contact with Baukholt until March 2023, she said. Others on stage told Taylor that Baukholt was starting to act wrong and left work at the end of 2023.
“It seems that in the middle of 2023, [Bauckholt] He began to make secret phone calls and travel more and looked much more anxious, “Taylor said. – apparently [Bauckholt] I just went to an unknown place and put everyone. “
The Associated Press reported that Baukholt and Youngblut live recently in separate duplexes in the same district of Chapel Hill, NC
Another girlfriend, Selain Nightingale, told The Globe that she has known Snyder for years and met with Youngblut, whom she said she had gone with the name “Milo”, in the spring of 2023, Snyder did not object to the use of violence in the service of his ideals, writes weak, but these discussions were always abstract.
It is not yet clear what brought the members of the group in Vermont, but Michelle Zaiko seems key to their appearance here. Public records show that Zaiko gave an address in Orleans in 2020 when he registered to vote in Vermont. Separately, the records show that the next year, she bought a batch for half acres in the nearby derby, paying $ 10,000.
There is a house in the property where Zaiko is registered to vote. It is buried deep in trees, accessible only from a long alley. When a Globe reporter visited Wednesday, a man with what looked a long hill, protruding from the pocket of his cargo pants, went down the alley and told the reporter to get off the property.
Zajko’s LinkedIn profile says she worked as a research trainee at Philadelphia Children’s Hospital, not far from where her parents lived. A spokesman on Wednesday said Zaiko was “currently” a hospital employee, but did not respond to subsequent Questions whether she worked there and when.
Richard and Rita Zaiko’s estate is in the limbs, with the beneficiaries “still being determined,” according to court records of Pennsylvania. The documents submitted by a property lawyer quote “Potential killer” without development. The Pennsylvania law states in part that “in no way acquires property or receives any benefit as a result of the death of the Testaigator.”
Eleven days after Zaikos’ assassination, the court records in Pennsylvania show, Lasota was accused of Delaware County, where the couple lived, with the obstruction of justice and the violation of behavior. Other details about Lasota’s arrest were not available immediately. His arrest warrant remains active.
Prosecutors said it seemed that Youngblut was alienated by his parents, who had appeared in court in their recent decision in Burlington. They announced that she had disappeared before the Washington state authorities in May 2024 and said they were afraid she was in a “controlled relationship”, although they did not specify whom.
Youngblut and Bauuckhol have checked at Newport City Inn & Suites in Newport, Vt., Late on the night of January 14, according to Daniel Lemio, who works at the reception.
Lemieux said Youngblut wore a mask and a large black coat and is not inclined to answer questions. She would not give her telephone number or the registration number to her vehicle, Lemio said, but her credit card coincides with its identification so that the hotel worker did not fail the problem.
Authorities said the car, Toyota Prius, has signs in North Carolina and is registered with BauuckHolt. “She only answered what I asked and didn’t want to say much,” Lemio said.
Lemieux said he plans to get a duet in the first floor room in Inn style style, where most of the rooms open in the parking lot, but Youngblut wanted a room on the second floor. According to Hotel Records, the couple was renewed daily using the same credit card. They stayed in January 20, said Lemio, the day of shooting.
She said the couple had not left the property much, as if just to get food, but otherwise they were not suspicious. “I just would never have guessed that something like this would happen,” Lemio said.
Youngblut, which is small and dark-haired, appeared on a hearing detention in Burlington on Thursday, carrying a deep-red overalls from prison and a surgical mask. She was accompanied by her lawyer, who did not argue against the government’s request to keep her.
“Youngblut is currently a danger to the community,” said US district judge Kevin J. Doyle in the government’s decision.
Youngblut, whose right hand was in a slingshot, stood and allowed the court officers to hand it with handcuffs and take it. It is then due in the hearing court on February 7th.
Two people who had entered the visitors’ diary with the family name “Youngblut” did not comment as they left the full courtroom. The Youngblut lawyer also declined to comment.
The screenwriters of Globe Laura Crimaldi, Hanna Kruger, John Ellement, Gordon Russell and Jeremiah Manion have contributed to reporting.
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