In the first public statement since she made headlines, Jack “Ziz” LaSota tells a judge that she’s homeless and pleads for vegan food.

Over several days in early January 2025, witnesses noticed a person in all black looming around Lind’s Vallejo residence. On ...

A charismatic figure known as Ziz is at the center of an investigation spanning multiple states and law enforcement agencies.

But LaSota, who is known online as Ziz, asked for pretrial release, saying she was homeless with no means of traveling. Speaking haltingly, she also repeatedly requested a vegan diet, saying she could ...

The leader of a radical transgender group connected to six murders, including that of a U.S. Border Patrol agent, told a Maryland judge last week, "I haven’t done anything wrong." ...

The leader of an alleged cult that hoped to usher in a murderous artificial superintelligence a la "Roko's Basilisk" once ...

I am closely following the murky case of the Zizian cult, a story so illustrative of our times that almost no one dares ...

A solo show by Somerville artist Charlie Dov Schön, “A Brand New Hole in the Sky,” features a lesser-known character from ...

A third, a shadowy figure known online as "Ziz," remains missing in connection with the death of the U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont after authorities linked their cultlike group to six deaths in ...

Court records showed that Ziz, a 34-year-old computer scientist known in court records by her legal name as Jack LaSota, was detained on misdemeanor charges in Allegany County on Sunday evening.