A member of the extremist Bay Area group known as the Zizians has been charged with murder. Michelle Zajko, 33, who has been jailed in Maryland since early 2025, was charged Wednesday with murder in the 2022 killings of her parents in their home in Chester Heights, Pennsylvania.
The Zizians are a cult-like fringe group of Bay Area rationalists and former tech workers linked to six killings across three states.
Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse announced the charges against Zajko at a news conference Wednesday afternoon, the Associated Press reports. She faces two counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy and burglary charges in the shooting deaths of her mother, Rita Zajko, 69, and father, Richard Zajko, 72, on New Year’s Eve 2022. Rouse said she did not act alone…