Before the shooting of border patrol officer, visitors took interest in a remote Northeast Kingdom property
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A group of young people linked to multiple violent deaths left a trail of sometimes unsettling interactions with Vermonters — including a realtor, an employee at an AT&T store and hotel workers.
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Youngblut and Bauckholt are two members of a loose group of people who have now been linked to at least six deaths that span three states and two U.S. coastlines — including a double homicide in Pennsylvania and the murder of a landlord in California.
Many of the people appear to be highly educated and have ties to Bay Area communities of rationalists, a movement of philosophically-minded people who prize logical reasoning and are often interested in artificial intelligence and software engineering.
But members of this particular group — dubbed by some “Zizians,” for their following of a blog written by an individual named Jack LaSota under the pen name “Ziz” — appear to have taken those rationalist ideas in an unorthodox and extreme direction.
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