The vegan trans ‘death cult’ allegedly leaving a trail of bodies in its wake
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Curt Lind didn’t know it, but he was already dead.
The 82-year-old was ambushed by a hooded figure lying in wait outside his trailer park who repeatedly slashed his throat, CCTV footage seen by The Telegraph reveals.
Amazingly, Lind remained on his feet as his assailant fled. The collar of his jacket, which had been torn off during the frenzied knife attack and trailed limply from his hand, was visibly soaked through with blood.
He staggered away, perhaps trying to seek help from a neighbour, before collapsing face-first in the middle of the road.
He didn’t move again until the authorities in Vallejo, California collected his body later that day.
The man charged with his murder was Maximilian Snyder, a 22-year-old former computer science student. He has pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors have linked him to the Zizians, a “death cult” of transgender vegans, which once operated on Lind’s land before allegedly trying to kill him following a dispute over rent.
The group scattered after what the authorities characterised as the first murder attempt of Lind. At least two of them appear to have faked their own deaths, and they have since been linked to a string of murders across the US.
But as recently as November 2022, the members of the so-called cult were living in Lind’s trailer park in Vallejo.
The sprawling compound, located at the end of a cul-de-sac in the south-west corner of the city, is a jumble of iron and steel. Boats, cars, trucks, lawnmowers and shipping containers, many of them rusted, are scattered behind the chainlink fence and padlocked gates.
Locals called it the “fruit stand” because of the strange characters it attracted. Back then, Lind was also living on the lot in a caravan.
He met the Zizians in early 2020 while the tug boat they were living on was docked at a harbour south of San Francisco, and offered to rent out his land to them.
They made a strange pairing – a former ship worker and talented machinist, then in his seventies, and a group of 20-somethings, most of them transgender vegans, who had attended elite universities. But they formed a sort of bond, and Lind would recall taking one of them to buy their first bra.
“Curt was open to different people’s ways of life,” said Jon Jenkins, who knew Lind for 20 years, recalling his friend speaking up for the group just months before they allegedly tried to kill him.
The Zizians are an offshoot from the “rationalist” intellectual movement in San Francisco’s Bay Area, which started taking root among its community of tech bros and computer geeks in the early 2010s.
The group took its name from its leader Ziz, real name Jack LaSota, who in labyrinthine blog posts would formulate a philosophy about the brain’s two hemispheres – which can be good or evil, male or female, and “often desire to kill each other”.
LaSota, who was born a man before transitioning, would dress up in long black “Sith” robes, after the Star Wars villains. “The Sith do what they want deep down,” he explained in one post. “They remove all obstructions.”
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