Jack “Ziz” LaSota, leader of a so-called “death cult” linked to at least six deaths across the United States, is in custody after months on the run, officials in Maryland confirmed Sunday.

Earlier this year, police revealed the existence of what they described as a violent cult called the Zizians after their ...

Jack “Ziz” LaSota, 33, was arrested Sunday in Frostburg, Md., along with Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, 32, and Daniel Arthur Blank, 26, after allegedly trespassing on a private property ...

On her blog, Ziz peddled “unihemispheric sleep” (UHS), a real but very unhealthy practice in which people attempt to rest only one half of their brain at a time. Sleep deprivation is a tactic ...

Over the weekend, police managed to apprehend Jack "Ziz" DeSota, a mysterious figure who allegedly leads a group called the "Zizians" who are tied to a mind-boggling cross-country string of murders.

A Maryland court on Tuesday ordered a blogger known as Ziz who leads a cultlike group connected to six killings held without bail. The blogger, Jack LaSota, 34, of Berkeley, California ...

Mr. LaSota writes a blog under the name “Ziz” and is the cult’s alleged leader, though he is not charged in any of the group’s spate of killings since 2022 that put them on law enforcement ...

After months on the run, Jack “Ziz” LaSota, 33, was arrested Sunday alongside associates Michelle Zajko, 32, and Daniel Blank, 26, in the forests of northwestern Maryland. A property owner in ...