In a case that has confounded law enforcement across the nation, Jack Amadeus LaSota, a transgender man-to-woman former Alaskan who was once declared dead, has re-emerged at the center of a sprawling and violent saga, with murders from California to Vermont linked to a cult LaSota is said to be part of under his pseudonym, “Ziz.”
A boating accident in 2022 began to unravel the web of cult-like extremism, murder, and deception that has left investigators scrambling.
On Aug. 19, 2022, LaSota was declared missing after falling overboard in San Francisco Bay. Despite an extensive Coast Guard search, his body was never recovered.
By Sept. 7, 2022, a short obituary had been published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, mourning the loss of the adventurous and highly intelligent 31-year-old.
It seemed like a tragic end for LaSota, who had moved from Alaska to the Bay Area to work in the tech industry.
Three months later, in November 2022, he/she was found alive—under suspicious circumstances.
It was that November when an 80-year-old man was brutally attacked in Vallejo, Calif. The assault left the man blind in one eye, and the assailant plunged a Samurai sword into his chest. Among those detained at the scene was none other than Jack LaSota, back from the dead.
Two years later, in 2024, an attacker returned to finish the job, slashing the now-82-year-old man’s throat in broad daylight. By then, LaSota’s name had surfaced in connection with other violent crimes.
On New Year’s Eve 2023, an elderly couple in Pennsylvania was executed in their home.
And on Inauguration Day 2025, a shootout in Vermont between suspects and Border Patrol agents left an agent and a suspect dead.
These seemingly unrelated cases all had one thing in common—connections to LaSota and a radical group known as the “Zizians.”
The so-called “Zizians”—a loose network of highly educated, mostly transgender, vegan individuals—have been described as a cult with extreme beliefs. Their ideology appears to be an offshoot of what is called the rationalist movement, which emphasizes logic and reason as the ultimate sources of knowledge.
LaSota goes by the name “Ziz,” and is believed to be the group’s leader. According to Open Vallejo, the Zizians subscribe to a bizarre philosophy that involves a conflict between the two hemispheres of the brain, with only one hemisphere being “good.” The sides of the brain are trying to kill each other. Their belief system has been described by some as a “death cult.” Only Ziz says both hemispheres of his own brain are good.
LaSota’s background is in Alaska. He was the son, but now the transgender “daughter” of an instructor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. LaSota interned at NASA and Oracle and worked at Google, as well as at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and the Center for Applied Rationality.
Now, LaSota is a wanted fugitive in multiple states. Law enforcement agencies are working to unravel the complex network of individuals associated with the Zizians and their potential involvement in multiple homicides.
Major news stories explain this bizarre case in greater depth. This news story is a summary of original reporting found at national media websites and does not represent original MRAK reporting.
Well, certainly this is another interesting and disagreeable story from our degenerate national culture. The murderous Zizians have been fortunate not to have met up with me.
This is not ladylike behavior.
Savage. – sd
His dad worked at UAF? That pretty well explains it all. Wack-job institutions produce new wack-jobs.