20-04-2025
Transgender vegan murder cult member freaks out in court
A member of a radical transgender vegan cult suspected in several murders was dragged out of a California courtroom, claiming jail guards were trying to detransition them.
And they wanted to kill them.
Alexander Leatham, 29, who identifies as a transgender woman, is reportedly part of the Zizian cult.
However, according to Courthouse News, they were attending a hearing in Solano County, Calif., when they freaked out and began ranting in court.
Leatham exploded: 'I am not suicidal. I have never been suicidal. If I am killed in police custody, it was murder!'
They are in the hot seat for allegedly attempting to murder her landlord in 2022. The landlord was later murdered, allegedly by Zizian members.
Leatham claimed she was being forcibly detransitioned with hormone therapy. They added that it was all part of a 25-year conspiracy against transgender people.
At a hearing in March, Leatham screamed again and again: 'This is a show trial to coordinate the genocide of transgender people!'
Leatham was then locked in what cops call a 'quiet room' similar to what's found in many daycares for unruly toddlers.
Courthouse News wrote: 'Her muffled shouting could be heard in the next room for the rest of the hearing.'
Zizians were an unknown quantity before Jan. 20, when two suspected members were involved in a shootout with Border Patrol Agent David Maland near the Canadian border.
Authorities said that Teresa 'Milo' Consuelo Youngblut and former Waterloo University student and German national Felix 'Ophelia' Bauckholt were pulled over by Maland. Youngblut allegedly started shooting, and the border agent returned fire, killing Bauckholt, but Maland was mortally wounded.
Cops say the two cult members got their guns from fellow Zizian Michelle Zakjow, 32, who identifies as a trans man. Zakjow had been wanted for the double murder of his parents in Pennsylvania.
One month later, detectives traced Zakjow to Delaware, where they were arrested, along with fellow cultie Daniel Blank and the bizarre sect's leader, Jack 'Ziz' LaSota.
Ziz, 34, is a trans blogger and computer engineer from Berkeley, California. Police have painted the cult leader as a modern-day Charles Manson.
The group has been linked to six murders in three states.
Pennsylvania state police sources told the New York Post they have enough evidence to arrest Zakjow for the murders of his parents.
As for Leatham, they and fellow cult members Suri Dao and Emma Borhanian are accused of attacking their landlord, Curtis Lind, 82, in 2022. Lind told cops he was inspecting a leak in Dao's trailer when he was clobbered in the back of the head.
When he woke up, he had more than 50 stab wounds that detectives believe were inflicted by a samurai sword, which was stuck in his torso and the trio of Zizians standing over him.
But the old man wasn't going down without a fight and managed to grab his gun, wounding Leatham and killing Borhanian. Prosecutors said it was self-defence.
Another Zizian named Maximilian Snyder later finished off Lind to prevent him from testifying against the cult members. Snyder allegedly stabbed Lind to death in an ambush.
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