Woman linked to transgender Zizian cult charged with arranging her parents' murders on her 30th birthday

A pistillate linked to the cultlike radical known arsenic the Zizians was charged Wednesday successful the killings of her parents, with prosecutors alleging she arranged the murders connected her 30th day and did not enactment alone.

Michelle Zajko, 33, faces murder, burglary and conspiracy charges successful the deaths of Rita and Richard Zajko, who were recovered changeable to decease successful their Chester Heights, Pennsylvania, location connected New Year's Eve 2022.

Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse said investigators judge Zajko helped program the killings, though authorities bash not yet cognize who fired the fatal shots.

"At this clip we bash not cognize who her co-conspirators were, but we are precise definite that Michelle Zajko was successful the location and arranged for the decease of her parents," Rouse said.

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Michelle Zajko is escorted into tribunal for a pretrial proceeding connected trespassing, weapon and cause charges successful Cumberland, Maryland, connected Jan. 16, 2026. Zajko was charged Wednesday successful Pennsylvania with murder, burglary and conspiracy successful the killings of her parents. (AP Photo/Mark Scolforo)

Prosecutors said the lawsuit was built done years of investigative enactment involving cellphone analysis, ballistic grounds and footage from a neighbor's doorbell camera. According to investigators, the video captured 2 radical arriving astatine the location soon earlier the killings and recorded idiosyncratic shouting "Mom!" moments earlier the shootings, according to prosecutors.

Authorities besides recovered ammunition casings they accidental matched ammunition linked to Zajko's Vermont spot and backyard firing range.

"If she wasn't the 1 who really pulled the trigger, she was surely aligned with those who did," Rouse said.

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The Chester Heights, Pennsylvania, location wherever Richard and Rita Zajko were recovered changeable to decease connected Dec. 31, 2022. Their daughter, Michelle Zajko, was charged Wednesday with murder, burglary and conspiracy successful the killings. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Zajko has denied engagement successful the killings.

"I didn't execution my parents," she wrote successful an April 2025 "Open Letter to the World."

Prosecutors said Zajko had go estranged from her parents successful the twelvemonth earlier their deaths. Hours earlier she was killed, Rita Zajko texted her girl to apologize for the rift betwixt them and privation her a blessed birthday.

"That substance went unanswered," Rouse said.

Richard Zajko, left, and his wife, Rita Zajko, were recovered changeable to decease successful their Chester Heights, Pennsylvania, location connected Dec. 31, 2022. Their daughter, Michelle Zajko, was charged Wednesday with murder, burglary and conspiracy successful the killings. (Pennsylvania State Police)

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Authorities person agelong identified Zajko arsenic a idiosyncratic of involvement successful the case. She is besides accused of supplying the firearm utilized successful the January 2025 sidesplitting of U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland, 1 of respective deaths authorities person linked to alleged members of the Zizians.

Fox News Digital reached retired to an lawyer who has antecedently represented Zajko successful Maryland and the Delaware County Public Defender's Office. Neither instantly responded to requests for comment.