In late January, Vermont Border Patrol agent David Mayland pulled over a car near the Canadian

border.

While trading fire, Mayland was killed, as was one of the car's occupants.

The other was injured.

As the days passed, authorities realized that the people in that car had links to what's

been described as a cult called the Zizians.

Most of the Zizians are now dead or in jail, but do their ideas still have purchased?

This isn't like the Manson family driving around every night looking for people to murder.

But I do think, you know, it's possible that there are people out there who are influenced by Ziz or who were, in fact, fellow travelers, so to speak, who are, you know, still waiting for the final confrontation that they're going to have.

That's coming up on Today Explained.

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Max Reed has been following this story. He's the owner-operator of the Read Max newsletter on Substack.

And so I asked Max to start by telling us what the rationalists are.

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