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Zajko is a person of interest in the 2023 killing of her parents
Federal authorities say Michelle Zajko, 32, of Orleans/Derby may be driving a 2013 Subaru Outback. At left, Zajko in a Linked In profile photo, date uncertain.
by Daniel Duric, Newport Dispatch with information contributed by VDC
Federal authorities searching for the source of weapons used in a Border Patrol agent’s killing have identified a suspect who owns land in Derby.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is currently seeking information about firearms purchases by Michelle J. Zajko, 32, who they believe supplied the weapons used in the January 20 shooting death of Agent David “Chris” Maland in Coventry.
Zajko purchased a half-acre plot on Bates Hill Road in Derby in 2021, according to town records. Zajko has a listed address in Orleans, according to documents obtained by the Albany Times-Union and town records reviewed by The Associated Press.
Law enforcement officials say Zajko may be driving a green 2013 Subaru Outback with an expired Vermont registration.
Zajko, considered armed and dangerous by authorities, is also a person of interest in the 2023 murder of her parents in Pennsylvania and has ties to Boston, according to police records.
“ATF is asking for your assistance in identifying any firearms purchases made by Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, a person of interest in the shooting of a Customs and Border Protection Officer,” the agency said in a bulletin to gun dealers.
The Albany Times-Union reported that Zajko purchased two handguns — a .40-caliber and a .380-caliber semiautomatic — at a Mount Tabor gun shop in February.
These weapons were recovered at the scene where Maland was shot. Teresa Youngblut of Seattle, Washington has been charged in connection with the shooting. Felix Bauckholt, a legal German immigrant, was shot dead at the scene while trying to shoot one of the guns at the Border Patrol agent.
The Albany Times-Union also stated that Zajko is considered armed and dangerous and adheres to an “anti-law enforcement ideology.” Richard and Rita Zajko were 71 and 68 respectively when they were shot to death at home in Delaware County, PA.
The Times-Union story notes that the killing of a California landlord allegedly by Maximilian Snyder, 22, Youngblut’s boyfriend, “is being examined as part of a series of incidents related to a small group of individuals who may be united by a set of fringe ideological beliefs. There is also an apparent connection between Snyder and the killing of Richard and Rita Zajko.”
Zajko is listed as one of the lower-ranked co-authors of a 2015 scientific study entitled “Comparative genomics of Cluster O mycobacteriophages.” At the time she was an intern with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and had just graduated with honors from Cabrini University in Radnor, PA and was enrolled as a graduate student in Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Her Linked In page states she is a bioinformatician.
A 2013 paper also showed Zajko’s undergraduate interest in Decision Theory. “Debugging the Brain: Heuristics, Biases, and Decision Theory Debugging the Brain: Heuristics, Biases, and Decision Theory, presented in 2013 to the Seventh Annual Art Research and Scholarship Symposium states that “Beliefs are the brain’s representation of objects, not the objects themselves. People’s assumptions about the world around them color their decisions. Those decisions have long term consequences, both advantageous and deleterious. Because people maintain consistency in their beliefs, they often continue to make the same decisions, even if those decisions are not optimal.”
As noted in other media coverage, the Zis cult to which Youngblut has been tied has an interest in behavior adaptation through sleep deprivation. On her Linked In page, Zajko says that during the 2015 study she “Analyzed blood samples and physiological data to determine how predictive miRNAs are of neurobehavioral susceptibility in sleep deprived individuals on the NASA Human Research Analog Environment.
VDC added some background information on Zajko in its edition of this news story.
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You mean to tell me that she is a person of interest for murder and was allowed to purchase a firearm later be sold to persons that killed a Border Patrol Agent.
This all goes to show that gun control does not work.
1. She had to passed the background check on Form 4473 to purchase the guns and was not on the NICS list.
2. She th have observed the Vermont three day waiting period.
3. She illegally “straw purchased” for other people.
4. She illegally violated Vermont’s Universal Background check and did not go thru a dealer to sell the guns.
5. How many times did she lie filling out ATF Form 4473?
Questions on ATF Form 4473: Answer the following questions by checking or marking either the “yes” or “no” box to the right of the questions:
a. Are you the actual transferee/buyer of all of the firearm(s) listed on this form and any continuation sheet(s) (ATF Form 5300.9A)?
Warning: You are not the actual transferee/buyer if you are acquiring any of the firearm(s) on behalf of another person. If you
are not the actual transferee/buyer, the licensee cannot transfer any of the firearm(s) to you. Exception: If you are only picking up
a repaired firearm(s) for another person, you are not required to answer 21.a. and may proceed to question 21.b.
b. Do you intend to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm listed on this form and any continuation sheet(s) in furtherance of any felony or other
offense punishable by imprisonment for a term of more than one year, a Federal crime of terrorism, or a drug trafficking offense?
c. Are you under indictment or information in any court for a felony, or any other crime for which the judge could imprison you for more
than one year, or are you a current member of the military who has been charged with violation(s) of the Uniform Code of Military
Justice and whose charge(s) have been referred to a general court-martial?
d. Have you ever been convicted in any court, including a military court, of a felony, or any other crime for which the judge could have
imprisoned you for more than one year, even if you received a shorter sentence including probation?
e. Are you a fugitive from justice?
f. Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?
Warning: The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized
for medicinal or recreational purposes in the state where you reside.
g. Have you ever been adjudicated as a mental defective OR have you ever been committed to a mental institution?
h. Have you ever been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions?
i. Are you subject to a court order, including a Military Protection Order issued by a military judge or magistrate, restraining you from
harassing, stalking, or threatening your child or an intimate partner or child of such partner?
j. Have you ever been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, or are you or have you ever been a member of
the military and been convicted of a crime that included, as an element, the use of force against a person as identified in the instructions.
k. Have you ever renounced your United States citizenship?
l. Are you an alien illegally or unlawfully in the United States?
m.1. Are you an alien who has been admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa?
m.2. If you answered “Yes” to question 21.m.1, do you fall within any of the exceptions stated in the instructions?
n. Do you intend to sell or dispose of any firearm(s) listed on this form or any continuation sheet(s) to any person described in questions 21(b)-(l) or
to a person described in question 21.m.1 who does not fall within a nonimmigrant alien exception?
I certify that my answers in Section B are true, correct, and complete. I have read and understand the Notices, Instructions, and Definitions on ATF
Form 4473. I understand that answering “yes” to question 21.a. if I am not the actual transferee/buyer is a crime punishable as a felony under Federal
law and may also violate State and/or local law. I understand that a person who answers “yes” to any of the questions 21.b. through 21.l. as well as 21.n.
is prohibited from receiving, possessing, or purchasing a firearm. I understand that a person who answers “yes” to question 21.m.1. is prohibited from
receiving or possessing a firearm, unless the person answers “yes” to question 21.m.2. and provides the documentation required in 26.d. I also understand
that making any false oral or written statement, or exhibiting any false or misrepresented identification with respect to this transaction, is a crime
punishable as a felony under Federal law and may also violate State and/or local law. I further understand that the repetitive purchase of firearms for the
purpose of resale to predominantly earn a profit without a Federal firearms license is a violation of Federal law.
Certification Date – Transferee’s/Buyer’s Signature – Month Day Year
Re: The Albany Times-Union also stated that Zajko is considered armed and dangerous and adheres to an “anti-law enforcement ideology.” Richard and Rita Zajko were 71 and 68 respectively when they were shot to death at home in Delaware County, PA.
The question to our legislators. If the gun control laws, you pass does not stop criminals then exactly who is it intended to stop from illegally obtaining a firearm. Because this person circumvented both state and federal laws resulting in the death of this Border Patrol Agent.
I’m fairly sure that after reading some of your comments that you and I know that gun control isn’t about controlling guns, it’s about the continued erosion of the peoples rights and to eventually disarm the public.
Every felon involved in a Vermont crime has been in possession of one or more illegal guns. Felons are prohibited from buying, owning and possessing firearms. Well here’s a fact, criminals don’t obey laws only good people do.
Now Senator Baruth and his equal in the house LaLond with a bogus report from the Secretary of State will try to muster another worthless gun control law to limit where good people can have or carry their firearms for protection while felonious criminals will not be affected.
These power hungry ideologues took an oath of office under the pains and penalties of perjury that they swore not to harm the freedoms enshrined in our Vermont constitution and here they are proving their oaths are worthless and dishonest.
Question. Did the F. B. I. and the Vermont state police fail to tell the border patrol the danger with these people????? What was the meaning of WHISPER STOP????
Sounds like it?
Is “she” the supposed 3rd person that was associated with the original perps and If So, when the feds apparently had much info relating to the Pa.and Calif. homicides, why were not all 3 rounded up via overwhelming police force? Was DHS (Border Patrol) not in the loop due to Vt. state sanctuary-state policy?
Give her the needles along with the rest, poster children for birth control
Consider her armed and dangerous, shoot on site.
Beans and maybe a hotdog or two period, 4 life !
On the VDC podcast, the name Martine Rothblatt was mentioned. NH Business Review December 16, 2024: “United Therapeutics, a biotech company that has operations in the Manchester Millyard, is backing off plans to buy city-owned property on Hackett Hill Road, saying the 350-acre site is not suitable for its plans.
“We appreciate the creativity and dedication of Mayor Ruais, the Board of Mayor and Aldermen and the City of Manchester to make the Hackett Hill site available for potential development,” said Dewey Steadman, head of investor relations for the Maryland-based company, in a statement Monday. The company says it remains committed to Manchester, however, where it is working on producing artificial human organs for transplant at an 80,000-square-foot research and development center at 100 Commercial St.” https://www.nhbr.com/united-therapeutics-cancels-plans-to-buy-hackett-hill-property-from-manchester/
A while ago, there was word that Rothblatt or affiliated annihilists were owners of a mountain top swath of property in Northern NH and were constructing a compound. All secrets will be revealed as they lose control herding their mind controlled Hellcats…all connected to the spewings of Yuval Noah Harari, the transhumanism movement, all the “ism” movements, and making the movies Blade Runner and Minority Report come to life…what we’ll really get is the Terminator series.
Possibly driving a “green 2013 Subaru Outback”. That should make her exceptionally easy to spot in Vermont!