Woman Involved in Suspected Cult Accused of Killing Parents

Assault Pennsylvania Today in Pennsylvania: Michelle Zajko, a member of the cultlike group known as Zizians, has been charged with murder, burglary and conspiracy in connection with the killing of her parents, Rita Zajko and Richard Zajko, at their Pennsylvania home on her 30th birthday. Delaware County prosecutors said authorities used doorbell camera footage, ballistics and cellphone records to determine that Zajko, 33, is at least partly responsible for the deaths. Zajko, who has been in custody in Maryland on other charges since February 2025, has denied killing her parents and suggested her father may have killed her mother in a murder-suicide.