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But later, she admitted that her mom had texted her just hours before the murders about a savings bond that Michelle could cash soon.

So initially, it seemed like while Michelle was trying to kind of give off the vibe that she and her parents were estranged and hadn't seen each other in a long time, the reality was they were definitely still in touch with one another.

Michelle wasn't arrested, but it is safe to say that she was on the police's radar because the cops also learned that she had legally purchased a Smith & Wesson handgun in Vermont a few months earlier.

And the same kind of ammo that had been used for that gun

was the type of ammo that had been used in the murder of her parents.

And sure enough, when the police took a closer look at Michelle's gun, they had noticed that it had recently been cleaned.

Still though, without any hard proof placing her at the scene in Pennsylvania, states away, no charges were filed.

But like I said, Michelle was definitely still on the investigators' radar.

Because they wanted to execute a search warrant.

They wanted to see what else they could figure out about this situation.

Now, the warrant finally came in at the end of January 2023, so a few weeks after the double murder.

And after the warrant came in, they were able to dig a little bit deeper into Michelle.

Now, by then, Michelle was staying at a hotel in Pennsylvania along with another Zizian follower named Danielle Blank.

So the police arrive, they are there to serve and execute this warrant, and when they arrived, what's very, very interesting is they found Michelle in her room, Daniel hiding in the bathroom with the shower running, and they also found a third person there.

None other than Ziz herself.

Ziz was alive, she wasn't dead.

It turns out she had faked her drowning and her death.

It was all just this huge ruse and bigger attempt to be as off-grid as possible.

Meanwhile, she had continued building her online group, and she had fooled everyone.

For a while, anyway, people thought she was dead.