Annie Elise

He had this big heart for the community, always wanted to help people.

He also loved boating.

He would pitch creative ideas to help the homeless situation, saying, you know, we could use old cruise ships as shelters, things like that.

And Curtis never imagined that his life would end the way it did, just being targeted,

twice.

And the timing of Curtis's death raised some serious questions, right?

Like, could the Zizians have been behind this second attack as well?

And if so, was it because their plan was to stop him from testifying?

I mean, after all, he was the main witness in a murder case that had gone wrong, and

he was about to testify as the trial was about to start.

But while the police were scrambling for leads in California and searching for Curtis's killer, another violent act was about to unfold 3,000 miles away in Vermont.

January 20th, 2025 started out like any other day for David Christopher Milland, a 44-year-old U.S.

Border Patrol agent who was working near the U.S.-Canada border in northern Vermont.

Now, he went by Chris for short, and Chris was a veteran of both the Air Force and his current Border Patrol job.

He had once even worked security at the Pentagon during 9-11, and he had spent the last decade of his life patrolling the northern U.S.-Canada border.

His friends and co-workers all described him as humble, dedicated, just extremely kind.

And I know a lot of people have this idea probably of what it's like working border patrol and how it probably is super intense all the time.

And don't get me wrong, I'm sure it can be.

But most of the days, especially at this northern border, were essentially pretty uneventful and pretty peaceful.

Agents would spend most of their time just checking IDs, responding to alerts, monitoring crossing points.