6 Deaths, 3 States and the Radical Breakaway ‘Rationalists’ at the Center of the Nightmare

6 Deaths, 3 States and the Radical Breakaway ‘Rationalists’ at the Center of the Nightmare

There is an unpaved road near the edge of a woods outside the tiny Appalachian town of Frostburg, Maryland. That is where two white box trucks, the kind one might rent to move houses, were parked on Sunday, Feb. 16, when a fleet of officers from the Maryland State Police, the Allegany County Sheriff’s Office, and the Department of Natural Resources Police descended.  In the cab of one of the trucks, Maryland State Trooper Brandon Jeffries woul…