MISSING SIX Mikayla Thompson

For more than a year, police in St. Louis and federal agents have scoured the internet and the state of Missouri searching for clues, but four adults and two young children seemed to have vanished without a trace, including 27-year-old Ma’Kayla Wickerson and her 3-year-old daughter Malaiyah. In the spring of 2023, Ma’Kayla Wickerson suddenly quit her corporate job, stopped paying rent, maxed out her credit cards, and began ignoring her mother Cartisha’s calls. When Cartisha showed up in person to her daughter’s house, she discovered several strangers were living there too, including a man with a gun who said his name was “I am that I am” and told her to leave. She was unable to talk to her daughter or see her granddaughter. Soon after, police found the house vacant, the ID’s of all 4 adults left behind. Investigators soon learn that Ma’Kayla and the 3 other adults living with her belong to an online cult called the University of Cosmic Intelligence and were often seen by neighbors meditating naked in the yard of their Berkeley rental home. The last post on their Facebook pages reads,”The end is near, the end is coming. Prepare for the rapture, prepare for the ascension.” In August of 2023, the group was spotted on an in-store surveillance camera in Florissant, MO, and at a hotel in the same town. Since then, there have been no signs of them anywhere. Police fear the 2 small children especially, could be in danger. .