The killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland is tied to a cultlike group that federal prosecutors have linked to five other homicides in Vermont, Pennsylvania and California.

An obituary for the United States Border Patrol agent who was killed in a shootout in northern Vermont last month has shed new light on when he will be laid to rest. Visitation for Agent David "Chris" Maland will take place at a chapel in his native Minnesota,

Here’s a look at the timeline of events in a series of killings that culminated in a Jan. 20 highways shootout that killed a Border Patrol officer in Vermont.