Further reading for The Murder of Girly Chew Hossencofft
September Sacrifice by Mark Horner
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
The story of Girly Chew and Diazien Hossencofft is some real tragedy about loneliness, desperation, and a frantic desire to cheat death and get rich. It also happens to involve youth serums, alleged cancer cures, UFOs and hidden reptillians, but by the time the case went to court, it was unclear how much of the latter factors were honestly believed vs how much noise they trew into the legal signal.
Diazien Hossencofft is a con man who ran a particularly dubious con on many, many women. Most of them faced dire health crises as cancer ran wild on their bodies. Hossencofft, taking advantage of the new biotech jardon of the time (the early 1990’s), convinced enough people that he could reverse aging or cure their cancer through the magic of genetic engineering. By talking with enough science fiction nonsense, peppered with real-world biotech jargon, he managed to draw millions of dollars from his victims. But given the tenuous nature of his cons, Diazien seemed to be constantly on the run from old ripoffs.
Girly Chew was his beautiful Malaysian wife, a woman who had no reason not to believe that her husband was who he said he was. They married in 1993 but by 1996, his masked had slipped and Girly learned the horrible truth that for the last 6 years her husband had been running cons, was married to two other women, and had fathered a child in Canada. Shortly thereafter, Girly disappeared. Investigators turned up enough evidence, minus her body, to convict Diazien and his girlfriend Linda Henning for the murder, but the story that turned up during investigation got straight up fucking weird.
Episodes : 393 & 394
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