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"If I'm ever late for work, call the police!"--that's what Albuquerque, New Mexico bank teller Girly Chew, 36, told her boss. The Malaysian-born beauty lived in mortal fear of her pathologically deranged husband and had taken out a restraining order against him. She was late for work for the first--and last--time on September 10, 1999. Her bloodstained clothes were found near a lonely stretch of desert highway.
VILLAIN
Chew's estranged spouse was an unrepentant scam artist with a terrifying violent streak. Born Armando Chavez, Jr. in Texas, he changed his name to Diazien Hossencofft and said he was from Switzerland. Claiming to be a surgeon and DNA expert with an anti-aging formula, he bilked a woman dying of cancer out of nearly a half-million dollars. While married, he conducted numerous affairs--even managing to wangle sole custody of the infant son he fathered with one of his mistresses.
VIOLENCE
Nursing a sick obsession with his wife while exerting Manson-like control over his girlfriend/accomplice, UFO fanatic Linda Henning, 47, Hossencofft set the stage for Girly Chew's murder and followed through on his plan with sadistic enthusiasm--leaving behind little proof of his evil deed. Without a body to provide crucial clues, police were up against a mighty challenge. Determined to get their man, a dedicated and resourceful investigative team began to painstakingly weave a net of forensic evidence to snag a twisted killer...
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This was certainly a different true crime - and very readable.
The husband in this book is a character like no other - almost sub humanly
cold. Mind boggling that so many people could be fooled by him.
Even the pictures of him in the book are chilling if you look at his eyes.
It was not a book I had heard of until it was recommended to me, but certainly one of my better recent reads, just to learn how vicious and cold one human can be toward another.
More than four and a half years investigating this story Mark Horner writes his first book. Working as a TV journalist living near the crime he has poured himself into this book. It is meticiously researched and extends over the years to present his work. It contains more elements than most any true crime story...a charismatic con man who plotted his wife's murder, an innocent young woman kidnapped and missing, fear, betrayal, murder, an UFO group. 414 pp's to explain the cases against three people yet questions still linger---why was the man they had pinned the murder on let off with 10 months probation while two others rot in prison. Great DNA testing explanation in simplified language on page 282. Hope this author does more work and continues his website (see book).
Ilze B. from CHARLOTTESVLE, VA wrote on 2/28/2006...Excellent true crime. If you like that genre, this is a must.
From the back cover - "If I'm ever late for work, call the police!" -that's what Albuquerque, New Mexico bank teller Girly Chew, 36, told her boss. The Malaysian-born beauty lived in mortal fear of her pathologically deranged husband and had taken out a restraining order against him.
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