The Murder of Girly Chew Hossencofft

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09/09/22 • 49 min

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Twenty three years ago today, 36 year old Girly Chew Hossencofft was murdered by her estranged husband, Diazien Hossencofft, and his girlfriend, Linda Henning. Girly Chew met Diazien during one of several trips to the United States from her home country of Malaysia in the early 1990s. After immigrating to marry and start a new life with Hossencofft, Girly's life in America wasn't what she had anticipated. Her new husband was manipulative and paranoid, and subscribed to some pretty unusual conspiracy theories involving UFOs and Reptilian royalty. To make matters worse, it soon became clear that Diazien wasn't who he claimed to be. After a tense breakup, Diazien focused his paranoia on his ex, ultimately resulting in her murder. The body of Girly Chew has never been found, leaving her homicide case with a lot of loose ends.
Writing and research by Aurora Cady.

Original music and audio production by Louis Levesque.
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Book:
September Sacrifice by Mark Horner
Podcast:
Going West: Episode #125 - Girly Chew Hossencofft

https://www.septembersacrifice.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanjung_Bungah
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19840366/girly-hossencofft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Girly_Chew_Hossencofft
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/the-disappearance-of-girly-chew-hossencofft-a-con-man-a-fashion-designer-ufos-and-a-ninja
https://charleyproject.org/case/girly-chew-hossencofft
https://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art22944.asp
https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/290806848/?terms=%22girly%20chew%22&match=1
https://cattstruecrimecorner.com/the-murder-of-girly-chew-hossencofft/?shared=email&msg=fail

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Book:
September Sacrifice by Mark Horner
Podcast:
Going West: Episode #125 - Girly Chew Hossencofft

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The Woman in the Barrel: Reyna Angélica Marroquín

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When mummified human remains were discovered inside of a 55-gallon drum stashed in the crawlspace of a Long Island home, Nassau County investigators had to work backwards to solve a mysterious murder case three decades in the making. The victim was a young, Latinx woman with an almost full-term pregnancy, but a search of missing persons reports filed over the years failed to find a match. Before they were able to identify the body as belonging to 27-year-old Reyna Marroquín, forensic analysts first figured out the approximate age of the barrel, and indicated a strong suspect. In 1999, dedicated detectives brought closure to a case that didn't receive the attention it deserved back in 1969, when the murder took place.
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Woman in the Barrel: 9:23
Writing and research by Angelina Villeseche.

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TV:
Forensic Files: A Voice from BeyondPodcasts:
Nefarious New York - Reyna Marroquin
Criminally Listed Presents: Into the Killing - Reyna Marroquin
Straight Up Evil - Reyna Marroquin
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/13/nyregion/suicide-adds-to-mystery-of-corpse-found-in-barrel.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/21/nyregion/metro-news-briefs-new-york-dead-woman-s-ex-boss-was-father-of-her-baby.html
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1999-09-14-9909131226-story.html
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2000-01-22-0001220143-story.html
https://forensicfilesnow.com/index.php/tag/howard-elkins/
https://truecrimemysteries.medium.com/reyna-marroquin-was-murdered-to-conceal-an-affair-with-her-employer-bdebb20d40a4
https://www.grunge.com/853513/the-tragic-story-of-reyna-marroquins-murder/

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The Bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church

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Fifty nine years ago this week, 4 little black girls were killed and many others were injured in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. The event would serve as the catalyst for the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965, but victim’s families and survivors would wait 40 years to see the perpetrators of this crime behind bars. The suspects were members of the Ku Klux Klan, and the all-white, segregationist officials in the area weren’t especially inclined to pursue them. Leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. held marches and protests in solidarity with disenfranchised black people who sought equal rights for their community.
Writing and research by Angelina Villeseche.

Original music and audio production by Louis Levesque.
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Film:
4 Little Girls (HBO) 1997
Podcast:
Post Reports - The 1963 Birmingham bombing’s ‘Fifth Girl’
https://www.phillytrib.com/four-little-girls-america-still-has-blood-on-its-hands/article_3286a8f4-b2e5-5db8-a78b-16da8de01006.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/03/06/sarah-collins-rudolph-birmingham-church-bombing-fifth-girl/
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/baptist-street-church-bombing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing
https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/birmingham-church-bombing
Headlines:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/german-man-convicted-of-murder-after-killing-over-mask-rules-1.6066086
https://abc7news.com/san-carlos-murder-woman-beheaded-in-front-of-kids-jose-solano-landaeta-killed/12213435/

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