“Girly was one of the sweetest people you could ever meet.
She lit up a room when she walked in.
“He did have an ability of putting very compelling arguments
in making you want to believe what he was trying to say.”
“Girly Chew was an alien queen."
“She knew she was going to be hunted like the dog she was."
She sits in front of her desk, scrawling in her notepad.
I am an alien queen. I will protect the Earth from all that is evil.
She draws a tall, slender creature.
She is valiant, strong, courageous.
Standing with her ninja sword over the bodies of her foes,
she is perfect.
Linda Henning was a successful model-turned-fashion designer.
Always well-put together, friends and colleagues of Linda
had only positive things to say: she was a good person,
reportedly the first one to take in stray cats, or most likely to
save spiders from being stepped on.
Fellow members of the Barbie Friends of Albuquerque,
an interest group she was a part of, commented on
the fashionable outfits and designer bags Linda always had in tow.
Linda’s interests would often shift, and she would become
very invested in what she cared about at that moment,
whether it be animal rights, children welfare, or the environment.
So it wasn’t too much of a shock when her interests turned to UFOs.
Little did everyone know, this newfound interest would turn into obsession
By July 1999, Linda’s obsession reached a peak.
She began attending regular meetings with a UFO club in a
Japanese restaurant to discuss extraterrestrials, government
conspiracies, and her favourite subject: reptilians.
One of her friends mentioned she may get along with a guy he knew—
Diazien Hossencofft.
After being presented with Diazien’s card, Linda showed up at
this mystery man’s door and the two immediately hit it off.
They spent the day sharing information and talking about
conspiracy theories. It wasn’t long before they began dating.
Linda learned Diazien was a doctor who produced youth serums,
anti-cancer shots, and botox.
He planned on developing a company specializing in medical breakthroughs,
but there were always obstacles that would delay this.
Also, he told her that he only had three months to live—
he was dying of leukemia.
Linda would bring Diazien to her UFO meetings
where he would claim to have several PhDs, was an MD,
and spoke several languages. He seemed too good to be true,
right up until he revealed his secret: He explained to an incredulous group
that he was a 10-thousand year old doctor of genetics from the planet Giga
who came to Earth to warn the world that aliens were coming to wipe out
out humanity by contaminating all of the world’s drinking water.
According to Diazien, only a select few would live,
those who lived in vortexes around Colorado Springs, Charleston, and Wyoming.
While Linda believed every word, the majority of the group thought
he was crazy. Little did they know, this was just the beginning of his twisted lies.
September 10th, 1999. Kathy Semansky was worried
when hard working colleague Girly Chew didn’t show up to work
Girly had lately seemed disturbed, asking her co-workers
to call the police if something happened to her.
Girly Chew was a Malaysian native who met Diazien Hossencofft while
holiday to Seaworld in the early 90s.
She found him smart, charming, and was impressed by his medical degrees.
He had introduced himself as a man living with Leukemia,
but said he had the cure. He shared that he’d been married before,
but lost his wife and children in a car crash.
She quickly fell in love with him, and Diazien sent a letter
to Girly’s parents, explaining that he was born in Switzerland
and was working for NASA’s National Defense Systems subdivision.
In the letter, he also apologized for not asking for permission
to marry their daughter. This was met with confusion by Girly's
parents, but they allowed her to get married to such a successful man.
They officially married in January 1993.
Girly Chew Hossencofft enjoyed learning new American recipes
in the new life they built as a couple.
After not being able to conceive children, Girly was pleasantly
surprised when Diazien came back from one of his many business
trips with a young Asian child who Diazien claimed to have grown out
of a petri dish; one of 12 children that was engineered from
his DNA in a project he called Project Girly.
He had named him Demetri.
While Girly knew this was weird, she was thrilled and chose to
believe he actually adopted the child through his many government contacts.
She loved Demetri like her own child.
Life seemed perfect for a short while before Diazien began
showing his true colours, seeking out other women.
On January 17th, 1998, Girly and Diazien’s fairytale ended.
Diazien came home in a violent rage when he found out that
Girly had messaged his mistress to let her know he was already married.
As he beat her, a tenant who was renting a room in their house
quickly called elderly neighbour Pedro Tirado, who was close to Diazien.
After Pedro arrived, the police were called.
Diazien was arrested and charged with domestic violence...
but he was released in only seven hours.
A week later, Girly and Diazien were laying in bed
when he asked her to drive downtown to get him a takeout menu
from a restaurant he really liked. Suspicious, Girly followed him
into the garage to see her husband loosening the lug nuts on the wheel of her car.
“Are you trying to kill m---”
He suddenly pushed Girly against the wall.
Getting herself out of the situation immediately by pushing the
garage door opener and rolling out, she made a break for the neighbour’s
house, where they called the police.
As Pedro’s wife was consoling her, they heard a loud pounding on the door.
Pedro opened the door to get shoved against the wall himself.
“Where is she!?” But Pedro didn’t relent.
When the police arrived, they escorted Girly to collect
her things from the house. She filed for divorce the very next day
and moved to an anonymous location.
Throughout the next couple of months, Girly would receive
threatening phone calls, eventually filing for a restraining order
on February 9th. However, that did not stop Diazien from
calling her work and trying to follow her.
Charged with three counts of violating his restraining order,
he had a trial set for July 8th.
It was no surprise that when Girly Chew didn’t show up to work
one morning that Diazien Hossencofft was the first suspect.
Diazien Hossencofft was a con-man through and through.
In fact, his real name was Armando Chavez, changed only months before
Girly moved to the United States. He had picked the name according to
what he thought sounded more like German and Japanese,
what he believed to be superior.
His medical degrees were forged, and he didn’t really have Leukemia.
Diazien did have a degree, but it was from the College of Notre Dame
for a bachelor’s of science in chemistry.
He was conning several elderly women and his neighbours with his
youth serums and vaccinations, claiming it cured cancer,
which really were shots of vitamin B6.
He managed to con people out of thousands of dollars.
One woman, who preferred to remain anonymous, allegedly paid for
his house and fancy cars. She would give him $30,000 a month,
believing when he said his solutions reversed aging and eradicated cancer cells.
Before she died, she transferred half a million into his bank account.
While Girly thought her husband was on business trips, he was actually
meeting his many girlfriends and fiancées - including a Japanese woman
he met while on a trip to Banff in British Columbia, who he had Demetri with.
“Project Girly” was the name he used to explain his son’s existence,
in case his lovers ever came across the name “Girly”.
His wife and children didn’t die in a car crash;
he didn’t even have any children other than Demetri—
and his previous wife had divorced him years before he met Girly.
On September 10th, when Girly didn’t appear at work,
her coworkers decided to go to her apartment to check up on her.
Ernie Johnson, Girly’s best friend who knew her routine well, mentioned
that she hadn’t picked up the phone the previous evening for their nightly calls,
which was immediately concerning. Ernie had called the police
after Girly was missing for 15 minutes from work.
She had a hunch it had something to do with Diazien, who
Girly had pointed to if she ever went missing.
The unlocked deadbolt was the first indication to her coworkers that
something wasn’t right. Girly was terrified of her ex-husband
and she had been cautious. In fact, only a co-worker who had
helped her move, knew where she lived.
Inside the apartment, three large stains were found on the orange carpet,
along with some small spots that looked like a mess someone hastily tried to clean up.
“Girly? Are you home? Girly?”
There was no response, but there was also no sign of foul play,
according to investigators who later responded to the police calls.
Officer Portwine was ready to call off the investigation since nothing seemed
out of the ordinary at Girly’s apartment—the building manager
already told him there was nothing wrong—so when he went to Diazien’s
apartment to learn he had moved out the night before, the officer became suspicious.
He returned to Girly’s apartment to find the carpet recently cleaned and still moist.
The investigation was moved forward and given to Detective Michael Fox.
Meanwhile, a man driving down a New Mexico highway near Magdalena
saw what looked like a tarp on the side of the road.
He pulled over, and after further inspection he noticed the tarp was bloody.
Duct tape, a bloody shirt, and women’s underwear were found, along
with long strands of black hair. He notified the police immediately.
Detective Michael Fox zeroed in on a potential witness: Linda Henning,
who had recently signed documents as an emergency contact to help with
Demetri’s adoption. When he knocked on her door on the 11th,
there was no answer. He was able to track her down two days after Girly
went missing. In a police tape interview on September 12th,
Linda said that she was Diazien’s caretaker as he was dying of Leukemia.
She didn’t know him too well outside of their professional relationship and didn’t
even know how to pronounce his unusual name. She called him “D”.
Shortly after her interview, she distanced herself from the police
and stopped living at her home, but detectives were not done with her.
Detectives were still trying to find Diazien, the prime suspect.
Neighbours claimed they saw him on the night of Girly’s disappearance,
covered in what looked like black soot, while frantically
trying to move his belongings into a truck.
Diazien’s divorce attorney, adoption caseworker, and his female neighbour all
received threatening phone calls: Diazien knew they were all talking to the police
and that something bad would happen if they continued.
After a redial, police were able to track him down to South Carolina,
where he was living with another one of his lovers.
Diazien was taken into custody and charged with three counts of making threatening
telephone calls over state lines, since there wasn’t enough evidence to
charge him for Girly’s disappearance.
In the home Diazien and his girlfriend rented, a nine millimeter, three bullets,
medications and chemicals, empty bottles of vodka, two vials of blood,
a vial of brown powder, Girly’s address book, a photocopy of Girly’s
Malaysian identification, sticks of charcoal, and a steam cleaner were found.
On September 23rd, forensic scientist Catherine Dickey analyzed the
collected evidence from several DNA samples.
These included stains from underwear found in Linda’s car, the carpet in Girly’s home,
and blood samples taken from underwear, a blouse, and a tarp found near Magdalena.
But the DNA didn’t match Girly. Samples had been taken from Girly’s
toothbrush, along with hair and saliva samples from Linda and Diazien.
The blood samples on the carpet came back as a positive for Linda's DNA.
Another test revealed Diazien’s DNA on the blouse.
Linda’s house was wire-tapped on October 12th and investigators began
following her around. There were a few notable instances that were
of interest to the investigators. Linda went to Kinko’s, a printing company,
to look at some CDs on their computers. What looked like
Diazien’s formula and some maps popped up on her monitor.
Before she left, she questioned the employee on whether the information
would be saved on the hard drive. While on a phone call, Linda claimed that
Girly and Demetri were both kidnapped and murdered, and Demetri’s head
was cryogenically preserved and sent to Malta.
In reality, Demetri was in between foster homes
at the time and was eventually adopted in 1999.
There was also another suspect: Bill Miller, who Diazien and Linda often
hung around with in the UFO club. Bill often defended Diazien whenever
the other members called him a fraud and allegedly told another
member that he was recruited to eliminate Diazien’s wife.
Bill had opened a checking account at the Western Bank two days
before Girly’s disappearance, under an address in Colorado.
When police questioned, he mentioned that his house was up for sale,
and he was using his new address. He was open to
the police checking his house and car. He testified before the grand
jury on October 20th that Diazien had approached him about killing his wife
on two previous occasions and on a third occasion he just told Bill and Linda to bring Girly to him.
On October 29th, Linda was arrested and charged with two counts
of perjury and criminal solicitation to commit perjury.
Later on her attorney revealed that Linda had hidden a ninja sword above a ceiling
panel in her garage. Diazien’s blood was found on the handle,
and blood found on the steel blade was badly compromised,
as if someone tried to clean it off.
For 26 months, Diazien denied any involvement in the disappearance
of Girly, until January 9th 2002 when he finally pleaded guilty
to Girly’s murder, as well as conning several women, under a plea deal that
would allow him to avoid the death penalty.
Despite this, he still claims not to know her whereabouts.
"Do you swear to testimony to give us the truth out of the family of perjury."
"Of course."
He did explain in court how he had plotted murder.
"Hopefully, from my end of it, that she experienced the most
excruciating pain known to mankind is what I was hoping for.
I don't know that to be fact."
He claimed that Linda was only there as an alibi, and in fact it was
Bill who carried out the act, after he was convinced they needed practice
for alien invasions. But evidence strongly leaned towards Linda.
Her DNA was found at the scene of the crime.
According to Diazien, her blood was planted by accident.
He had planned to plant another woman’s blood, but the vial
broke while in his pocket. The only blood he had on hand was
Linda’s at the time and he didn’t think it would be detected
after being diluted with water and bleach.
Diazien was sentenced to life in prison plus 61 years.
On October 1st, 2002, Linda stood trial and refused a plea deal.
She claimed to have nothing to do with what happened.
She was sentenced to life plus 43 ½ years in prison on April 17th, 2003.
It wasn’t until July 16th, 2003 that Bill Miller went to trial.
Bill’s friend and psychic was contacted by his attorney’s private investigator.
Bill had told her that he didn’t do it, even though he was asked to commit the crime.
He claimed that he was only around Diazien because he wanted to protect Demetri
from potential abuse that he suspected. Bill also had an alibi—
he was at his daughter’s high school soccer game the night of Girly’s disappearance.
Bill agreed to a plea of no contest to three counts of attempting tampering with evidence,
reducing his crime from a felony to a misdemeanor.
On October 2nd, his trial was over and he was given 10 months of probation.
The ending to this tragic story leaves an open question.
Where is Girly Chew?
Some say Diazien used his chemistry knowledge to dispose of the body;
while other theories insist she was destroyed, along with all the evidence.
Those who hold a more positive outlook believe Girly is safe and sound, having run off to Asia.
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