Murder With My Husband - 149. Girly Chew - The Dream Chaser

Episode Date: January 30, 2023

On this episode of MWMH, Payton and Garrett discuss the insane murder of Girly Chew. NEW MERCH DROP AND NEW PODCAST HERE > https://linktr.ee/murderwithmyhusband Case sources: September Sacrifice (2004, Pinnacle Books), by Mark Homer Mommy No. 13: A Child of A Murderer and His Adoptive Mother (2021), by Melinda Miles-Lindberg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Girly_Chew_Hossencofft charleyproject.org/case/girly-chew-hossencofft www.krqe.com/news/crime/convicted-wife-killer-calls-to-vacate-sentence/ Newspapers.com sources: Scott Sandlin, Albuquerque Journal, "Odd Twists At Heart Of Murder Trial," 30 September 2022, archived (www.newspapers.com/image/418527256), citing print edition, pp. A1, A4 Scott Sandlin, Albuquerque Journal, "Two Tales Told of Hossencofft Death," 2 October 2022, archived (www.newspapers.com/image/418527256), citing print edition, pp. A1, A3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And I'm the husband. Well, if you are watching on YouTube, you have already noticed the newest addition to murder with my husband. And if you are listening on podcasts, Garrett finally got me a puppy. I did. So, yes, we have a puppy. She is hanging out right here on Peyton's lap. And no, we do not have a name.

We are working on it. I think we've narrowed it down a two no, we do not have a name. We are working on it. I think we've narrowed it down a two, but we're not going to say anything until we know for sure where her name is. So she's super cute. It's all I can say. And she's been really good. She hasn't really good. She sleeps through the night. She just had a couple, you know, potty mistakes, but that's probably on us more than anything,

because we have no idea what we are doing. We are reading a lot though, we're not being irresponsible. Yes, we're trying our best, she's doing pretty good. But so anyways, murder with my husband, now finally has a mascot and she is sitting on my lap and she will be named here shortly. Next week, we will for sure have a name for her.

Yes. Right now, she is like 3.3 pounds, 3.2 pounds. Yeah. We'll see how big she gets. It's kind of a hit or miss. She could be seven pounds. She could be 10 pounds. She could be 15 pounds.

I'm not sure. I don't think she'll be bigger than 10 pounds, but we don't know. She is a micro mini golden doodle. I don't know, I wish I had a name for her, but we don't. Other than that, she's extremely cute. We're super excited.

There's not three of us. It feels kind of weird, I don't know. It does feel weird. It was definitely like a pretty big life change the first couple of days. It was very last minute. Yeah, just kind of out of the blue. Well, you guys know that we've been wanting one for a long time, but this one just kind of came right time, right place.

And it was, it's definitely weird because we're just so used to it being us too, but it's starting to feel more normal, like we're starting to feel like a little family. But other than that, Garrett, do you have your 10 seconds? For my 10 seconds this week, hopefully it is not a let down but you're actually doing a redrop of a strangey-daingee merch. This has been the number one most asked restocked. You guys, like ever since we dropped it, those who weren't able to get it have just been begging for a redrop of strangey-daingee. And so we decided that we are going to be doing that today.

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Last week we did drop three more episodes of our new show, Binge. So if you haven't listened to it yet, go check it out. And on that note, let's hop right into it. Very quickly, last week we did drop three more episodes of our new show, Binge. So if you haven't listened to it yet, go check it out. Okay, our K-Sources are Mommy Number 13, Wikipedia, CharlieProject.org, K-R-Q-E.com, and newspapers.com. Now, anyone who's listening to this, including me, has heard Garrett say before, actually pretty recently, this is the craziest episode I've heard. But today's story may top anything that we've ever covered before. Today's story has UFOs, alien lizard queens, cancer heroes, petri dish babies,

cannibalism, ninja swords, murder for higher militias, new world order, you name it. Everything. And of course, there's a murder. Sounds like a video game. It also may not surprise you to learn that with its UFO and alien theme, this story takes place in New Mexico, home of Roswell, the flying saucer capital of the world. And also, I know that they are not called UFOs anymore.

They're called UAPs now for unidentified aerial phenomenon. But I grew up with UFOs, so I'm going to refer to it as UFO because I feel like everyone refers to a UFO, and I like UFO. So like I said, we're about to land in some pretty wacky terrain with this case, and it all begins at SeaWorld. Now I know that a lot of us are aware of the moral issues that arise with SeaWorld.

I don't need nor really want to go into that, but couldn't continue on without acknowledging that unethical animal parks do exist, and it's important to do your research before supporting such places. But our story takes place back in the 90s. And so in everyone's defense, this was far before the general public had knowledge and insight that we do now. And needless to say, see world in the 90s was the kind of place that you,

it was popping. Yes, it was popping. And you could take for granted as an adult, you know, there was the Wells Majesty, the dolphins intelligence, the sea lion's personality, and they're often adorable interactions with trainers and park visitors. Back then, and even now, if you so wish, you can go to SeaWorld as an adult and find yourself totally blindsided by how enchanted you are. And that's how it was for girly two, the woman at the front of our case,

the first time that she visited SeaWorld in 1989. Now girly was visiting the US from Malaysia, where she was from, and she was visiting with her friends Susan O, when they stopped at SeaWorld in San Diego. And they actually had such a good time that they went back again the next year and then the year after that. And in 1992, Gurley's trip to SeaWorld came bundled with a surprise. A chance meeting with a captivating American man who charmed her from the word go. His name was Dijasyn Haasenkoft, and though he was only in his late 20s, Dijasyn was as accomplished as he seemed worldly. He was a medical doctor, a geneticist, a thoracic surgeon who had also worked in the past

as a scientist for the CIA and for NASA. He was born in Switzerland to a Japanese mother and German father. And Dyson had a Bachelor of Science degree from Tokyo University, a Master's in Chemistry from Stanford, a Master's in Genetic Engineering from San Francisco University, and he'd gotten his PhD from Cornell.

She's guys of wizard. Right, he was a man who had written over 40 medical research papers and had a CV that was seven pages long. But not only was Dyson an impressive high achiever, he was also confident, outgoing, funny, and he quickly wooed girly chew at SeaWorld that day. Told her she was a beautiful, dazzling woman, and when she returned to her native Malaysia,

they actually began a penpal correspondence that quickly ripened into a romance. Gurley and Dyson were not just a vacation fling. And pretty soon, Gurley was planning her next visit to the States, not for SeaWorld, but to see Dysonzen in person again. Just budding in here real quick. When I was in sixth grade, I had a pen pal from England.

We talked for like a couple years. I don't know what are the chances he's listening. I don't remember his name. So, it's not going to help very much. So, he's probably not listening right there. But I think his name was Ryan. I gosh, I can't remember. Anyways, I had a pen pal from like six to eighth grade and he's from England and he was awesome. I had a pen pal fourth grade. It was my cousin. She lived in Tennessee. Don't try to

one up me. Keep going. Okay. So girly is going to go back to America and much to the disapproval of her parents, girly moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in December of 1992. This is after Dias and bought her a $7,000 engagement ring. And on January 8, 1993, the two were married. They were moving into a house together in Albuquerque, so it's safe to say that this was a courtship that moved very fast. And girly chew, who was now girly chew, hausencoft, the wife of an esteemed young doctor, had hardly spent any time at all with Dr. Dyson before making this move. He even sent a letter apologizing to her furious

parents for not requesting their daughter's hand in marriage. By the way, if you're wondering right now about the name Dyson, you're not alone. Gurley Chiu and honestly I was wondering about the name as well. So apparently Dyson is a name that's so unique, we could find no other documented individual who's ever had this name. And interestingly, Dyson' last name was like that too, Haasenkoft. Seems like there was only one person in human history who ever had this last name, and that was Dijas' and Haasenkoft girlie's new husband. But his parents didn't? No. So, Dijas' explained to girlie that his name was actually equal parts German and Japanese, which he added were the two master races, in his opinion.

He explained the name came from representation from both of his parents, so they combined their name and gave him the last name, and Gurley chew accepted this explanation. That's why he's the only one. And she accepted this kind of like she accepted everything he told her. For example, his story about his first wife that she had been, you know, he told girly gravely injured in a car accident that took the lives of his two young children. And then he had another revelation for girly. He was dying.

He was dying of leukemia. Oh my gosh, okay. And that's why he was devoting his career to curing cancer. In fact, he claimed, girly, I've already found a cure, a cure for cancer. And he was his own test subject, and it's what had been keeping him alive. Oh my gosh.

But this cure for cancer was also one of the things that kept him afloat financially. This is why he had so much money. Over the years, DIA's in attracted hundreds of thousands of dollars from investors to fund his miracle cure for cancer and his various research projects. He claimed to have patented a machine that was able to map out the entire human genome and he had split the machine into five parts and he was keeping each at different universities

scattered across the United States to protect it. So basically he's Iron Man. It's kind of what I'm feeling. I'm just, you know when it's too good to be true, it's too good to be true. He claimed that he was working on a way to create human beings in a laboratory in test tubes and petri dishes. He would tell his investors that his groundbreaking work would generate billions of dollars in revenue for himself and them, and he always found people

willing to invest. People like his 70-something-year-old neighbor, Pedro, much of whose savings were absorbed by investing in Diozans work. And if someone to whom Diozan pitched appeared skeptical at all, like if he tried to pitch this and they weren't having it, Dyson had a way of picking up on that and understanding his limits, basically just

walking away from the interaction without so much as a word. He's like, okay, they're not interested in leaving. He always seemed to have money. And girlie herself, after moving to America, had a full-time job working as a teller at the Bank of New Mexico, where she was a model employee and highly valued by her co-workers and supervisors. And for a while, life was good. I mean, strange, but good. Both girly and diazandro luxury cars, in 1996, they moved into a nicer house, and diazin traveled a lot, almost always alone. He would leave town for long periods of time, and especially once they moved into their new home, he was leaving more and more often.

Now Gurley asked him what this was about, and he kept explaining to her that he was flying out to perform surgery. Surgery on women and children who had sustained serious injuries and car crashes. And now by this point, something told Gurley that there might be some weirdness going on in here, like exactly what everyone's feeling she's starting to also feel about her new husband. Important things to understand, it's the 90s. We have a better ability now to look at something and question, catfishing, anything like that, in the 90s not so much.

And also in this situation, there is a cultural wall here that might make alarming things to us seem just like cultural differences to girly. And then just as girly was becoming wary of her new husband, there was the secret room that he built in their house that all but confirmed Gurley's now strange feelings. Diasin had one room in their house that no one was allowed to enter, no one but him. And also, no one but him knew what was inside of the room, it was a room that was kept locked at all times and was off limits. Just seems weird that there's people out there that don't ask questions.

Right. There's just told something in there. Okay. But again, cultural differences on also. It's not just someone random though. It's like it's your husband. Right. But relationships are just so different.

Yeah. So interesting. I mean, I'm not trying to play the devil's advocate. I even girly knew something weird was going on here, but there's just always more to this story and a dynamic that we'll never understand. But despite this, girly loved Dyson. I mean, she had moved here.

She loved her new life in America. So beginning in 1996, Dyson and girly began trying to have children. This was something Dyson had actually suddenly become super fixated on. While girly wanted kids too, but Dyson seemed to be pressuring her. He told her he was the last of his family line, the last of the hausencofs, which is one thing we at least know at this point in the story to have been true.

There were no others. So he's never met her family and she's never met his family correct? No, no. Okay. And after many frustrated months of trying, they went to a fertility doctor and learned that girlie was just unable to have children. She was infertile, which of course was heartbreaking to learn. Now to ease the void, the Haas and Coffs ended up getting a dog instead.

But that new member of the family wasn't around for very long. One day the dog just began convulsing and stopped moving. They brought it to the vet, but it was too late and the dog had died. Bad time to tell this episode. I know, while I was researching, I went into like, oh no.

Freak out mode? Yeah. Yeah, seriously. So the doctor said apparently someone maybe just fed it chocolate or grapes Which if you are a dog owner, hopefully you know you should never feed an animal anything with chocolate grapes or raisins because even small Quantities can cause kidney failure in dogs No one's really been able to figure out why but this is just something that we know

So anyways after the death of their first dog girly and diazenne got a second dog, but then that dog also didn't work out one day girly returned to find the dog was just gone. What is going on? Apparently it slipped out through the back fence and got in a way. It wasn't entirely clear what had happened, but she was devastated. Okay you guys, we are getting into an ad. I know you guys have both heard the story about how Garrett and I were both paying separately for peacock, and then we used rocket money and realized how dumb we are and our so happy rocket money helped us stop doing that.

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And what Diozanne had brought home was about to confuse girly even more. He came back home to girly with a newborn baby boy. He returns home from work with this newborn baby boy. He explained to girly that the baby whose name was Demetri was a Mexican orphan that was given to him by a friend and now they were going to adopt him. And girly's like, okay, I guess after all she did want a child and here was one who was an orphan and so she didn't Probe too deeply. This was just such a dyes and thing to do. This is just right up her husband's alley

And she still trusted him and she believed the things he had to say but pretty soon Things would begin to happen that Gurley had no way of ignoring or excusing anymore Phone calls began coming into the house when Dyson was away and girly was raising their baby. Phone calls from women asking for him, women, plural, multiple women calling. And when girly inquired further about why they were calling, who they were, what they wanted, one of these women claimed

that she was Dysonzans' fiance. This was in January 1998, five years after girly moved to America and married him. So angry, suspicious, and confused, girly felt betrayed. But where was she supposed to go? Like what's she supposed to do? She had no family, she had abandoned her life and everything she knew to be here, and now she has this brand new baby So it was around this time that one afternoon at home alone

girly happened to find Diozane's secret room unlocked it had been left unlocked all right And since she had begun to question her husband's honesty and a lot of other things that just hadn't added up girly made the decision to enter the secret room even though she knew it was for bit-in. But what she found inside confirmed all of her worst fears. She found not just love letters from multiple other women. But legal documents. Legal documents that once she read them made her feel absolutely rug-pulled. As it turned out, Diaz and Hossencoft was not a real person. So who was the person? This she had been married to for five years and was raising a child with. A child that he just brought home one day? Yes. That's absolutely insane. His real name was Arman Chavez and he'd been born not in Switzerland, but in Houston,

Texas. And not to Japanese and German parents, his entire backstory had been made up. Yeah, for sure. He had four social security numbers. He had been slapped with a protective order demanding that he stay away from another woman. And he was under investigation from the FBI. He was not a doctor, he was not a geneticist, he was not a scientist, nor was he a surgeon, he was a con artist, and a snake oil salesman, a crooked imposter who had been scamming cancer patients

and other vulnerable marks out of their money. And I mean lots of money. I don't understand how he's not in jail. Well, all of this, he had kept hitting from girly successfully for more than five years. But Diozans' whole adult life had been a scam. Even before he was kicked out of medical school when it was discovered that he'd falsified documents, it was then that he changed his name

from arm and to Diozans. Maybe that was kind of his way of not facing the shame over what had happened and that his academic and professional careers weren't working out that he believed he was entitled to. But it was after high school that he had begun a life of delusion and lies. He got married and had a child in the 80s with a woman named Rose Mary whom he eventually abandoned. So as first wife and child were never in a car accident, this tragedy was totally made up.

And then in 1986, there was a woman named Cindy White. This isn't her real name. This woman was very well-off, but she struggled with mental health issues and around this time she kind of fell into a deep depression. To the point that her father, a wealthy entrepreneur, hired a staff of several people to help manage the things in her life that Cindy's mental state left her unable to attend to.

So this would be shopping, cooking, house cleaning, and balancing her checkbook. And the man that he hired to do her bookkeeping and serve her her mills was none other than Dijasán Haasencoft, who by this point was still actually going by his birth name, but we're just going to keep calling him Dijon to avoid confusion. So Dijon had been working for Cindy for two years. When suddenly in May of 1988, Cindy became gravely ill and ended up in the ICU.

San Francisco's Presbyterian Hospital, poisoned her for sure. The staff ran tests and found out that Cindy had been given a massive dose of arsenic, which if you listened to last week's binged episodes, you are very familiar and ride up this alley. So although Cindy did survive, her vital organs were extensively damaged by the amount of arsenic her body had absorbed. Now in talking to police, Cindy recalled that she had begun filling ill the day after eating a

meal of chicken and vegetables that her employee, Dazan, had served to her the night before. In particular, she remembered the squash tasting peculiar sort of bitter, sort of sour. And she remembered Dazan checking in on her several times during that specific meal, asking if she had eaten her vegetables and reminding her to finish her vegetables. So it was pretty painful for her to consider that Dazan would have poisoned her because she kind of adored him. She liked him. But she was smart enough to see that this was almost certainly what had happened. So when investigators asked Cindy what his motive could possibly have been, all she could think to answer was maybe for the fascination of watching it

happen as a medical study. Remember this guy is pretending to have gone to medical school and be a doctor. So diazenne was then interviewed by police and the home was searched, but nothing incriminating was found. So charges were never filed and the matter was officially dropped. I assume you got fired obviously. Yeah, but still he could have killed her. Yeah, 100%. In July of 1990, Dijasant showed up at the University of California Berkeley campus and enrolled in a biochemistry class taught by Professor Charles Grissom. Now, Dijasant's professor and all of his classmates really did like him.

They thought he was interesting and friendly and they were also touched by his tragic story. Which of course, as we know, was total BS, but no one at this time knew it. Except Professor Grissom kind of had his suspicions. Dazann had told his UC Berkeley people similar to what he would later tell Gurley that his wife and child had perished in this terrible accident while she was driving to pick him up at school down in the nearby city of Belmont. Now Professor Grissom was an educated man who wasn't an easy mark. And something about Dijasant's story just didn't feel authentic to him. Dijasant kind of had this superficial up beatness to him.

He was light-hearted but kind of empty and it didn't feel to Professor Grissom like this young man had suffered this kind of loss that he was claiming. And on the one hand, the professor felt guilty like doubting this young man's story if it was true, but he just had to find out for sure. I mean, he's a professor. So he settled into the campus library and began searching the microfilm archives of the San Jose Mercury news around the date that Dyson claimed it occurred for any mention of a fatal car wreck, because surely an accident claiming the lives of a young mother and her sons would have made the papers.

But Grisim found no record of it. And just to double check, he went to Stanford University Library and did the same thing. It's just so weird because it's so different now. Now you could just look up his name and be like, wait, your name doesn't exist anywhere. Yeah. There's no Facebook. There's no Instagram. There's no Twitter. There's no LinkedIn. There's no, I mean, there's no nothing. So I think it actually says a lot about this professor that he, that's how suspicious he was. Like, that's how off putting

because he had to really dig into it. Yes. So all of this created a sort of air of mystery and doubt around Dazan, who at this point, besides abandoning his wife and child and almost poisoning another woman, had discovered a host of peculiar new traits, one of which was he really liked to draw blood

from his fellow students, getting them to consent to it by telling them that he needed it for laboratory research. Now unbeknownst to Professor Grissom, Dyes and frequently drew blood from his first wife as well and was keeping vials of it in their refrigerator. And this is something he would do for years. So this is just like a weird habit he had. And I don't know, maybe he's a vampire? like I don't know what he's doing with the blood, but this is what he's doing. Whatever the case, Professor Grissom was really uncomfortable with this. And so he finally pulled Diozanne in and said, quit asking your classmates for blood, like we're not doing this anymore. And then one day Diozanne informed Professor Grissom that he wouldn't be returning to class.

He then moved to Utah and enrolled in the University of Utah's medical school, but was soon expelled because he had falsified lab reports, forged a letter of recommendation from a hospital in California, falsified a federal grant application by fraudulently listing himself as married, and conning two women out of money in the process. So I mean, obviously this guy's a conman, right?

However, conning women out of money kind of was his forte. He has all these other weird things that we've talked about, but really his main thing was conning women out of money, which is a very common con. But even this continued to happen even after he married girly. In 1993, a 72 year old woman, Ares, named Penny Evans, that again, a fake name placed a personal ad in the Albert Kookie journal, it read something to the effect of wealthy woman's seeking end of life companion.

And of course, this caught the eye of the man now calling himself Dr. Dijsan Haasenkofft. He reached out to Penny and she was instantly smitten by this exciting young man who could talk her ear off with his colorful stories and scientific ambitions. So it was after meeting that Penny told him that she had breast cancer. And Dijsan told her that he was again a geneticist who had invented a breakthrough serum that would not only cure her cancer but could reverse the aging process and make her young again. Just crazy. I mean, I get it.

I probably would. But again, she's 70. Yeah, yeah, I get it. And ill. Yeah, I might as well say anything. Yeah, I might as well say anything. He says the way it would work since he'd injected himself with the serum, it was already in his blood, so he would just draw his own blood

and inject it into her. And she totally took him at his word, asking him what his price was. He told her the fees would vary, depending on the services. And she immediately entrusted him to become her caretaker. So for the next two years, Penny would pay Dr. Dyson an average of 25 grand a month

for his treatments and services. Oh, crap. Little does she know all he was injecting her with was his own blood and some vitamin B6. It was also during this time that he told Penny he used to have a daughter, but the daughter had died tragically in a car accident. Why would he inject her with his own blood? Why not just water or even like why his own blood? Doesn't that that seems dangerous? I don't know enough about the medical field,

but if someone doesn't have the same blood type as you, I would assume that's extremely dangerous. Maybe to make it more believable. Yeah, I don't know. I think that they would have had to have the same blood type. Yeah. Again, again, about a doctor. Someone corrected. But he explained that he had discovered a way to genetically recreate his dead daughter in a laboratory using just a strand of her hair so not to worry because he was gonna bring back his daughter into the world and The only issue is he would need a house to raise her in. Oh, so of course Penny did what any goalable dying ares would do, and she bought the doctor a two-story house in Albert Kirkki that he then moved into

with his new bride, Gurley. Oh, okay. By this time, the tumor in Penny's breast had doubled in size. Dr. Haas and cough treatments were not working. And Penny's son, Stephen, not his real name, began insisting to his mother that she needs to see a reputable doctor with an actual practice. So she gave into her son's nagging and went to see an oncologist. Now this oncologist very bluntly told Penny

that she had stage 3 breast cancer and the prognosis in her case was poor. Best case scenario, she might survive another 18 months. By this time, Penny had paid Dr. Dyson nearly $500,000. And her son, Steven, decided to put his foot down. Steven established himself as his mother's court-appointed guardian and despite his mother's protests, because she had just invested not just money but hope into Dyson. He refiled a restraining order against Dysonan, who had milked his cancer stricken mother out of half a million dollars. Penny then fell into a depression and began to isolate herself and six months later she

would die at her home from the cancer that Dazan had promised to cure. That's absolutely horrible. Awful. And so now we are back with Gurley in her husband's secret room where she is learning about all of this When girly found out the full extent to which her husband had deceived her She decided to confront him about this when he got home Oh, bad idea and she couldn't have anticipated what happened when she did so Hearing her accusations dyes and then flew into a rage and relentlessly beat girl.

And from this point forward, this was the kind of violence that became routine as girly situation grew unsafe. When Dazan found out that girly had contacted one of his other girlfriends to inform her that Dazan was actually a married man, he got drunk and put girly in a headlock, repeatedly punching her in the face while girly struggled for air. Now a woman named Shelley Abrams, who was renting a room from the Haas and Crofts, heard the commotion and came out from her room to see Dazann walloping girly before dragging her into the bedroom out of sight.

So Shelley immediately called their next ornate or Pedro and told him that she thought Dazann was literally about to kill his wife. So Pedro ran to the house and found Dazan inside the master bedroom with girly pinned against the wall. He was holding her by her neck and punching her in the face. So Pedro wedged himself between the couple and told Gurley to run away and call a police.

When the police arrived and saw Gurley's injuries, they immediately placed Dazan under arrest and charged him with several domestic violence-related offenses. Now in a just world, diazan would have gone to prison for a long time. And girly would have been safe, but that's not how things unfolded and often doesn't. Instead diazan posted bond and the case never went to trial. After about a year, the charges were dropped. Now meanwhile, diazanans explosive temper and unpredictable violence

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He wanted her to run and errand with him at the high hotel the next day and it was important he said that she'd take the freeway. He couldn't offer any explanation why. But then he got out of bed and she heard him go into the garage so Gurley slipped out of bed and followed him. And when she opened the door to the garage, she saw Dazant crouching behind her BMW trying to loosen her tires. She asked him if he was trying to kill her because he said you have to drive on the freeway and now he's loosening her tires. And his response was he suddenly lunged her and tried to pin her down. So I'm gonna guess that's a yes. Like that was a yes. Fortunately, girly was able to escape by opening the garage door and rolling under it.

She ran to Pedro's house next door, but Dazan ran after her. Pedro let her in and told her to quickly hide. Meanwhile, Dazan barged in and then became violent with Pedro, but Pedro still wouldn't give in to him. And then when the police finally arrived, they accompanied Girlie back to the house to collect her belongings. And as soon as she was able to, she got a restraining order against Dyson. This was it.

She had hit her breaking point and she was leaving. Gurley signed a lease at an apartment two miles away and apartment in a secure complex with a guard gate and perimeter fence and she took a unit in the very back of the building. She told no one, not even her closest friends and co-workers where she was living. She was trying to keep it a secret.

With the exception of her coworker, Jessie, who helped her move her stuff in, she then confided in some of her other coworkers at the bank branch where she worked that she had to get a protective order against her husband because he wanted to kill her. So if she ever was late or absent from work, she told them to go straight to the police

because Dia Zan had probably found her and killed her. That's how scared for her life she was. That's so sad. Now, during this time, girly initiated divorce proceedings against Diane and saw full custody of their adopted son Demetri, who at this point was three, but also was seeking possession of half of everything Diane's and had because, I mean, she had moved to America. Wait, so where did he get this kid from? Like, is this even real that he steals a baby?

Like, what's up with this? We'll get there. Okay. DioZan blocked her efforts and she was eventually made to sign an agreement that terminated her parental rights to see Demetri in addition to paying $100 a month in child support. So she completely gets screwed.

And he had all the money, he had all the power. Yeah, but I understand how the court system will follow the med anyways. That's probably a whole other story. Right. So girly no longer had access to her son and she lived every day in fear. And diazan at this point was calling her workplace nonstop even after screwing her over and on two separate occasions, girly returned her car after work to find her windshield smashed in.

Now, eventually, all of this leads to Dijas'an being arrested for violating the protective order, and after his arrest, it was around this time that Dijas'an actually met a new woman that would end up being the perfect pairing for him, so he starts to move on. This is 45-year-old Linda Henning, whom he met at a David Ike conference on UFOs. Now if you don't know, David Ike, by the way, is a notorious conspiracy theorist who believes that the British Royal family are shape-shifting reptile people, and the world is run by lizard illuminati and that Jewish religion people bankrolled the Holocaust. So these are his like main conspiracy theories. So after meeting at this conference, Dazann and Linda hit it off almost immediately, realizing how much they have in common.

They love conspiracy theories, lizard people, aliens, UFOs. It was a match made on Mars. And within a week of meeting, DioZan, Linda decided to dump her fiance for DioZan. So she literally leaves her fiance for him a week later. You see like an extremely good looking guy or is it just so crazy? It's like that story you told where he went to he scammed like 20 different girls out of which one was that? Yes, and then they had to hire a private investigator. Yes, there's like a movie right?

There was a Netflix series on it. Yeah, but it's just common. Like it's crazy what they get away with. And in order for her to dump her fiance Linda, she has Diane and a friend of his named Bill show up at the house that they shared and forcibly remove him from it. So it's not only does she dump him, she like literally drags him out of the house. And then a week later or only two weeks after meeting, Linda and Dazand were engaged. Dazand began telling people he was a 2000 year old alien and that alien lizard people ran the government.

This is getting ridiculous. And we're going to kill off two thirds of the world's population by poisoning the global water supply. And that only a select lucky few individuals living inside special vortex zones would survive. Okay. And Dijas' effect on Linda's personality was pretty startling to everyone who knew her. Like they knew she was kind of into UFOs but once she met him she really fell down this rabbit hole. And meanwhile the fiance who got ousted from the home he shared with Linda hired a private investigator to probe into Dijas' background. He's like, how does my fiance just leave me in a week for a person like this?

Now obviously we know what the fiance found while looking into Dijas' background. But when he tried to tell Linda that her new fiance was a fraud and a criminal, Linda didn't believe it and also said, if it's true, I don't care. Now, while being engaged to Linda, Dazan actually meets another woman named Julie and he introduces his son Demetri to Julie. He talks to Julie all about the alien stuff and everything offers to give her the serum he's made that makes people stay forever young. He has Rapunzel's magical hair. By the way, probably one of the best Disney movies ever made in history. Flower, clean, man. Good job, man. So he didn't actually have her hair

and he was just a con man. But he tries to give it to her and Julie kind of is just like this demitry, your son, where'd you get him, who's his mom. She starts to like question it and then him and Julie kind of fate off this as well. He's still engaged to Linda. So back in Albuquerque at this time, Diazan was seemingly growing tired of having to take care of little demitry all the time. And although he had blocked Gurley Choo from any sort of custody rights in the divorce settlement, he was basically offloading Dimitri to his neighbors, Pedro and his wife all day long all week long, like he did not want to be a father. And after a while, this elderly couple as much as they cared for the little boy had grown

tired of being the child's unpaid babysitter. So they told Diazanne enough so he had to make other arrangements, and that he did. He found another elderly couple in the neighborhood. But again, they reached their limit. So with no one else to unload on, but also not wanting to let down his pride and just give girly some parental rights,

Diozanne decided to take Demetri to an adoption agency. Oh. And met with an adoption case worker named Vonda. He explained to Vonda that he was dying from leukemia and was not gonna be able to raise his son. It broke his heart. He's gonna have to put him up for adoption. This seems so ridiculous,

because wouldn't they say, okay, I understand, but we need proof that you're actually dying. Like, I don't get it. Well, so he supplies Vanda with a new Mexico birth certificate for Demetri that listed himself in girly two as the boy's biological parents. But then he was unable to produce any documentation that proved girly had been pregnant with Demetri.

He also could not cough up any medical records for the child that dated back any earlier than when the boy was one month old. And because Vanda is a professional, at an adoption agency, which Garrett just pointed out, all of these are red flags. So she had to ask him for an explanation and when she did, Dyson then came clean and said,

okay, Gurley was not Demetri's biological mother. Rather, I'm a genius and the boy's biological mother was an Asian woman who provided her egg and I Fertilized that egg in a laboratory and grew this baby in a laboratory This is what he tells the adoption agency So this was the kind of tall tell that may have found traction with some of the impressionable women that he had met but for Vanda our Case worker this was like a set, like these are blaring.

There was also the fact that Diane had initially told her he was dying from leukemia, but a medical examination that's required to get as a condition of the adoption revealed that he was just fine. He didn't have leukemia. There was no leukemia, he was perfectly healthy. So after her meeting with Diane and did, Vanda was like, that's it, that, that, that calling the FBI. She calls the FBI. She's like, I think this kid, that's it, that's the calling the FBI. She calls the FBI.

She's like, I think this guy kidnapped, like he lied, I think he kidnapped this child. He's insane. I don't know what's going on. But before she could stop it, the adoption process was completed. Like she's like sitting here saying, no, no, no, no, we can't.

And it goes through anyways, just based on air paperwork. Wait, this isn't, this isn't makes sense. What do you mean? Like it just goes through, even though she is air paperwork. Wait, this isn't, this isn't makes sense. What do you mean? Like, it just goes through even though she is like, something is weird about that. But isn't she like signing off and everything? Yeah, but I'm pretty,

it probably just went to a different case worker because she said no, and he probably just tried again. Oh, like to a different company or something? Yeah, and so on August 27, 1999, Demetri was sent to live with a new family. And Girlie, having just relinquished all custodial and parental rights, would never see him again. And despite the fact that we have now introduced multiple women and people who have been conned and hurt by Dyson, we are going back to Girlie,

who despite doing all she could, would continue to be his victim. On the evening of September 9, 1999, Gurley Chiu got off work and drove to her apartment, and on the way home stopped to mail a letter to her parents in Malaysia. When she got home, she placed a call to the telephone company at 7-03 that evening. And you know that when I start to get specific about times,

something bad is about to happen. And then her good friend Ernie called her apartment a short while later, but she didn't pick up the phone. He called back several more times that night, but the phone just rang each time. The next morning on September 10th, the normally punctual girlie did not show up to work when her shift began. Now remember, she told her co-workers, hey, if this happens, I'm in trouble. So at 815 that morning, her boss Kathy picked up the phone

and called the police. Now meanwhile, girlie's friend and co-worker, Jesse drove over to her apartment to check on her. When he got there around 830, he noticed that girlie's car was still in its spot. He knocked on her door and rang her doorbell, but no one came to the door. In fact, everything in her apartment was eerily silent.

Finally, the apartment manager lets them in, and there's nothing amiss, except for three large wet stains on Curly's orange carpet, which look like they have been cleaned with a steam cleaner. So police arrive and they talk to Jesse, and they talk to the apartment manager and Then they drive to Dijas' house because this is the only name that comes up like everyone is like hey Yeah, it was him and when they arrive they find the front door wide open and his house is totally empty

There's nothing there no furniture no dishes no odds and ends everything was gone no dishes, no odds and ends, everything was gone. Okay. So at this point, police began looking for anyone in Diozans life who could help them find him, because they're like, he's our only lead to find girly. But there's no DNA, there was nothing in the house that... They pull everything up, but it's gonna take a minute to check. So it was obvious that you killed her at this point

or you just can't really tell. So police are pretty sure that this is their suspect. Police became aware of Linda Henning when they found her name is an emergency signature on some adoption papers in side girlies apartment. Now remember Linda is the one who left her fiance a week after and became engaged to him. Um, and so they went to interview Linda and she claimed she didn't know anything. She never heard of girly. She couldn't be of any help. And then afterwards, Linda disappeared and seemed to be making conscious efforts to evade the police by driving other

people's cars and staying at hotels. But the search for Dazann remained hot, went on September 14th, police received three separate phone calls from women who claimed that Dazann had called them and was threatening them. The third woman who was called by DIAZAN and threatened immediately hung up the phone and called police. And when they heard that DIAZAN, their number one suspect, had just called, they asked the woman named Ruby to do them a favor. They asked her to dial star 6-9, which for those who don't remember, that was back in the

days before cell phones when only some households had caller ID so when you dialed star 6.9 it would tell you the number of the last incoming call. So like please, they're say please dial it back and get the number for us and she does. And the number began with an 843 area code. This is the area code for Charleston, South Carolina. They trace the numbers to the exact location and on September 22nd, Diazanne was arrested on three counts of making threatening phone calls across state lines. Now, with him in custody, police were able to get a search warrant on his new house in South Carolina. Inside, they find a gun, they find multiple vials of blood, they find Girlis adress book, and ID card, and they find a steam cleaner, which remember those stains in Gurley's apartment, those stains tested positive for blood. And the DNA revealed that it was a mixture of Gurley's blood and the blood of Linda Henning.

They also found arts and craft glitter and a pink deer head inside the apartment as well as cat here. So she helped? She helped. No way. And while figuring out that she helped, they also discover that Diozanne's friend Bill, who was the man who helped physically remove Linda's ex-fiance, he starts to turn out to be involved.

Turns out he has this hunting cabin in Magdalena and they found a tarp with blood-stained clothing and duct tape there. The blood on the tarp and clothing turned out was girly chews and then there was a single long dark hair found on the duct tape which belonged to Linda Henning. So basically, yes, I'm telling you right now that Diozanne probably did kill girly, but not alone.

When the grand jury trial convened to figure out whether or not to charge Diozanne with murder, Linda Henning continued to lie, despite the fact that it was very clear that she knew girly. Police decided not to charge Bill with murder because they felt they couldn't find sufficient evidence of his involvement, so all he was ever convicted of was evidence tampering and he was sentenced to time serve. But Dyes Ann Haasenkoff and Linda Hending

were both indicted on November 17th, 1999, on charges of girly's murder, conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping. To this day, no one knows exactly what happened to girlie because neither Linda nor Dyson ever came forward. Or the charges, though. Eventually faced with the overwhelming evidence against him, Dyson agreed to a plea deal pleading guilty in exchange for a life sentence instead of the death penalty.

Oh, so no matter what, he was, he was screwed. Yes. And Linda Henning pled not guilty to all her charges. And at her trial, Diozanne actually testified against her and said, go ahead and kill her. You'll just be killing my next victim. Oh my gosh. In April 2003, Linda Henning was found guilty

on all counts and sentenced to 73 years in prison. Two days she continues to maintain her innocence. And Diozane in January 2020, nearly two decades after he was sentenced, filed a new motion to vacate his sentence. But then 2020 pandemic happened, the extension was granted, but there's not been any news since.

So we're still kind of waiting out. Okay. Now if there's anything positive to report at the epilogue of this bizarre story, it's that Demetri, whose name was changed, was adopted by a loving family and is actually doing well. But if you're wondering where he came from and who his biological mother really was, it was discovered and it's a sad story. Demetri's mother, we now know, was a Japanese woman from Canada

who DiaZan impregnated and the woman then returned to Japan where she gave birth to him. But then DiaZan contacted her and told her that the baby had a rare genetic disorder and because he was a geneticist who knew how to treat it, he needed to take the baby

so that he could save the life and help it thrive. So this poor woman snuck into the US, and afterwards she surrendered her baby and returned to Japan where she never saw her son. Oh, that is horrible. But that is the story of girly chew. There's no happy endings.

No happy, well, except for he was adopted and lived a better life than he would have ever with. There's so much to it. It's so crazy. But what an insane story. What a weirdo, like what a just straight, I don't, like who does that? Conman just never makes sense to me.

I don't understand that at all. It's not even like, it is a conman, but it's not even conman. That's just like next level just I don't know. I feel like You just are cool. Sure happens these days, but I feel like now people like you said are probably more skeptical like no way Yeah, like come on and that's the thing one these things are happening in the 90s again

I feel like a lot more people today are skeptical. It's just different for social meeting everything. That's just crazy. That's sad. But it's still so hard. Yeah. All right, you guys. Thank you for listening to this week's episode, and we will be back next week with another one. I love it.

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