September Sacrifice
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3.7 • 17 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
"Horner skillfully compiles facts and recites dialogue from thousands of pages of police supplemental files, court transcripts, and personal interviews." -- Weekly Alibi (Albuquerque)
"Horner tells this incredible story of the life and death of Girly Chew with the vivaciousness of a seasoned pro." -- Investigative Journalist M. William Phelps, author of Perfect Poison and Lethal Guardian.
"If there is a better story in the annals of true crime, I haven't seen it yet." -- Gregg Olsen, New York Times Bestselling Author of If Loving You is Wrong
"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. 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 conned 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. 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.
Customer Reviews
September Sacrifice
This true crime book was about a case of which I had never heard. I didn’t find the writing to be particularly good. This was a convoluted case, but the author seemed to have a hard time explaining how it all fit together - to the point where much of it was ponderous & boring. The author spent many pages detailing the UFO/otherworldly beliefs of the suspects in this case, but these beliefs had little to do with the case, other than to explain how some of these people met - in a UFO discussion group. The murder victim in this case, was more of a sideline. I would have liked to have known more about her, what attracted her to the man she married, & why she traveled all the way from Malaysia to marry him. At the very end of the book the author makes the statement that this book was all about “domestic violence,” but I might not have known that by reading the book because so many other aspects of the suspects in the case are mixed in with the case itself. I read this as an e-book for $1.99. I wouldn’t recommend paying more. A Google summary of the case would be more clarifying.
Needs a proofreader or spellcheck!
Very poorly written, and the multiple typos were so distracting that I couldn’t bring myself to finish this book. “Northeast” was spelled “Norte Ast” throughout the book, and “theater” was spelled “The Ater”. A middle school student could have done a better job writing this book!