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Posted on 01/03/2003 10:58:48 AM PST by CedarDave
Friday, January 3, 2003
Killer Ate Girly Chew, D.A. Hints
By Scott Sandlin
Journal Staff Writer
The body of murdered bank teller Girly Chew Hossencofft may never be found because her killers ate her, the prosecution suggests in court papers.
Whether or not prosecutors actually believe that occurred, they're using a reference to it in an attempt to persuade the trial court to lengthen the sentence of convicted murderer Linda Henning.
Henning has already been sentenced to life in prison for the murder.
But Assistant District Attorney Paul Spiers says Henning's conduct was so outrageous and so reprehensible on so many levels that the court should add to the basic sentence on her other nine convictions.
A judge may lengthen the sentence in non-capital felonies by up to a third based upon aggravating circumstances, including unusual circumstances of a defendant's character, events surrounding the crime and the brutality with which a defendant commits a crime.
Henning was convicted in October of the kidnapping and felony murder of Girly, as well as conspiracy to commit murder, tampering with evidence, perjury and soliciting perjury. She won't be sentenced before February because Chief Bernalillo County District Judge W. John Brennan ordered a 60-day mental evaluation of Henning that isn't complete.
But Spiers' New Year's Eve addition to a prior sentencing memorandum heaps invective on Henning; her lover Diazien Hossencofft, who plotted his wife's death; and their alleged compatriot, Bill Miller, who is yet to be tried.
Although Hossencofft admitted via a guilty plea to orchestrating his wife's death, he has insisted that he does not know the whereabouts of her body. Henning hasn't offered authorities any help, either, although Brennan pointedly told her he would look favorably on assistance in finding it.
Spiers laces pages of florid rhetoric about Henning with references to other cold-blooded murders — the killing of the Clutter family in Kansas in 1959, which inspired Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood," and the Charles Manson murders in 1969 — along with literary masterpieces such as F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."
Far from the victim she was portrayed to be, Spiers says, Henning was an active agent in the "cold campaign" leading to Girly's murder: buying guns and walkie-talkies, reconnoitering sites for body disposal, visiting the bank where Girly worked and finally participating in the act itself.
A drop of Henning's blood by the window of Girly's apartment and a smear on the skirt of Girly's couch were among DNA evidence that led to the conviction, he notes.
"... This deliberate and uninterrupted chain of events... should be properly considered by this honorable court" in adding to the basic sentence, Spiers argues.
Possibly the most fantastic portion of the sentencing memorandum, however, concerns a cult Henning has been linked to. It subscribes to the idea that reptile-humans are placed in various political hierarchies and require a regular source of fortified blood to maintain their deceptive human forms. The theory holds that the source of the blood is a menstruating woman who produces a particular substance as she's being murdered.
"During the course of this investigation," Spiers writes, "it was reported by more than one individual that (Henning) had made statements that she had actually consumed the flesh of Girly Chew Hossencofft and that as a consequence her remains and body would never be recovered by authorities."
Spiers also attaches some of Henning's letters to Hossencofft — sometimes angry, sometimes comically self-exalting — as evidence of her leadership role.
For him, they represent a sampling of the "substantial body of evidence that presents the defendant, front and center, as the malignant engine that ultimately drove the murder of Girly Chew Hossencofft to its bloody climax."
Copyright 2003 Albuquerque Journal
Girly Chew Chewed by Killers, DA Hints
Skoal, Red Man, Pop Rocks?
sorry.
Brother Charleston had no comment.
Is it just me or does having the name "Girly Chew" potentially (and unnecessarily) attract and stimulate cannibals?
That’s really not a good excuse.
When I got sick of my Korean college girlfriend, Burrie Girly Enpark, I didn’t bury her. I just dumped her and started dating her sister, Dump Mesibling Enpark.
LOL
Hey, it's merely an "alternative life-style", who are they to judge?
If there are no moral absolutes, what is wrong with what they did? I mean as long as their self-esteem is intact...
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