Inkyo Volt Hwang, a porn director and webmaster who went by the aliases Chico Wang and Wanker Wang, was found dead a year ago today in a motel room in Morgan Hill, California. He was 38.
For many, the discovery of Hwang’s body cleared up the mystery of the death of Maryam Haley, also known as the porn performer Haley Paige, who had been found dead more than a month before in King City, up the road from Morgan Hill. Haley and Hwang had been married in August, 2007 and they were both dead less than two months later.
Hwang had gone missing from Porn Valley and it was assumed he was traveling to King City to be questioned in connection with Paige’s death. His body was found halfway out of bed in an Economy Inn, and no foul play was suspected.
Paige’s father, Ken Haley, has been active on message boards piecing together his daughter’s other life. As the father of a woman who went into porn, he is just as often called on to explain himself, which he does humbly and articulately.
On the website The Bastardly, Haley describes an incident when his daughter was young that included a bad uncle. He also describes how he learned, from Hwang, that his daughter was in porn:
The story about her uncle has also gotten twisted. She was 2 or 3 when the incident took place, and I doubt that she remembers much about it. A year or two after it happened, while her mother and she and I were living in southern Baja California, the uncle died of a liver ailment brought on by drinking. The incident never came up until just before Maryam’s death, when Wang called me in Oregon and started accusing me of allowing the uncle to molest her. Maryam’s voice was in the background, wailing and crying. Wang called 6 or 7 times, and I never spoke with him. I have his rantings still on the message machine. When Maryam ran away from him last summer (after she claimed he pistol-whipped her), she wrote to me and said that she was sorry for what he did, that he forced her to go along with him to harrass me. (Wang also called my sister and Maryam’s mother with the same accusations.) He wrote me an email about that time and said that he would forget the story if I paid him back for the money he spent on her (he claimed she owed him $100,000). In that email he attached photos of her in porn poses, and that was how I learned about her career. That was June or July, 2007. Sure, things fell into place, and those so-called hints she had given me made sense. But until that moment, I definitely was not consciously aware of the truth.
Read a longer story here.
Previously on Porn Valley Observed: Remembering Haley Paige, a little
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