Advertisements had been placed in U.S. newspapers offering for sale joint venture interests by Swiss Caribbean Development & Finance Corporation of Zurich and certificates of deposit issued by Trust Company of Jamaica Ltd.[8] After being released from prison in the U.K., McConahy was extradited to the United States, where he was arrested by U.S.

[7] He was charged with unlawful flight and bail jumping and extradited to Wisconsin, where he was convicted and sentenced to an additional one-year and one-day in prison.

[4][7] In September 1974, he appeared in court in Trenton, N.J., asking to be declared indigent so that he would not have to pay fees required as part of the process of recovering the charters of three Panamanian mutual funds that had been seized by British police.

[7] On 4 March 1976, an obituary appeared in the Kearny Observer as follows: Malcolm McConahy, of 325 Maple St., was killed in an auto accident in Minneapolis, Minn. while visiting relatives.

He often used publishers who specialised in producing works of a similar nature, such as Loompanics Unlimited, Paladin Press and Scope International.

In 1977, the Traverse City Record-Eagle reported that Starchild was involved in a number of supposed charitable organisations funded by a wealthy Michigander, Francis Duffield Shelden: the Church of the New Revelation of Kearny, New Jersey, Brother Paul's Children's Mission on North Fox Island, Michigan, the Educational Foundation for Youth of Illinois, and the Ocean Living Institute of New Jersey—the last allegedly devoted to underwater habitats, aquaculture, ocean architecture, and ocean law,[9] which were said to be tax dodges and fronts for sexual activity involving boys.

[11] To protect his assets, he handed two million dollars in securities to Starchild, who had advised the creation of an offshore trust with himself as trustee.

However, Starchild neglected to provide proper accounting or hand over the securities to the successor trustee, Edward Brongersma, whom an increasingly worried Shelden appointed.

[16] He also had an article published in the Journal of Psychohistory in 1990, titled "Rape of youth in prisons and juvenile facilities", in which he compared and contrasted prison rape in the United States, Britain, Latin America, South Africa, and Turkey, finding that the phenomenon often exhibited cultural differences by region and country.

[17] In 1992, after his release from prison, Starchild appealed his parole conditions that he must live and work in the United States for approximately five years on the grounds, among others, that as a citizen of the Dominican Republic, he should have been allowed to return to his own country after the completion of his sentence.

Starchild became active on the internet, posting in Usenet[19] and being described in an academic journal in 1998 as "an offshore finance proselytizer who is prominent on the World Wide Web, [who] encourages investors to dispense with what he views as ancient, irrational, primordial sentiments and attachments, and instead to embrace a late capitalist nomadism he terms 'PT'".

Earlier in 2006, he had traveled to Japan for experimental surgery on a tumor and wrote that his operation there had attracted the attention of the Japanese media.