Billy Chemirmir he felt he had found a way to commit the perfect crime, without anyone suspecting. The man, now 49, has spent nearly a decade wandering through Texas retirement communities posing as a healthcare or maintenance worker. This is how he managed to enter their homes and then attack.
His victims were women over 80, who lived in apartments within these exclusive neighborhoods for retired seniors. With the excuse of some medical examination or an agreement to be made on the property, he managed to get inside without attracting the attention of the rest of the residents.
It was handled with gloves and always proceeded in the same way: she carried her docile victims to bed and smothered them with the pillow. There were no noises, no bangs, no screams, and after the murder he had time to search carefully, without messing up, the jewels kept in the house.
The authorities refused to investigate. In response to complaints from relatives of the older women, who pointed out the lack of money and jewelry on the property, it was explained that the women were of old age and that their death was more likely something natural, typical of old age.
The disinterest of the police and the judiciary gave Chemirmir the freedom to move with total impunity. Until once, his plan failed.
It was March 18, 2018 when this serial killer fell. She entered the home of Mary Annis Bartel, mother of six, grandmother and great-grandmother, who at 91 was still very active despite walking with a cane.
He heard a knock on the door and opened it to find Chemirmir. “The boy came in and said, ‘Don’t argue with me.'” He took her to the bedroom, laid her on the bed, put a pillow on her face and choked her. She fainted about her but she wasn’t dead, he thought so and he took some jewels and then he left.
Hours later he found a friend Mary Annis Bartel still alive and called the emergency health services.
The police arrived and what has always happened has happened: one assailant’s case was ruled out on the grounds that she simply fell and got hurt. The robbery? “It was probably her friends who came in and took advantage of it and stole her jewels.”
The family thought it was ridiculous and insisted that a police detective talk to Mary. When the old woman heard, the alarms went off.
“The detective reacted and said to me: ‘We have a problem here because someone is attacking older women ‘Bartel was quoted by 7News.
In 24 hours the police of the city of Plano (Texas) arrested Billy Chemirmir for the attack on Mary.
He was caught in the parking lot of the same apartment complex. The man had just committed another crime.
They found jewelry and cash on him and found that he wanted to get rid of a large red jewelry box. That ordeal brought the agents to the home of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris, who she was found dead in her room, lipstick smeared on the pillow.
A judicial error freed him.
The killer was arrested and investigators reopened the cases of other older women whose deaths were considered natural despite the fact that families drew attention to the fact that the jewelry was stolen. In total, he is believed to have killed 22 elderly women and was tried for Harris’ death in November 2021.
But Billy Chemirmir was not convicted as the trial was declared a mistrial, the jury could not find a definition of his guilt.
Last April the trial was reopened and this time the verdict was reached: life sentence without the possibility of parole.
However, since that case only included the case of Lu Thi Harris, Justice has again summoned Chemirmir in a case that was initiated on Monday and includes the death of Mary Brooks, 87, along with four other criminal cases.
Chemirmir, who claims his innocence, He will receive another life sentence if he is convicted of Brooks’ death.
Loren Adair Smith, whose 91-year-old mother is among the Chemirmir victims, will participate in the process. “We have that feeling of dread, but We are very happy to come back and close this chapter “Smith told the AP.
At the trial, prosecutors presented evidence that Harris and Chemirmir were simultaneously leaving in a Walmart a few hours before she was found dead.
In a video interview with the police, Chemirmir told a detective that he made money buying and selling jewelryand who had also worked as a caretaker and security guard.
Most of Chemirmir’s alleged victims lived in apartments in independent living communities for the elderly. Among the women he is accused of killing in private homes the widow of a man she cared for while working as a home caregiver.
Death penalty
Dallas County District Attorney, John Creuzot, a Democrat, has decided to ask for a life sentence instead of the death penalty. His Republican opponent criticized that decision as he seeks re-election in the nation’s busiest death penalty state.
In an interview with the Dallas Morning News, Creuzot said he is not opposed to the death penalty, but among the things he considers when deciding to apply it are the time it takes to execute someone, the costs of appeals and whether the person is still it would be. be a danger to society behind bars. Chemir, he added: “he is going to die in the penitentiary”.
With information from AP.
Source: Clarin
