A man accused of killing 22 elderly women while stealing jewelry and other Valuables in the Dallas area have been linked by DNA evidence to one of the deaths, a prosecutor said Monday as his third trial began.
The development could counter previous defense claims that all the evidence against him is circumstantial.
Billy Chemirmir, of 49 years old, is on trial for murder in the death of Mary Brooks, of 87 years. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole after being found guilty in April at a retrial in the suffocation death of Lu Thi Harris, of 49 years.
If he is convicted of Brooks’s death, he will receive a second sentence of life in prison without parole. His first trial in Harris’s death ended in a mistrial last November when the jury deadlocked.
Prosecutor Glen Fitzmartin said in opening statements that in addition to presenting evidence during this trial in the deaths of Brooks and Harris would also show that DNA links Chemirmir to the death of Martha Williams, of 80 years.
Chemirmir has maintained his innocence. His attorney entered a not guilty plea on his behalf Monday, but declined for now to make an opening statement.
In the years after his arrest in 2018, police throughout the Dallas area re-examined deaths of other seniors that had been deemed natural, despite families sounding alarm bells for the loss of jewels.
Finally, he was accused of 22 capital murder charges in deaths that spanned from May to 2016 until March 2016. Four of those indictments were added this summer.
In a video interview with police, Chemirmir told a detective that he made money buying and selling jewelry and had also worked as a caretaker and security guard. security.
Most of the people Chemirmir is accused of to kill lived in apartments in independent living communities for the elderly, where Chemirmir allegedly broke into the apartments or posed as a handyman.
He is also accused of killing women in private homes, including the widow of a man he cared for in his job as a home carer.
Chemirmir’s arrest began in March 2018 when Mary Annis Bartel, of 91 years at the time, she told police that a man had broken into her apartment in a senior independent living community, tried to smother her with a pillow, and took her jewelry.
Police said when Chemirmir was found the next day in the parking lot of her apartment complex, she had jewelry and cash, and had just knocked over a large red jewelry box. The documents in the box were taken to the home of Harris, who was found dead in her bedroom, with lipstick smeared on her pillow.
Chemirmir assures that he will get out of prison
Billy Chemirmir assures that he is innocent and that he will be acquitted of the case, according to what he said in an interview with The Dallas Morning News, the man born in Kenya.
2022
“I am not a murderer. I am not at all what they say I am. I am a very innocent person. I was not raised that way, I was (raised) in a good family. I had no problem in my whole life, ”Chemirmir told the indicated medium.
Also reads:
· “I am not a murderer” : man accused of killing 18 elderly in Texas assures that he will soon be acquitted of the case
· “Go to bed and don’t fight”. This immigrant was a serial killer. He betrayed a box with a piece of paper
· The controversy with ICE over the serial killer with a “green card”