Court sentences man to 2 life terms for killing 22 women
A Dallas County District Court has sentenced a 49-year-old serial killer, Billy Chemirmir, to two life terms for killing 22 elderly women in Dallas, Texas, U.S, over a period of two years.
The judges sentenced the convict to life imprisonment without parole after he was earlier sentenced for an April conviction in the death of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris.
The convict was similarly sentenced to life without parole, after he was found guilty of killing an 87-year-old woman, Mary Brooks.
Prosecutors told jurors that the evidence showed that Chemirmir followed Brooks home from Walmart, smothered her and took her jewelry.
According to the prosecution counsel, the suspect preys on older women, killing them and stealing their valuables.
Their deaths deaths had often been determined to be from natural causes, even as family members raised alarm bells about missing jewelry.
After Chemirmir’s arrest, police across the Dallas area reexamined deaths and the charges against him grew.
Many of the victims’ children have said they were left perplexed by the deaths at the time, as their mothers, though older, were still healthy and active.
“This is a conscious, dedicated effort to stalk, surveil, kill, steal, strip and sell,” Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot said on Friday while closing his arguments.
Creuzot said the 11 additional capital murder cases against Chemirmir in Dallas County will now be dismissed.
He also disclosed that the convict had nine other pending capital murder cases agains him in another court in Collin County.
