A person charged with killing 18 older girls within the Dallas space over a two-year span mentioned in a newspaper interview he’s harmless and shall be acquitted within the case
DALLAS — A person charged with killing 18 older girls within the Dallas space over a two-year span mentioned in a newspaper interview that he’s harmless and shall be acquitted within the case.
Billy Chemirmir stays within the Dallas County Jail as he awaits an April 25 retrial after the primary jury to listen to a homicide case towards him deadlocked. In November, his homicide trial within the loss of life of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris resulted in a mistrial.
Throughout a telephone interview from jail final week, Chemirmir denied all the costs towards him and advised The Dallas Morning Information that he’s “100% certain I cannot go to jail.”
“I’m not a killer,” Chemirmir advised the newspaper. “I’m by no means what they’re saying I’m. I’m a really harmless individual. I used to be not introduced (up) that manner. I used to be introduced (up) in an excellent household. I didn’t have any issues all my life.”
Chemirmir was arrested in March 2018 after 91-year-old Mary Annis Bartel mentioned a person pressured his manner into her condominium at an impartial dwelling neighborhood for seniors within the Dallas suburb of Plano.
When police tracked Chemirmir to his close by condominium following the assault on Bartel, he was holding jewellery and money. Paperwork in a big pink jewellery field police say he had simply thrown away led them to a Dallas dwelling the place Harris was discovered lifeless in her bed room, lipstick smeared on her pillow.
Police allege that Chemirmir used his work as a caregiver to stalk luxurious senior dwelling communities in Dallas and Collin counties, posing as a employee to get into the residences of aged girls earlier than smothering them with a pillow and stealing their valuables.
Chemirmir advised the newspaper he was simply within the fallacious place on the fallacious time. He mentioned that different relations, who’ve declined to the communicate to the newspaper, function different senior dwelling houses within the Dallas space the place no suspicious deaths have been reported.
“If I used to be a killer, I may’ve killed all these girls,” he mentioned. “No person has been killed there.”
Chemirmir advised the newspaper he was born and raised in Kenya’s Rift Valley and that he’s the son of a rich farmer. Chemirmir mentioned he started working as a caregiver in Kenya and he moved in 2003 to the U.S., the place he bought vehicles and started working as a senior caregiver in Dallas.
Cheryl Pangburn, whose mom, Marilyn Bixler, was killed in 2017 and is suspected of being certainly one of Chemirmir’s alleged victims, mentioned she was disillusioned that he was reaching out to journalists to attempt to sway public opinion towards him.
“You hope that he feels some form of regret, and the actual fact is he feels nothing,” Pangburn mentioned. “I can’t comprehend that the human thoughts can work that manner.”