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Kenyan man charged with killing 18 elderly Tx women insists he is innocent

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Billy Chemirmir trial: Texas man accused of serial killing of 18 women says he is innocent. Pictured Mary Bartel.
Billy Chemirmir trial Tx serial killer 18 elderly women
Billy Chemirmir trial: Texas man accused of serial killing of 18 women says he is innocent. Pictured Mary Bartel.

Billy Chemirmir trial: Kenyan man charged with the serial killing of 18 elderly women insists he is innocent and that he will be acquitted. 

Innocent or just the claims of a calculating mind …? A former Texas health aide worker charged with the serial killings 18 elderly women in the Dallas area over the course of a two year period has told a publication he is innocent of the murders while saying he will be acquitted in the case.

During a phone interview from Dallas County Jail last week, Billy Chemirmir denied all the charges against him and told The Dallas Morning News that he is ‘100% sure I will not go to prison.’

The man’s claims comes as the former caregiver continues to remain incarcerated as he awaits an April 25 retrial after the first jury to hear a murder case against him deadlocked 11-1. It was not clear what verdict the majority of jurors supported during the trial.

In November, his murder trial in the death of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris ended in a mistrial.

‘I am not a killer,’ Chemirmir told the Dallas Morning News. ‘I’m not at all what they’re saying I am. I am a very innocent person. I was not brought (up) that way. I was brought (up) in a good family. I didn’t have any problems all my life.’

From a good family? 

Chemirmir was arrested in March 2018 after 91-year-old Mary Annis Bartel survived an attack after claiming the man had forced his way into her apartment at an independent living community for seniors in the Dallas suburb of Plano.

When police tracked Chemirmir to his nearby apartment following the attack on Bartel, he was holding jewelry and cash. Documents in a large red jewelry box police say he had just thrown away led them to a Dallas home where Harris was found dead in her bedroom, lipstick smeared on her pillow.

Police allege that Chemirmir used his work as a caregiver to stalk luxury senior living communities in Dallas and Collin counties, posing as a worker to get into the apartments of elderly women before smothering them with a pillow and stealing their valuables.

Chemirmir told the newspaper he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. He said that other family members, who have declined to speak to the newspaper, operate other senior living homes in the Dallas area where no suspicious deaths have been reported.

‘If I was a killer, I could’ve killed all those ladies,’ he said. ‘Nobody has been killed there.’

Chemirmir told the newspaper he was born and raised in Kenya’s Rift Valley and that he’s the son of a wealthy farmer. Chemirmir said he began working as a caregiver in Kenya and he moved in 2003 to the U.S., where he sold cars and began working as a senior caregiver in Dallas.

Cheryl Pangburn, whose mother, Marilyn Bixler, was killed in 2017 and is suspected of being one of Chemirmir’s alleged victims, said she was disappointed that he was reaching out to journalists to try and sway public opinion toward him.

‘You hope that he feels some kind of remorse, and the fact is he feels nothing,’ Pangburn said according to NBC DFW. ‘I cannot comprehend that the human mind can work that way.’

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