Man charged in 18 Texas deaths says he’s ‘not a killer’

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 might 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 dying of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris resulted in a mistrial.

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Throughout a telephone interview from jail final week, Chemirmir denied all the fees towards him and advised The Dallas Morning Information that he’s “100% positive I can’t go to jail.”

“I’m not a killer,” Chemirmir advised the newspaper. “I’m in no way what they’re saying I’m. I’m a really harmless particular person. I used to be not introduced (up) that approach. I used to be introduced (up) in a great 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 compelled his approach into her house at an unbiased dwelling neighborhood for seniors within the Dallas suburb of Plano.

When police tracked Chemirmir to his close by house following the assault on Bartel, he was holding jewellery and money. Paperwork in a big crimson jewellery field police say he had simply thrown away led them to a Dallas dwelling the place Harris was discovered useless 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 flats of aged girls earlier than smothering them with a pillow and stealing their valuables.

Protection legal professional Kobby Warren, standing, proper, listens to legal professional Mark Watson, high left, as his consumer Billy Chemirmir, seated proper, waits for motions and language being despatched to the jury in his capital homicide trial on the Frank Crowley Courts Constructing in Dallas, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. He was joined by personal investigator Tonia Silva seated, left. 
(Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning Information by way of AP, Pool)

Chemirmir advised the newspaper he was simply within the mistaken place on the mistaken time. He mentioned that different members of the family, who’ve declined to to talk to the newspaper, function different senior dwelling houses within the Dallas space the place no suspicious deaths have been reported.

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“If I used to be a killer, I may’ve killed all these girls,” he mentioned. “No one 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 offered vehicles and started working as a senior caregiver in Dallas.

Billy Chemirmir
(Dallas County Sheriff’s Workplace by way of AP, File)

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Cheryl Pangburn, whose mom, Marilyn Bixler, was killed in 2017 and is suspected of being one in every of Chemirmir’s alleged victims, mentioned she was upset 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 very fact is he feels nothing,” Pangburn mentioned. “I can not comprehend that the human thoughts can work that approach.”