Things seem to be moving now in the case of Billy Chemirmir alleged to have murdered 24 vulnerable seniors in a killing spree that could have been halted early on if investigators hadn’t been so quick to dismiss family members concerns about missing valuables.
Chemirmir, an immigrant from Kenya with questionable legal status, is alleged to have smothered his victims with pillows before stealing their jewelry.
A few days ago we reported that People Magazine became the first major news outlet outside of the Dallas Morning News to give this horrific story the attention it deserves.
Hereis Charles Scudder, the intrepid reporter at the Dallas Morning Newswith the latest.
I sure hope Mr. Scudder is working on a book!
Three more capital murder charges filed against Billy Chemirmir, bringing total indictments to 17
Medical examiner records indicate that investigators think the serial murder suspect in April 2016 also killed Catherine Probst Sinclair, bringing the suspect’s list of potential victims to 24.
A Dallas County grand jury on Tuesday handed down three new capital murder indictments against Billy Chemirmir, the man accused of smothering elderly residents of North Texas senior living facilities and stealing their jewelry, cash and other precious items to sell at Dallas-area pawn shops.
There is no evidence so far (that I know of) about where all the jewelry was pawned. A knowledgeable reader told me that he would have had difficulty moving that much jewelry in the Dallas area and would likely have needed an accomplice or accomplices in other locations.
Chemirmir has now been charged with 17 counts of capital murder and two counts of attempted capital murder in Dallas and Collin counties. He has also been linked through medical examiner reports and civil case filings in seven other deaths, bringing the total to 24 deaths in North Texas.
If convicted, Chemirmir could face the death penalty. He has said he is innocent and is in jail in lieu of an $11.6 million bail.
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The new charges against Chemirmir, who turned 48 on Tuesday, are in the deaths of Joyce Abramowitz, Doris Wasserman and Margaret White. All three were killed at The Tradition-Prestonwood, a luxury senior living complex in Dallas, and all had been previously identified as possible victims through civil lawsuits against the complex.
Joyce Abramowitz
Abramowitz died in July 2016. In April, she reported to police that several pieces of jewelry had been stolen from her jewelry box while she was on vacation. After she died, her son reported that a safe was missing.
White died in August 2016. The executor of her estate, Paul Wright, noticed her apartment was missing her fine jewelry — including a wedding ring.”
Another potential victim
“Medical examiner records shared with The Dallas Morning News show that investigators think Chemirmir also killed Catherine Probst Sinclair, a potential victim who hadn’t previously been named by The News. Her death was in April 2016, meaning that officials suspect that the killing spree began at least a month earlier than previously reported.”
Catherine Probst Sinclair
When you look at the timeline created by the Morning Newsit makes this sickening case even more disgusting.
Sinclair is now believed to be the first victim (that we know of) smothered by Chemrmir on April 8, 2016 at the Edgemere.
Phyllis Payne was murdered there on May 14th and Phoebe Perry on June 5th.
On June 28th, 2016 Chemirmir was arrested at Edgemere on suspicion of criminal trespass and sentenced for some other outstanding crimes to 70 days but was released in 12 days.
Upon release, he picked another senior living facility to continue his killing spree.
On July 18th he murdered Joyce Abramowitz at the Tradition-Prestonwood, followed by another seven victims in a row at that location.
His spree continued until his last victim’s body was found and he was arrested on murder charges in March of 2018.
The Dallas Morning Newseditorializedabout the case yesterday as Texas lawmakers start to make noises about changing laws in the state to make it safer for residents of senior living facilities.
The title of the editorial refers to the fact that one family was not notified that their dear mother might actually have been murdered long after the medical examiner had determined she died of natural causes. The family learned from a friend who saw her mother’s name on Facebook as a possible victim of a serial killer.
Facebook is not the place to learn your mother was murdered
Credit the determined daughters of Chemirmir’s victims for keeping a fire lit under this investigation.
And, if you have a beloved relative in any kind of senior living facility or nursing home, this case should be a wake-up call for you to keep a very watchful eye on your loved ones no matter what state you live in!
Read about the daughters who created a website to get their message out that changes in the law must be made so that this could never happen again to anyone’s beloved senior.
And, finally it is shameful that the mainstream media is not reporting this story. I believe that is because it involves white women murdered by a black man who should not have been living among us in the first place. Flip the script and this story would be in your faces every day!
If you know people in the media especially at Newsmax or OAN, please let them know that news is breaking on this horrific case.
What does the horrific story of alleged serial killer Billy Chemirmir have to do with what we are witnessing with the 2020 Presidential Election steal?
Law enforcement did not, and is not, doing its job and the mainstream media is complicit in helping hide the truth because the narrative in both cases goes against the exalted media’s view of what they want you to believe happened.
Chemirmir is behind bars in Dallas awaiting a LONG OVERDUE trial. I wouldn’t be surprised if authorities, who really screwed up, were just hoping Chemirmir might die in custody before their errors were displayed in a trial that won’t be ignored thanks to the anger and dogged determination of the grieving families..
They lie by their silence!
But finally a breakthrough for heartbroken families as People Magazine, read by the masses, is reporting on the horrific case.
Shame on you New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC and the list goes on!
If this is the first time you are hearing about Billy Chemirmir and his helpless victims, I want you to try to imagine if one of these vulnerable seniors, whose last face they saw on this earth was Chemirmir’s, was your own mother or grandmother.
Police Thought Deaths of 22 Seniors Were from Natural Causes — But Now They Suspect a Serial Killer
Three weeks before Christmas in 2017, Diane Delahunty spent the day visiting with her grown children at Preston Place Senior Living Apartments in Plano, Texas. After lunch, her children went home, leaving the vibrant 79-year-old in her comfortable upscale apartment. The plan was for her kids to return later in the week to help her decorate her Christmas tree.
Three days later, Delahunty’s daughter returned to the apartment to find her mother dead on the floor with a bump on her head. The family assumed she had fallen out of bed and hit her head on the doorframe, but they also noticed that her wedding and engagement rings were missing.
“I was angry,” Edward Delahunty tells PEOPLE in its latest issue. “She was in good health. I wanted to know why this happened.”
But now, the Delahunty family — and many more like them — are facing something even more tragic. According to police, Delahunty’s death was no accident, but instead the work of one of the most prolific serial killers in Texas history.
Read about the daughterswho created a website to get their message out that changes in the law must be made so that this could never happen again to anyone’s beloved senior.
I know all of you are completely immersed in the election news and the latest revelations about Joe Biden’s son Hunter and his apparent pay for play scheme with Ukrainian oligarchs, but there are a few other things happening.
I’ve missed a lot of criminal news in recent weeks because I too am consumed by concern over the direction the country might take in only a few short weeks.
The ultimate nightmare: Knowing that the last face your beloved mother saw on this earth was the face of Kenyan Billy Chemirmir.
However, there is one story that should not be forgotten in the flood of other news and that is the horrific case of alleged killer of senior women, the case of Billy Chemirmir who is suspected of murdering upwards of 20 plus women and one man, senior citizens all, who were allegedly killed so that Chemirmir, who should have been removed from the country years earlier, could sell their jewelry and other valuables.
There is only one paper in the country on top of the story and that is the Dallas Morning News and its reporter Charles Scudder.
Scudder has a new storypublished two days ago. Unfortunately it is behind a pay wall, so I can give you only a few snips. The Morning Newswould do itself a service (and these murdered women and their families) if the breaking Chemirmir stories were not so removed from national public view and discussion.
Police didn’t tell her they believed Billy Chemirmir killed her mom in 2017. She learned on Facebook
Cheryl Bixler Pangburn thought a heart attack or stroke killed her mother.
It wasn’t until a high school classmate sent her a Facebook message two and a half years later that she learned the name Billy Chemirmir.
“My mother was a victim of Billy Chemirmir,” wrote Karen Harris, whose mother died at a Plano senior living community in 2018. “I was given a list of other possible victims. I noticed the name of what I believe is your mom. … I thought since you might have gone through the same thing I did, you might find comfort in talking.”
Until then, Pangburn had no idea who Chemirmir was, much less that he’d been accused of stealing from and killing multiple elderly women at Dallas-area senior living communities.
Before her death, Bixler appeared in a brochure touting the wonderful environment at the Parkview. “The management is so willing to just bend over backwards to make it pleasant to live here,” she said. The promotional material featuring Bixler is now no longer available.
Her mother, Marilyn Bixler, was found dead Sept. 17, 2017, at Parkview in Frisco, a luxury senior living community. Several weeks later, a woman survived an attack at the complex and later helped lead police to Chemirmir.
Somewhere, Bixler’s name was on a list of potential victims. A Frisco police lieutenant had signed a sworn affidavit saying her death was linked to the other crimes. The medical examiner had even changed her cause of death from a heart attack to “undetermined.”
Yet no one ever called Pangburn. No one told her how her mother really died.
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Pangburn’s family is one of dozens in North Texas that have been caught in a limbo caused by numerous investigative delays in a complicated case that stretches over multiple jurisdictions.
Chemirmir has been indicted in 14 deaths, and has been publicly linked through civil suits to at least 10 others. Even more families have said their loved ones’ causes of death have been amended by medical examiners in Collin and Dallas counties to “homicidal violence” or “undetermined” in connection with the investigation.
The rest of the story is behind a paywallhere. I sure hope reporter Scudder is working on a book!
Visit the websitecreated by the grieving daughters of the murdered women.
I am sure the media and Texas officials who dropped the ball are hoping that the case involving the creep from Kenya who allegedly murdered nearly two dozen helpless seniors (almost all women smothered with pillows), in either assisted living facilities or in their own homes in order to steal their jewelry and valuables, disappears down the memory hole.
Correction:One of the daughters tells me that they were not assisted living facilities but “active living establishments with the promise of “monitored surveillance security and cameras throughout””.
The victims’ daughters aren’t going to let that happen as they report regularly at the website they created in hopes of keeping the case alive and to urge elected officials in Texas to place more regulations on facilities for seniors so that someone like Chemirmir won’t have access to vulnerable loved ones ever again.
Update: Glenna Day’s cause of death (October 15, 2016) has been amended to homicide. This is the 5th homicide at The Tradition Prestonwood between July 18 and October 29, 2016.
We are adding Dr. Catherine Probst Sinclair to our victim timeline. Her family was suspicious of her death in April of 2018 as reported in the news.
This news story was the last we heard publicly about Dr. Sinclair. We have privately continued to support the Probst family as they work to seek justice for their beloved Aunt Cathie.
Medical Examiner Barnard
We Did Not Know We Needed to Raise the Roof – We Are Raising It Now
Dr. Jeffrey Barnard, Dallas County Medical Examiner told the Dallas Morning News that “If it was my parent, I’d be raising the roof.”
We did not know May 2016 to March 2018 we needed to “raise the roof” about lack of security, lack of sharing information where our loved ones lived, and they were murdered. We have learned a lot in the last years and we are not staying quiet any longer.
Dr. Barnard stated in the same article that the Chemirmir cases are “on the back burner” and he would work to clear the cases by the end of July.
Dr. Barnard’s investigation should be timely and thorough. Our loved ones’ cases deserve the truth. There are at least four cases where families are waiting to hear if their loved one was murdered. We have been told the police investigations have been closed. There is no new information. The families are waiting for the Dallas County Medical Examiner to amend the cause of death if it was murder. The families with cases that result in homicide amendments get to join other families awaiting trial.
Pre-COVID, the trial was scheduled to begin early April 2021. The Texas Supreme Court has issued an emergency order stating no jury proceedings may be held before October 1 with few exceptions. This is not the first delay mandated by the Texas Supreme Court. Jury trials in Dallas County have been suspended for 6 months as of this writing. Logically, this would delay the murderer’s trial to October 2021. If there are more delays, we may be looking at a 2022 trial date.
When we inquired about a trial date in late 2019, we were told we had to be patient and wait our turn. This is the way the justice system works in Dallas County. The trial date (April 2021) was scheduled in January 2020. We want to be clear. We will work within the boundaries of the system. But we will not be put on the back burner.
This is a capital murder case by one of the most prolific serial killers in Texas history. He targeted a vulnerable population that we all hope to safely be a part of – our beloved elderly, trusting, loving family members.
Other states have started jury trials carefully with guidelines to protect citizens from COVID. Texas needs to work to do the same.
We recognize these are turbulent times with COVID, economic challenges and social unrest. None of these will go away soon. We want to work for justice for our loved ones as solutions are sought for the other issues.
Notice in the timeline the daughters have posted that Chemimir had spent a short time behind bars in 2016 for trespassing at one of the murder scenes, but went right back to his gruesome work with a vengeance a week after his release. He simply chose a facility other than the one where he was caught trespassing.
Dallas police arrested him June 28, 2016 for trespassing at Edgemere. He was given a 70-day sentence and served time at Dallas County Jail. He was released early, 14 days later, on July 11, 2016. One can only imagine that some of those murdered during a period he should have been behind bars might still be alive and enjoying their families today.
Please visit SOSS and sign up to receive news on the case.
But even more importantly help keep this horrific story from going down the memory hole.
If you know anyone at Fox News please try to bring this story to their attention because you know the mainstream media is only too happy to see the politically incorrect story hidden forever because it goes against the entire Black Lives Matter narrative they are pumping up these days.
Pandemic causes delay in investigation, trial of serial murder suspect Billy Chemirmir
Over two years after Billy Chemirmir’s arrest, families who say their elderly loved ones were killed by the serial murder suspect are wondering what’s taking so long for county officials to declare the deaths homicides.
Kenyan Billy Chemirmir with some of the seniors it is believed he smothered to death to steal their jewelry. (The only man so far identified as a possible victim was found in a pool of blood.)
Dallas County Medical Examiner Jeffery Barnard said Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic has slowed the process of amending those death certificates but that he will work to clear the cases by the end of July.
The death certificate revisions aren’t the only part of the investigation into Chemirmir that has been slowed by the pandemic. His attorney, Phillip Hayes, said Thursday that the virus also will delay his criminal trial.
Chemirmir, 47, has been indicted in the deaths of 14 elderly people in Dallas and Collin counties, and civil lawsuits name him as a suspect in the deaths of eight others. A Kenyan immigrant with permanent resident status in the U.S., he is in the Dallas County Jail in lieu of $11.6 million bail.
The number of potential victims could make Chemirmir among the most prolific serial killers in Texas history. He maintains he is innocent.
Some of the victims’ family members are strongly voicing their objections to further delay by the Medical Examiners office.
Secure Our Seniors Safety, a nonprofit founded last year by the daughters of four of Chemirmir’s alleged victims, says that at least five cases are awaiting amendment from “natural causes” or “old age” to homicide.
Throughout 2018, nearly two dozen families in North Texas received the shocking news that police were re-investigating their loved ones’ deaths as possible murders. The calls came as much as two years after their loved ones died at luxury senior living communities and private homes in Dallas, Richardson, Plano and Frisco.
The families had no choice but to wait for the causes of death to be amended and the cases to be presented to a grand jury.
For some, the wait lasted just a few weeks. Others waited months. Some are still waiting.
The Dallas Morning News is the only larger media outlet to report on the gruesome story since it first broke in the spring of 2019.
Nobody says this, but you know it…..
Frankly, if the killer was white and the victims black senior citizens this would be news trumpeted across the world on a regular basis. CNN and the New York Times would have reporters camped in Dallas to report every detail of the story.
Heck, the Antifa rioters would likely have torn the jail down by now!
See my Billy Chemirmir(the Kenyan Killer) archive. (There are some stories in the archive in which I just reference him in relation to other criminal cases.)
