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    April 2021 trial date set for Billy Chemirmir, accused of smothering elderly in Dallas, Collin counties

    He is indicted on capital murder charges in the deaths of 12; civil suits link him to the deaths of 10 others.

    By Charles Scudder
    Dallas News

    Billy Chemirmir, the serial-killing suspect linked to the deaths of 22 elderly people in Collin and Dallas counties, will face trial in April 2021.

    According to a court document filed Friday, the trial will begin April 5, 2021.

    Chemirmir has been indicted on 12 counts of capital murder and two counts of attempted capital murder. He faces the death penalty in the deaths of at least two alleged victims: Lu Thi Harris, who was 81 when she died March 20, 2018, and Phyllis Payne, who was 91 when she died May 14, 2016.

    Chemirmir has maintained his innocence. He is in the Dallas County Jail in lieu of $11.6 million bail.

    In all, Chemirmir has been linked to 22 deaths at Dallas-area senior living complexes, potentially making him one of Texas’ most prolific serial killers. Besides the 12 deaths he has been charged with, civil lawsuits have linked him to 10 others. The families of those 10 have produced police records or amended death certificates stating that investigators have said they believe Chemirmir killed their loved ones.

    The Chemirmir case was featured in a two-part series called “Guardians” that ran in The Dallas Morning News in December.

    The civil lawsuits allege that security at the senior living complexes involved allowed Chemirmir access and that they didn’t do enough to prevent harm to residents during the alleged killing spree.

    Chemirmir is accused of smothering residents and taking jewelry and other precious items from their apartments. Smothering can be difficult to spot as a cause of death, so many of the deaths were initially marked as being of natural causes.

    After a Plano woman survived an attack at Preston Place Retirement Community on March 19, 2018 — the same day another body was found across the hall — police identified Chemirmir as a suspect through suspicious person and vehicle reports from at least three senior living communities.

    Plano police were waiting at Chemirmir’s apartment when he came home the next day and tossed a jewelry box into a dumpster. They arrested him on an outstanding warrant and collected the box, which led them to Harris’ home.

    Dallas police officers doing a welfare check on Harris found her dead inside her home. Chemirmir was charged with capital murder in that death and later was charged with attempted murder of a Frisco woman and a Plano woman.

    After the indictment in the Harris case, capital murder indictments in 11 other deaths landed in May 2019.

    Chemirmir has been indicted in these deaths:

    • Phyllis Payne, 91, who died May 14, 2016.
    • Phoebe Perry, 94, who died June 5, 2016.
    • Norma French, 85, who died Oct. 8, 2016.
    • Doris Gleason, 92, who died Oct. 29, 2016.
    • Minnie Campbell, 84, who died Oct. 31, 2017.
    • Carolyn MacPhee, 81, who died Dec. 31, 2017.
    • Rosemary Curtis, 75, who died Jan. 19, 2018.
    • Mary Brooks, 88, who died Jan. 31, 2018.
    • Martha Williams, 80, who died March 4, 2018
    • Miriam Nelson, 81, who died March 9, 2018.
    • Ann Conklin, 82, who died March 18, 2018.
    • Lu Thi Harris, 81, who died March 20, 2018.


    Civil suits have linked him to the deaths of 10 others:

    • Joyce Abramowitz, 82, who died July 18, 2016.
    • Juanita Purdy, 82, who died July 31, 2018.
    • Leah Corken, 83, who died Aug. 19, 2018.
    • Margaret White, 86, who died Aug. 28, 2018.
    • Solomon Spring, 89, who died Oct. 1, 2018.
    • Glenna Day, 87, who died Oct. 15, 2018.
    • Diane Delahunty, 79, who died Dec. 5, 2017.
    • Mamie Dell Miya, 93, who died Dec. 8, 2017.
    • A victim who was not named in the suits, 81, who died Dec. 10, 2017.
    • Doris Wasserman, 90, who died Dec. 23, 2017.


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    Pandemic causes delay in investigation, trial of serial murder suspect Billy Chemirmir

    The Dallas County medical examiner says that coronavirus has slowed the work of amending death certificates but that he will work to clear cases by the end of July

    Over 2 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.

    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 8 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.

    Although there has been an outbreak of the virus at the jail, Hayes said his client is being held in a single cell and is at a low risk of infection.

    Chemirmir is scheduled to stand trial in April, and he faces the death penalty if convicted. Hayes said Thursday that the pandemic has delayed all trials, especially long criminal proceedings like Chemirmir’s. It’s unclear how a death penalty trial could be carried out during these times of social distancing.

    “I am concerned about the delay because it has prevented us from interviewing both witnesses and experts,” Hayes said in an email. “No one is really sure when Dallas will be able to resume even minor trials. One of this magnitude will require some assurances.”

    Collin County Judge Emily Miskel virtually swears in potential jurors for a summary jury trial on May 18, 2020. It was the 1st time in Texas, and possibly nationwide, that a jury trial was conducted remotely, Miskel said.
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    According to police, Chemirmir smothered his victims with a pillow, which made the deaths look natural. Police used cellphone data, video surveillance footage from senior living complexes and other evidence to link Chemirmir to each death.

    But before prosecutors take each case to a grand jury for an indictment against Chemirmir, the medical examiner’s office must re-investigate the case and amend the victim’s death certificate. Barnard said that means starting from scratch on each investigation.

    Barnard said he’s careful to look at each case with a fresh perspective to eliminate bias from police and ensure that his testimony can stand on its own. He said his office reviews video footage and other evidence to draw conclusions on the cause and manner of death for each case.

    Since the coronavirus pandemic began, his office is also responsible for testing every death for the virus — as well as extra casework related to the outbreak. That, Barnard said, means the Chemirmir cases are “on the backburner.”

    “This COVID thing became enormous, and our caseload became enormous,” Barnard said. “This just is a very long process.”

    ‘We are frustrated’

    Secure Our Seniors Safety, a nonprofit founded last year by the daughters of 4 of Chemirmir’s alleged victims, says that at least 5 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 a possible murder. The calls came as much as 2 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 cause 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. And some are still waiting.

    2 elderly women were killed in their apartments at the Tradition - Prestonwood senior living complex at Arapaho Road and Prestonwood Boulevard in Far North Dallas.

    “I know how I felt being told my mother’s death was being investigated as a murder — then you have to wait to see if that’s true,” said Shannon Dion, one of the group’s founders. “We are frustrated with how long it has taken.”

    Dion, who was featured in the award-winning 2-part series about the case in The Dallas Morning News, said her group has asked police and prosecutors why the cases have faced such a long delay.

    “We want the murderer to be held accountable,” she said.

    Barnard said that he initially had hoped to finish the remaining investigations by the end of last fall but that a series of personnel issues within the medical examiner’s office caused delays.

    He has personally investigated each of the other cases so that he could be the single medical examiner to testify at criminal and civil trials, he said. That way, attorneys don’t have to pay the county extra for multiple expert witnesses.

    After The News shared some of the concerns from the family members about the delay, Barnard said Wednesday he would split the workload with other doctors in hopes of clearing the cases by the end of next month.

    “If it was my parent, I’d be raising the roof,” Barnard said. “They want results, and we’re going to get it done.”

    (source: Dallas Morning News)
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    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

    By Charles Scudder
    Dallas Morning News

    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.

    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.

    His attorney, Phillip Hayes, said that a lot of the evidence against Chemirmir is circumstantial. It may put him in the area of an alleged murder, Hayes said, but doesn’t prove he was the killer.

    “It seems like every unexplained death they come up with, they’re pinning on him,” Hayes said. “If you look at all of it, it doesn’t stand up.”

    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.

    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.

    Wasserman died in December 2017. She spent the afternoon of the day before Christmas eve playing with her great-grandson. Her family dropped her off at her apartment around 3:30 p.m., but when they came back around 8 p.m., they found her lying on the bed, fully clothed and unresponsive.

    Wright, who was a close friend of White, said the indictments were “like a part of the puzzle solved.” He, along with many other families, have pushed for greater accountability and security at senior living facilities.

    “It’s just a complete violation of trust. It’s a complete violation of the family and friends of these people,” he said. “We have to question how facilities are run.”

    The Tradition-Prestonwood said in a statement that it “regards all our residents as family” and that it relied on investigators who initially ruled the deaths as natural causes.

    “Those rulings stood for more than 27 months,” the statement says. “The Tradition-Prestonwood has cooperated with all the authorities and will continue to do so.”

    Another potential victim identified

    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. office in October amended Sinclair’s manner of death to “undetermined.” The report says that the suspect’s cellphone data shows it was used in the courtyard of Edgemere, the North Dallas senior living facility where Sinclair lived and died, around the time of her death.

    Sinclair’s niece, Jane Fuld, said Tuesday that her family always suspected their aunt had been killed. They found blood on her pillow and couldn’t find a large safe in the apartment after her death. They were one of a few families that filed a police report on their suspicions of homicide.

    “It was just too coincidental,” Fuld said. “They didn’t take us seriously from the beginning when we said, ‘There’s something wrong here.’”

    Chemirmir was arrested on a capital murder charge two years later, in March 2018. Police at the time announced a “very large and complex investigation” into hundreds of deaths and thefts. Fuld said she read the news of the arrest and immediately thought to call police about her aunt’s death.

    “The minute I read the headline, I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s Cathie,’” she said.

    Chemirmir has been charged in the deaths of two other women at Edgemere: Phyllis Payne in May 2016 and Phoebe Perry in June 2016.

    Two weeks after Perry’s death, Chemirmir was arrested on suspicion of trespassing at Edgemere. He was sentenced to 70 days in the Dallas County jail, but he was released on good behavior after serving just 12.

    Eight days later, Abramowitz was killed at The Tradition-Prestonwood.

    Paul Abramowitz, Joyce Abramowitz’s son, said the indictments announced Tuesday were “a start.” He said he was the CFO of several nursing homes for many years, and said the senior living facilities that housed many of the victims should be held responsible.

    “Because I came out of the industry, I’m disgusted,” he said. “It looks like this guy went shopping each week at The Tradition."

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    Chemirmir indicted with 18th capital murder charge

    A Dallas County grand jury has added an 18th count of capital murder against Billy Chemirmir, who is accused of smothering and robbing elderly people for years in Dallas and Collin counties.

    The latest charge is in the death of Glenna Day, who was killed Oct. 15, 2016, at The Tradition-Prestonwood, a luxury senior living community in Far North Dallas.

    Chemirmir has been indicted in connection with eight other deaths at that complex, and he has been linked in lawsuits to one other. Including several other deaths that have not been included in his 18 indictments, he has been accused of killing 24 people from April 2016 through March 2018.

    If convicted, Chemirmir could face the death penalty. He has said he is innocent and is in jail, with bail set at $17.6 million.

    Chemirmir’s attorney, Phillip Hayes, said Tuesday that he hadn’t seen much about the new case but that he was “sure it’s more of the same: accusations based on having the medical examiner change his/her mind.”

    He said a lot of the evidence against his client is circumstantial.

    “It seems like every unexplained death they come up with, they’re pinning on him,” Hayes said in December. “If you look at all of it, it doesn’t stand up.”

    Chemirmir’s case is scheduled to go to trial April 5, but proceedings are likely to be delayed in part because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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    Dallas County DA Reverses Plans To Seek Death Penalty For Alleged Serial Killer Billy Chemirmir

    By J.D. Mills
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    DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – He’s accused of being one of the worst serial killers in Texas history.

    CBS 11 News has learned that the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office has reversed plans seek the death penalty for Billy Chemirmir.

    Billy Chemirmir has been indicted for 18 murders in Dallas and surrounding cities.

    On Thursday, June 24, Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot confirmed his office will seek a life sentence instead of the death penalty.

    Chemirmir accused of preying on the most vulnerable victims he could find.

    Elderly women and one man ranging in age from 75 to 94 years old living alone in homes or in senior centers.

    They were all suffocated and robbed of valuables until Billy Chemirmir was arrested in 2018.

    Most of the deaths were believed to natural causes until authorities used technology to place Chemirmir at the scene of them.

    Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot filed paperwork in 2019 with the intention of seeking the death penalty.

    But that changed after Creuzot had a recent meeting with the families of victims.

    In a statement to CBS 11 News, Creuzot said:

    “At that time, it was explained that the Dallas County Criminal District Attorney’s would request two jury trials, with the goal of securing two life sentences without the possibility of parole. If that goal is achieved, this office will ask the court to order that the sentences be served consecutively. In effect, there will be no chance for Mr. Chemirmir to die anywhere except in a Texas prison.”

    Creuzot’s statement did not offer an explanation.

    Criminal Law Attorney Toby Shook says the decision probably had to do with the costs involved in pursuing the death penalty against the Kenyan born suspect.

    “Defense attorneys would file for motions to have an investigator and themselves interview people in Africa, retrieve records in Africa and that would eventually get very very expensive,” said Shook. “You ask for lots of money to go to Africa and then if you find mitigation evidence how do you get those witnesses back over to the United States to testify?”

    Shook says the 48-year-old accused murderer would never be eligible for parole if the DA’s plan works.

    “I think that’s a sound strategy it gives you two shots, two separate trials to get life without parole, if he’s able to get one reversed you already have him serving life without parole,” said Shook.

    So far none of the victim’s families have spoken out against this decision.

    Chemirmir remains in jail.

    His trial was scheduled to begin three months ago but has been delayed.

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    Unbelievable..

    Dallas County is garbage.
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    What to know about the first trial of alleged senior living serial killer Billy Chemirmir

    Jury selection begins in the trial of Billy Chemirmir, who has been indicted on 18 counts of capital murder in Dallas and Collin counties.

    By Charles Scudder

    Over two years, more than a dozen women died in senior living communities and inside their homes. Jewelry, cash and other valuables went missing. Families were told they died of natural causes.

    Years later, a man was arrested for trying to smother a woman in her 90s with a pillow.

    Police say the women were murdered by one of Texas’ most prolific serial killers: Billy Chemirmir.

    More than three-and-a-half years after he was arrested, the 48-year-old will face trial for capital murder on Monday in Dallas.

    Indicted on 18 counts of capital murder in Dallas and Collin counties, Chemirmir has been linked in police records, medical examiner reports and civil lawsuits to two dozen deaths between 2016 and 2018.

    Only one case will go before jurors when testimony begins Monday, and jury selection starts today. The outcome of that trial will determine if Chemirmir spends the rest of his life in prison without parole.

    John Creuzot, Dallas County’s district attorney, initially said that he’d seek the death penalty for Chemirmir but changed course earlier this year, telling families of the victims that a death penalty trial would be too costly and cumbersome.

    Chemirmir, a Kenyan immigrant with permanent resident status, could be deported if released. He says he is innocent.

    He has declined multiple interview requests from The Dallas Morning News.

    Phillip Hayes, Chemirmir’s attorney, said much of the evidence against his client is circumstantial.

    “It seems like every unexplained death they come up with, they’re pinning on him,” Hayes said last year.

    The ongoing case — delayed multiple times due to the COVID-19 pandemic — has been traumatizing for families who believed their loved ones died of natural causes before someone called with the news that the deaths were being re-investigated as possible homicides.

    Here’s what you need to know about the upcoming trial against Chemirmir and his other charges.

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    Catherine Probst Sinclair dies in Dallas
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    Catherine Probst Sinclair was 87. Her manner was ammended to "undetermined" in October 2020.

    What are the allegations against Chemirmir?

    In Dallas County, Chemirmir is charged with 13 counts of capital murder. In neighboring Collin County, he faces five charges of capital murder and two attempted.

    Police and prosecutors have said he targeted elderly women between 2016 and 2018, often posing as a maintenance worker who said he was checking for leaky pipes. Once inside their apartments, indictments say, he’d smother victims with a pillow before stealing jewelry, cash and other valuables.

    Unlike strangulation, smothering can leave few visible signs on a body. Police and medical examiners initially assumed the deaths of elderly women at senior living communities were heart attacks, not homicide.

    It wasn’t until a woman survived an attack in Plano and pointed to Chemirmir in March 2018 that the investigation turned to hundreds of unaccompanied deaths and theft reports in at least four cities.

    What evidence links the deaths to Chemirmir?

    Police started with reports of unaccompanied deaths and theft reports, then used tracking data from Chemirmir’s cellphone. When the location data on his cellphone records matched with various luxury communities, police would examine those cases more closely.

    Video surveillance from senior living communities also shows Chemirmir in the area around the time of some deaths, according to lawsuits filed against the communities by several families.

    Once police finished an investigation, they passed the evidence to medical examiners. Because many deaths were initially marked as being from natural causes, each had to be amended to either homicide or, if medical examiners felt they didn’t have enough evidence, undetermined. Although at least one victim was exhumed, many had been cremated long before the investigation began.

    Which case is going to trial first?

    The first case against Chemirmir stems from an 81-year-old woman’s March 2018 death in her Far North Dallas home.

    After police identified Chemirmir as a suspect in the attempted murder of a 90-year-old Plano woman, they waited at his apartment complex in Far North Dallas. When he arrived home, police saw him toss something in a dumpster before arresting him.

    A Plano officer went to the dumpster and found a jewelry box, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Inside the jewelry box was the name Lu Thi Harris.

    Dallas police went to Harris’ home about five miles away. They found her body in the bedroom and a pillow nearby smeared with lipstick.

    Chemirmir was charged with capital murder in Harris’ killing the next day.

    According to a recording obtained by The Dallas Morning News, prosecutors told families this summer they believed the case of Harris’ death was the strongest since others were not immediately identified as homicides.

    Depending on the outcome of this first trial, Chemirmir could also be tried for the death of Mary Brooks, who was killed in January 2018 in Richardson. The rest of the Dallas County cases, prosecutors say, will likely be dismissed.

    Why won’t Chemirmir get the death penalty?

    In 2019, Creuzot’s office filed paperwork saying he’d seek the death penalty for Chemirmir. It was the first and only time Creuzot has done so.

    But earlier this summer, Creuzot called families of the victims to tell them he had changed his mind, citing the long appeals process on death cases and the cost of prosecuting them.

    He said that because Chemirmir immigrated to the U.S. from Kenya, lawyers would have to travel there to look for evidence of his upbringing — an especially difficult challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    “I’m 63,” Creuzot said at the meeting, according to a recording obtained by The News. “If someone had a death sentence today in Dallas County, I would not expect to be alive when they were put to death.”

    In Texas, capital murder has an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole if prosecutors do not seek execution. Therefore, if convicted, Chemirmir would go to jail without the traditional sentencing phase of most murder trials.

    In our criminal justice system, a jury must only decide whether the evidence proves beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant committed a specific crime. Evidence of other murders cannot be presented to jurors.

    That means that jurors will only be asked to decide if Chemirmir killed one specific person — not dozens — and those other cases likely will not be mentioned in court.

    How has the pandemic impacted the case?

    Chemirmir was initially scheduled to be tried this April, but that was delayed when the COVID-19 pandemic closed courtrooms around the country. The pandemic also slowed evidentiary discovery, part of the legal process that allows defense attorneys to see the evidence that will be presented against their clients, Hayes said.

    “I am concerned about the delay because it has prevented us from interviewing both witnesses and experts,” Hayes said last June, before the trial date was rescheduled.

    The pandemic also caused delays at the Dallas and Collin County medical examiners offices, which were tasked with amending death certificates before indictments could be filed. With more deaths and increased pandemic safety protocols, the paperwork for those older cases was put on hold, said Dallas County medical examiner Jeffery Barnard.

    When will Chemirmir face trial in Collin County?

    Although Chemirmir was initially arrested by a Plano police officer, Dallas County was the first to charge him with capital murder in Harris’ death.

    Chemirmir has since been indicted with five counts of capital murder and two counts of attempted capital murder in Collin County.

    Since early in the case, prosecutors in Collin County have said they’d let Dallas tackle the case first. They say they’ll make decisions on if or how to prosecute Chemirmir for their cases after seeing how the Dallas trials go.

    Some of the families whose mothers were killed in Collin County, as well as State Rep. Jared Patterson, R-Frisco, have called on District Attorney Greg Willis to seek the death penalty since Creuzot did not.

    The Collin County District Attorney’s office declined comment on the case when asked whether Willis would seek the death penalty for Chemirmir.

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    Attorney for accused serial killer Billy Chemirmir charged with soliciting prostitution

    BY JESSIKA HARKAY

    The defense attorney for Billy Chemirmir, who police believe killed at least 18 women living at senior living facilities in Dallas and Collin counties and is expected be on trial next week, was arrested and charged in connection to solicitation of prostitution, according to the Tyler Morning Telegraph. FERNANDO SALAZAR THE WICHITA EAGLE

    The defense attorney for Billy Chemirmir, who police believe killed at least 18 women who lived at senior living facilities in Dallas and Collin counties and is expected be on trial next week, was arrested and charged with solicitation of prostitution, according to the Tyler Morning Telegraph.

    Phillip Wayne Hayes, 48, of Dallas, was booked Friday and released later in the day on $2,000 bond, the Tyler newspaper reported. The Morning Telegraph added that in an obtained arrest warrant affidavit, Smith County undercover officers said they caught Hayes by using online ads then cross-checking his phone number after the attorney began exchanging text messages with an undercover officer in early October.

    The affidavit says that Hayes offered to pay $110 for an hour of sex, the Tyler newspaper reported. The undercover officer gave Hayes a location to meet, and he was arrested when he arrived, according to the affidavit.

    When reached Wednesday by the Dallas Morning News, Hayes said, “Things aren’t always as they seem. When it is all said and done, we can sit and talk about it, but I’m not going to do anything to jeopardize Mr. Chemirmir at this point.” Hayes said he doesn’t expect his arrest to impact the trial.

    Although detectives’ investigation into Hayes began Oct. 5., the attorney wasn’t charged until a month later due to an ongoing murder trial that began Sept. 28 and didn’t end until Oct. 27. He was defending former Tyler nurse William George Davis, who after the trial was sentenced to death for killing four patients by injecting air into their arteries.

    Jury selection for Chemirmir’s trial is expected to begin Wednesday, and testimony is set to start Monday. Chemirmir is accused of suffocating at least 18 women at senior living facilities and stealing their jewelry. The cases will be separated into two trials, with the first beginning with jury selection this week.

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    Has Dallas County DA John Creuzot reversed his decision against and seeking the death penalty in the case of Chermirmir? Can some clarify this information please?
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    This is from 2 days ago.

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    What to know about the first trial of alleged senior living serial killer Billy Chemirmir

    By Charles Scudder
    Dallas Morning News

    Over two years, more than a dozen women died in senior living communities and inside their homes. Jewelry, cash and other valuables went missing. Families were told they died of natural causes.

    Years later, a man was arrested for trying to smother a 91-year-old woman with a pillow.

    Police say the women were murdered by one of Texas’ most prolific serial killers: Billy Chemirmir.

    More than 3½ years after he was arrested, the 48-year-old Chemirmir will face trial for capital murder on Monday in Dallas. A dozen jurors and two alternates were chosen after nine hours of jury selection Wednesday. The outcome of that trial will determine if Chemirmir spends the rest of his life in prison without parole.

    Indicted on 18 counts of capital murder in Dallas and Collin counties, Chemirmir has been linked in police records, medical examiner reports and civil lawsuits to two dozen deaths between 2016 and 2018.

    John Creuzot, Dallas County’s district attorney, initially said that he would seek the death penalty for Chemirmir but changed course earlier this year, telling families of the victims that a death penalty trial would be too costly and cumbersome.

    Chemirmir, a Kenyan immigrant with permanent resident status, could be deported if released. He says he is innocent.

    He has declined multiple interview requests from The Dallas Morning News.

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