Billy Chemimir is accused of capital murder in the death of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris. He faces a life sentence without parole if convicted.
Billy Chemirmir, on trial for the murder of 18 elderly women, told detectives,"I've never killed anybody."
"It just doesn't make any sense, what you're telling me," Dallas Detective Brian Tabor told Chemirmir in the interview. Police tracked him to his apartment nearby where he was found holding cash and jewelry. Documents discovered in a large red jewelry box police say Chemirmir threw away brought them to a Dallas home, where Harris was found dead in her bedroom with lipstick smeared on her pillow.
Brian Tabor, lead detective on the case, watches his interrogation video of defendant Billy Chemirmir during the capital murder trial at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021."I've never murdered anybody," Chemirmir told detectives.Chemirmir said he got what he wanted from the jewelry box and then threw the box away because he didn't want it.
Police have also said that a set of keys found with Chemirmir when he was arrested opened the front doors of Harris' home.they would review hundreds of deaths, signaling the possibility that a serial killer had been stalking older people. Over the following years, the number of people Chemirmir was accused of killing grew.