Billy Chemirmir, a Kenyan native, was on Tuesday murdered by his cellmate in a US jail. Chemirmir was serving a life sentence over the murder of 22 elderly women in the US.
Sources reveal that the 50-year-old is originally from Eldama Ravine, Baringo County. Born to a senior-era colonial chief, Joel Chemirmir, Billy is the eighth born in a family of nine children.
He was raised in Solai with his 27 siblings from his father’s three wives and schooled in Nakuru. It is alleged that he later relocated to Kabunyony after completing his secondary school education, where he spent most of his time drinking alcohol from local bars.
With the help of his sister, Billy moved to the US in 2003, where he sold cars. Just a year after landing in the US, he married an American wife, but the couple divorced in 2006.
At the time, he worked as a senior caregiver in Dallas and was offered jobs to attend to elderly women by an agency. It was not long before he moved from working for agencies to looking for clients on his own.
Kenyan Billy Chemirmir who murdered 18 people murdered by cellmate in US jail
He would move to posh homes in Dallas and Collin counties, posing as a caregiver to get access to elderly women, where he would smother them with a pillow and get away with their valuables.
He had been indicted on 22 capital murder charges. Thirteen of the charges were in Dallas County, while nine were in neighboring Collin County. Billy, however, denied all the charges against him, maintaining that he was not a murderer.
“I am not a killer. 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.” He told Dallas morning news.
The newspaper further reported that he has also been arrested twice on charges of driving while intoxicated, in 2010 in Addison and in 2011 in Dallas.
His actions shocked many of his villagers, who described him as an introvert who always kept to himself.
