A Kenyan man who is accused of murdering 18 women has been sentenced to life in jail. Billy Kipkorir Chemirmir was found guilty of the murder of an 81-year-old woman.
Kipkorir is accused of the murders of at least 18 elderly women in Dallas, Texas and its surrounding suburbs. In total, Chemirmir has been indicted for 18 murders and more are suspected. Civil suits have also been filed accusing him of a further six similar murders.
In this ruling, the Dallas County Jury took 45 minutes to convict Kipkorir, 49, of the murder of Lu Thi Harris.
Judge Raquel ‘Rocky’ Jones sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Kipkorir was being tried for the second time for the murder of Harris.
Kipkorir was born in Kabonyony village, a Kenyan suburb of Eldama Ravine as the son of a long-serving village chief.
Kipkorir also has convictions for driving under the influence in Addison and Dallas in 2010 and 2011, receiving fines and short custodial sentences. In July 2012, Chemirmir was arrested for assault on his then-girlfriend and in June 2016 for trespassing at Edgemere Retirement Community. He pleaded no contest to both charges later that year.
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Kipkorir is accused of posing as a medical professional or maintenance person and gaining access to the properties of at least eighteen elderly women and smothering them with a pillow.
Police in several North Texas communities are investigating him for additional victims, believing that a number of previously-reported natural deaths may be linked to him.