Family members gathered at a Dallas courthouse Friday to speak to a man charged with killing 22 elderly women a week after his second conviction
Ellen French House, center, daughter of victim Norma French, alongside her family members becomes emotional as she gives her victim impact statement in accused killer Billy Chemirmir's trial at Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. Chemirmir, charged with killing 22 elderly women in the Dallas area over a two-year span, was found guilty last Friday, Oct. 7, in one of their deaths — his second murder conviction.
“This is my beautiful mother," House said as she displayed the first photo. “This is my mother after you pried her wedding ring off of her finger that she couldn’t even get off." For most of the families, Friday was likely their only chance to face Chemirmir in a courthouse. After trying Chemirmir in two of the deaths and obtaining two sentences of life in prison without parole, Dallas County prosecutors have said they will dismiss their remaining 11 capital murder cases against him. Prosecutors in neighboring Collin County haven’t yet said if they will try any of their nine capital murder cases against him.
Chemirmir, 49, received his second sentence of life in prison without parole last Friday after being convicted of capital murder in the smothering death of
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