The third murder trial of a Kenyan nurse identified as Billy Kipkorir Chemirmir, 48, in a court is the US kicked off earlier this week.
Chemirmir, who hails from Eldama Ravine, Baringo county, is accused of killing at least 22 senior citizens in Texas, US and robbing them of their expensive items.
The nurse is already serving life imprisonment after he was found guilty of one of the murders in April this year.
Kipkorir left the country in the 90s through the help of his sister to work as a home caregiver to before he discovered that he could make more money by stealing from his ‘patients’ and killing them to conceal his tracks.
He is said to have committed the crimes between 2016-2018. All his victims were elderly women and were living in Cheshire homes or private homes. They did their shopping at Walmart, where the accused would hunt for them and then trail them to their homes where he took their lives.
Apparently, he posed as a home caregiver or technician who had been sent to repair home appliances. Once he arrived at his destinations, he would suffocate those who let him into their houses with a pillow and steal their valuables, leaving their doors ajar.
After days of unanswered calls, relatives of the victims would however assume that they died of old age since there was no evidence of forced entry into their homes or strangulation. By the time the relatives discover the deaths of their kins, Kipkorir would be on a mission to find his next victim.
The police had however begun investigations on shocking deaths of elderly women the state.
Kipkorir was discovered after one of his victims identified as Mary Annis Bartel luckily survived the suffocation in 2018. Bartel was even able to record a video statement with the police who managed to capture Kipkorr a day later. Her jewelry was positively identified in Kipkorir’s house as well as documents belonging to a victim he had killed a week earlier.
Bartel however died later but her recording would be used in court as evidence.
In her case, she also went shopping at Walmart. Kipkorir was also present at the mall and left as soon as she left, trailing her to her home.
“The minute I opened her door and saw a man wearing green rubber gloves, I knew I was in grave danger,” she said in her testimony.
The criminal then suffocated her as he had done with other victims and later left the house open thinking he had killed her. Luckily Bartel’s friend arrived and found her unconscious.
If found guilty, the nurse will get another life sentence without parole as he awaits trials for the other murder cases he is facing.
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