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The Unforgotten

5. The Prosecution

The Unforgotten

Free Range Productions

Texas, True Crime, Journalism

4.6961 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Should Billy Chemirmir be put to death for killing dozens of older adults in and around Dallas? That's what prosecutors had to decide in early 2019.

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0:00.0

In the hours and days after Billy Shamirir was arrested in Dallas, police began to retroactively

0:07.4

piece together the clues that the killer had left behind. With data from a cell phone,

0:12.5

Shamirmir Mir voluntarily handed over, they found that he was frequenting many different

0:17.1

senior living communities, the Walmart, and several cash for gold businesses,

0:21.5

like the Diamond and Gold Exchange.

0:23.4

They also saw from his offer-up and Craigslist records that although he said he bought and sold

0:29.1

jewelry on the side, he didn't do much buying over the years.

0:32.9

He did do a lot of selling.

0:35.2

Investigators thought there might be even more victims that they

0:38.1

didn't yet know about. They wanted the public's help. Plano's police chief called the media to the

0:44.4

station for a press conference. By then, police had identified several other cases linked to

0:49.4

Shamirmir, including a report from 94-year-old Ella Lawson in nearby Frisco, Texas, who said a man had

0:56.1

attacked her at Parkview, another independent living community. Plano's police chief Gregory

1:01.3

Russian took to the podium surrounded by top cops and district attorneys from around the

1:06.6

greater Dallas area.

1:09.1

Should we use his health care experience with his advantage in targeting and exploiting seniors,

1:14.7

the most vulnerable people in our community.

1:17.6

This is terribly disturbing.

1:19.8

In the Frisco case, he knocked a 93-year-old victim from a walk with the floor and smothered

1:24.8

with the pillow.

1:26.1

Who does that?

1:28.3

We just want to take a moment to express our condolences to the victims of the families

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