A Special Report on the Texas Elder Murders: The Investigation, Part 3
The Perfect Scam
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🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The arrest of Billy Chemirmir and the identification of more victims confirm the suspicions of many family members. Chemirmir has even been working as a home health care worker under an assumed name in the home of one of his victims. Law enforcement builds its case and takes it to trial, but will the families get the justice they deserve?
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| 0:00.0 | It was Friday the 13th. |
| 0:01.4 | I do remember that. |
| 0:03.6 | We got a phone call from a detective |
| 0:06.5 | in the Plano Police Department who said |
| 0:09.2 | he had picked up our case and knew we were missing some jewelry would we be available to come in that |
| 0:15.8 | afternoon to look at some pictures so my wife and I got in the car. |
| 0:20.1 | We drove to the Plano Police Department. |
| 0:21.9 | We're in an interview room with the detective and he's showing pictures. |
| 0:25.0 | And it's a lot of pictures. |
| 0:28.0 | Hundreds. |
| 0:29.4 | Does this look like your mom's jury? |
| 0:31.1 | And in the midst of this, he's talking about this Shamir |
| 0:34.4 | Mirror arrest and that a lot of these pictures came off of Shamir's phones that they had found him. And my wife |
| 0:45.2 | he goes, wait a minute, so are you telling us that you believe that Shamir Meir killed Carolyn and he says oh I'm certain |
| 0:56.0 | now that he was there and I'm certain he killed. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan, and this is part three of our four-part series, |
| 1:06.7 | Fatal Agism, in connection with AARP, the magazine. |
| 1:11.8 | It's April 2017, about a month since Billy Schmymer, was arrested at his apartment after police |
| 1:18.4 | see him toss away a jewelry box that belongs to Lou T. Harris. |
| 1:23.0 | Soon after, they go to Harris's home and find her dead. |
| 1:27.1 | Almost immediately, investigators start linking Schmermere to unattended deaths and jewelry thefts all around the Dallas area. |
| 1:35.0 | Hundreds of cases. |
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