Kenyan Man Billy Chemirmir Suspected of Murdering a Second Elderly Woman in Dallas, Texas

A family in Dallas, Texas believes their elderly aunt was murdered by Billy Chemirmir, a 45-year-old Kenyan suspected of being a serial killer and already charged in the murder of another woman in Texas.

The family of Catherine Probst, who was 88 when she died in April, 2016, say they now have to believed that her death was not natural as reported by the medical examiner. The medical examiner’s office conducted an autopsy and ruled her death was natural, but is now reviewing the case and may change the death to be as a result of murder.

Catherine passed away at the Edgemere Retirement Community in Dallas. Chemirmir was arrested of criminal trespassing at the same retirement community in April, 2016, around the same time Catherine died, giving her family reason to believe she could have been one of his victims.

Catherine’s family says they noticed that some of her belongings were missing. Additionally, they say they noticed blood on her bed. “We knew she had loose jewels. We know she had gold coins. We don't have the inventory of all that,” Jane Fold, Catherine’s niece told WFAA.

Authorities are investigating Chemirmir, who worked as a nursing aide, for at least nine murders of elderly women in the Dallas area.

Chemirmir is currently charged with capital murder in the death of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris. He was arrested on March 20th as police were surveilling him on suspected jewelry theft. Police said they saw him throwing away a jewelry box in a dumpster outside his apartment complex, and found Lu Thi Harris’s name on the box. On going to the woman’s apartment, they found her dead of apparent suffocation.

He is being held in Dallas County jail on $1 million bail.