Shannon Gleason Dion often holds a gold necklace with a guardian angel medallion when she testifies before the Texas Legislature. Her mother, Doris Gleason, wore an identical amulet before she became the ninth of 18 known victims of a man accused of being one of Texas’ most prolific serial killers. But Doris Gleason’s medallion, fashioned by an Italian craftsman with a workshop on Florence’s Ponte Vecchio, is long gone: Her killer, police say, quickly disposed of it, and other victims’ jewelry by selling them to a storefront precious metal buyer.
Billy Kipkorir Chemirmir, Gleason’s accused killer, faces 18 pending capital murder charges in Dallas County for a string of robbery murders that occurred from mid-2016 to March 2018. According to police reports, indictments and interviews, Chemimir snuck into some of the same senior apartment complexes over and over where he both robbed and killed residents for years, His crimes were finally uncovered after a pair of women, both in their 90s, survived his attacks and described him. Before that, many of the robberies had been dismissed as older folks misplacing valuable items – and the deaths as natural.
