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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jamie Stengle

Slain Texas prisoner who was accused of killing 22 older women was stabbed by cellmate, report says

© 2022 Shafkat Anowar // The Dallas Morning News

A Texas prisoner accused of smothering to death 22 older women in their Dallas-area homes so he could steal jewelry and other valuables was stabbed by his cellmate in an attack last month that killed him, authorities said.

The inmate accused of killing Billy Chemirmir, 50, on Sept. 19 at a rural East Texas prison was Wyatt Busby, 39, according to a Monday report from the Office of the Inspector General, which is investigating the killing. The report says Chemirmir, who was serving life in prison after being convicted last year in the slayings of two of the women, was “stabbed/beaten to death.”

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