Family members of the victims gathered in a Dallas courthouse for what was likely their only chance to face Billy Chemirmir, the man charged with killing 22 elderly women.
Loren Adair Smith told Chemirmir that at 91, her mother, Phyllis Payne, was still a “vibrant, active, loving, amazing woman" who was “still living a fabulous life” when she was killed.She said she and her brother were convinced their mother would live to be 100. “We just wanted time, and you stole that time from us,” Smith said.
It was a woman's survival of a March 2018 attack that set Chemirmir’s arrest in motion. Mary Annis Bartel, then 91, told police a man forced his way into her apartment at an independent living community for seniors, tried to smother her with a pillow and took her jewelry.
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