Kenyan charged with murder of 12 women in the US

Billy Kipkorir Chemirmir.

A Kenyan was on Thursday slapped with additional murder charges by an American court, indicting him in the murder of 12 elderly women in different American cities by impersonating nurses and maintenance crews to strangle or smother old, helpless women to death.

Billy Kipkorir Chemirmir from Nakuru is accused of murdering the women in a span of two years between 2016 and 2018. Court documents indicate that most of the women were in homes for the elderly, while others were in their homes, where he smothered or strangled them to death using pillows before making away with their jewellery. If convicted, he would turn out to be one of the world’s most prolific serial killers. The probe into Chemirmir began after police identified him as a suspect in the attack of a woman who was smothered and robbed inside her apartment on March 19, 2018.