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Accused serial killer Billy Chemirmir looks back during his retrial on April 25, 2022, at Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas. A man who has been charged with killing 22 women in the Dallas area is set to go on trial in the death of an 87-year-old woman. Billy Chemirmir's capital murder trial in the death of Mary Brooks is scheduled to begin Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, in Dallas. (Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via AP, Pool, File)

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Man accused of killing 22 older women goes on trial again
By JAMIE STENGLE - Associated Press
Sun,10/02/22-7:33AM , 151 Reads
DALLAS (AP) — After Mary Brooks was found dead on the floor of her Dallas-area condo, grocery bags from a shopping trip still on her countertop, authorities decided the 87-year-old had died of natural causes.
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CORRECTS THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S LAST NAME TO STENGLE, INSTEAD OF STENGEL This photo shows the exterior of Hair World Salon in Dallas on Thursday, May 12, 2022. Police searched Thursday for a man who opened fire inside the hair salon in Dallas' Koreatown area, wounding three people. Authorities do not yet know why the man shot the three female victims Wednesday afternoon at Hair World Salon, which is in a shopping center with many businesses owned by Korean Americans. (AP Photo/Jamie Stengle)

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Dallas police: Shooting at Koreatown salon may be hate crime
By JAMIE STENGLE - Associated Press
Fri,05/13/22-6:29PM , 255 Reads
DALLAS (AP) — Dallas' police chief said Friday that a shooting that injured three women in a hair salon in the city's Koreatown might have been a hate crime as he announced that it could be connected to two other shootings at businesses run by Asian Americans.
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Accused serial killer Billy Chemirmir looks back ahead of his retrial on Monday, April 25, 2022, at Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas. The retrial of Chemirmir, charged with killing 18 older women in the Dallas area over a two-year span, began Monday, after the first jury to hear a case against him deadlocked last fall. (Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via AP, Pool)

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Retrial begins in Texas for man charged with killing 18
By JAMIE STENGLE - Associated Press
Mon,04/25/22-7:02AM , 207 Reads
DALLAS (AP) — The retrial of a man charged with killing 18 older women in the Dallas area over a two-year span began Monday, after the first jury to hear a case against him
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Defendant Billy Chemirmir lowers his mask as a state witness is asked to identify him during his murder trial at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, Nov. 17, 2021. The retrial of the man charged with killing 18 older women in the Dallas area over a two-year span is set to begin Monday, April 25, 2022 after the first jury to hear a case against him deadlocked. Chemirmir faces life in prison without parole if he’s convicted of capital murder in the smothering of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP, Pool, File)

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Retrial to begin in Texas for man charged with killing 18
By JAMIE STENGLE - Associated Press
Sun,04/24/22-9:11AM , 194 Reads
DALLAS (AP) — The retrial of a man charged with killing 18 older women in the Dallas area over a two-year span is set to begin Monday, after the first jury to hear a case against him
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