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Serial Killer Murdered by Cellmate at Texas Lockup
Loaded on March 1, 2024
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2024, page 41
Filed under:
Prison/Jail Murders.
Location:
Texas.
Texas prisoner Billy Chemirmir, 50, was serving two life without parole sentences for murder when cellmate Wyatt Ellis Busby killed him on September 19, 2023, during an altercation in their cell at the H.H. Coffield Unit in Tennessee Colony.
Chemirmir was convicted in 2018 of killing Lu Thi Harris, 80, ...
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