Billy Chemirmir, a man convicted of killing two people and accused in the deaths of nearly two dozen others, was found dead in his cell in a Texas state prison early Tuesday morning, NBC 5 has learned. Charged with killing 22 North Texas women over a two-year span, Chemirmir was found guilty of capital murder in October 2022 in the death of 87-year-old Mary Brooks. His first trial, for the murder of Lu Thi Harris, ended in a mistrial. Chemirmir was later convicted of the murder charge. Chemirmir, 50, had been serving two prison sentences of life without parole in the Coffield Unit in Tennessee Colony near Palestine. ————————————————— John Arthur Getreu, 79, died last Friday while in state prison at California Health Care Facility in Stockton, according to the California Department of Corrections. He died of natural causes. Getreu was sentenced this year in the 1973 murder of 21-year-old Leslie Perlov. Perlov was a Stanford Law librarian and an alum of the university. Her body was found in the hills that overlook the Stanford campus. Getreu was also convicted in 2021 in the 1974 murder of Janet Taylor. The 21-year-old was the daughter of former Stanford University athletic director Chuck Taylor. #truecrime #crime #truecrimetiktok #serialkller #serialkillertiktok #truecrimetok