THURSDAY 4:37 P.M. UPDATE: A verdict has been reached in the retrial of accused serial killer Billy Chemirmir. After minutes of confusion, the jury has reached a guilty verdict. 12 jurors have handed an 'unequivocal' conclusion that Billy Chemirmir is guilty of the offense of capital murder. The judge has ruled Chemirmir will serve a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
It took the jury less than 40 minutes to reach a verdict.
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Testimony started Monday in the retrial of accused serial killer Billy Chemirmir, and prosecutors hoped the trial would bring a different outcome.
It's the first of 18 capital murder cases against Chemirmir, and in this trial Prosecutors were not seeking the death penalty.
The jury heard essentially the same testimony as the first jury did, that Chemirmir stalked his victims, followed them home and used a pillow to smother them.
One woman survived. Mary Bartel recorded a video deposition before she died of natural causes.
One juror from the first trial told KRLD news the holdout juror who could not get past the fact that the entire case was built on circumstantial evidence. At the end of the first night of deliberations, that juror said, the vote was 7 to 5 to convict.
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