Manhunt underway for serial killer after DNA evidence links murders together



Texas police confirmed that they are hunting for a suspect who may be a serial killer after DNA evidence linked otherwise unrelated murders.

'People committing really violent murders have probably committed something similar to that in the past.'

The Austin Police Department said in a media briefing Wednesday that they were looking for a short Hispanic male who was caught on surveillance video near one of the crime scenes. The person of interest was seen walking with 34-year-old Alyssa Ann Rivera on June 21 before her death. Her remains were later found in an abandoned home on Metcalfe Rd.

Police said that DNA evidence in that case matched with that of a prior unsolved murder case from 2018.

28-year-old Alba Jenisse Aviles left the Caribe Night Club on Felter Lane in Austin on April 14 of that year before she was found murdered, according to police. That location was only three miles away from the location where Rivera's body was found six years later.

"For it to be so geographically tied is pretty coincidental," said Sgt. Nathan Sexton of the APD Homicide Department.

Police also believe both victims were sexually assaulted. Sexton said there were "multiple sources" of DNA collected at both crime scenes.

Police believe the man had not been arrested before because his DNA profile was not related to any in their DNA database.

"Typically people people committing really violent murders have probably committed something similar to that in the past, or at least been arrested. And that does not appear to be the case in this case," said Sexton.

Police are asking for help from the public in order to identify the person of interest caught on surveillance video.

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Why have people NOT HEARD of this suspected 22x SERIAL KILLER who will AVOID death penalty?

Why have people NOT HEARD of this suspected 22x SERIAL KILLER who will AVOID death penalty?

THIS is why 22x serial killer was COVERED UP. Prepare to be horrified.



Ted Bundy. Jeffrey Dahmer. Harold Shipman.

You’ve heard of them.

But Billy Chemirmir? The man who murdered at least 22 elderly women between 2016 and 2018?

Why doesn’t that ring a bell?

This is the subject of Glenn Beck and Daniel Horowitz’s conversation.

A deeper dive into the case reveals travesty after travesty. The truth is, there are multiple reasons why this case has been hushed up.

For starters, “we don't know this story because it is an old person dying, and old people die all the time,” says Glenn, “and there is something in our society that is happening that is devaluing the lives of the elderly.”

Second, “nobody did basic police work” despite an overwhelming amount of evidence.

Third, Chemirmir should have been deported on multiple occasions before a single murder took place. He was an illegal alien in the U.S. for an extended period of time before obtaining a green card via a loophole.

Regardless, “he had two DWIs, he had an assault, and then he was even sentenced to 70 days for trespassing,” says Horowitz.

But, of course, Billy was never deported as he should have been, which is what allowed his murderous rampage to ensue.

In multiple senior centers in Dallas and Collin Counties, Chemirmir would “follow the victims into their room as they were slowly walking in, or knock on the door and pose as a maintenance worker, ... and then he would proceed to smother these elderly women with a pillow until they were deceased and then steal the jewelry off their fingers,” Horowitz tells Glenn.

Even though the family of Chemirmir’s first victim reported a missing safe and jewelry, it “went nowhere with police.”

Then, Chemirmir murdered two more victims and stole their jewelry within the same facility, but “it elicited no investigation from police [or] from the facility management.”

But it gets even worse.

Between the first and second murder, Chemirmir was caught trespassing twice at the facility; only after the third time was he sentenced to 70 days in jail, although he served only 12. And yet, this “raised no concerns” regarding the string of identical murders.

Right after being released, Chemirmir found a second facility where he would “troll the hallways for hours on end,” apparently undetected by staff.

He wasn’t even very good at hiding the evidence either. There were “glasses crushed halfway around the room” and “blood on the pillow” in some of the victims’ rooms, but apparently police ignored the glaring evidence, allowing Chemirmir to continue murdering for another two years.

The only reason he was even caught was because one of the final victims had a pacemaker that allowed her to survive the brutal attack and identify Chemirmir.

And while we’re certainly glad he’s been caught, the injustice somehow still continues.

“They're not asking for the death penalty in Texas,” says Glenn, horrified. “If you've got a guy who we know killed 22,” and it was “cold-blooded murder, and he was doing it just for the money — if you can't get a capital case on that guy, well, then the death penalty doesn't exist really in Texas.”

“I think they're getting away with it because no one knows this story,” he says.


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'He's a serial killer': Texas man, previously convicted of rape and murder of 8-year-old girl, now a suspect in 10 murders after chilling confession to police



A Texas man is suspected of being a serial killer after police arrested him in connection to two murders and possible involvement in up to 10 cold cases. Previously, the suspect was convicted of the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl.

Officials with the Austin Police Department said homicide detectives received a chilling phone call from Raul Meza Jr. on May 24. Meza allegedly confessed to killing his 80-year-old roommate, Jesse Fraga.

During the call, Meza also implicated himself in the 2019 strangulation killing of 66-year-old Gloria Lofton in Austin. Lofton's murder had been unsolved, but police say that the DNA from the crime scene matches Meza's.

Meza, 62, reportedly knew details about both murders that police had not disclosed.

"The caller stated, ‘My name is Raul Meza, and you are looking for me.' Meza then went on to detail his relationship with Jesse Fraga and detailed the manner in which he murdered Mr. Fraga, including details that had not yet been released to the public," said Det. Patrick Reed – who answered Meza's call to the police department.

“Mr. Meza said he was ready and prepared to kill again and he was looking forward to it,” Reed stated.

Following a five-day manhunt, Meza was arrested on Tuesday. Police said Meza had a backpack containing zip ties, a flashlight, duct tape, and a .22 caliber pistol with extra rounds.

He was charged with capital murder and is being held on $1 million bond, according to court records.

The Austin Police Department is investigating the possibility that Meza could be involved in several other homicides going back to 1996.

“Right now, we have between eight and 10 cases that kind of fit the similar circumstances that we’re looking at, but that could obviously grow,” Austin Police Det. Katy Conner said at a press conference.

Meza pleaded guilty in the sexual assault and strangulation slaying of a young girl in the 1980s.

In 1982, Meza pleaded guilty to raping and murdering 8-year-old Kendra Page. The girl's body was discovered behind an Austin elementary school.

At the time of the girl's murder, Meza was on parole for robbing a convenience store and shooting a man, leaving him with permanent injuries, according to police.

Meza was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his crimes. However, Meza was released after only serving 11 years.

CBS News reported, "After being released on parole in the girl's killing, residents of Texas cities large and small protested when he moved there. He was forced to move from El Paso, San Antonio, Wichita Falls, Mineral Wells, and Sweetwater. After moving to rural Uvalde County, west of San Antonio, to live with his grandparents, he was jailed again after his family said he had verbally abused them."

After being boycotted, Meza held a news conference to proclaim that he had changed his violent ways.

"There’s nothing I can do to change my past,” Meza told reporters, according to KVUE. “I can only tell you that in my heart, I know that I will not willfully bring harm to anyone again.”

Bruce Mills – who investigated Page's murder in 1982 and is now the interim assistant city manager of Austin – recalled the horrific case.

"I remember it like it was yesterday," Mills said of the 1982 murder investigation. "We were shocked, disappointed with no real explanation as to why this case didn’t go to trial. We never got solid answers to that."

Mills said of Meza, "Here’s a serial killer that justice was not served. It was a travesty of justice."

He added, "Commits capital murder, pleads to murder, is released 11 years later, and has killed how many people? We don’t know."

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