Inset: Patricia Jimerfield (YouTube/KPTV/Stephanie Ayersman). Background: The house where Jimerfield lived and was murdered (Google Maps).
A woman waited at an airport for her mother to pick her up in Oregon earlier this week — but futilely and in vain. Unbeknownst to the patient traveler, her mother had been murdered while she was in the air.
Patricia Jimerfield, 78, was found dead at her home late Tuesday night. Earlier that same day, she was alerted to possibly fraudulent charges by her bank and discovered that her wallet was missing. She subsequently filed a fraud report with the local sheriff’s office.
Originally termed a “suspicious death” by law enforcement, on Friday, the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office said the septuagenarian had been the victim of a homicide and that she was strangled to death with some kind of a ligature — the medical name for a wire or cord.
