A woman was left traumatized after waiting an hour for her mother to pick her up at the airport, only to discover she had been murdered while flying.
Great-grandmother and retired nurse Patricia Jimerfield, 78, was murdered in her home at Northwest 26th Avenue and 99th Street in Vancouver on Tuesday.
Her daughter, Stephanie Ayersnan, was supposed to meet her at Portland International Airport that night after flying from Phoenix, but Jimerson never arrived.
“I told mom I was leaving and she liked it, so I knew she’d seen it,” Ayersnan told the ABC affiliate. katu2.
But she never responded. I texted, texted, texted, called her home, called her cell number, but no answer. I waited about an hour.
Great-grandmother and retired nurse Patricia Jimerfield (pictured), 78, was murdered in her home at Northwest 26th Avenue and 99th Street in Hazel Dell, Vancouver’s Lakeshore area.
Stephanie Ayersnan (pictured) was supposed to meet her at Portland International Airport on Tuesday night after flying from Phoenix, but Jimerson never arrived.
Ayersnan said she called her aunt to tell her something was wrong, and the aunt ran to her mother’s house and found her “lying on the floor face down” in the house.
“He ran to look for the neighbor and they both tried, but she was gone,” Ayersnan told KATU2 between sobs.
“We were supposed to grow old together and I was supposed to take care of her.”
Ayersnan added that his mother had been scared because her house, where she had lived since 1984, was broken into the day before.
“I was nervous,” the daughter told the CBS affiliate. KOIN.
‘She didn’t know how they got in. She told our friend that she wasn’t afraid. I think deep down it probably was.
Ayernsnan added that he believes his mother was the target. “I don’t know, it feels personal,” he said.
Jimerfield, 78, was murdered at her home on Northwest 26th Avenue and 99th Street (pictured) in the Hazel Dell, Lakeshore area of Vancouver on Tuesday.
The Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office said Jimerfield was strangled to death with a wire or rope, according to Law and crime. There were no signs of forced entry into the house.
Earlier on Tuesday, Jimerfield discovered his wallet was missing and filed a fraud report with the local sheriff’s office after noticing some suspicious bank charges.
Police have yet to make any arrests or publicly identify any suspects. Investigations into the homicide are ongoing.
Ayersnan asked the public for help in identifying the culprit.
“They took my heart, my rock, my soul and I don’t know how to go on,” he told the Fox affiliate. KPTV.
“If anyone sees anything, saw anything, knows anything, please call the police. I really want whoever did this to be caught.”
In the photo: Jimerfield on his Facebook page. Police investigate his death as a homicide