Daughter waiting at airport for her mom, 78, to pick her up finds out she was murdered while she was flying
A woman has been left traumatized after waiting for her mother to pick her up at the airport for an hour – only to discover she had been murdered while she was flying.
Great-grandmother and retired nurse Patricia Jimerfield, 78, was killed at her home on Northwest 26th Avenue and 99th Street in Vancouver on Tuesday.
Her daughter, Stephanie Ayersnan, had been due to meet her at Portland International Airport that evening after flying in from Phoenix – but Jimerson never arrived.
‘I told mom I was taking off and she ‘hearted’ it, so I knew she saw it,’ Ayersnan told ABC affiliate KATU2.
‘But she never responded. I texted, texted, texted, I called her home, I called her cell number, no answer. I waited about an hour.’
Great-grandmother and retired nurse Patricia Jimerfield (pictured), 78, was killed at her home on Northwest 26th Avenue and 99th Street in the Hazel Dell, Lakeshore area of Vancouver
Stephanie Ayersnan (pictured) had been due to meet her at Portland International Airport on Tuesday evening after flying in from Phoenix – but Jimerson never arrived
Ayersnan said she called her aunt to tell her something felt wrong, and the aunt rushed to her mom’s house to find her ‘lying on the floor face down’ in the home.
‘She ran to get the neighbor, and they both tried, but she was gone,’ Ayersnan told KATU2 through her sobbing.
‘We were supposed to grow old together, and I was supposed to take care of her.’
Ayersnan added that her mother had been scared because her home, where she had lived since 1984, was broken into just the day before.
‘She was nervous,’ the daughter told CBS affiliate KOIN.
‘She didn’t know how they got in. She told our friend that she was not scared. I think deep down, she probably was.’
Ayernsnan added she believes her mother was targeted. ‘I don’t know, it feels personal,’ she said.
Jimerfield, 78, was killed at her home on Northwest 26th Avenue and 99th Street (pictured) in the Hazel Dell, Lakeshore area of Vancouver on Tuesday
Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office said Jimerfield was strangled to death with a wire or cord, according to Law & Crime. There were no signs of forced entry to the home.
Earlier on Tuesday, Jimerfield had discovered her wallet was missing and she filed a fraud report with the local sheriff’s office after noticing some suspicious bank charges.
Police have not made any arrests yet or publicly identified a suspect. Investigations into the homicide are ongoing.
Ayersnan pleaded with the public for help identifying the culprit.
‘They took away my heart, my rock, my soul, and I don’t know how to go on,’ she told Fox affiliate KPTV.
‘If anyone sees anything, saw anything, knows anything please call the police, I really want whoever did this to get caught.’
Pictured: Jimerfield on her Facebook page. Police are investigating her death as a homicide