TULSA, Okla. — A well-being check on a Tulsa woman led investigators to her body.
They found Deborah Timmons' body inside her apartment in the 1990s, and although police strongly suspect her ex-husband, this case is unsolved.
In May 1994, a concerned friend of Timmons called the police. The friend told officers they had not spoken with her in days and that Timmons had not returned their phone calls.
When officers arrived at the apartment, they found her body in the bathroom, and initially, her death was ruled a suicide.
However, Tulsa Police Homicide Lt. Brandon Watkins said they pinpointed a suspect who was also a suspect in several other murder cases.
“Ultimately, the death was ruled unknown, but over the years, her ex-husband was a suspect in a murder prior to being with her and in murders up in Missouri afterwards and we were reached out to by Missouri law enforcement, I think it’s St. Lawrence county who were looking at him for murders that happened there,” said Watkins.
Watkins said although they suspected him, they didn’t have enough evidence to move forward.
“She did have ligature marks around neck so I mean it was attempt to stage to look like a suicide,” said Watkins.
He said cases like these are frustrating for investigators.
“He’s obviously much older now and you know when you have another municipality who actually filed charges and arrested him, but their case fell apart when witnessed died, obviously a long time has passed and that’s a risk that you take,” said Watkins.
Watkins and the homicide team at the Tulsa Police Department are ready to bring Timmons’ killer to justice, and they want someone to answer for the crime committed against her.
Anyone with information about the death of Deborah Timmons is asked to contact the Tulsa Police Department at 918-592-5522.
