Deborah Jean Timmons was found dead in the bathroom of her apartment, unit 142 at 6967 E. 15th Place, Leisure Manor Apartments in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after friends asked for a welfare check when she could not be reached on May 20, 1994. The scene was initially treated as a possible suicide but investigators later reclassified the death as a homicide after evidence suggested foul play.

Investigators focused on her ex-husband, described in records as having a history that included other violent crimes, though he was not immediately charged in Deborah’s death and the investigation eventually went cold. That same man was later arrested in 2019 in connection with a 1988 murder in Missouri, but those charges were dismissed in December 2021; he was convicted on unrelated firearm and forgery charges in November 2022. Deborah Timmons’ killing remains an unsolved homicide.

If anyone knew Deborah, lived near Leisure Manor in 1994, or has information about her last days, please come forward with any details that might help her family and investigators.