Andrea Hickman
May 22, 2022
Dr. Tim
3-2 Final Project Milestone One
For the final project, I chose the case of Frank Timmons. Frank Timmons is an accused
man of being a serial murderer and rapist of over 8 different women. Frank has been described as
growing up in a difficult household where there was a lot of abuse on different levels, and a lack
of stability in his home life from no parental presence. After Frank's mother passed away when
he was younger, his father began drinking heavily and would often take his drunken aggression
out on the 13 children he had with his late wife. The role of parent then was assumed by oldest
sister Margaret, who was very similar to their father, reportedly became an alcoholic and began
abusing the children over the years. It is rumored that she also would sexually abuse the children
during the Frank was living in the family home
Frank Timmons mother was a very absent parent in her children's lives, and before there
was an opportunity for her to patch things up with the kids, she passed away. Frank had no sense
of true parental guidance, and the lack of a stable parental role or nurturing love from a parent in
his life, he was left to his own devices of understanding. As Frank started his high school career.
he tried out for and joined his high school football team. During this time, he could be observed
being excessively rough towards the opposing teams during games. This even became part of his
reputation during his high school career-which was short lived. Timmons never graduated due to
his need to provide for the household, so he dropped out because he had far less credits than he
needed to have for his diploma.
Frank Timmons is also alleged to have committed other crimes such as; trespassing.
driving under the influence, abduction, and sexual assaults during the years after he was released
from jail after being charged with the rape, assault, and abduction of a young woman when he
was 15 years old. From what I could gather from reading over his background, his crimes all had
no apparent motive. I can associate his aggressive behaviors during his football games to be
physically abused by his father and sister growing up, but the want/need to be sexually
aggressive could possibly be from his sexual abuse by his older sister. Throughout his adolescent
years, he did not receive any type of comfort, support, or genuine love which more than likely
led to some emotional detachment from any and everything that tried to get close to him like a
significant other or his younger siblings. His mother's lack of love and presence, plus Margaret's
abusive ways might have also led him to viewing women in a negative light compared to a man,
and this could have impacted his urges to sexually assault women who he had come into contact
with in his adult years.
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