GA - Athens, wife finds husband's body in basement after he was missing for a month, 44yo Frank Perry Williams, 09 APR 2025

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Um, no, just no. The smell of even a small animal is enough to drive one from their home, much less a body.
Her story is simply unbelievable, to put it mildly.
 
charminglane said:
It's a circular saw.
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True, but the styles sure vary. What style of buzzsaw is what I'm wondering.

Some various designs:

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Gemmie said:
Not every single person feels the need to wear things once and then in the wash they go. I find it smart. It saves water and wear and tear.
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From the FB links I added at comment 17, he works at WM, a waste-management firm in Athens. MOO, unless he's in upper management and wears suits that are dry-cleaned, this strikes me as a job that would require laundry to be done more than once a month.
edited to override autocorrect of "comment" to "moment"
 
Elley Mae said:
From your link, thanks

As the smell persisted, the woman assumed that it was caused by mold growth but she avoided investigating because she said the staircase was broken and unsafe.
Then on the day she called police, Arnold brought in a bicycle from the yard and while struggling with it on the staircase when the bike fell to the bottom. Going down after it, Arnold said, she turned and saw her husband’s body, then immediately called 911.
During her conversation with Officer Sullivan, the 56-year-old woman admitted that she and Williams occasionally had domestic incidents, and once she kicked in a door when he looked her out.
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BBM. I'd like to hear what the officers' assessment of the staircase was, since they most likely had to descend them to get into the basement.
 
CityKid said:
Per his FB, he worked at WM, a local waste management company

Waste, Garbage and Recycling Services in Athens, Georgia | WM

WM offers waste collection service throughout Athens, GA and surrounding neighborhoods, including garbage removal, recycling pickup, and more.
www.wm.com www.wm.com
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WM never contacted wife to see where he was? Final paycheck with any accrued time went where?

I guess she could be completely innocent, but it sure looks bad on the surface.
 
CityKid said:
From the FB links I added at comment 17, he works at WM, a waste-management firm in Athens. MOO, unless he's in upper management and wears suits that are dry-cleaned, this strikes me as a job that would require laundry to be done more than once a month.
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WM provides uniforms, they are cleaned by a third party vendor.
 
CityKid said:
From the FB links I added at comment 17, he works at WM, a waste-management firm in Athens. MOO, unless he's in upper management and wears suits that are dry-cleaned, this strikes me as a job that would require laundry to be done more than once a month.
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Yes, but once he died, he was no longer wearing clothes that needed laundering for the month he had "disappeared". Only her clothing.

And do we know if the house has laundry room, or if it's in the basement? The laundry room very well might have been in the house, not the unfinished basement.

The house:


Had to do a bit of sleuthing and found that the house across the street, built in the same year with the same SF... has a laundry room. I'm guessing theirs did as well but no way to know for sure.

There is also a very large utility room with great storage and countertop space for folding laundry.

 
Bounceycat said:
www.classiccitynews.com

Athens man lay dead in basement for month while wife went about her business upstairs

NOTE: The family members of Frank Williams said the woman he lived with was his girlfriend, not his wife as she identified herself to the police.By Joe Johnson Authorities are looking into how a man could lay dead in the basement of his home without the knowledge of his wife who was living...
www.classiccitynews.com www.classiccitynews.com
  • Responding officers found 44-year-old Frank Perry Williams facedown in the laundry room, his body in an advanced state of decomposition.
  • Next to his feet was broken, mildewed dry wall and a weed whacker. Next to his left thigh was a box of trash and next to his head was a buzz saw.
  • Frank’s skin looked burnt around his neck and upper back
  • The buzz saw next to him was blackened by what looked to be a fire
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SBMFF

With what little details we have I can't help but think Frank might have been murdered. But, what I find confusing about that is then why was the buzz saw and Frank's neck and upper back burned? I can't see a murderer setting both on fire. For what purpose? Now, had they said there were cut marks on his neck... and potentially icky bits clinging to the blade (even noticeable after the fire), then my mind goes back to murder, and a potentially coverup, and not an accident.

I sure hope we get more details, and soon!

JMO!
 
Gemmie said:
Yes, but once he died, he was no longer wearing clothes that needed laundering for the month he had "disappeared". Only her clothing.

And do we know if the house has laundry room, or if it's in the basement? The laundry room very well might have been in the house, not the unfinished basement.

The house:


Had to do a bit of sleuthing and found that the house across the street, built in the same year with the same SF... has a laundry room. I'm guessing theirs did as well but no way to know for sure.

There is also a very large utility room with great storage and countertop space for folding laundry.

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We know he was found in the basement. And the article I posted today had this:
"Responding officers found 44-year-old Frank Perry Williams facedown in the laundry room, his body in an advanced state of decomposition."

So I think we can safely deduce that the laundry room was in the basement.
 
Bounceycat said:
We know he was found in the basement. And the article I posted today had this:
"Responding officers found 44-year-old Frank Perry Williams facedown in the laundry room, his body in an advanced state of decomposition."

So I think we can safely deduce that the laundry room was in the basement.
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DOH! *smacks my forehead with my palm*

Thank you for that!
 
CityKid said:
From the linked story: "Arnold told police that the last time she saw her husband was about a month earlier when she accused him of cheating on her in what she described as “a decent conversation,” after which she went to bed."

Color me skeptical MOO...
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Iam having a hard time believing having a “Decent Conversation”when you suspect your husband is cheating… but that is just me.
 
madamx said:
Iam having a hard time believing having a “Decent Conversation”when you suspect your husband is cheating… but that is just me.
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IMO (and likely others here as well) is that was no decent conversation. This also explains why the site I talked about upthread showed he only lived there for 5 years. Appears it's correct! Which makes it even odder that neither of their info mentioned the other person.

Per an article @Bounceycat posted upthread (typo corrected. Locked was looked):

During her conversation with Officer Sullivan, the 56-year-old woman admitted that she and Williams occasionally had domestic incidents, and once she kicked in a door when he locked her out.

“She claims that they have been living (at the Lavender Road) address for five years and never once did she have thoughts of harming him,” the officer reported.

www.classiccitynews.com

Athens man lay dead in basement for month while wife went about her business upstairs

NOTE: The family members of Frank Williams said the woman he lived with was his girlfriend, not his wife as she identified herself to the police.By Joe Johnson Authorities are looking into how a man could lay dead in the basement of his home without the knowledge of his wife who was living...
www.classiccitynews.com www.classiccitynews.com

And I find telling an office that she never once had thoughts of harming him an odd thing to say. Liars usually pepper their comments with too much information.

I also don't find that comment of hers very believable if he locked her out of what appears to be HER house and she kicked the door in to gain entry (she lived there since 1996, he since 2020). Ya know she wanted to at least slap him silly over that. At least. JMO
 
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