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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Gemmie said:
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.
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That part didn't sound suspicious to me, because I think it was her reply to a question the cops asked her.

But a lot of other things about this DO sound suspicious to me!

Like she just assumed he walked out on her... Literally walked out? On foot??

Assuming he had a vehicle... did she not think it was odd that he left it behind? And if he didn't (unusual, but not unheard of), so she thought he just walked off into the night on foot. Taking none of his belongings.

What about his phone? Didn't he have a phone? Had she been trying to call it?

Is he estranged from his own family? How old is this couple anyway?

But also just to note... I go for a month without doing any laundry all the time. And who thinks 30+ pairs of underwear is a lot??? Hmph!
 
doublestop said:
He was found in the laundry room? She hasn't done laundry for a month?
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Reading the story on how she discovered his body - she was trying to put a bicycle in the basement/laundry room. I would guess she doesn't do laundry down there. Specifically because she said the stairs were broken and usafe. I can see how this might be a true story. Maybe he did electrocute himself, as another poster suggested?

“A week ago, Joylynn told me, she began noticing a bad smell coming out the house so she decided to start deep cleaning the home,” the report continued.

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.
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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...
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sunspun said:
That part didn't sound suspicious to me, because I think it was her reply to a question the cops asked her.
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Great point!
sunspun said:
Is he estranged from his own family? How old is this couple anyway?
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She is 56 and he was 44.

Their ages are in this article: Athens man lay dead in basement for month while wife went about her business upstairs
sunspun said:
But also just to note... I go for a month without doing any laundry all the time. And who thinks 30+ pairs of underwear is a lot??? Hmph!
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LOL
 
I find few things suspicious :

If we had a job ( and it seems he had one) nobody contacted the wife / family when he simply stopped showing up one day ?
I would be really curious to hear if work contacted her and if she said to them that he walked out on her.

The stairs were broken/ unsafe to go down to investigate the smell but she dragged bike down there? How is that safe ?


Laundry is less suspicious to me because maybe they had two washing machines or two laundry rooms. I would like to know how many laundry rooms they had or washing machines.

I can’t imagine having decomposing body in a basement for a month and not noticing.
 
Knox said:
Reading the story on how she discovered his body - she was trying to put a bicycle in the basement/laundry room. I would guess she doesn't do laundry down there. Specifically because she said the stairs were broken and usafe. I can see how this might be a true story. Maybe he did electrocute himself, as another poster suggested?

“A week ago, Joylynn told me, she began noticing a bad smell coming out the house so she decided to start deep cleaning the home,” the report continued.

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.
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
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Here are 2 parts that don't add up for me from the article you posted. BBM

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.

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
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So the staircase was broken and unsafe, so she then struggles with a bicycle on it trying to get it into the basement she's been avoiding for at least a month? That doesn't ring true for me. How long has the bike been in the yard? Why did she risk life and limb on broken stairs to get a bike down it? And where did the bike from from? If it was one of theirs, I'm guessing in the basement since that's where she said she was putting it.

I'd say a better place for a bike would be the garage but I'm not seeing one. I do see a driveway though. Also, there was ONE person living in this house (after he died) and it's 1850 SF with 6 rooms. You'd think she'd simply store the bike in an empty room and not risk breaking an arm or a leg (or her neck) "struggling" with it on the broken stairs.

Some house details:


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Per Gemmie's link. The basement is 925 SF, some descriptions elsewhere say it's unfinished. Neither party is the named owner, so must be a rental? Curious why the number of bedrooms aren't pointed out and if the 1850 SF of "heated space" includes the basement.

Look forward to seeing what the autopsy results reveal. Despite everything OP's are pointing out which are def valid & sketchier than heck. I can still see how she might be telling the truth.

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Knox said:
Per Gemmie's link. The basement is 925 SF, some descriptions elsewhere say it's unfinished. Neither party is the named owner, so must be a rental? Curious why the number of bedrooms aren't pointed out and if the 1850 SF of "heated space" includes the basement.

Look forward to seeing what the autopsy results reveal. Despite everything OP's are pointing out which are def valid & sketchier than heck. I can still see how she might be telling the truth.

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I'm thinking the 1850 of heated space does indeed include the basement as the basement is 925 SF. Multiply that by 2 (2 floors) and you get the SF of the home (1850).

Here is the house:

Here is a picture of the stairs from the house directly across the street built the same year with the exact same SF which should give us an idea of what their stairs looked like. I'm doubting the broken stairs comment. Stairs don't break that easily.

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I'm thinking it's the same layout as the house in question as it has the same exact footprint.
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The difference is the house where the deceased was found doesn't have a carport and the porch isn't in the same exact place.

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Gemmie said:
I'm thinking the 1850 of heated space does indeed include the basement as the basement is 925 SF. Multiply that by 2 (2 floors) and you get the SF of the home (1850).

Here is the house:

Here is a picture of the stairs from the house directly across the street built the same year with the exact same SF which should give us an idea of what their stairs looked like. I'm doubting the broken stairs comment. Stairs don't break that easily.

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I'm thinking it's the same layout as the house in question as it has the same exact footprint.
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The difference is the house where the deceased was found doesn't have a carport and the porch isn't in the same exact place.

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For a minute I was like wait, those are carpeted stairs and not in disrepair at all, lol.

Thanks for the pictures from the house across the street. But it doesn't mean the basement stairs in the subject house are in the same condition? Maybe the other house has been remodeled/updated, but this house has not?
 
Knox said:
For a minute I was like wait, those are carpeted stairs and not in disrepair at all, lol.

Thanks for the pictures from the house across the street. But it doesn't mean the basement stairs in the subject house are in the same condition? Maybe the other house has been remodeled/updated, but this house has not?
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No, but it gives one a good idea of what kind of basement stairs they very likely could look like since those houses where built in the same year, SF, and floorplan.

At first I thought it might be something like this, only with a broken tread. Or even had an outdoor entrance. I was surprised to see the entrance was very likely from inside the house like the pic I posted of the house across the street. Not what I expected till I did some digging.
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Gemmie said:
So the staircase was broken and unsafe, so she then struggles with a bicycle on it trying to get it into the basement she's been avoiding for at least a month? That doesn't ring true for me. How long has the bike been in the yard? Why did she risk life and limb on broken stairs to get a bike down it? And where did the bike from from? If it was one of theirs, I'm guessing in the basement since that's where she said she was putting it.
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Quoting myself as I omitted a thought I had about her struggling with the bike to put it in the basement.

Did she come up with a story because she couldn't stand the smell anymore? Did she ignore what happened to him for a month, but couldn't take it anymore and something had to be done so she called 911 saying she "discovered" a dead body in the basement?
 
Bounceycat said:
The house is in the name of Joylynn's mother, who died in 2011. (Her obituary is easily found online.) I guess Joylynn, as the only child, took over the house but never changed the deed.
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I thought if the house was in the mother's name, that when she died, the house would end up in probate court, since daughter's name wasn't on the deed. But I'm in the process just now of having to learn about this topic, so maybe I've mis understood that. In fact, I thought that the current occupants at the time of the homeowner's death wouldn't even be allowed to continue living in the house until it went through the court system. Maybe it matters if the occupants are family or not...
 
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