A 34-year-old Plano man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the fatal beating and strangulation of his mother, the Collin County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.
Robert Lee Timmons Jr. was convicted in the 2024 death of his mother, Rene Timmons.
Grisly discovery
On May 16, 2024, Plano officers responded to a welfare call from a co-worker of Rene after she failed to show up for work that day. When officers arrived at her home, she was found wrapped in a blanket “with obvious signs of having been viciously beaten and no signs of life,” according to a news release.
Police said a short distance away from Rene’s home, Richardson police officers were investigating a report of a man unlawfully entering an apartment. That suspect was identified as Robert Timmons…