After fighting addiction for years, Harmon said her son had been missing since April 9, 2024. But the way he was found was something she never imagined.

“He had been laying there for days,” Harmon remembered.

Timothy Harmon’s body was found in the yard of a home on Randolph County Road 59.

“Because they left him laying, we were not able to have a funeral,” Harmon said. “We had to cremate him. I didn’t even get to see my son. I had to identify my son through a tattoo. That’s how bad his body was. And they all allowed them to lay there and let animals eat off of my child and he just kept laying there.”

Christopher Craig Hardy, 40, of Woodland, was arrested and charged with abuse of a corpse. The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office said Hardy left Timothy Harmon’s body in the yard for several days and did not report the death.

While investigators did not suspect foul play in Timothy Harmon’s death, his mother said she believes more people should have been charged.

“They tell me, ‘Not only did he leave your child for that many days, there’s other people that come over there, seen your child and walked away from him and left him laying and we can’t charge them,” Harmon said. “That’s somebody’s kid, that’s somebody’s daddy.

“They literally walked around my son and walked off and went on about their life,” Harmon continued. “I can’t comprehend it. I can’t.”

Harmon has dedicated her life to making a change. After telling her story to State Sen. Randy Price (R-Opelika), Price introduced Senate Bill 218 to establish the crime of “failure to render aid.” The bill stipulated that the crime would be committed if someone overdosed and another person who was engaged in the unlawful use of a drug failed to seek medical assistance or report an overdose death.

The bill never made it out of committee. However, Harmon said she wants the law to be broader and include mandatory reporting of all deaths.

“I want addicts to be able to call 911. You know, they think they’re going to get in trouble and that’s one of the reasons probably that they don’t call,” Harmon said. “It doesn’t matter about the lifestyle anybody has had. If you leave a human being, you should go to jail. I want it to be for all deaths, no matter what the reason is.”

Harmon has now started an online petition and is raising awareness on social media. She wants her son to be remembered as a caring father of three. She hopes his memory will be honored with a new law in Alabama: TimTim’s Law.

“Even though my son had his struggles, he was a good person and he would do anything for anybody,” Harmon said. “I just want him to be remembered for more than the addiction.”

Harmon hopes that “TimTim’s Law” will eventually gain attention in other states.

“It’s not going to help him,” she said. “It’s not going to help in his case. This is to help that next mama that is sitting across from that investigator, and they cannot say, ‘Hey, they can’t be charged.’ I don’t ever want no parent, no mother, father or anybody to get told that.”

Hardy is scheduled to appear on a plea docket in Randolph County court on April 29. He is considered innocent until proven guilty.