A St. Charles County man was sentenced to 10 years in state prison this week after admitting he secretly recorded unsuspecting women changing clothes in bathrooms across the region between 2020 and 2023. Timothy Fry pleaded guilty to seven counts of invasion of privacy, telling the court he could not even remember all the videos he had recorded.
Fry was sentenced on Wednesday in St. Charles County, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Prosecutors said Fry had amassed hundreds of videos of unsuspecting women, and in court he turned and apologized to the women whose privacy he had violated.
How Investigators Uncovered the Scheme
The case first came to light in March 2024, when St. Charles County prosecutors charged the then-34-year-old Fry with six Class E felony counts of invasion of privacy after a Cyber Tipline report led the St. Charles County Cyber Crimes Task Force to search tens of thousands of files in his cloud storage, according to KSDK. Investigators found the files backed up to a Verizon cloud account tied to Fry.
Probable cause statements detailed how, between January 2020 and September 2023, Fry planted hidden recording devices in restrooms at Target stores, local bars and restaurants, Vetta Sports facilities, public pools, vacation lodgings, and his own workplace at a hospital, the station's report shows. Most of the victims captured in those venues appeared to have been randomly targeted members of the public rather than people Fry specifically knew.
A Minor Victim Targeted Twice
Among the most disturbing details in the court documents was the repeated targeting of a 15-year-old victim. On June 20, 2021, Fry recorded the teenager in a St. Peters home bathroom and saved still photographs from that video, then nearly two years later, on May 14, 2023, he secretly recorded three more videos underneath the same victim's skirt, per the same account.
Investigators also described how methodically Fry converted single recordings into enormous caches of still images. From one May 2023 bathroom recording alone, he saved nearly 140 photos to his phone, and pulled another roughly 140 images from a July 2022 recording, the outlet reported.
An Out-of-State Charge Followed the Digital Trail
The cloud evidence Missouri investigators uncovered didn't stay contained to St. Charles County. In November 2025, Fry was arraigned in Teton County, Wyoming, on a felony voyeurism charge after Missouri cyber detectives discovered cloud backups containing 2021 hidden-camera footage of an adult female acquaintance showering in a Snow King Resort condo in Jackson, according to the Jackson Hole News&Guide. Wyoming law enforcement verified the bathroom's interior features against photos extracted from Fry's cloud account before filing that charge.
Under Wyoming law, felony voyeurism carries a penalty of up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine for knowingly placing a device to record someone's intimate areas without consent in a space where privacy is expected, the newspaper noted. That charge arose directly from evidence Missouri task force detectives shared with Wyoming authorities.
Why Missouri Could Stack Felony Counts
Fry's Missouri prosecution hinged on a specific quirk of state law. Under Missouri Revised Statutes § 565.252, invasion of privacy is generally a Class A misdemeanor, but it escalates to a Class E felony carrying up to four years in prison per count when multiple people are recorded during the same course of conduct or when images are transmitted via computer, according to the Missouri Revisor of Statutes.
After his initial arrest and charging in March 2024, Fry was released on a $25,000 cash-only bond while the case moved through St. Charles County court and additional digital evidence was processed, KSDK reported.
Part of a Broader Pattern in Missouri Courts
Fry's case fits a pattern that has surfaced repeatedly in Missouri courts. An August update on a separate case involving a KCI airport worker charged with recording at least 65 other unidentified victims in restrooms at Kansas City International Airport reported a jury-trial setting for January 2027.
