Who is Tim Kono in Only Murders in the Building?

The victim in 9A · The Arconia

Tim Kono (The victim in 9A) is a character in Only Murders in the Building, part of The Arconia. Tim Kono is dead before the elevator ride is over — the Arconia neighbor whose apparent suicide smells wrong to exactly three true-crime obsessives who shared an elevator with him hours earlier. In life: a friendless financial type the building disliked; in flashback, something sadder — one of Mabel's Hardy Boys, the friend who went silent after the night on the roof, and a man who spent his last years on a private hunt of his own. Tim is the show's first case and its founding lesson: the victim is always a whole person, discovered too late.

When does Tim Kono first appear?

Tim Kono first appears in Season 1, Episode 1 (“True Crime”) of Only Murders in the Building (2021–, Hulu).

Who is Tim Kono connected to?

Relationships already established when Tim Kono first appears — nothing from later episodes.

• Mabel Mora — Hardy Boys, before the roof

Which group does Tim Kono belong to?

By the time Tim Kono appears, The Arconia also includes Bunny Folger.

Who else is introduced in this episode?

• Charles-Haden Savage — Brazzos, reloading the same line since 1991
• Oliver Putnam — The director between triumphs — far between
• Mabel Mora — The young one with the renovation and the past
• Bunny Folger — The board president nobody mourned — at first
• Cinda Canning — The podcast queen with the merch line

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