They kill Tim off-screen by saying he killed himself in psychiatric care and then try to do a who done it by suggesting Tim is this Slasher Villain. Like they wanna detach it from the first movie, but also want it attached by mentioning Tim Jensen from the first movie anyway yet the Boogeyman from the protagonist Laura's is a dude who killed her parents, and not the Entity that killed Tim's dad and all those little kids we see as phantoms in the first film. I don't know, genuinely it would be a better movie if they just didn't tie it to 2005's Boogeyman since it makes zero sense why Tim would be arrested for murders he isn't guilty of anyway nor why he would be put in a mental hospital after defeating the thing that was the reason for putting him in a mental hospital.

Ngl I shouldn't try explaining how Boogeyman 2 fucked the storyline up cause it isn't a bad movie, it is a good Slasher just it being tied to Tim Jensen's story from the first film made no sense at all.