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He doesnt fit the description of the little boy found along the road at the other thread on here
Police in at least three states are searching for a 6-year-old Aurora boy who was last seen with his mother in Wisconsin Dells.
The boy’s 43-year-old mother was found dead Saturday in Rockford, after apparently committing suicide in a motel room, Aurora police said.

The missing boy is Timothy J. Pitzen, a kindergartner.
Since 2006, he has lived with his father, Jim Pitzen, and mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, in the 400 block of North Highland Avenue in Aurora. The pair were reported missing by Jim Pitzen on Thursday, police said.
Police describe Timothy as 4-foot-2, about 70 pounds, with brown hair and eyes. Family members said he was last seen wearing green shorts, a T-shirt, tennis shoes and Spider-Man backpack.Timothy’s grandmother, Linda Pitzen, said the kindergartner is very outgoing and always smiling. He likes to go to parks and the zoo, she said. He enjoys pizza and McDonald’s Playlands.
“He’s a wonderful little boy, full of energy,â€￾ she said. “If anyone sees him, please contact police.â€￾

Police said Amy was 5-foot-10, 180 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. At around 2 p.m. Saturday, Aurora officers were contacted by Rockford police saying that her body had been discovered inside a Rockford motel room. Police said she had slit her wrists. She left a note indicating that Timothy was fine and in the care of unnamed people.
Anyone with any information, including anyone who believes they saw Timothy, Amy or anyone who may have been with them is asked to call Aurora police at 630-256-5500, or local police by dialing 9-1-1.

Pulled son out of school
According to police, Amy checked her only son out of school at about 8:35 a.m. Wednesday. Police and family confirmed that Amy did not notify other family members about the trip.

“She was not in a good place when she left,â€￾ said Jim Pitzen.
According to police, Timothy and Amy visited the Brookfield Zoo on Wednesday and then checked into the Key Lime Cove Resort in Gurnee Wednesday night. Thursday night, she checked into the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells.

No one heard from Amy on Thursday, and Jim reported them both missing around 1 p.m. Thursday.
On Friday, Amy called and sent text messages to several family members and friends, saying she and Timothy were fine and not in danger, police said. During at least one of the calls on Friday afternoon, a relative talked with Timothy. The relative said the boy “sounded OK,â€￾ Jim Pitzen said.

The calls and texts were placed from the Sterling/Rock Falls area.

Amy was seen at Sullivan’s Foods, 70 North Elida Street, Winnebago, at 8 p.m. Friday. Timothy was not with her at that time, police said.

Detectives have determined that Amy checked herself into the Rockford Inn, 3909 11th Street, Rockford between 11:15 and 11:30 p.m. Friday. Timothy was not with Amy when she checked in, police said.

Sullivan’s is about 20 minutes from the motel.
At 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Amy’s body and the note were found in the motel room.

Left in the past
Police spokesman Dan Ferrelli said it was not unusual for Amy to take off, although he was not aware of her ever taking Timothy with her.

Jim Pitzen’s mother, Linda Pitzen, drove in from Ohio to be with her son on Sunday. The family was inundated with calls from friends and the media. Linda Pitzen said she was not aware of any problems within the Amy and Jim’s marriage, although police said there had been domestic troubles. The couple’s eighth wedding anniversary would have been this week.

Linda Pitzen said her daughter-in-law was an absolutely wonderful woman who worked as a project manager in a housing company.
Jim Pitzen said his wife has friends and relatives in Iowa, Ohio, Arizona, and California — but “to my knowledge we don’t have any family or friends in Wisconsin.’’

He said the family had not been to the Kalahari Resort together, nor to Rockford.
“I have no idea why she was there,’’ he said.
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http://napervillesun.suntimes.com/n...-aurora-boy-6-after-mother-is-found-dead.html
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Amy Fry-Pitzen of Aurora was found dead in a Rockford motel on Saturday. Police are looking for her 6-year-old son, Timothy.​
 
Aurora police continue search for missing boy

As Aurora police on Sunday continued their search for a boy missing after his mother's apparent suicide in a Rockford hotel room, the boy's father waited, hoping for good news from authorities on his son's whereabouts.

James Pitzen, 39, said he last saw his son Timothy, 6, Wednesday morning on his way to kindergarten.

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Pitzen's wife, Amy Fry-Pitzen, 43, checked the boy out of school about 8:30 a.m. that day before going to Brookfield Zoo and to the KeyLime Cove Water Park in Gurnee that night, police said.

“She's never done anything like this before,” Pitzen said Sunday, standing in a room filled with Timothy's toys.

She called relatives Friday afternoon to say that the two were not in danger. That night, she was seen at a Sullivan's Foods in Winnebago before checking into a hotel in Rockford about 11:15 p.m. without her son, police said. The next day, motel workers found her body.

The mother “left a note indicating that Timothy was fine and that she left him in the care of unnamed people,” Aurora police said in a statement.

Fry-Pitzen slit her wrists, Aurora spokesman Dan Ferrelli said.

Timothy was last seen about 10:10 a.m. Friday when Fry-Pitzen checked out of the Kalahari Resort in the Wisconsin Dells. The cellphone calls were made later that day from the Sterling area, about 80 miles west of Aurora, police said.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/...earch-for-missing-boy-20110515,0,904170.story
 
I don't have much hope for him, sorry. She left in a bad state, she turns up dead. What are the chances he is still alive? I have a feeling that Timothy is not with us
 
(CBS/KCCI) AURORA, Ill. - Investigators said they are asking geologists to help in the search for missing Illinois 6-year-old Timothy Pitzen, who disappeared after his mother committed suicide at a hotel.

Pictures: Missing 6-year-old Timothy Pitzen

"What were trying to do here is pinpoint an area that we can start searching. We got a huge circle and we really need to make that smaller," said Dan Ferrelli, the spokesperson for the Aurora Police Department, reports CBS affiliate KCCI.

Investigators hope Timothy's mother's SUV might provide an important clue in the search.

The SUV has a lot of dirt and grass on it that police are asking geologists and other specialists to analyze.

"What we think is, if any of the vegetation or dirt is unique to any parts of Illinois, it would be a great place to start searching," said Ferrelli, reports the station.

Until experts analyze the SUV, police have suspended ground searches for the boy.

About three weeks ago Amy Fry-Pitzen, Timothy's mom, killed herself in a Rockford, Ill., hotel and left a note saying Timothy was safe and with people she did not identify.

Police still do not know where the boy is.

"Definitely a lot more questions than answers," said Ferrelli, the station reports.

Aurora police have now released a number of pictures of things like toothpaste and toys Fry-Pitzen bought for him in the days before her death that they haven't been able to find.

Timothy is described as 4-feet-2-inches tall and 70 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing green shorts and a Spider-Man backpack.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20068638-504083.html
 
It’s been three months since 6-year-old Timmothy Pitzen, of Aurora, went missing after his mother checked him out of school early and then took him on a 3-day, 500-mile road trip that included stops at the zoo and water parks — and then killed herself. Now police have released new details about his disappearance in hopes of finding the boy.

Among the most disturbing new pieces of information released Thursday: police found a “concerning” amount of Timmothy’s blood in the back seat of his mother’s SUV. Police also said months before his disappearance, Timmothy’s mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, took two unexplained trips to the area where her son was last seen.

Police also released three videos of Timmothy: two home videos and surveillance footage of his mother checking him out of school.

“We have not made forward progress in the investigation,” Aurora police spokesman Dan Ferrelli said Thursday. “Hopefully, the information we put out is going to spark the memory of some person or get someone to come forward. Even the smallest piece of information could be important.”
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Aurora police are pinning their hopes on a forensic analysis of Fry-Pitzen’s 2004 Ford Expedition SUV. The vehicle was found on May 14 parked at the Rockford motel where Amy killed herself.

The SUV is still being processed by a private forensics lab with that Aurora police hired in early July. Investigators say that “some progress’’ has been made, but did not provide specifics about what the lab has found. The SUV was covered in dirt and had tall grass or weeds underneath it when it was found, police said.

After processing the vehicle, investigators enlisted the private lab, which has expertise in dirt and grass analysis. Police hope the plants and dirt found on the vehicle can be tied to certain areas which could be targeted for further searches.

Before enlisting assistance from the private lab, Aurora investigators found what they called “a concerning amount” of blood in the backseat. Ferrelli would not discuss the amount of blood found, other than to say it did not completely cover the back seat. Ferrelli said there is no way to tell how long the blood had been in the car.

Test revealed the blood belonged to Timmothy, police said, but the boy’s family told police it was possible it came from a bloody nose the boy suffered in the past year. The knife Fry-Pitzen used to commit suicide was found to have only her blood on it.

The last time police can say for sure that Timmothy and his mother were together was between noon and 1:30 p.m. May 13. Amy, 43, called several friends and relatives while driving south on Interstate 39 and west on Interstate 88 toward Sterling. Sterling and Rock Falls are twin cities, about 60 miles east of the Illinois-Iowa border in western Illinois.

Although Amy has no known ties to that area or Rockford, detectives have discovered she took two trips to the area near Dixon, Rock Falls and Sterling this winter. Family members have been unable to explain why she went to the area.
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Police don’t know why she took the trips.

“It’s another unanswered question in the puzzle,” Ferrelli said.

Police previously collected Amy’s work and personal computers, as well as her cell phone, but did not turned up any significant clues.

After Amy checked her only son out of school on May 11, she took him to Brookfield Zoo for the day.
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The next night, Fry-Pitzen and Timmothy stayed at resort water parks. Through cell phone calls, I-Pass records and credit card receipts, police have been able to confirm that on Wednesday and Thursday, May 11 and 12, Amy mostly took main roads, chose logical point-to-point routes and made good time.

When she finally called family, the conversations seemed normal. Family heard Timmothy in the background, and at one point he got on the phone.

“He sounded OK,’’ Jim Pitzen said he was told of his son’s condition then.

At 1:30 p.m., just north of Sterling, Fry-Pitzen turned off her cell phone for the last time, authorities said. She was next seen more than six hours later, 50 miles away, when she was caught on a surveillance camera — alone — buying Ritz crackers and milk at a grocery store in Winnebago, west of Rockford.
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Last week, testimony at a Winnebago County Coroner’s inquest revealed that Fry-Pitzen had neither drugs nor alcohol in her system when she died. She did have a very high level of anti-histamine in her system. In addition to an empty box of allergy relief medication, police also found a nearly empty bottle of Triaminic, a children’s cold medicine.

Pitzen stabbed herself in the arm and neck, then bled to death on the floor of the motel’s bathroom.

Pitzen left behind a suicide note
saying she had left Timmothy with someone, but did not say who.

The handwritten, five-sentence note signed “Amy” said her son was somewhere safe with people who love him and who will take care of him. “You will never find him,” she wrote, according to testimony at the inquest. Police have said Amy had made previous suicide attempts.
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/7007321-417/police-missing-boys-blood-in-back-seat-of-suv.html

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police found a “concerning” amount of Timmothy’s blood in the back seat of his mother’s SUV

This can't be good. I'm not going to say what I'm thinking. I want to hope until there is no hope, but if she'd left the boy with someone, you'd think that they'd have come forward after hearing about her suicide and that the boy was being searched for.
 
Six months after the disappearance of Timmothy Pitzen, police are hoping that a detailed analysis of his mother’s SUV will help lead them to the boy.

Police released some results on Friday of a forensic analysis of the grass, dirt and debris that had accumulated on Amy Fry-Pitzen’s 2004 Ford Expedition.

They are also hoping that surveillance videos and details about where Amy may have travelled that were released Friday will help jog a memory.

On May 11, Amy took her only son out of school and, without telling any family members, she and Timmothy went on a three-day, 500-mile road trip, stopping at zoos and water parks in northern Illinois and Wisconsin.

On the third day, Amy finally called family to report she was fine. The next morning, police found her body in a Rockford motel.

Police announced on Friday that the lab has determined that plant material on the SUV indicate it was stopped for a time on a wide gravel shoulder or a gravel road.
Near the gravel area where the vehicle stopped, the SUV was backed into a grassy field, the beaconnews.suntimes.com reports.

The lab results have given police a clearer indication of where Timmothy may have been dropped off.
A few weeks ago, six months after the Illinois schoolboy disappeared when his mother killed herself in a roadside motel room, his grandmother Alana Anderson and father Jim Pitzen marked what would have been his seventh birthday by planting a 7-year-old blue spruce tree in the back garden.
Anderson told the Chicago Tribune: 'I bought him a birthday card and cut out pictures of the things I would have bought for him,' 'A lighted skateboard. A remote-control helicopter.'
The lively schoolboy vanished on May 11, when Fry-Pitzen, picked him up from his Aurora elementary school.

In what were to be her final days mother and son went to the zoo and a water park, one in the far north east Illinois, the other in Wisconsin, before travelling west back into Illinois.




Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ults-offer-family-new-hope.html#ixzz1eClmRAnK
 
Year later, police renew appeal to public in case of missing boy, 6

A year after a 6-year-old Aurora boy disappeared with his mother, police have released new surveillance video and renewed their appeal for people in a large swath of northwestern Illinois to be on the look-out for any missing items "that may help pinpoint what happened to the boy."

Amy Fry-Pitzen took her son Timmothy from his kindergarten class at an Aurora school. Three days later, Fry-Pitzen's body was found at a Rockford motel. She had committed suicide and Timmothy was missing. In a note, Fry-Pitzen said her boy was safe but she didn't elaborate.

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The last time anyone heard from Timmothy was during the day on May 13 when he talked to a relative on his mother’s cell phone as the pair were traveling about five miles west of Sterling, police said. Officers used bloodhounds, all-terrain vehicles and planes to search the area around Sterling, about 100 miles west of Chicago, but found nothing.

Police say a year later, they have no idea what happened to the boy. And they believe any clues -- a missing backpack and toys among them -- may be lying undiscovered somewhere in a six-county area where the mother apparently stopped during her trip with the boy.

An analysis of plants and mud on Fry-Pitzen's SUV indicates it was stopped for a while on a wide gravel shoulder or road near an asphalt secondary road, and backed into a grassy meadow or field to a spot that was nearly treeless and may be close to a pond or stream.

Police said the meadow is most likely somewhere in Lee and Whiteside counties but "areas in Carroll, Ogle, Stephenson, and Winnebago counties cannot be ruled out."

Authorities are asking residents in those areas, as well as hikers and bikers and boaters in various state parks, to look for items of the boy's that are still missing.

They include: Timmothy’s Spider Man backpack, several toys and a tube of toothpaste his mother bought for Timmothy before he disappeared, Fry-Pitzen's cell phone and an I-Pass device.

Pictures of several of the items are posted on Aurora's website at www.aurora-il.org under the “police departmentâ€￾ tab on the left side of the homepage and then the “Timmothy Pitzenâ€￾ tab from a pull-down menu. Aurora Police have also posted the photos on their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/aurorapolice.

Police also marked the one-year anniversary of the disappearance by releasing five clips of Fry-Pitzen and Timmothy taken from surveillance cameras. They include four clips taken at the Key Lime Cove Resort in Gurnee on May 12 and one taken the next day at the Kalahari Resort in the Wisconsin Dells.

"While investigators continue to pursue any and all information that may come in, they still have no leads into Timmothy’s whereabouts, including whether they boy is still alive or if he met with foul play," police said in a statement.

Police noted that Timmothy would now be 7. When he went missing, he was about 4-foot-2 and weighed around 70 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information is asked to call Aurora Police at (630) 256-5500.
http://www.wgntv.com/news/local/bre...case-of-missing-boy-6-20120511,0,140804.story
 
Instincts eh, not sure if you're a prayer or positive Karma type, but don't think it would hurt to send some good vibes out for this kid, still think he's safe though
 
I had a bad feeling when I read this An analysis of plants and mud on Fry-Pitzen's SUV indicates it was stopped for a while on a wide gravel shoulder or road near an asphalt secondary road, and backed into a grassy meadow or field to a spot that was nearly treeless and may be close to a pond or stream.


If she left him with someone why after a year haven't the people she left his little one with came forward? Unless she put him in one of those underground railroad type rings for kids who are abused, but I thought those types of things had to have some kind of proof of abuse?
 
Don't know hon just had the feeling he was still alive, and that mum had passed him on somewhere safer, not so sure now but get the inkling he has folk looking out for Him.
 
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Photo shows what Illinois boy may look like 3 years after he disappeared
Nearly three years after he disappeared, investigators and family members still hold on to hope that Timmothy Pitzen is alive.
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Amy’s body was found in a hotel room May 14, 2011. Police said she had apparently committed suicide with a knife.

In a post marking two years since Amy’s body was found, a Facebook page dedicated to finding Timmothy said detectives believed the boy was still alive.

“Detectives say a haunting note was left behind saying Timmothy was safe, with someone who loved him and that he would never be found,”[...]
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has released a forensic artist image of what Timmothy might look like today. Timmothy Pitzen was six years old when he vanished, and is nearly 10 years old now.

“The image created by NCMEC forensic artists is an important tool in our mission to help bring Timmothy home,” said Detective Lee Catavu of the Aurora Police Department. Catavu is the lead investigator in the case.

Timmothy’s aunt said she believes, firmly that he is still alive. His uncle, Bryan Fry, said Amy behaved as if everything was okay just before her body was found, and he does not believe Amy was capable of harming Timmothy.
http://wqad.com/2014/05/09/photo-shows-what-illinois-boy-may-look-like-3-years-after-he-disappeared/
 
An Illinois woman claimed she recently saw a child who looked like Timmothy Pitzen, a boy who has been missing for more than three years.
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Detectives have maintained they believe Timmothy Pitzen is still alive.

A Rockton, Illinois woman told police she may have seen a boy who looks like Timmothy at a garage sale the same day the age-progression image was released according to the Chicago Tribune. Rockton is just south of Beloit, Wisconsin.

Police reportedly shared video clips of Timmothy with the woman in an effort to verify he is the child she saw.
http://wqad.com/2014/05/16/illinois-woman-says-she-saw-boy-missing-for-three-years/
 
Sadly I think she killed him and hid him before she offed herself.
I read the whole article at the link I posted. There is a lot of twists and turns that makes me want to think he is still alive. Common sense says he is not. At the age of 6 he knew his name and the name of his parents.
Surely by now he would have had access and the knowledge to poke around on the internet and alert someone that he is alive and where he is.
 
I read the whole article at the link I posted. There is a lot of twists and turns that makes me want to think he is still alive. Common sense says he is not. At the age of 6 he knew his name and the name of his parents.
Surely by now he would have had access and the knowledge to poke around on the internet and alert someone that he is alive and where he is.
But she did all these super fun things with him like when you do all your dogs favorite things before you put them to sleep. Kids at the age of 6 can be forced to change their identities.
 
A Chicago-area boy missing for nearly a decade may have been found in the Tri-State.

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Timmothy Pitzen is the only missing child from Aurora, Illinois.

A bone-chilling note by Pitzen’s mother Amy Fry-Pitzen read, “you’ll never find him,” CNN reports.

Fry-Pitzen was found dead in a Rockford, Illinois hotel room after committing suicide at the time her son was reported missing, CBS Chicago reports.

The FBI’s Louisville office and the FBI’s Cincinnati office confirm they’re actively coordinating with Newport police, Cincinnati police, Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, and Aurora, Illinois police.

Pitzen was reported missing May 12, 2011 when he was 6 years old. He would be 14 years old today.

Aurora Police Public Information Officer Bill Rowley said two police detectives are on their way to the Cincinnati area to assist with the investigation.

The male child in question was found on the west side of Newport Wednesday.

Newport police say a neighbor spotted him and noticed he didn’t belong in the neighborhood. A source tells us that happened around 7 a.m. near the area of 8th Street and Columbia Street.

He told police he’d been held captive.

According to an incident report from the Sharonville Police Department, the boy said he escaped from two kidnappers that have been holding him for seven years.

They boy described the two kidnappers as two white males with body-builder type builds. One had black curly hair, a Mt. Dew shirt and jeans, and has a spider web tattoo on his neck. The other was short in stature and had a snake tattoo on his arms.

Police said the vehicle they were driving is described as a newer model Ford SUV with WI plates. It’s white with yellow transfer paint and has a dent on the back bumper.

According to the report, the boy escaped and kept running across a bridge into Kentucky and said they’d been staying at a Red Roof Inn but did not know where.

A source says DNA is being rushed to the lab and they hope to have it back at some point Wednesday.

The boy looks to be no older than 14 years old, the source says, which would line up with the age of Pitzen.

The source says the child appears to have disabilities.

Rowley said because the case is nearly 10 years old, they receive thousands of tips a day about Pitzen.

CBS Chicago reports that the note his mother left also said the boy was O.K., and she had left him in the care of unnamed people.
 
No fuckin way it's him. No way she didnt kill him. Hes dead in a ditch or bushes some where, or sunk in a lake/pond.

I am curious what this kids deal is, whoever he is. Fucking bizarre. The description seems bizarre too, like something a kid with an imagination would say if they were describing what they think criminals would look like(buff bodybuilders with spiderweb and snake tattoos, c'mon, were they named Spike and Thrasher too?).

Whoa, the article and included incident report seems to suggest this kid identified himself as Timothy Pitzen.

What the fuck, but then is says this, "No officials will confirm whether the boy is claiming to be Pitzen."

Was this just a pisspoorly written report? Did the kid himself say that was his name or did these cops make some assumptions they shouldnt have and wrote it up like morons in a manner that makes it seem the kid identified himself, not that they were merely hypothesizing it was Pitzen?

Fucking bonkers.


This article has a picture. Zero resemblence, but it's a shit picture and this many years later, so who knows.

I wonder how extensive the search of area inns was. Did they look thru as much surveillance footage from nearby businesses, to include hotels, as possible to see if they could spot a similar vehicle?

Should be putting a thing out to have officers stop any similar vehicles with WI plates in the nearby area. Shouldnt be too many driving around Ohio/Kentucky/Illinois.

I dont think it's him. I think it is VERY likely that a 14 year old kid who is wanting to run away for whatever reason would google missing kids to find one he could claim to be. If the kid is wanting to get away with running away, that is a logical way to achieve it. There's some cunning kids out there. That's the scenario im going with. He may have even seen the movies/docs or read the stories about the couple cases throughout history where a kid popped up claiming to be a missing boy.
 
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