Timmothy Pitzen 6, Missing 5/12/11, Aurora, IL - Mother deceased (suicide)

[grace-land]

Video released on Friday at link

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/12378488-418/one-year-later-where-is-timmothy-pitzen.html

One year later: Where is Timmothy Pitzen?
May 11, 2012 9:10AM

 ::snipping2::
Last November, police issued their first appeal based on the forensics findings of Microtrace LLC, a private forensics lab based in Elgin, with whom they contracted last summer to process the dust, vegetation, and other materials found on Amy Fry-Pitzen’s SUV. Those findings indicated that:
 
Based on sediments and plant material, the vehicle was stopped for an unknown period of time on a wide gravel shoulder, gravel road, or short gravel turnout either adjacent to, or just off of, an asphalt secondary road that had at one time, been treated with glass road-marking beads. In close proximity to the gravel shoulder or road where the vehicle stopped, it backed into a grassy meadow or field to a spot that is nearly treeless. There are birch and oak trees in the general area but not directly over or at the spot where the SUV stopped. Both Queen Anne’s Lace and black mustard plants grow in a row along the border of the field or the shoulder of the road.
 
In addition, there is no corn growing in or adjacent to the spot where the SUV stopped, nor is there any indication that the area had been used for agriculture in the recent past. Instead, the evidence strongly suggests that grasses have been the only major plants growing in the immediate area which leads scientists to believe that it is a meadow and not, for example, a field that had once been farmland and not recently sown. Forensic results indicate that the grass was not cut which helps rule out a rural residential lawn or a park. There is also a strong likelihood that there is a pond, small stream, or creek in the area.
 
Scientists further believe that the meadow is most likely in Northwestern Illinois with Lee and Whiteside Counties as the most likely locations. However, areas in Carroll, Ogle, Stephenson, and Winnebago Counties cannot be ruled out. Microtrace has since performed other tests but has not been able to further narrow down the six-county area - an area much too large for police to conduct ground searches.
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[grace-land]

You are not forgotten, Timmothy!  With the continued investigation and prayers, you will be found, dear one!   

http://napervillesun.suntimes.com/news/12475303-418/one-year-later-where-is-timmothy-pitzen.html

One year later: Where is Timmothy Pitzen?
May 12, 2012 3:04PM
Updated: May 12, 2012 5:57PM

It’s the anhydrite that gives Christopher Palenik hope.
 
Anhydrite is a mineral often found in the limestone that is the bedrock foundation of most of Northern Illinois. It’s not a major component of limestone. It’s not even a minor component. It’s barely there. In fact, it’s so insignificant that anhydrite usually dissolves whenever limestone is exposed. In other words, it isn’t supposed to by lying around where a blue Ford Expedition can drive over it.
 
But somehow Amy Pitzen’s Expedition picked up a bit of anhydrite. So when Palenik, a research microscopist with Microtrace laboratories in Elgin, found this misplaced mineral it was like an alarm bell: this is solid clue. We can help find this boy.
 ::snipping2::
Still hopeful
 
While investigators continue to pursue any information that may come in, they have no leads about whether Timmothy is still alive. Aurora Police still receive periodic calls from people across the nation who think they spotted Timmothy. After following up on every report, no further information has developed. Police continue to occasionally send in soil samples from Northern Illinois, hoping for a match.

While the case remains difficult, Aurora police spokesman Dan Ferrelli said it is not hopeless.
 
“No, we don’t believe it’s hopeless at all,” he said. “All the police officers investigating this believe nothing is impossible.”

[grace-land]

http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/news/18538430-418/police-beat-training-causes-paradigm-shift-in-thinking-about-runaways.html

Police Beat: Training causes paradigm shift in thinking about runaways
February 28, 2013 12:42PM
Updated: March 1, 2013 2:20PM

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In my new role as the investigations commander, I applied for the training with the Timmothy Pitzen case in mind. NCMEC supplied the Aurora Police Department with some great resources in that investigation, and I was hoping to learn about other tools available to our detectives when investigating missing children cases.

[grace-land]

http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/news/20026649-418/two-years-after-he-went-missing-search-for-timmothy-pitzen-goes-on.html

Two years after he went missing, search for Timmothy Pitzen goes on  
May 12, 2013 2:16PM

It is impossible for Aurora Police Detective Lee Catavu to fathom the number of hours he has spent trying to bring Timmothy Pitzen home.

Impossible to get the case out of his head. Impossible to give up on the little boy, who Catavu believes is alive and well — somewhere.
 
The investigation

Leads and possible sightings continue to trickle in from callers across the country at a rate of about five a month. Nothing has panned out yet, but detectives aren’t giving up hope. The recent recovery of three Cleveland women, who were held captive for more than a decade, has restored Catavu’s faith that if Timmothy is out there, he will be found.

“It really gives us all a lot of hope,” Catavu said.

Detectives continue to look for several missing items Fry-Pitzen purchased for her son at a Shopko store in Racine, Wis., at 11:15 a.m. on May 12 while on their way to the Wisconsin Dells. Those items, which include clothes and toys, have never been recovered. Similar items are available to be viewed on the Aurora Police Department website.

A cell phone and I-Pass device are also missing, Catavu said.

Fry-Pitzen last used the phone around 1:30 p.m. on May 13 to call several loved ones after leaving the Dells. Catavu said nothing about those calls, made from the Sterling-Rock Falls area, raised alarms. Timmothy was either heard in the background, or had direct conversation with the callers, and seemed alive and well at that point in time. But that’s where Timmothy’s trail turns cold.

Detectives said later that day, around 7:25 p.m., Fry-Pitzen purchased paper, pens and envelopes in Winnebago, Ill. Thirty minutes later, she was spotted alone at a Winnebago grocery store buying milk and crackers. At 11:15 p.m., Fry-Pitzen checked herself into a Rockford hotel where she committed suicide. She was found dead at 12:30 p.m. the next afternoon.

Friends and family members have all been re-interviewed. As have fellow church members, school friends, and those from Fry-Pitzen’s distant past. Catavu said everyone has been cooperative, but that doesn’t mean there is not more work to do.

“The most important thing is to keep vigilant. To keep our eyes peeled,” he said.

Detectives continue to work with police departments across Illinois, hoping to tie trace evidence found on Fry-Pitzen’s vehicle to specific locations, helping pinpoint where the two had traveled.

The vehicle had allegedly traveled on a paved road with a gravel shoulder, located near a meadow. No corn pollen was found, helping detectives narrow the search. Soil and gravel samples are being taken from multiple locations across northwestern Illinois, with hopes that someday they will find a match, Catavu said.

“There are lots of working theories on the table,” Catavu said. “...but whoever she left him with, she was confident no one would be able to locate him.”
 

[grace-land]

Where are you, Timmothy?  Thinking of you and hoping you come home.

http://wgntv.com/2014/05/09/new-age-progressed-photo-of-missing-aurora-boy-timmothy-pitzen-released/

New age-progressed photo of missing Aurora boy Timmothy Pitzen released   
2 hours ago

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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-05-09/news/chi-image-shows-what-6yearold-boy-missing-three-years-would-look-like-now-20140509_1_timmothy-pitzen-amy-fry-pitzen-6-year-old-boy

Image shows what 6-year-old boy, missing three years, would look like now
May 09, 2014

The last recorded image of Timmothy Pitzen was taken shortly after 10 a.m. three years ago Tuesday. Security camera footage shows the 6-year-old Aurora boy walking from a Wisconsin Dells water park hotel with his mother.
 
The boy’s mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, had a history of depression and her marriage was strained, family members said. But, in her suicide note, Fry-Pitzen said her son was safe and being cared for by someone who loved him. Authorities have contended Fry-Pitzen might have been planning her son’s disappearance for months.

Investigators also have noted that they recovered a significant amount of Timmothy’s blood from the back seat of his mother’s SUV, although Timmothy’s father told police the boy had suffered a serious nosebleed days before his mother took him from his school on May 11, 2011.

And, family members have insisted that Fry-Pitzen never would have hurt the boy.

“Maybe that’s hard for some people to grasp,” Timmothy’s aunt, Kara Jacobs, said in the NCMEC video, “but she just had nothing but kindness and consideration for other people in her life.”

Jacobs also said the family believes “with every fiber of our being that (Timmothy’s) alive. Without any kind of logic to give you, I can just tell you, I know that he’s alive. We just have to find him.”

Police had reason for optimism in October, Aurora Police spokesman Dan Ferrelli said, when they recovered Amy Fry-Pitzen’s cell phone. But a search of the phone failed to yield significant leads in the case, Ferrelli said.

“That was a big disappointment,” Ferrelli said. “Unfortunately, like everything else in this case, the cell phone was a brick wall.”

[grace-land]

Video at the link

http://www.wifr.com/news/headlines/3-Years-After-Vanishing-Family-Holds-Out-Hope-for-Timmothy-Pitzen-258726801.html

3 Years After Vanishing, Family Hopes for Safe Return of Timmothy Pitzen
Updated: Fri 11:26 PM, May 09, 2014

ANTIOCH (WIFR) -- Three years after Timmothy Pitzen went missing, detectives still believe the now nine year old is alive and his grandmother isn't giving up hope.

Alana Anderson keeps a photo album brimming with pictures of her grandson Timmothy Pitzen but she hasn't been able to add a single new image for the last three years. Detectives with the Aurora Police Department say the boy was last seen in May 2011 while with his mother Amy Fry-Pitzen at a hotel in the Wisconsin Dells. However, the boy was nowhere to be found less than a day after his mother committed suicide in a Rockford motel.

"Whatever crazy things my daughter did to herself, she would never have hurt her child. She was an extraordinary mother,” says Alana Anderson, Timmothy;s grandmother.

Anderson has been able to add one new picture to her collection, a photo created by forensic artists with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. It shows what Timmothy Pitzen would look like now as a 9-year-old.

"She loved that little boy more than anything else in her whole life and there’s no way she would have done anything like that, no way,” says Bryan Fry, Timmothy’s uncle.
 
Amy Fry-Pitzen’s cell phone was found in October 2013 along Route 28 in Illinois but detectives say nothing was found on it to indicate what happened to Timmothy. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Aurora Police at (630) 256-5500.

[MuffyBee]

Thank you for the updates, grace-land.  I hope Timmothy is safe and someday can come forward.

 

[grace-land]

Thank you for the updates, grace-land.  I hope Timmothy is safe and someday can come forward.

 

You're welcome, MuffyBee.  I hope Timmothy comes home, too.  He is loved and not forgotten. 
 

[grace-land]

http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/news/27483343-418/aurora-police-receive-tip-after-issuing-age-progression-photo-of-timmothy-pitzen.html#.U3bSumdOXIW

Cops not hopeful on tip on missing boy
May 16, 2014 10:08AM
Updated: May 16, 2014 9:45PM
 
Aurora police do “not hold a lot of hope” that a weekend tip into the disappearance of Timmothy Pitzen is credible.

Aurora Police spokesman Dan Ferrelli said Friday that police were called over the weekend by a Northern Illinois Rockton woman, who says she saw the missing Aurora boy at a garage sale on May 9.

Rockton is about 15 miles from Rockford, where Timmothy’s mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, committed suicide in a motel. She left a note saying that Timmothy was safe, but would never be found.

Over the years, police have received dozens of tips about the missing child, but none have panned out. Ferrelli said that “based on the description of the way the child was acting,” investigators do not believe the child was Timmothy.

The woman was sent a video of Timmothy to determine whether or not she believes he was the boy she saw. As of Friday morning, she had yet to contact police about the clip.

“The description of the child’s behavior was the opposite of Timmothy’s personality,” Ferrelli said.

Still, investigators are following the lead.
 

[grace-land]

http://www.wifr.com/content/news/Five-Years-Since-Disappearance-of-Timmothy-Pitzen-379053961.html

Five Years Since Disappearance of Timmothy Pitzen
Posted: Wed 5:20 PM, May 11, 2016  | 
Updated: Wed 5:39 PM, May 11, 2016


Photo on left of Timmothy Pitzen age 6, Photo on right is an age progressed photo of what Pitzen might look like around age 10.

ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- It's been five years since Timmothy Pitzen disappeared on May 11, 2011. He was last seen alive in the Stateline area before his mom Amy committed suicide in a Rockford hotel. What happened to Timmothy has been a mystery ever since.

Timmothy would be 11 years old today. Investigators say they aren't giving up on their search. 

[grace-land]

Thinking of you, Timmothy, and hoping you come home.

http://www.wifr.com/content/news/Timmothy-Pitzen-still-missing-after-six-years-422040623.html

Timmothy Pitzen still missing after six years
By WIFR Newsroom |
Posted: Thu 4:09 PM, May 11, 2017  | 
Updated: Thu 5:55 PM, May 11, 2017

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) – It has been six years since an Aurora boy disappeared in the Stateline.

Investigators say in 2011, 6-year-old Timmothy Pitzen was in the Rockford area before his mom Amy took her life at a motel. What happened to Timmothy has been a mystery ever since.
 
Anyone with information is asked to call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-80-843-5678 or Aurora Police at 630-256-5500.

[MuffyBee]

http://www.fox19.com/2019/04/03/missing-child-possibly-located-tri-state-fbi-says/
Timmothy Pitzen, Chicago-area boy missing for 8 years, possibly found in Cincinnati area
April 3, 2019

CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - 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.

Police said after checking Red Roof Inn’s and surrounding hotels, nothing was found.
The boy was taken to a hospital in Newport to be checked out and police say he is being interviewed by detectives and other uniformed officers.

Police say at this moment they aren’t sure he is who he says he is. They don’t believe he is a missing person from the Tri-State.

No officials will confirm whether the boy is claiming to be Pitzen.

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.

FBI officials say there will be no further statements made until they have additional information.
 

[MuffyBee]

http://www.fox19.com/2019/04/03/woman-says-boy-found-nky-possibly-missing-years-was-acting-fidgety/
Woman says boy found in NKY, possibly missing for years, was acting ‘fidgety’
Source says DNA is being rushed to the lab to identify the boy
April 3, 2109

NEWPORT, KY (FOX19) - A Chicago-area boy missing for nearly a decade may have been found in the Tri-State.
 
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 early Wednesday. Newport police say a neighbor spotted him and noticed he didn’t belong in the neighborhood.

Sharon Hall, of Newport, says she thought he was trying to steal her neighbor’s car.

“From out the window, I couldn’t see who was standing to the curb,” she said. “But I looked out and came back in and ... there was a young man standing by my neighbor’s car.”

Hall described the boy as acting fidgety and moving around.
 
A source tells FOX19 the boy was spotted 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.

Police said after checking Red Roof Inn’s and surrounding hotels, nothing was found.

The boy was taken to a hospital in Newport to be checked out and police say he is being interviewed by detectives and other uniformed officers.

Police say at this moment they aren’t sure he is who he says he is. They don’t believe he is a missing person from the Tri-State.
 

[Tamikosmom]

 


Illinois boy who vanished in 2011 may have been found in Cincinnati area, officials say
April 3, 2019

EXCERPT

An Illinois boy who disappeared in 2011 mayhave been found in Ohio eight years after he vanished, officials said Wednesday.  Timmothy Pitzen was 6 years old when he vanished. Investigators believe his mother, 43-year-old Amy Fry-Pitzen, picked him up from school in May 2011 and took the boy to the zoo and a water park in Wisconsin before she apparently killed herself in a hotel room in Illinois. ........

Read more:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-boy-who-vanished-in-2011-may-have-been-found-in-cincinnati-area-officials-say

[grace-land]

Thanks for the updates, Muffybee! 

Waiting for confirmation...

https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190403/police-off-to-ohio-to-see-if-teen-who-escaped-kidnappers-is-long-missing-aurora-boy
Police off to Ohio to see if teen who escaped kidnappers is long missing Aurora boy
Susan Sarkauskas
Follow @dh_ssarkauskas
Updated
4/3/2019 5:40 PM
 
"We cannot confirm that the person of interest here is Timmothy Pitzen," William Rowley, a spokesman with Aurora police, said in an emailed statement. "At this time we have no further information to provide."
 
Timmothy's grandmother, Alana Andrews, said she is "cautiously optimistic," ABC 7 Chicago reported. She had a message for her grandson.
 
"We never stopped looking for him, thinking about him, and we love him and we'll do everything we can to get him back to a good life," Andrews said.
 

[texasmom]

 

Made my heart so happy when I read this today.  I hope it's him, but my heart breaks for him too if it is Timmothy...for what he's been through. 

Thanks everyone for the updates!   

[grace-land]

Made my heart so happy when I read this today.  I hope it's him, but my heart breaks for him too if it is Timmothy...for what he's been through. 

Thanks everyone for the updates!   

   You're welcome!

Waiting for the DNA results...

https://abc7chicago.com/teen-tells-kentucky-police-that-hes-timmothy-pitzen-aurora-boy-missing-since-2011/5232478/
Timmothy Pitzen case: Teen tells Kentucky authorities that he's Aurora boy missing since 2011
By Ravi Baichwal and Liz Nagy
Updated 33 minutes ago
 
In a statement Wednesday afternoon, Aurora police said they could not confirm that the boy is Timmothy. One of the two detectives headed to Ohio is a cold case investigator.

DNA results are expected Thursday afternoon. The boy was taken to Cincinnati Children's Hospital for evaluation.
 

[cw618]

just heard hoping it is him

new york post has a current img, forgot how to load

Family of Timmothy Pitzen ‘cautiously optimistic’ about DNA results
By Jackie Salo April 4, 2019 | 11:27am | Updated
https://nypost.com/2019/04/04/family-of-boy-missing-8-years-cautiously-optimistic-about-dna-results/

img
https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/timmoth-pitzen-new.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1236&h=820&crop=1

short vid interview with grandmother at Time
A 14-Year-Old Boy in Ohio Says He Is the Illinois Child Who Went Missing in 2011
BY COREY WILLIAMS AND CARYN ROUSSEAU / AP UPDATED: APRIL 4, 2019 10:26 AM ET
http://time.com/5564054/timmothy-pitzen-child-missing-boy-child-illinois/

[cw618]

forgot a link

Listen: Police respond to report of teen who says he's Timmothy Pitzen
Listen to Newport police radio traffic
KAREEM ELGAZZAR
10:07 p.m. EDT Apr. 3, 2019

https://www.cincinnati.com/videos/news/2019/04/03/listen-police-respond-report-teen-who-says-hes-timmothy-pitzen/3358406002/

a search for Pitzen @ cincinnati enquire
https://www.cincinnati.com/search/%20Pitzen/