The case that puts the United States in suspense: a teenager asked for help and claimed to be Timmothy Pitzen, the boy disappeared in 2011

"Can you help me? I just want to go to my place. Please, help me"

Crekasafra Night, a woman driving down a street in Newport, Kentucky on Wednesday morning, was a bit afraid of the situation. A teenager with his face hidden under a hood had unusual movements, walked aimlessly. When the car stopped a few meters, she noticed that the face had striking marks.

She asked him what had happened. The young He said that he had been "kidnapped and exchanged by people and that he just wanted to go home". Later he told the police that he was Timmothy Pitzen, a boy disappeared at six, in May 2011, in mysterious circumstances: his mother was found lifeless next to a note saying that the child was "safe with people who would take care of him".

(Video: The last time Pitzen was seen alive, during an unexpected trip with his mother)

Since then, the child's family has been conducting a tedious national search that could have ended pending the results of the DNA badysis. Amy, the missing person's mother, committed suicide 800 kilometers from her home. The messages she left did not indicate where she was.. "Do not forget that nothing you said or done could have changed my decision," she wrote, eventually to her husband, Jim. He admitted that the relationship was not going through a good time, but he never imagined that his wife would do anything similar.

Given the high expectations of their appearance, the police prefer to put the matter to the carpet. "We do not know if it's Timmothy Pitzen, we do not know if it's a lie. Obviously, we all have hope, but you have to be very carefulBill Rowley, police sergeant in Aurora, the town where the family lived, would not be the first false trail they would get, but they have never been so blunt.

According to the authorities, the young man said he was abducted by a man. "Two white men with bodies of bodybuilders". One of them, he described, has curls and a spider web tattoo on the neck. The other is a little guy with a tattoo of a snake on his arm.

In addition, the miner reported that he was in a motel before he ran away. Police began looking for a sport utility vehicle with a Wisconsin license plate, but did not report the arrest of suspects matching the profiles.

For his part, one of Tim's grandmothers expressed his feelings. "We only know that a 14-year-old boy has appeared. We do not want to have too much hope, we had false reports before"he told the chain WISN-TV. The police confirmed that she was applying the necessary procedures to perform the identity tests, although she did not set deadlines.

Anyway, a fact encourages optimism. The newspaper Cincinnati Enquirer He badured that the young man who had appeared, questioned about his birthday, had given Timmothy's same date of birth: October 18, 2004.