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This undated photo provided by the Aurora Police Department, in Illinois, shows the missing child, Timmothy Pitzen. Police in Aurora, in the suburbs of Chicago, said the department had sent two detectives to the Cincinnati area to investigate a report about a missing child, which would implicate the missing boy Aurora in 2011. The sergeant Aurora police. Bill Rowley said Wednesday, April 3, 2019 that the ministry knew that a boy was involved but did not know who he was or whether he had any connection to the Timothy Pitzen affair. (Aurora Police Department via AP)
CINCINNATI – The latest news on efforts to confirm the identity of a person who told the police that it was Timmothy Pitzen, a boy from Illinois who has been missing since 2011 (all the local hours):
6:05 p.m.
The family of an ill Illinois boy who has been missing since 2011 said he was heartbroken after the police determined that a person pretending to be Timmothy Pitzen had apparently made a hoax.
Kara Jacobs told reporters Thursday that learning that his nephew had not been found was "reviving the day," he disappeared again. Anderson also said that his father, James Pitzen, "is devastated again."
A person claiming to be 14 years old also told police in Kentucky on Wednesday that he had just escaped from the kidnappers in the Cincinnati area after being held captive for seven years. The FBI said Thursday that DNA testing had dismissed him as it was Timmothy who had been abducted at the age of 6 by his mother from his school in Aurora .
Amy Fry-Pitzen was later found dead in an Illinois hotel in a suicide. She left a note saying that Timmothy was with other people who would like him and take care of him.
Aurora Police Sgt. Bill Rowley called the claim "disappointment," saying it was another time when the family "had hope."
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5:55 p.m.
Authorities claim that the person who claimed to be a missing boy from Illinois is actually a 23-year-old Ohio man.
Police chief Tom Collins of Newport, Kentucky, told ABC News that it was Brian Rini of Medina, in northeastern Ohio.
State prison registers show that a man of that name was released from a state prison on March 7, after serving his sentence for charging burglary and vandalism.
A man of the same name also pleaded guilty to burglary charges in January 2018 and to bad checks in December 2015, according to Medina County Court records. The same man had numerous citations in the Medina Municipal Court, including unlicensed driving, disorderly conduct and theft.
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4:45 p.m.
Authorities rejected the statement of a teenager to be a boy from Illinois disappeared in 2011 at the age of 6 years.
The FBI said that DNA tests revealed that the teenager was Timmothy Pitzen, missing from Aurora, Illinois. Police said that the story of the teenager found in the wandering streets of Newport, Kentucky on Wednesday has not been verified.
The teen told the police he was Timmothy and had escaped two kidnappers.
Authorities did not immediately disclose the true identity of the teenager or other information.
Timmothy Pitzen disappeared about the time his mother was killed after leaving a note saying that his 6 year old son was fine, but no one would ever find him again.
The police and the boy's family say that there have been other false sightings over the years.
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2:25 p.m.
The former principal of Timothy Pitzen's primary school said that he thought of the boy's family since a teenager told police in Kentucky that he was Timmothy, who was missing in 2011.
While authorities were trying Thursday to confirm the identity of the teenager, Nick Baughman said he hoped the results would provide the Pitzen family with "peace and closure that would heal". The teenager was found Wednesday in Newport, near Cincinnati.
Baughman is now a director in another school district of Illinois. He was director of Greenman Elementary School in Aurora, Illinois, when Amy Fry-Pitzen withdrew her 6-year-old son from school early.
Fry-Pitzen was later found dead in an Illinois hotel in a suicide. She left a note saying that Timmothy was with other people who would like him and take care of him.
Baughman said, "It's just one of those times when you hold hope, you support and recite many prayers."
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12
The police of a boy reported missing since 2011, in the hometown of Illinois, said that she could not yet confirm that he was in fact a teenager found wandering in the Kentucky.
The Aurora Police Department announced that it was participating in an FBI investigation and was hoping to get something more definitive on Thursday.
Authorities are trying to confirm the identity of a 14-year-old boy who told police in Newport, Kentucky that he had escaped from two kidnappers in the Cincinnati area and had crossed a bridge. He said that he called Timmothy Pitzen.
In 2011, Timmothy Pitzen's mother committed suicide, leaving a note saying that her son was fine but no one would ever find him again. Timmothy was 6 years old.
Aurora police sent two detectives to check the history of the teenager. Timmothy's grandmother and an aunt said the police were using DNA tests.
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10:50
The grandmother of a boy from Illinois who has been missing since 2011 says she's trying not to be hopeful after learning that he might be alive.
From her home in northern Illinois, Alana Anderson said, "There has been so much advice and observations and what you have not done and you are trying not to panic nor be too excited. "
Authorities are trying to confirm the identity of a 14-year-old boy who told police in Newport, Kentucky that he had escaped from two kidnappers in the Cincinnati area and had crossed a bridge. He said that he called Timmothy Pitzen.
In 2011, the mother of six-year-old Timmothy Pitzen committed suicide, leaving a note saying that her son was fine but no one would ever find him again.
Anderson says that her daughter was having trouble with her fourth marriage and had struggled with depression for years.
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8:30
Authorities are trying to confirm the identity of a teenager who told the police that he was a boy from Illinois who has been missing since 2011.
A 14-year-old boy told police Wednesday in Newport, Kentucky, that he had escaped from two kidnappers in the Cincinnati area and had run across a bridge. He said that he called Timmothy Pitzen.
In 2011, Timothy Pitzen's mother, then aged 6, picked him up at school in Illinois, took her to the zoo and a water park, and then went to school. is suicidal in a hotel, leaving a note saying that his son was fine we would never find him.
Police in Aurora, Illinois, sent two detectives to the Cincinnati area, where the FBI and the local police are investigating. The boy was taken to the hospital, but no information was published.
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