Things werent perfect, but she seemed back to normal.. She imagined what her sister would think. She would be horrified to know that this has turned into such a big thing. Rinis story had briefly (and cruelly) raised hopes within Timmothys family that their lost child had been found. She had been working there after graduating from Iowa State but was now moving to Antioch, Illinois, where her mom lived after divorcing Amys father. When Amy was especially upset, Jim says, shed take off for a couple of hours or longer. Aurora Illinois Police Department/FacebookAge progression rendering of what Timmothy Pitzen may look like in 2021. Authorities received a flurry of calls from across the country Sunday night -- when there were reports in the media that a young boy was found in Maine but relatively few tips, Ferrelli said. He was wearing green shorts and had a Spiderman backpack on. [4], At 7:25p.m. May 13, 2011, Fry-Pitzen was seen, alone, on security cameras at a Family Dollar store in Winnebago, Illinois, where she purchased a pen, notepaper and envelopes. I had a go-kart in the back shed, and when Tim was about 3, I made the gas pedal so you couldnt push it all the way down. [2] On May 11, 2011, Timmothy's father dropped him off at his kindergarten class at Greenman Elementary School. I said I just want to make sure everybody gets there safe. As of now, the search for Timmothy Pitzen continues. Nothing. The last time James Pitzen saw his son Timmothy Pitzen was when he dropped him off at Greenman Elementary School in Aurora, Illinois on May 11, 2011. He also discusses his marriage troubles with Amyin a new episode of the HLN Original Series Real Life Nightmare. DNA results have been returned indicating the person in question is not Timmothy Pitzen. He was born in Aurora on October 18th, 2004, and was an only child. But this is the face that we ask everybody to look at closely, because we know that its one way he can be found.. One potential breakthrough came in 2014, when a woman said she saw a boy matching his description at her yard-sale. Pitzen said he heard nothing about his wife or son until several friends and relatives said they had gotten calls Friday from Fry-Pitzen. May 18, 2011 at 9:34 pm. What did you do? To one side, framed photographs of Tim and his crooked, dimpled grin cover nearly every inch of the wall: donning a Blackhawks jersey, light brown bangs peeking from under a cap; beaming while sitting cross-legged in a spare tire, resting his head on the cat. . After being released from the hospital, Fry-Pitzen was prescribed an antidepressant, but she stopped taking the drug around the time of their divorce, Campbell said. Amy grew up in Libertyville and. Both of them were captured on camera the following morning at ten oclock by a surveillance camera while they were waiting in line at the checkout counter. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Jim said that Amy subsequently fell asleep and rolled off the cliff. Her cellphone pinged northwest of Sterling, near Route 40 (about 130 miles from Wisconsin Dells). Timmothy's now family say they do not harbor 'hard feelings anymore' after Rini, 24,pretended to be the missing boy. Investigators determined Amy had died by suicide and left a note indicating Timmothy would be well taken care of, the Center recounted. Jim remained standing there as he watched his active son race toward his kindergarten teacher while swinging his Spider-Man backpack around. The first time, before shed met Jim, she had parked her car on some train tracks, reconsidering only at the last moment. Amy Fry-Pitzen, 43, left a note indicating the boy was fine and that she had left him in the care of people who weren't identified, authorities said. When police found the shaken and distraught boy, he told them he was Timmothy. ', For more than a day, he found no sign of Timmothy or Amy, until eventually she called James and his brother on May 12, telling them 'Timmothy is fine. His name, he told them, was Timmothy Pitzen. This was not 14-year-old Tim but an impostor: Brian Rini, a 23-year-old man with a history of psychiatric issues. I think I just wanted to see what she had done to herself., The funeral took place the next day at the same church. On that same day, Amy also called her mother. She apparently had tried to kill herself at least once before, according to an ex-husband. Aurora police spokesman Dan Ferrelli said at the time that investigators did not believe that Amy had any intention of harming her son. Per NBC News, the boy told investigators that he had escaped his two kidnappers where they were staying in a Red Roof Inn in Sharonville Ohio. A boy emerged on April 3 saying that he was Timmothy, and that he had been held hostage for seven years. She said Timmothy was with somebody who loves him and will take care of him and that we'll never find him.'. ', James said: 'I dropped Timmothy off at school, and Timmothy goes, "Love you, Dad." Amys father had to close his business, putting her temporarily out of work. Jim had resisted his urge to call the police at first, still hoping he would hear from her. He said, Depression is a sickness. He knew what I meant. I-Pass records were also reviewed by the police, which revealed that Fry-Pitzen made two trips to the Dixon/Rock Falls/Sterling area during the winter months, both of which her family members cannot explain. The first trip was on February 18, 2011, and the second was on March 20. On Saturday, May 14, staff at a Rockford, Illinois motel 80 miles away from Timmothys home found Amys lifeless body. View the profiles of people named James Pitzen. [9] In 2013, Fry-Pitzen's cell phone was located beside Route 78, but the discovery did not bring any new evidence. I just can't wait 'til you come home. He looked at the men, eager to hear the details. Nothing turned up. Police say the story of the teenager found wandering streets in Newport, Kentucky, on. He was pleasantly surprised, however, when she climbed into the car and acted as if the argument about it had never happened. What was unusual this time was that she took Tim with her. No suspects have been publicly identified in the case, and what little else is known about the baffling situation is that there was some marital strife between Timmothy Pitzens parents. She told Jim that afterward shed checked herself into a psychiatric ward for nearly a week and was prescribed medication and counseling. His brother claimed that during the call, he could hear Timmothy in the background playing or hanging out., But one part of that relayed phone conversation will ring in James ears for a long while. James Pitzen told People magazine in 2015 that there were tensions in the marriage but nothing that would suggest Amy or their child was in any danger. In the years following Timmothy Pitzens disappearance, police uncovered a slew of strange clues. After Jim helped her move to Antioch, they began a long-distance relationship, with Jim making the drive every couple of weeks. STEPHEN 'What sentimental tosh!' Financial records show that Amy bought Timmothy new clothes and toys before the trip; none of which ever turned up. Timmothy belongs to me. On May 11, 2011, Timmothy's father, James Pitzen, dropped him off at Greenman Elementary School in Aurora, Illinois, for kindergarten. Amy Fry-Pitzen pictured in a police handout. People Magazine feature from October 2015, Michigan School Teachers Admit to Making Adult Movies on the Side. Active Scene on Birchwood Lane in Eau Claire Co. Tell us where we should look inside here. That's according. Brian Michael Rini, 25, of Medina, pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft in January, according to federal authorities. As soon as he hung up, Chuck phoned Jim, who frantically tried calling his wife again, three times. I miss you. He hadnt heard from Amy, and she wasnt answering her phone. But then, on May 11, 2011, Amy pulled Timmothy out of school. That was it," he said. Youre just going to take Tim somewhere for the day without even telling me? He took the rest of the afternoon off. 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Something he didnt doan errand shed asked him to run that hed forgotten. A few months before Timmothy vanished, Amy had taken two unexplained trips into the Illinois countryside. Chicago Tribune. He was educated, toohe went to the Morrison Institute of Technology in Morrison, Illinoisbut saw himself as just a regular guy who liked the Blackhawks, fixing up old Jeeps,and grabbing a beer with a buddy now and then. Dad James is also pictured, James told the documentary: 'I found out she was talking to her ex husband and I said "you need to stop that, I'm not good with that and you can make a decision whether you want to be with him or you want to be with me and Timmothy"'. Who are these people hes with? Hes dated some, he says, but its hard. She had twice attempted suicide. The next day, a maid found Amys body in a nearby motel room, and Timmothy was missing. According to the police, the call came in approximately 5 miles northwest of Sterling, Illinois, near Route 40. At around 10 a.m., she pulled into an auto repair shop in La Grange, which suggests she knew shed need her SUV in good shape for the hundreds of miles she planned to drive. Angry, Jim began calling Amy. Please let us know where he's at. Can we come in? they said. I just can't wait 'til you come home'. He never will. She explained that all she required was a little bit of breathing room. On May 11, 2011, Amy Fry-Pitzen checked her 6-year-old son out of Greenman Elementary School citing a family emergency. Jim told CNN that his wifes biggest fear was that the state would take away her son over her mental issues. He feels his anger rising. Before Amy went back to the hotel, she was observed shopping at the supermarket, where she purchased a notebook, some envelopes, and a pen. Two other letters written by Amyone to her mother and one to the best friend who was with her on the Bahamas triparrived the next day, echoing the contents of the motel note. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. Please know that there is nothing that you could have said or done that would have changed my mind.. On the other hand, Fry-Pitzen made an attempt on his own life in 2003 by blacking out and falling off the edge of a cliff. All day, as they awaited the results of a DNA test, Jim, Kara, and the rest of the family agonized over the possibility that this was indeed Tim. And why did you not bring him home?. I drop her off, give her a kiss. Then, in late December, the police investigated a potential sighting of Tim at a Dennys restaurant in North Aurora. But as more information emerged, Jim grew skeptical. Later that night, she committed suicide by overdosing on antihistamines and cutting her wrists and throat. Security footage from the school shows the moment she led her son away. He tinkers with them less and less of late, so they now rest like neglected tombs, slowly rusting. In the People Magazine feature from October 2015, Jim said that he maintained the belief that his son was alive and with someone else. Jim folded his 6-foot-1 frame into a comfortable-looking chair. For one, he discovered that Amy had not taken her pills with her and may not have been using them for several days: Full bottles sat in the medicine cabinet, untouched. Peter married Mary Agnes Marie Pitzen (born Kintz) on month day 1923, at age 26 at marriage place, Indiana. It had to do with Amy and her friends partying all night long without informing Jim, and it happened while Amy was with her friends. Really? She was upset and she just needed some time alone. Recalls Kara: We all kind of breathed a sigh of relief, like, OK, shell be coming home soon., One of Amys next calls was not to Jim, but to his older brother. A message left on a phone listed to Pitzen in Long Beach was not immediately returned Monday. Fry-Pitzen struggled to overcome his feelings of depression. It was like all of a sudden her life had meaning, Kara recalls, that OK, maybe this is it: I was meant to be Tims mom, and this is my path. And it did seem to be it for a while. According to the sources, Amy and her son Timothy checked into their room at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin on May 12, 2011. We got one of those little IDenticards for kids, with his fingerprint and his name and a picture of him, so if he got lost somewhere you could find him., Pitzen added, Hes not with his mom. Timmothy Pitzen. Timmothy's aunt, Kara Jacobs, said the family's life had appeared 'normal' but added: that Amy, who had been married four times before, 'was not happy about the prospect of another divorce'. But what went wrong, and why didnt Amy answer Jims calls when they were placed? But there were too many elements that concerned him. When he escaped, he ran across a bridge to Kentucky, per the network. One person is going to solve the case, say to Tim, Hey, is this you? Then the cops are going to take over, and Im going to ask two questions: Why did you do this? She worked in Austin and Waterloo before her marriage. The nightmare began on May 11, 2011, which dawned as an otherwise unremarkable day for the family. Could she have been scouting a rendezvous point to hand off Tim? Three days after she checked her son out of school, Fry-Pitzen killed herself in a motel in Wisconsin, leaving a suicide note that said, in part, that her son was safe but he would never be found. An All Thats Interesting writer since 2013, Erin Kelly focuses on historic places, natural wonders, environmental issues, and the world of science. She called her mom, who then phoned Kara. Jim grew increasingly concerned. He wasnt there.. Just days later, his mother was found dead in a hotel room, with a suicide note that read youll never find him., Combining Unsolved Mysteries, Dark Media, True Crime, and Creepy Oddities, this Publication Is Here To Guide You Through The Dark Side Of The Internet and Our World, 23-year-old in Manchester, UK. [12][13], On April 3, 2019, local residents in Newport, Kentucky called the police to report a teenager wandering the streets after running across a bridge over the Ohio River. We will let you know more as soon as we can, one of the detectives said, handing him his card. James W Pitzen Plymouth, WI Aliases Jim Pitzen View Full Report Addresses Briar Trce, Plymouth, WI Barbara Way, Plymouth, WI 6th St S, Arlington, VA Relatives Sarah Beth Berth View details Phone Numbers (920) nay - peek + 1 more View James' Current Address | View James' Phone Best Match AGE 50s James Allen Pitzen Clinton, IA Aliases James A Pitcen Reality TV connoisseur. On May 14, 2011, at approximately 12:30 p.m., a hotelkeeper almost went into a panic when she discovered Amys body lying on the bed and saw a note. The six-year-oldvanished from Aurora, Illinois on May 11, 2011 after his mom, Amy Fry-Pitzen, pulled him out of kindergarten and took him on a two-day road trip to the zoo and a water park, before killing herself at a motel. Please help me. He tells me hes been kidnapped and hes been traded through all these people and he just wanted to go home.. The mother and son checked out of the resort the next morning. Ultimately, Hartmann has come down on the side that Tim is alive and will be found: This is what I tell people: No one would have ever believed that Jaycee Dugard was alive. In that famous case, Dugard was found 18 years after being kidnapped at age 11 by a couple who concealed her identity. Amy became pregnant the next year, and Timmothy was born soon after. Aurora Illinois Police Department/Facebook. When Fry-Pitzen died, she was on her fourth marriage, Anderson said. Afterward, she killed herself. We dont know, one said. Powered by. For a long time, Tims moon-face night-light had hung on Jims bedroom wall, but the pain of seeing it often led him to take it down. Fry-Pitzen, who was suffering from depression and going through an unhappy marriage at the time, was found dead from suicide May 14, 2011, inside a motel room in Rockford, Illinois, according to . The bag and toys belonging to Timothy were nowhere to be found, and according to the police, the concerning amount of blood that was found in her SUV belonged to Timothy. Couple find note in chimney that reveals their 290,000 house was 100 times cheaper 50 years ago. 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He tried to get in touch with her numerous times, but she did not pick up any of his calls or respond to any of his messages. NCMEC spokesperson Angeline Hartmann explained that their age progression photos can help find missing children. Amy grew up in Libertyville and graduated from Libertyville High School and Iowa State University. He could have drifted off reminiscing on happy times or feeling hopeful of a reunion, or he may have slipped off fighting despair and darkness. James Pitzen, age 72, of rural Shelby, Ohio passed away Monday, June 9, 2014 at The Willows at Willard, Ohio. Somethings wrong here. Amy Fry-Pitzen committed suicide by slitting her wrists and neck inside of a Rockford, Illinois, motel room. On top of everything, money issues crowded in. I truly think she believed that everyone would just get over it and go on with their lives. Despite everything, Jim had his wife buried beneath a headstone bearing the epitaph Loving Mother.. Jim said, Hes not with his mom. 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