Missing boy Timmothy Pitzen could be kidnapped from a Mormon commune with no idea who he really is, his grandmother believes.
Timothy disappeared without a trace on May 11, 2011, shortly after being dropped off at Greenman Elementary School in Aurora, Illinoisby your father.
His mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, told the school she needed to take her six-year-old son home due to a family emergency.
Fry-Pitzen, 43, took her son on a three-day vacation, visited the zoo and several water parks, and was found dead in a motel room alone on May 14.
A suicide note she left said her son was safe and “well cared for,” but added: “You will never find him.”
Timmothy Pitzen disappeared without a trace on May 11, 2011, shortly after he was dropped off at Greenman Elementary School in Aurora, Illinois, when his mother picked him up early.
Amy Fry-Pitzen, 43, took her son on a three-day vacation, visiting the zoo and several water parks, and was found dead in a motel room alone on May 14.
Since then, his father Jim Pitzen and his grandmother Linda Pitzen, along with the police, have searched for him fruitlessly without any clues.
Timmothy’s childhood friend Hannah Soukup also couldn’t let the case go and did her own investigation into his disappearance.
She believes her missing classmate lives in a remote Mormon commune with no Internet access, and Linda agrees.
“I think he wanted Timm to be raised Mormon,” Linda told the US Sunand added that her daughter-in-law was raised in a religious sect.
‘The rest of us are not Mormons and I think this was her way of making sure he was after she left.
“She never pushed anyone except Jim. But he was reluctant and I think her church may have been putting a bit of pressure on her, I don’t know.’
What Timmothy would look like today, at 19 years old
Timmothy’s grandmother, Linda Pitzen, believes he could be confined to a Mormon commune with no idea who he really is.
Timmothy’s childhood friend Hannah Soukup believes he lives in a remote Mormon commune with no Internet access, and Linda agrees.
Soukup said her former classmate, who like her would now be 19, had no idea who she was to not come looking for her family.
“Regardless of what Amy did, she did a good job of hiding it,” he told the US Sun.
“I think she made it clear that he had to change his identity or that he had to stay off the Internet so that he would never know that he was missing.
“I definitely think he’s alive, but I definitely think he’s somewhere that’s going to be very hard to find.”
Soukup, whose lasting memory of Timmothy was when they were sent to a timeout together to open Thanksgiving treats early, recalled how his teacher explained what happened to him.
“I remember we all assumed he was sick, so it was all very sudden, and because we were so young, we didn’t really understand what was going on, even when Mrs Broach briefly told us what happened in a sugar-clad way.
“I just remember being very, very confused because he wasn’t there.”
The first sign that something was wrong was when Jim Pitzen (left) arrived to pick up Timmothy from school and was told that his wife (right) had already picked him up.
Soukup said her former classmate, who like her would now be 19, had no idea who she was not to come looking for her family.
Another missing poster posted in 2019 showing Timmothy when he disappeared and what he would have looked like at the time when he was 14 years old.
Soukup didn’t discover the truth until her mother sat her down at age 11.
“It’s so unfair that they separated him from the rest of his family because his mother had ulterior motives,” she said.
“And it breaks my heart that people hold him back and don’t let him know who he is or to anyone he’s met before, and keep him away from the rest of the world.
“At the same time, what really scares me is that he could be out there living a normal life and have no idea who he is.
“He could be at college under a completely different name and think these people he was handed over to are his family.”
The first sign that something was wrong was when Jim Pitzen arrived to pick up Timmothy from school and was told that his wife had already picked him up.
The couple spoke of separating in the weeks before Fry-Pitzen left with their son, and she was “not happy at the prospect of another divorce.”
For more than a day, she found no sign of Timmothy or Fry-Pitzen, until she finally called him and his brother Chuck on May 12.
‘Timmothy is fine. Timothy belongs to me. Timmothy and I will be fine. Timmothy is safe. “Tim is my son, I can do whatever he wants,” he told them.
She said to Chuck, ‘What? Do not trust me?’. I’m not going to get hurt. I’m not going to hurt Tim.’
Fry-Pitzen also told his mother that “everything is fine” and that she just needed to spend some time alone with her son.
The last known images of Timmothy and his mother together were captured on CCTV, leaving the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells on May 12.
The last known images of Timmothy and his mother together were captured on CCTV, leaving the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells on May 12.
Here they are walking out the door together, the last moments before he disappeared.
The next day, Amy was seen alone on a surveillance camera at a supermarket 120 miles away, near Rockford, after having purchased a pen, paper and some envelopes.
The next day, Amy was seen alone on a surveillance camera at a supermarket 120 miles away, near Rockford, after having purchased a pen, paper and some envelopes.
He used them to write his suicide note and send it to his mother Alana Anderson.
I have taken him to a safe place. He will be well taken care of and says that he loves you. Please know that there is nothing you could have said or done that would have changed my mind,” he wrote.
Fry-Pitzen was found dead inside her Rockford Inn motel room on May 14, after taking her own life by swallowing pills and cutting her wrists.
Aurora police launched an investigation spanning three states, including Illinois and Wisconsin, after his death to find the person who was allegedly in possession of Timmothy.
Police say they also explored the possibility that Amy had murdered her son in her confusion and hidden the boy’s body somewhere.
The razor-edged knife with which he cut his wrists showed only traces of blood.
The couple spoke about separating in the weeks before Fry-Pitzen left with their son, and she was “not happy at the prospect of another divorce.”
But three months after Timmothy disappeared, investigators found a “concerning” amount of blood in the back seat of Amy’s car.
However, hope that the six-year-old boy might still be alive was revived when it was later concluded that the blood came from a nosebleed suffered by Timmothy several months earlier.
By analyzing the exterior of Amy’s truck, police were able to determine that the vehicle had at one point been parked in a grassy area near a stream and a road treated with glass beads.
They believed this might have been the location where Amy handed Timothy over to the mysterious third party, but nothing further was obtained from the evidence.
The latest development in Pitzen’s disappearance came in 2014, when a woman hosting a yard sale in northern Illinois called 911 to tell police that a boy matching her description had been standing in her front yard. from his house.