TIMMOTHY J PITZEN - 6 yo - Rockford IL

nothing new found 4-10-12

Search for missing Aurora boy continues one year after his disappearance


Timmothy Pitzen

• Boy’s mother was found dead of a suicide inside a Rockford motel room May 14, 2011

Staff Report

The search for 7-year-old Timmothy Pitzen, of Aurora, Ill., who went
missing May 12, 2011, continues one year after his disappearance.

Timmothy was last seen at a water park in Wisconsin Dells, Wis. He was last with
his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, who was found dead May 14, 2011, of a
suicide after she slit her wrists with a knife inside a Rockford motel room.

Fry-Pitzen had taken her son out of school May 11, 2011, without telling family
members, and took him to the Wisconsin Dells. The two went on a
three-day, 500-mile road trip, stopping at zoos and water parks in
northern Illinois and Wisconsin.

Investigators have released surveillance video showing Fry-Pitzen taking Timmothy out of school, plus two home videos.

In the home videos, Timmothy is dressed in Spider-Man pajamas and playing a
guitar made from Tinker toys. In the surveillance video, Fry-Pitzen is
shown waiting in the school until Timmothy approaches wearing a
backpack. The video then shows the two leaving the school.

The investigation has revealed Fry-Pitzen made several cellphone calls from
the Rock Falls-Sterling area. Her final call May 13 had her about 5
miles northwest of Sterling near Illinois Highway 40. She had called
family May 13 to tell them she and Timmothy were OK.

Police examination of Fry-Pitzen’s I-PASS account showed she had made two
prior trips to the Dixon-Rock Falls-Sterling area that her family could
not account for.

Police found a large amount of Timmothy’s blood in the back seat of the 2004
Ford Expedition Fry-Pitzen was driving when she took him out of school.
However, authorities said the blood could have been from a nosebleed.

When her Ford Expedition was located in the parking lot of the Rockford
hotel, Aurora police said the vehicle was “visibly dirty and had growth
that was similar to tall grass or weeds underneath the body.”

Six months after Timmothy’s disappearance, police released results of
forensic analysis of the grass, dirt and debris taken from Fry-Pitzen’s
Ford Expedition. Lab results determined the plant material on the
Expedition showed it was stopped for a time on a wide gravel shoulder or
a gravel road. According to reports, the evidence showed the Expedition
was backed into a grassy field near the gravel area.

A suicide note and several letters were found upon Fry-Pitzen’s death. In
notes to her husband, her mother and a close friend, Fry-Pitzen said
her son was safe and with people who loved him. However, she did not say
with whom she had left Timmothy.

Timmothy’s grandmother, Alana Anderson, has said in reports that one of the notes warned, “You will never find Timmothy.”

Anderson and Timmothy’s father, Jim Pitzen, marked what would have been
Timmothy’s seventh birthday Oct. 18, 2011, by planting a 7-year-old blue
spruce tree in the back garden.

Anderson told the Chicago Tribune:

“I bought him a birthday card and cut out pictures of the things I
would have bought for him … a lighted skateboard, a remote-control helicopter.”

Timmothy Pitzen, who may go by Tim or Timmy, is white with brown hair and brown
eyes. He was last known to be 4 feet, 2 inches tall and weighed 70 pounds.

Anyone with information about Timmothy Pitzen’s whereabouts is urged to
contact The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST) or the Aurora Police Department at 1-630-256-5000.

From the May 2-8, 2012, issue

http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/05/02/search-for-missing-aurora-boy-continues-one-year-after-his-disappearance/

One year later: Where is Timmothy Pitzen?

By Matt Hanley mhanley@stmedianetwork.com
May 11, 2012 9:10AM
Updated: May 11, 2012 12:48PM


One year after 6-year-old Timmothy Pitzen disappeared, Aurora police released new surveillance video of his mother checking and leaving a Wisconsin resort.

On May 11, 2011, Amy Fry-Pitzen took her only son out of Greenman Elementary School in Aurora early on the school day. Without telling any family members, Timmothy and Amy went on a three-day, 500-mile road trip, stopping at zoos and water parks. On the third day, Amy finally called family to report that she was fine. Timmothy was heard in the background. Police found her body and a suicide note the next morning. Timmothy has not been found.

The clips released Friday represent the final surveillance footage Aurora police have of Amy and Timmothy. They have previously released several clips and a home video of Timmothy.

The clips show Amy and Timmothy walking into or leaving the Key Lime Cove Resort in Gurnee, on May 12, 2011; the fifth shows Amy and Timmohty at Kalahari Resort in the Wisconsin Dells. Like the previous clips, the video show ordinary mother-son interactions. In one, Timmothy drives a toy truck through the lobby while his mother checks in.

On Friday, police again asked residents in northwest Illinois to search their properties for several missing items that may help pinpoint what happened to the boy.

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.

Missing items that may yield clues and those of which people should be looking for include Timmothy’s Spider Man backpack, several toys and a tube of toothpaste Amy had bought for Timmothy before he disappeared; and Amy’s cell phone and I-Pass device. Since there are several state parks and other popular areas for outdoor enthusiasts in that part of Illinois, police are also hoping that hikers, bikers, boaters, and other visitors will be on the lookout for the items. Anyone finding any of the items should immediately call Aurora Police at 630-256-5500.

While investigators continue to pursue any and all information that may come in, they still have no leads about whether Timmothy is still alive. The last time anyone heard from Timmothy was on May 13, 2011, when he talked to a relative via his mother’s cell phone as the pair were traveling about five miles west of Sterling, Illinois.

Aurora Police still receive periodic calls from people across the nation who think they have spotted Timmothy but after exhaustively following up on every report, no further information has developed.

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

One video shows Timmothy Pitzen pushing a toy truck across a carpeted
lobby. Another shows him clutching something to his chest as he walks
through a stairwell exit behind his mother. In a third, the 6-year-old
jogs to catch up to his mother as she walks from a water resort.

Those movements, recorded by surveillance cameras at resorts in Gurnee
and Wisconsin Dells, Wis., were released Friday morning by authorities
investigating the Aurora boy's disappearance.




Friday marked one year since the
day Timmothy's mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, pulled him from his kindergarten
classroom and took off on a two-day trip. Police released the 59
seconds of video clips to renew interest in the search for Timmothy, who
was last seen leaving a Wisconsin Dells water resort May 13, 2011.

By about noon the next day, Fry-Pitzen had committed suicide in a
Rockford motel room, authorities say. When employees found her body,
Timmothy was missing. She stated in a note that he was safe, leading
some to speculate that she left him in the care of responsible adults.

In addition to the release of the videos, police on Friday morning
reiterated key elements of the investigation and made another appeal for
help. By Friday afternoon, no promising leads had developed as a result
of the media exposure, authorities said.

A forensic botany analysis of Fry-Pitzen's SUV indicated it had been
parked for an unknown period of time in a gravel area near a remote
asphalt road close to a meadow in northwest Illinois.

Authorities also noted on Friday that they continue looking for "missing
items that may yield clues." Those items include Timmothy's Spider-Man backpack, a tube of toothpaste, Fry-Pitzen's cellphone and her I-Pass transponder.

Investigators "still have no leads into Timmothy's whereabouts,
including whether the boy is still alive or met with foul play," Aurora
police spokesman Dan Ferrelli said in a statement.

He said police "still receive periodic calls from people across the
nation who think they have spotted Timmothy, but after exhaustively
following up on every report, no further information has developed."

Timmothy would be 7 years old now. At the time of his disappearance, he
was 4 feet 2 inches tall and about 70 pounds with brown eyes and brown
hair. Anyone with information that could help find Timmothy can call
Aurora police at 630-256-5500.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-pitzen-video-20120512,0,3173360.story

Two years later, search continues for missing Illinois boy


Posted on: 3:22 pm, May 14, 2013, by Shellie Nelson


On the second anniversary of his disappearance, investigators are reviewing evidence to try to figure out what happened to Timmothy Pitzen.

Surveillance cameras captured video of Timmothy and his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, as Amy checked him out of school in Aurora, Illinois on May 11, 2011 and as the two visited two resorts in Wisconsin.

The last time anyone heard from Timmothy was May 13, 2011 when he spoke with a relative via his mother’s cell phone. Timmothy and Amy were about five miles west of Sterling, Illinois at that time.

Amy’s body was found in a hotel room May 14, 2011. Police said she had apparently committed suicide with a knife.

In a post marking two years since Amy’s body was found, a Facebook page dedicated to finding Timmothy said detectives believe the boy is still alive.

The post quotes an article from WIFR that says it is still a missing person’s case, and that police field about five calls a month from people who say they’ve spotted Timmothy. Investigators were re-examining evidence and revisiting more than 60 people who all consistently say Amy would never have harmed her son.

The recent discovery of three women ten years after they vanished in Cleveland inspires supporters to not give up.

Timmothy Pitzen was six years old when he vanished. He is nearly nine years old now.

Anyone with information about Timmothy should call 911.

Get more video, photos and coverage of the disappearance of Timmothy Pitzen – click here.



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I hope and pray I'm wrong but I think his mother murdered Timmothy.