Aurora police said the DNA tests will take about 24 hours. The FBI has not confirmed a link to the Pitzen case. Timothy seemingly disappeared after his mother, 43-year-old Amy Fry-Pitzen, was found dead by apparent suicide in a Rockford, Illinois hotel room. That they are sending detectives to Cincinnati to investigate a strong tip about Timmothy Pitzen, a then-6-year-old Aurora boy who went missing in 2011.
The FBI told WCPO that they're conducting a DNA test to identify the child.Īurora police told Scripps station WTMJ in Milwaukee Law enforcement sources close to the investigation said they're working on positively identifying the boy. Workers at several area hotels said authorities had spoken to them and/or requested their guest lists.
Multiple police agencies said they'd been told to check Red Roof Inns in the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area.
The child told police he was being held in a Red Roof Inn somewhere in the area, but couldn't say which one, according to police in the Cincinnati suburbs of Sharonville and Blue Ash.Īn FBI spokesperson in Louisville said they're working with Newport, Kentucky police, Cincinnati police, the Hamilton County (Ohio) Sheriff's Office and Aurora, Illinois police on a missing child investigation. CINCINNATI - The FBI and a handful of police departments are working to verify a boy's story that he was abducted years ago, with police in Illinois saying he may be a boy who's been missing since 2011.
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