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Tha case of Timmothy Pitzen, missing since age 6, turned up yesterday age 14

  • 04-04-2019 4:32pm
    #1
    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 11,987 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    This is chilling, a young boy who went missing at the age of 6 has (potentially) turned up in Kentucky yesterday. At the age of 6 his mother took him on an unplanned roadtrip for a few days in 2011 without telling his father. A number of days into the trip, her body was found in a motel room where she had killed herself and left a note saying that the boy was with someone who loved him and he'd never be found.

    Fast forward to 2019, a 14 year old boy approached a woman on the street in Kentucky yesterday looking for help saying he had just escaped from two men in a motel who had kidnapped him and he wanted to get home. He claims to be this boy, Timmothy Pitzen. Absolutely terrifying that a mother would make her own child disappear/give him away/sell him rather than allow him stay with his father and extended family after she was gone. I have only read this one article this afternoon but am fascinated to hear if it is this boy for real and where he has been all this time. Had anyone else heard of the case before now?

    More here
    A 14-year-old boy told authorities in Kentucky on Wednesday he'd just escaped from two kidnappers and identified himself as a child who went missing almost eight years ago in Illinois.


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  • #2
    dark crystal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    I really hope it's him and he can be returned safely to his remaining family. Such a heartbreaking and bizarre case.


    The fact he said he was kidnapped and passed around is truly terrifying stuff - your worst nightmare. It certainly doesn't fit with the story his mother wrote on her apparant suicide note, that he was safe and with people who would love him. How his father must be feeling right now...



    It will be very interesting to see how the DNA tests pan out and what his backstory is. Poor little guy :(


  • #3
    jellybear
    Registered Users Posts: 3,223 ✭✭✭jellybear


    Unfortunately it's not him :(

    https://news.sky.com/story/amp/dna-shows-teenager-is-not-missing-timmothy-pitzen-fbi-says-11684500


  • #4
    Hunchback
    Registered Users Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭Hunchback


    Really odd thing to do - claim that you are a missing kid. To what end? Attention? Curious


  • #5
    jellybear
    Registered Users Posts: 3,223 ✭✭✭jellybear


    Hunchback wrote: »
    Really odd thing to do - claim that you are a missing kid. To what end? Attention? Curious

    May answer some of your questions...https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6888101/Boy-wandering-streets-Kentucky-NOT-missing-Timmothy-Pitzen.html

    I feel so sorry for Timmothy's family.


  • #6
    dark crystal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    What a cruel, awful thing to do to his poor family. Jesus, imagine getting your hopes up like that... :(


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  • #7
    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 11,987 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    I just read the story that it was a hoax, what kind of person would even think to do that?!


  • #8
    Kingp35
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,245 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kingp35


    It was an incredibly cruel thing to do. the family must be heartbroken all over again.

    With that said, I'm not sure how anyone could think that the 23 year old could be a 14 year old. Surely it would have been obvious straight away that it was a hoax.


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