105: MISSING: Timmothy Pitzen

Detective Perspective

Derrick Levasseur

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On the morning of May 13, 2011, 6-year-old Timmothy Pitzen was seen checking out of the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells with his mother, Amy. But he was never seen with her again.

The next day, Amy was found dead in a motel in Rockford, Illinois. She left behind notes saying Tim was safe and would be cared for, but that no one would ever find him.

Fourteen years later, Tim’s whereabouts remain unknown, and his family is still searching, hoping to bring him home.

6-year-old Timmothy Pitzen was last seen on the morning of May 13, 2011, checking out of the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells with his mother, Amy.

Later that afternoon, Amy made phone calls to her family, and Tim spoke to his uncle. That was the last time anyone confirmed he was with her.

The next day, Amy was found dead in a motel in Rockford, Illinois. In her final notes, she said Tim was safe and would be cared for, but that no one would ever find him.

To this day, Tim has never been located. At the time he disappeared, he was 6 years old, 4-foot-2, about 70 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing green or blue shorts, a brown t-shirt, white socks, and carrying a Spider-Man backpack.

If you have any information about Tim or his disappearance, please call NCMEC at 1-800-843-5678 or the Aurora Police Department at 1-630-256-5516.

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0:00.0	On the morning of May 13, 2011, 6-year-old Timothy Pitson was seen checking out of the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin-Dells with his mother Amy, but he was never seen with her again.
0:22.9	The next day, Amy was found dead in a motel in Rockford, Illinois. She had left behind notes stating that Tim was safe and would
0:28.8	be cared for, but that no one would ever find him. Fourteen years later, Tim's whereabouts
0:35.3	remain unknown, and his family is still searching, hoping to bring him home.
1:14.2	Theirond... Hey everyone. Welcome back to Detective Perspective. My name is Derek Lavasser. I'm a licensed private investigator and former police detective. Each week I'll be covering an unsolved case and story
1:19.6	format. I'll then give you my perspective on the investigation and provide contact information
1:24.6	for the individuals or organizations connected to the case so that if you have any
1:28.9	tips, you can contact them directly, and maybe you can help solve a case. So if you're someone who's
1:33.7	interested in true crime, specifically unsolved cases, and you would like to hear my opinion on those
1:38.9	investigations, please consider subscribing, whether you're watching on YouTube or listening on Apple
1:43.9	podcast, Spotify, or whatever platform you use.
1:47.6	All right, so I want to go over a couple of things unrelated to the case.
1:50.7	So if you're not interested in that, please just skip forward, you know, five or six minutes and I'll get right into the episode.
1:56.6	But for everybody else who's still here, first off, I want to talk about CrimeCon.
2:01.3	It was an unbelievable weekend.
2:04.0	I got to meet a ton of you, had a lot of feedback about the show and what you thought about it and where you think we can go from here.
2:11.3	I also got to meet multiple families, some of which I've covered their loved one's stories right here on this channel.
2:18.2	I got to meet Megan Truffle's parents, Joe and Vanessa.
2:21.0	And in fact, after meeting with them, hearing about the story again in person and seeing where it was right now,
2:27.5	we actually did a crime weekly news live, Stephanie and I, and covered her case right there on the spot with Vanessa in the audience.
2:35.6	And she actually got up a couple times and gave some comments and filled in some blanks for the audience and got a standing ovation at the end of the episode.
2:44.1	In fact, I was so inspired right on, this was not planned, right in the middle of the podcast.
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