The disappearance of Timmothy Pitzen

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Nina Innsted

True Crime, Mystery, Missing, History, Murder, Truecrime, Unsolved

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

6 year old Timmothy Pitzen, a resident of Aurora, IL, went missing in May of 2011. He was taken from school by his mother, Amy Fry Pitzen. Amy died by suicide and Timmothy has never been located.

At the time of his disappearance Timmothy was 4’2 inches tall, 70 pounds with light brown hair and brown eyes. If you have information on his case, contact Aurora Police at 630-256-5000

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0:00.0	Thanksgiving Weekend 2010, Michiganers are shocked to learn of the disappearance of the
0:22.0	skeleton brothers. Their father, John Skelton, claimed that Alexander, Andrew, and Tanner Skelton
0:29.0	were unharmed, that he relocated them to a family in an underground network. A place where
0:34.6	the boys would be safe and loved, but far away from the influence of their mother, Tanya
0:39.8	Zuvers. Despite multiple searches in Southern Michigan and in Northern Ohio, the Skelton
0:46.3	brothers are still missing a decade later. There has been no sign or sighting of the children
0:52.0	since 2010. Their father sits in prison, locked away at the Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility in
0:58.5	Ionia. John Skelton could be up for parole later this year, and his sentence will end in 2025
1:06.7	when the youngest of his three boys would be 18 years old. Skelton was charged with unlawful
1:12.8	imprisonment for the disappearance of his three children. There isn't evidence to charge him
1:18.4	with a more serious crime. Skelton pled no contest to the charges and the judge handed down the harshest
1:25.3	sentence that she could. And it's possible that Alexander, Andrew, and Tanner are still alive,
1:32.8	that they're being raised in secrecy, homeschooled, perhaps they are living among the Amish or
1:38.5	another isolated group. Unfortunately, it's also possible that the boys are dead, murdered by
1:45.7	their father, their remains concealed for a decade. Today's story, the disappearance of Timothy
1:52.8	Pitson, it bears a striking resemblance to the case of the Skelton brothers. Of course, Timothy
1:59.1	wasn't only child, and his mother, who was his kidnapper, she's deceased. She took her own life
2:06.5	after taking Timothy away from his father and the family who loved him. But just like John Skelton,
2:13.2	Amy Pitson was able to make a little boy disappear and leave a path of grief, anguish, and
2:18.9	questions in his place. So come with me to the spring of 2004, when 35-year-old Amy Fry learns
2:27.8	that she's pregnant, and a tragic course of events begins to unfold. Amy Fry was born May 3rd,
2:36.1	1968 to parents Lee and Alana. Amy grew up in Illinois, raised in the northern suburbs of Chicago
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