WOMAN CLAIMS TO BE MISSING CHERRIE MAHAN, 8, WHO VANISHED AT BUS STOP;MISSING BOY’S FAMILY SCARED OF IMPOSTER POSING AS TIMMOTHY
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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3.9 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Two family grapple with individuals who claim to be long-lost missing children.
A woman comes forward claiming to be Cherrie Ann Mahan. The little girl was just an 8-year-old when she went missing, after getting off her school bus, just feet away from her home. A blue or green van is the only clue.
Six-year-old Timmothy James Pitzen was dropped off at school by his father James. Not long after, he was picked up after by his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, who took the boy on a three-day trip to amusement parks in their region. Fry-Pitzen's body was found in a motel room. The mom had committed suicide, leaving a note says Timmothy was safe, but his father would never see him again.
Who would claim to be a missing child?
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:05.0 | A woman claiming to be missing Cherry Mahan |
| 0:11.0 | 8 years old when she vanishes at a bus stop, has emerged. Is this real? |
| 0:18.4 | What happened to 8-year-old Cherry? I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:25.0 | In the last days a woman claiming to be Cherry Mahan who goes missing at just age 8, has emerged. |
| 0:34.2 | What happened in the case? |
| 0:36.5 | I want you to take a listen to this. |
| 0:38.8 | Janice and Leroy McKinney hear Cherry's bus arriving to drop off Cherry and Leroy wants to walk down the hill to meet his daughter |
| 0:44.9 | But Janice says wait it's a nice day let her walk 10 minutes pass and Cherry hasn't made it up the driveway so the McKinney's decided to walk down the driveway. |
| 0:54.0 | As they walk, they don't see Cherry, nor did they see any of her footprints in the snow leading up the driveway. |
| 1:00.3 | On the driveway, about 50 yards from the house house they see tire impressions in the snow |
| 1:05.1 | soil of the driveway. Joining me an all-star panel but first I want to go to |
| 1:08.8 | Molly Miller Crime Reporter at the Butler Eagle. |
| 1:12.6 | Molly, thank you so much for being with us. |
| 1:15.0 | What exactly do we believe happened the morning Cherry went missing? |
| 1:20.8 | I'll get to the woman claiming to be Cherry in just a moment but I want to |
| 1:24.0 | establish what happened all we know is that this bluish green van with the |
| 1:27.8 | mountain skier on the side was following the bus she exits the bus with three other kids and seemingly starts to walk up the driveway, but at that point, people don't really know where she went after that, no one, there's no reported sighting from anyone. She's last seen wearing a gray jacket, blue |
| 1:47.1 | jeans skirt, some leg warmers and some earmuffs and no clothing is ever found. |
| 1:52.7 | And her stepdad reportedly came down to check for her |
| 1:56.6 | just 10 minutes after they heard the bus pull up. |
| 1:59.0 | So really it seems as if she's vanished into thin air. |
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