05-19-2011, 08:03 PM
Chicago Trib
May 19, 2011
DIXON, Ill. – A search of several rural communities by dozens of police officers searching for evidence connected to a missing 6-year-old Aurora boy turned up nothing, authorities said this afternoon.
About 70 officers from law enforcement agencies in Aurora, Dixon, Sterling, Lee County as well as from the Illinois Department of Conservation, aided by bloodhounds and a spotter plane, spent about five hours searching for any signs of Timothy Pitzen.
Officers centered their search in the Interstate 88 and Interstate 39 corridors through Sterling, Rock Falls, and Dixon, which are about 100 miles west of Chicago. Authorities said this was the same area in which the boy's mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, made several cellular telephone calls last Friday and the last location detectives know the two were definitely together.
"It's kind of a needle in a haystack," said Aurora Police Lt. Pete Inda, "but we've got to get out here."
now police say his name is spelled with 2 m: 'Timmothy'.
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May 19, 2011
DIXON, Ill. – A search of several rural communities by dozens of police officers searching for evidence connected to a missing 6-year-old Aurora boy turned up nothing, authorities said this afternoon.
About 70 officers from law enforcement agencies in Aurora, Dixon, Sterling, Lee County as well as from the Illinois Department of Conservation, aided by bloodhounds and a spotter plane, spent about five hours searching for any signs of Timothy Pitzen.
Officers centered their search in the Interstate 88 and Interstate 39 corridors through Sterling, Rock Falls, and Dixon, which are about 100 miles west of Chicago. Authorities said this was the same area in which the boy's mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, made several cellular telephone calls last Friday and the last location detectives know the two were definitely together.
"It's kind of a needle in a haystack," said Aurora Police Lt. Pete Inda, "but we've got to get out here."
now police say his name is spelled with 2 m: 'Timmothy'.