not good...why check son out of school if you are going to kill yourself? where is he?
Chicago tribune
Aurora police are leading the search for a missing 6-year-old boy whose mother was found dead today in a Rockford motel room from an apparent suicide. (she slit her wrists.)
The mother, Amy J. Fry-Pitzen, 43, was discovered dead by Rockford police this afternoon inside of a motel room in the 3800 block of 11th Street in Rockford, with no signs of her son, Timothy, Aurora police said in a news release.
Fry-Pitzen, of the 400 block of North Highland Avenue in Aurora, suffered slit wrists, authorities said.
The mom left a note saying that Timothy was fine and that she left him in the care of unnamed individuals, authorities said. Aurora detectives are working with other police departments in Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa hoping to gain new leads. Fry-Pitzen has several relatives and friends in Iowa, police added.
After Fry-Pitzen's husband reported the pair missing on Thursday, police discovered that Fry-Pitzen had checked her son out of his school the previous morning.
After getting her son Wednesday, police said the pair stayed at the Key Lime Cove Resort in Gurnee that night before heading to the Kalahari Resort in the Wisconsin Dells on Thursday night. Fry-Pitzen was also seen at Sullivan’s Foods in the 700 block of Elida Street in Winnebago, Ill., at around 8 p.m. Friday.
Several of the woman's family members and acquaintances spoke with her Friday. Fry-Pitzen told them that she and her son were fine and not in danger. One relative spoke with the child, who didn't sound as if he was in any distress, police said.
Timothy is described as a white, about 4-foot-2 inches tall, weighing about 70 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
Anyone who may have seen Timothy in recent days is asked to call Aurora Police at 630-256-5500, or their local authorities by dialing 911.
I guess she couldn't just leave him at school. Why not tell where he is? That is the fucked up part.
(03-15-2013, 07:12 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: You see Duchess, I have set up a thread to discuss something and this troll is behaving just like Riotgear did.
The father of a missing six-year-old boy from Aurora said he was still waiting late Saturday to learn the whereabouts of his son after his wife — who was found dead of an apparent suicide earlier in the day — had taken him and vanished last week.
“There is a lot of people out looking for him,’’ Jim Pitzen said of his son, Timothy Pitzen, a kindergartener in Aurora.
He said he and police have contacted “a lot of people’’ but they still have no idea where the boy is.
“She was not in a good place when she left,’’ Jim Pitzen said of his wife, Amy Fry-Pitzen, when she left the home Wednesday.
Police said Fry-Pitzen, 43, took her son out of school at 8:35 a.m. Wednesday. Jim Pitzen reported them missing at 1 p.m. Thursday.
On Friday, though, she contacted several family members and friends and told them everything was fine, police said. A relative spoke with Timothy that afternoon and told police the boy did not sound as if her were in distress.
“He sounded okay,’’ Pitzen said a relative on his side of the family told him.
But Saturday, employees at the Rockford Motel, 3851 11th St., found the body of Fry-Pitzen inside a room at 12:30 p.m., Rockford Police Lt. Dane Person said. Her wrists had been slit, authorities said. The boy was not with her.
Police said she left a note indicating that Timothy was fine and that she had left him in the care of unnamed people, but Jim Pitzen said he did not know if that was the case.
In fact, Pitzen said he had “no idea where my wife or son have been for the past three days’’ until police investigated.
Police later determined that Fry-Pitzen and her son stayed at the Key Lime Cove Resort in Gurnee on Wednesday night and at the Kalahari Resort in the Wisconsin Dells on Thursday night, which is where the boy was last seen. Fry-Pitzen was also seen at a grocery story in Winnebago, near Rockford, at about 8 p.m. Friday.
Jim Pitzen said his wife has friends and relatives in Iowa, Ohio, Arizona, and California — but “to my knowledge we don’t have any family or friends in Wisconsin.’’ He said the family had not been to the Kalahari Resort together in the past, nor to Rockford.
“I have no idea why she was there,’’ he said.
He described his son as “an energetic little six-year-old.’’
The couple’s eighth wedding anniversary would have been this week.
Timothy is described as 4-foot-2, 70 pounds, with brown hair and eyes. Anyone who believes they saw either the boy or his mother is urged to call Aurora police at (630) 256-5500.
(05-15-2011, 04:27 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: makes me wonder why she was trying to hurt the husband/father. it's reminding me of the skelton case. :(
Yeah. Do unnamed family members/friends REALLY take these kids and not tell the other parent or is this little boy deceased?
Did they ever find the three little boys?
(03-15-2013, 07:12 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: You see Duchess, I have set up a thread to discuss something and this troll is behaving just like Riotgear did.
unrelated. but Jesus! who is this boy and how did he die??
nobody has reported him missing!! poor kid. :(
WMUR NH
SOUTH BERWICK, Maine -- State police in Maine are appealing for the public's help as investigators try to identify the body of a boy found along a remote road.
The body was found on Dennett Road by a resident in South Berwick at about 5 p.m. Saturday. Police said the death was suspicious. An autopsy was scheduled for Sunday afternoon in Augusta.
Steve McCausland of the Maine Department of Public Safety said the boy is believed to be between 4 and 6 years old with dirty blond hair and blue eyes.
Investigators later released a computer generated photo of the boy. The photo was created by the State Police Computer Crimes Unit.
The body was found in a wooded area outside South Berwick, about 15 miles north of Portsmouth, N.H.
Maine and New Hampshire police have had no missing-person report filed for a young boy.
Detectives said they have spoken with neighbors who live close to where the boy's body was found.
Investigators said they are looking for a navy blue Toyota Tacoma pickup that may be connected to the case. The truck has an extended cab and a full cap over the bed. Police said the truck had a white license plate but the state of origin was unknown.
State police have consulted with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and notified police across the country.
Anyone with information on the boy's identify is asked to call Maine State Police in Gray at 207-657-3030.
Investigators later released this computer generated photo of the boy. The photo was created by the State Police Computer Crimes Unit.
Police said the boy is 3 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 45 pounds. He was wearing a gray camouflage hooded sweat shirt, khaki pants and black "Lightning McQueen" sneakers.
As Aurora police today continued their search for a boy missing after his mother's apparent suicide in a Rockford hotel room, the boy's father waited, hoping for good news from authorities on his son's whereabouts.
James Pitzen, 39, last saw his son Timothy Wednesday morning on his way to kindergarten. Pitzen's wife, Amy Pitzen-Fry checked the boy out of school about 8:30 a.m. that day, before going to Brookfield Zoo and to the Key Lime Cove Water Park in Gurnee that night, police said.
She called relatives Friday afternoon to say that the two were not in danger. That night she was seen at a Sullivan's Foods in Winnebago before checking into a motel in Rockford about 11:15 p.m. without her son, police said. The next day, motel workers found her body.
"She's never done anything like this before," James Pitzen said today, standing in a room filled with Timothy's toys. well no, she's dead.
I can barely read any more of these. A 5 yr old little girl in Oz went missing and was found dead with an adult male in a car the following day. Poor baby must have been so scared. It's getting too difficult to process this sadness. These monsters who hurt children need to be dealt with before they have a chance to hurt anymore. :(
As authorities continue to search for the child, details about Fry-Pitzen's troubled past began to emerge. She apparently had tried to kill herself at least once before, according to an ex-husband.
During an argument more than a decade ago with her second husband, Greg Campbell, Amy Fry-Pitzen parked her car on the railroad tracks in Ames, Iowa, in an attempted suicide, according to Campbell.
But before a train passed, she got off the tracks and checked herself into a psychiatric ward for nearly a week, according to Campbell, who was married to Fry-Pitzen from 1995 to 2000.
After being released from the hospital, Fry-Pitzen was prescribed an antidepressant, but she stopped taking the drug around the time of their divorce, Campbell said.
Fry-Pitzen had "a really outgoing personality, but then she'd get depressed sometimes," Campbell said.
Aurora police spokesman Dan Ferrelli confirmed that Fry-Pitzen had suffered bouts of mental illness, had previously attempted suicide and had been on medication for depression. There appeared to have been no argument or event that triggered Fry-Pitzen's decision to flee with the boy last week, Ferrelli said.
Fry-Pitzen's mother, Alana Anderson, declined to comment Monday on her daughter's mental health, only saying, "I'm so stunned. I'm in complete disbelief."
Fry-Pitzen was a wonderful mother and daughter who had "problems" when she was younger, but "everything seemed better" over the last 15 years, Anderson said.
"She absolutely adored her son, and he adored her," Anderson said.
Fry-Pitzen graduated from Libertyville High School and Iowa State University, according to her first husband, Michael Natonski, whom she divorced 20 years ago. At the time of her death, she was working for a property management company in the Chicago area, he said.
James Pitzen, 39, said he last saw his son Wednesday morning on his way to kindergarten. Pitzen dropped Timothy off at kindergarten at 7:45 a.m. Less than an hour later, Fry-Pitzen picked Timothy up from the school and took him to Brookfield Zoo and the KeyLime Cove Water Park in Gurnee without telling family or friends, police said.
Pitzen declined to comment on his wife's mental health, saying only she was a loving wife and mother and "all-around great person." Pitzen said he noticed nothing out of the ordinary with his wife when he dropped her off at work Wednesday.
Authorities have confirmed that Timothy’s child safety seat and Spider Man backpack are both missing from the 2004 Ford Expedition SUV his mother was driving, a release Monday night from Aurora police said. The discovery came Monday when detectives were reviewing pictures of items left in the vehicle with Timothy’s father at the time it was found in the parking lot of the Rockford motel. Timothy’s mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, killed herself in a room at the same motel, the Rockford Inn, on Saturday.
The discovery could lend credence to a working theory detectives have that Amy could have possibly dropped Timothy off with a friend or acquaintance, the release said.
In addition, detectives were able to confirm through credit card receipts that Amy apparently purchased some children’s clothes and toys from a Shopko store in the 4800 block of Washington Avenue in Racine, Wisconsin on Friday morning about 11:15 a.m.; and some gasoline and beverages from a Qwik-Trip store located just off I-94 in Johnson Creek, Wisconsin about 2:20 p.m., Friday.
State police said the boy appeared to be well-cared for before his death, which authorities are calling “highly suspicious.”
“He was clean. His fingernails seemed clean and appropriate,” Maine State Police Lt. Brian McDonough said at a press conference earlier today. “He was a small kid but I don’t think he was undernourished. He was a very cute boy. He was clothed well. The sneakers are virtually brand new on him.”
Federal authorities on Tuesday joined the investigation into the disappearance of a 6-year-old Aurora boy who has been missing since his mother's apparent suicide in a Rockford hotel room over the weekend.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Marshals Service are assisting Aurora police in pinpointing the exact location where Amy Fry-Pitzen made cellphone calls to relatives Friday telling them that she and her son were not in danger, said Aurora police spokesman Dan Ferrelli.
this little town is very caring for the little boy. in 1977 the body of James Curley, from Boston, raped, murdered and found in a lake in a plastic bin, was found in South Berwick. nobody has ever forgotten. this has stirred old memories, emotions and sorrow.
Boston Herald
The U.S. Navy’s elite police unit is now involved in the heart-rending case of the dead boy found in Maine — after authorities revealed yesterday that a Navy emblem was spotted on the license plate of a pickup truck seen near the remote dumping ground.
“The obvious conclusion to be drawn is that they are concerned that there may be Navy personnel involved,” said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org.
The lifeless body of the towheaded boy — whom authorities are tirelessly trying to identify — was found on a rural road Saturday evening in South Berwick.
A resident saw a woman behind the wheel of a blue Toyota Tacoma pickup truck Saturday morning — before the grim discovery was made, authorities said.
Maine State Police Lt. Brian McDonough said the witness saw “some type of naval insignia embossed in or around” the license plate, prompting investigators to begin visiting every area Naval Reserve center.
The NCIS --Naval Criminal Investigative Service is now involved.
A person of interest has been brought into custody in connection with an ”on-going investigation in Maine,” according to the Massachusetts State Police, believed to be the death of an unidentified boy who was found along a South Berwick road, New England Cable News is reporting.
The station is reporting that police have impounded the dark blue truck police were searching and are questioning a suspect.
NECN says police have a woman in custody but that Massachusetts Police say the woman “hasn’t been charged yet.”
It is not clear whether the person has been arrested or is simply someone who they believe might have information related to the case.
The Lowell Sun newspaper is reporting that the truck was found at a rest stop along Interstate 495 and has Texas plates with the words “Navy Mom” and “U.S. Navy.”
excellent news! i hope she speaks. or a judge orders a DNA swab. will be watching for more info or a presser.
alert person who spotted the truck at a rest stop! with Texas plates.
Sources also say as a law-enforcement official approached the truck, the woman began making statements. She was taken to Concord, Massachusetts, where she is being questioned. Maine State Troopers are already in Concord.
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