Teenager claims to be Timmothy Pitzen, boy who went missing aged six in 2011
Hopes were raised on Thursday after a teenager told police he was a boy who vanished at the age of six in 2011. The youth claimed to be Timmothy Pitzen, whose disappearance from Aurora, Illinois in 2011 went on to become a high-profile missing child case.
FBI agents were last night carrying out DNA tests in an attempt to verify the teenager's identity.
According to a police report, the boy said he had been held captive by two "bodybuilder-type" men and escaped from a hotel where they were staying, running across a bridge as he fled.
The teenager, wearing a red hooded top and green jacket, was found standing next to a road junction in Sharonville, a suburb of Cincinnati, 300 miles from Aurora, Illinois.
Witnesses said he had bruises on his face and seemed "very scared and agitated".
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/04/teenager-claims-timmothy-pitzen-boy-went-missing-aged-six-2011/