CINCINNATI (AP) — Authorities conducted DNA testing to try to determine Thursday whether a teenager found wandering in Kentucky is who he claims to be — an Illinois boy who disappeared eight years ago around the time his mother took her own life.
The teenager told police in Newport, Kentucky, on Wednesday that he had just escaped from two men in the Cincinnati area, just across the Ohio River, who had held him captive for seven years, and he identified himself as 14-year-old Timmothy Pitzen, authorities said.
In 2011, a boy by the name of Timmothy Pitzen from Aurora, Illinois, vanished at age 6 after his mother pulled him out of school early one day, took him on a road trip to the zoo and a water park, and then killed herself at a hotel. She left a note saying that her son was safe but that no one would ever find him.
