A person who this week told police he was Timmothy Pitzen, an Illinois child who vanished eight years ago, is not actually the long-missing child, authorities said late Thursday. DNA tests showed the ...

[BREAKING] FBI says DNA results show teen who claimed he was missing Aurora boy is not Timmothy Pitzen. CINCINNATI — The family of a child missing from Aurora since 2011 is anxiously awaiting the ...

For hours, he insisted that he was Timmothy Pitzen, a missing boy who had vanished in 2011 at the age of 6. He told the authorities that he had escaped from a hotel room where two men had been holding ...

A young man's claim to be an Illinois boy who disappeared under tragic circumstances eight years ago was disproved by DNA tests and pronounced a hoax Thursday, dashing hopes that the baffling case had ...