The Haunting Final Moments Before A Mother Is Found Dead & Her Son Disappears

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We still don't have any solid leads as to where Timothy may be. Please, please, please return him to his family. There is one question at the center of this case. Where is Timothy Pitson? Well, my name is Brianna and I'm hot on the case. I was recently on my honeymoon and something I quickly realized was how much you rely on having internet access while traveling. You're trying to pull up directions or find somewhere to eat when suddenly you're stuck somewhere with no Wi-Fi. It's either pay for that expensive international phone plan or hunt for Wi-Fi every single step of your vacation. Neither of those options make for a good trip. So that's where today's sponsor, Saley, comes in. Saley is an eSIM that gives you prepaid data when you travel, so you don't have to worry about finding Wi-Fi or those surprise roaming charges. You just download the app, choose your destination and plan, and follow the instructions to install the eSIM before you leave. 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Jim and Amy seemed like a great match, and they seemed really, really connected. When the two met, they were both at really big changes in their lives. Jim had just survived cancer, and Amy had just gotten divorced. This wasn't her first divorce either. Amy was in her early 30s and had already been married and divorced three times. Amy felt a lot of shame for this, and her last marriage really, really messed her up mentally. Throughout Amy's entire life, she struggled with very severe depression, and she actually attempted to bring an end to her own life on two occasions that we know of. Once was before meeting Jim, but after her divorce, Amy parked her car on train tracks. The second time was right after meeting and dating Jim. She took a bunch of pills and then jumped off, a cliff, breaking bones in her back. Jim was clearly aware of Amy's severe mental health struggles, but he thought that he would be able to love it all away. He was deeply in love with Amy, and he thought with time, she would be able to see herself the way that he saw her. It was hopeful thinking, but if you or anyone you know and love has ever struggled with severe deep depression, then you know that that's not how it works. Jim Pitson was told, by his doctors, that his cancer treatment left him sterile. He would never be able to have biological children. And this was fine with Amy, because she thought that she never wanted to have children. So the two would never use protection. And in early 2004, after a little over a year of dating, Amy found out that she was pregnant. It was a miracle. And Timothy James Pitson was born on October 18th, 2004. And Jim and Amy were born on October 18th, 2004. And he and Amy raised him together in Aurora, Illinois. Amy chose the name Timothy for her son. He was named after her brother, Timothy, that died when he was just a young baby. Amy thought that her son was going to be very special, a very special person. So she gave him an extra M in his name to make the name his own, but also to make it extra special. Jim was absolutely in love with his son. And despite believing that she never wanted children after Timothy was born, this just changed Amy's entire life. Amy adored Timothy, and he was a huge mama's boy. The two were pretty much inseparable. And everyone that knew them said that Amy absolutely loved Timothy, that he was her entire world. In Amy's eyes, Timothy gave her a reason to live. He saved her life. But as her son got older and needed his mommy less and less, she reportedly got very depressed again. That severe depression came back. During Amy's very dark periods, she had a tendency to shut out and/or lash out on the people that loved her the most. Amy could be quite cruel sometimes, say really harsh things when she wasn't feeling alright mentally. It also wasn't uncommon for Amy to just leave whenever she was feeling overwhelmed or angry. She would take off for a few hours, maybe the night, just to clear her head. And her husband Jim would never have any idea where his wife Amy was going where she was. Their marriage was rocky going into 2008. And then it got a whole lot worse when Jim went through his wife's phone and found messages between his wife and his wife's ex-husband. Messages about planning to meet and hook up while Jim was meant to be out of town. This obviously resulted in a huge fight. Jim was telling Amy if she wasn't happy, if she wanted to go be with her ex-husband that caused her to have a fight, if she wanted her to have so much mental turmoil, then she should just go. He threatened to divorce Amy and threatened to get full custody of their son Timothy. Jim and Amy worked it out and stayed together, but there was a clear rift between them and the two were fighting constantly. With a fourth divorce looming over Amy Frye Pitson in late April and early May 2011, she went on a very impulsive birthday trip to the Bahamas with her best friend. A vacation that her husband and her son were not invited to attend. This made Jim even more angry. And when he came to pick her up, he and her got in a huge fight and they were still on bad terms a week later on May 11th, 2011. At the time their son, Timothy Pitson was six years old. He was attending Greenman elementary school and was about to graduate from kindergarten. That morning, Jim drove Timothy to school and he also drove his wife, Amy, to school. This was not their typical routine, but the afternoon earlier, Amy got really, really sick at work. She left her car behind at her job and got a ride home. She left work early. That Wednesday morning at 7.45 a.m., Jim and Amy dropped Timothy off at school. He jumped out of the car. He said, I love you. And then he ran off to school. Afterwards, Jim dropped Amy off at work and then he went to his own job. Just a couple hours later at 10.30 a.m., Jim went to pick up Timothy. It was a short day of class that day. But Jim was confused to see school staff so confused to see him since picking up Timothy after school was something that he did every single day. Jim told the front desk staff that he was there to pick up his son, Timothy. And that's when the school told him that his son had already been picked up hours earlier at 8.15 in the morning, just a half hour after Jim dropped Timothy. Jim was shocked and confused. This had to be some sort of mistake. That's when school staff informed him that it was actually his wife, Amy, that signed their son out of school just 30 minutes after they dropped him off together, telling school staff that there was some sort of family emergency. A family emergency that Jim knew nothing about. Hey, it's Kelly Rowland. You may not know this, but I have eczema. So I get it. 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Ask your doctor about Epglys and visit epglys.com or call 1-800-LILLY-RX or 1-800-545-5979. Home of the save. Open soon. BJ's, home of the save. Jim is calling his wife over and over and over. And just getting her voicemail. He calls her family to see if they know of any family emergency or if they know where his wife and son are and they know absolutely nothing. Jim was confused, but not necessarily extremely worried. Like I mentioned, Amy had gone off before whenever she was upset with her husband or feeling extremely overwhelmed. This was, though, the first time that she ever brought Timothy with her. But still, Jim was sure, that his wife was just out there blowing off some steam and that his wife and his son would be home later that evening. But that night came and it went. And then early the next morning, May 12th, Jim would call the police to report his son and wife missing. Police were also not immediately concerned. Timothy was with his mother, his mother that absolutely loved him, and there was no custody agreement or any legal reason why Amy should not, be with Timothy. So, police took down the information that Jim gave them and then left without really doing any investigation. And if they had, perhaps, those early precious hours could have changed the outcome of this entire case. The entirety of May 12th passed with no word from Amy or Timothy. But between the hours of 12:00 and 1:30 p.m. the following day, May 13th, there was finally word from the missing mother and son. Amy gave several phone calls to family members, including her mother and her husband's brother, Charles. In the phone call with her mother, Amy said that her and Timothy were fine. She just needed a little time away, but that they would be back home soon. In the call with Jim's brother, Amy repeated the same message. Charles could hear his nephew, Timothy, on the phone in the background, and he even spoke with Timothy briefly. Charles told Amy that she had to call his brother and come home. But it seems that Amy responded with, "Timothy belongs to her and she can do whatever she wants with him." It's also been falsely reported that Amy attempted to call her husband, Jim, but he did not answer. By the time that he saw the missed call and tried to call her back, she did not answer. As far as I can tell, this is misinformation because I saw in an interview straight from Jim, him say that his wife never tried to call him. Jim, at this point, still isn't very worried. His mother-in-law and his brother just spoke with his wife. His brother even spoke with his son, Timothy, on the phone briefly, and everything seemed okay. And Amy even told her mother that they would be coming home very soon. So Jim went to sleep on the night of May 13th, hopeful that his wife and son would soon be home. He even slept on the couch that night so that he would be able to hear Amy and Timothy coming in. And then the following day, May 14th, Jim heard a knock on his front door. Thinking that it was his family finally coming home, he rushed to the door so excited that he didn't even stop to wonder why his wife and son would be knocking on the door if they had a key to the house. Standing in front of his family's home were police officers from the Aurora Police Department. They were there to tell Jim that his wife was dead and his six-year-old son, Timothy, was missing. Earlier that day, a housekeeper at the Rockford Inn in Rockford, Illinois went into one of the motel rooms and discovered Amy's dead body. Amy had tragically brought an end to her own life. Inside the motel room, she left behind a note. A few days later, letters from Amy were delivered to her mother and her friend that she had just traveled to the Bahamas with. The entirety of these letters and her note have never been released to the public, but we do have some details about what Amy wrote. Amy's husband, Jim, did not receive a letter, but he was mentioned in her note, and it was not kind things. Amy was clearly very angry with her husband. She called him a lot of mean names, like she called him a loser. In what context she said these things, I do not know. Like I said, the entirety of the note has not been released. But in the note and in the letters, we do know that Amy apologized to the motel staff for the mess that she made. She tried to explain how she never felt like she belonged in this world, how she felt that she belonged with Timothy for a while, but even that was gone now. In the letter Amy wrote to her mother, she said, "I can't take the chance of Jim hurting Tim because of my choices." Amy also said that her son Timothy was okay, he was safe, and he was with people that loved him and that would care for him, but that they would never find him. That they would never find him or ever see him ever again. This is the heart of this case. Did his mother kill him, bury his body somewhere and it has just never been found? Or did his mother give him away to someone else? Maybe in some sort of illegal underground adoption? Is Timothy Pitson still out there somewhere? Before we dive into both of these theories, I do want to rewind a little bit. Back to when Amy picked up Timothy from school on Wednesday morning, May 11th. And then we can retrace Timothy and Amy's steps and see if that will give us any clues to where Timothy Pitson is now. Turns out in the three days that Amy and Timothy were gone, they went on a road trip spanning multiple states, hundreds of miles. They even stopped at a zoo. And two water parks. When Jim dropped his wife off at work on the morning of May 11th, it turns out she actually never went inside. Instead, she got into her car and she drove back to Timothy's school, where she signed him out with the lie of a family emergency. Amy planned to take her son to the Brookfield Zoo, one of her son's favorite places in the entire world. But on the way to the zoo, Amy noticed that there was something wrong with her car. So she dropped her 2004 Ford Ford. Expedition off at an auto repair shop in La Grange, Illinois. This was approximately only like 20 miles away from the school, and she dropped her car off sometime around 10:00 AM. An employee at the body shop was kind enough to drop Amy and Timothy off at the zoo, since it was just a few miles away. The two spent several hours at the zoo together. The mother and son even got matching t-shirts at the zoo. And then around 3:00 PM, Amy and Timothy returned to the auto repair shop, the repair shop to pick up Amy's car. From there, they drove north about 50 miles to the Key Lime Cove Resort. This resort was another one of Timothy's favorite places in the entire world, mostly because of its indoor water park. They stayed the night at this resort, where they are seen on security footage. Everyone that interacted with them said that they seemed like a perfectly normal mother and six-year-old son excited to be at this super fun, child-friendly resort and water park. The next morning, it is now Thursday, May 12th. Timothy and Amy are back in the car and they're driving again, but this time they're leaving Illinois. After checking out of the Key Lime Cove Resort, Amy and Timothy drive north again, this time to Wisconsin. At around 11:00 AM, credit card records put Amy and Timothy inside of a store in Racine, Wisconsin, where Amy is doing some shopping. She bought new clothes, toys, craft kits, and child toothpaste for Timothy. After leaving Racine, the two continue driving northwest. Amy makes one more confirmed stop. This time it's off Interstate 94. They go to a gas station where Amy fills up the SUV with gas and they also buy some drinks. From there, Amy and Timothy drive to the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells, another resort, and water park. In total, Amy and Timothy drove somewhere around 160 miles that second day. It is now May 13th, 2011. At 10:00 AM, Amy and Timothy check out of the Kalahari Resort. This is the last confirmed surveillance footage showing Amy and Timothy together. Instead of driving back towards Aurora, Amy is now driving south towards Sterling, Illinois. And this is where between 12:00 and 1:30, makes all of those phone calls to her mother and her brother-in-law. Cell phone records at this time when Amy is making these phone calls place Amy in Sterling, Illinois. This is about 170 miles south from where Amy and Timothy were just last seen together at the Kalahari Resort. 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This phone calls are also the last known movements of Timothy Pitson since he could be heard in the background of these phone calls and his uncle even spoke with him briefly. After making these phone calls, Amy Pitson turns her phone off. There is then a large gap where we can't follow her movements. On the phone call with her mom around noon, Amy said that she would be coming back to Aurora shortly. But instead of driving east to Aurora, Amy ends up north in Winnebago. Around 7.25pm, Amy was seen on surveillance footage inside of a family dollhouse, in a dollar store, this time without Timothy. This is where she bought the pen, paper and envelopes to write her note and also her letters. She then went next door to a grocery store called Sullivan Foods where she bought milk and crackers. She also stopped by a nearby post office where she mailed out her letters. Then a little after 11pm, Amy drove to Rockford and checked into the Rockford Inn. There is a huge gap in time from when Amy is seen in the family dollhouse to when she's checking into the Rockford Motel. There's about four hours where her whereabouts are completely unknown and this is a huge topic of debate considering the drive from the store to the motel would have only taken her about 15 minutes. So where was she these additional three hours and 45 minutes? Inside of the motel, Amy Fry Pitson brought an end to her own life by taking a large amount of pills and also harming her wrists and her throat with a box cutter. Investigators are immediately trying to locate Timothy Pitson. They even bring in the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to help in the search. Right away, they noticed that along with Timothy, there were a lot of things missing. Amy's cell phone was missing, although it would be located about three years later, but we will get into that in about a minute. The clothing that Amy was wearing on surveillance footage when she checked out of the Kalahari Resort with Timothy was not the only thing missing. Amy's cell phone was also not the same clothing that she was wearing hours later on security footage inside the family dollar where she was alone. And that clothing that she was wearing has never been found. Also never found was Amy's toll pass, the clothing that Timothy was last seen in, his Spider-Man backpack, none of the clothes, toys, crafts, or toothpaste that his mother also bought him on their road trip. Outside of the Rockford Inn where Amy's body was found, they found her SUV and inside they discovered something grisly, something horrifying. They found a concerning large amount of blood. Blood that was in the back seat of the SUV where Timothy usually was sitting. The blood was sent to a DNA lab and came back as belonging to Timothy. They did find a rather concerning amount of blood in the back seat. That blood was tested. And it came back that it was Timothy's blood. This immediately painted a very dark picture about what happened to Timothy Pitson, what his mother might have done to him. But his family would argue that Timothy had a lot of nosebleeds. This was a very common occurrence. And just a few weeks earlier, Timothy had a terrible, nasty nosebleed in the back of his mom's SUV. Also under Amy's SUV was another clue. There were large, tall plants and weeds that were stuck into the undercarriage and back bumper of her car. Forensic experts were actually able to learn a lot from this. They believed that Amy pulled off onto a gravel shoulder or gravel road and backed her car up into a field. This field was not used for farming. They also believed it was not used as a residential area either. There was also likely a small body of birch trees in the area. And also in the area was an abundance of Queen Anne lace and black mustard plants. They were able to pinpoint this exact location to a few different counties where they believed this location, this field was going to be. And they had particular interests in the area of Sterling. This is the area where Amy made her final phone calls to family and where she turned off her cell phone for the final time. Something completely unexplainable about this case is why did Amy drive to Sterling in the first place? After leaving the Wisconsin Dells, it would have been much easier to drive straight to the Rockford Inn if that's where she planned on ending up. But instead, she drives past Rockford and drives an additional 50 miles south to Sterling. That's where she makes her phone calls. And then she drives 50 miles back to Rockford. Reportedly, there is nothing in Sterling, Illinois that is worth going out of your way for. Amy had no known connections to this area. She didn't know anyone that lived there. And she had also never been there before as far as her husband and her family knew. Well, that's where this mystery just gets even more bizarre and confusing. Because a look at Amy's toll pass told a completely different story. Turns out in the months prior to her death and her son going missing, Amy Frye Pitson made two phone calls to Sterling. And she made a phone call to her husband two trips to Sterling. Two trips that no one in her life knew anything about. She went to Sterling on the night of February 18th and on the morning of March 20th. So what was Amy Pitson going to Sterling, Illinois for? It really seems like whatever Amy did with Timothy, she had been planning for a very long time. Two years later in 2013, Amy's phone was finally found on the side of a road in Mount Carroll in the middle of the United States. She had been planning for a very long time. In the middle of nowhere. It is believed that Amy threw her cell phone out the car while she was driving to get rid of it and also so she couldn't be tracked. But this makes Amy's movements on the last day that Timothy was ever seen and on the day that she died even more weird. We already know that she drove an additional 100 miles out of her way to visit Sterling for some unknown reason where she made her final phone calls. But to then throw her phone out of her car window before going to Rockford where she was ultimately found dead, she would have had to drive to Mount Carroll, which was an additional 30 or 40 miles out of her way. To make this make a lot more sense why this is so weird, I have a map on the screen. I've probably been putting it in throughout the entire episode of Amy's route, the way that she's been going throughout this entire bizarre road trip. But you can see she leaves Wisconsin Dells. You can see her drive past Rockford where she ultimately ends up, go to Sterling, and then she makes this weird loop to Mount Carroll to just end up back in Rockford. And for what reason does she do this? Because Mount Carroll is also in the middle of nowhere. There's nothing worth going to Mount Carroll for as far as I have seen in different reports in this case. So what was Amy doing out there? Now to go to Sterling and Mount Carroll, Amy has driven an additional 140 miles out of her way. She knows that this is one way or another the last day that she will ever spend on earth with her son and the last day that she will ever be alive. And she's choosing to drive 140 miles to Sterling and Mount Carroll, two places that she should have no connection to, have no reason to want to visit. They're in the middle of nowhere. There's nothing to do there. So what is she going there for? Extensive searches were done in all of these areas looking for Timothy's body, but nothing was ever found. Unfortunately, because Amy covered so much ground and was driving in these bizarre routes, it would be near impossible to cover all the possible places that she could have buried Timothy's body if she really did kill him. There is really only two theories in this case and that is that Amy killed her son and buried him somewhere or that she really was telling the truth in her final goodbye note that she gave Timothy away to some unknown people and that he's being cared for and loved for and he was raised by these other people and he might not even know that he is a missing person. The thing that is just so confusing about this case and makes people go back and forth with what they believe is because pretty much every single piece of evidence in this case could be used to explain both theories and I know that that sounds so confusing. How is it possible that all the evidence could make sense for both theories? So I'm going to dive into all of the evidence and explain it for both theories. First we are going to start with the theory that Timothy Pitson is physically no longer with us. So in this theory the reason that Timothy's mother Amy would have brought him on this big road trip and did all of his favorite things was because this was a last hurrah and she knew that his life would soon be over. The reason that none of his belongings or any of the clothing or toys and whatnot that she bought for him on the road trip were ever found was because Amy buried Timothy with all of these items and the reason that her clothing that she was wearing just a few hours before she took her own life was never found was because there was either blood on it or some other kind of evidence that would prove that she killed her son on that clothing and she either buried that clothing with Timothy as well or disposed of it in some other kind of way. This would also explain why there was such a large amount of Timothy's blood found in the back seat of her SUV. Hey it's Kelly Rowland you may not know this but I have eczema so I get how it can steal your time but why let eczema take over when you can talk to your doctor about ebgliss ebgliss labrakizumab lbkz a 250 milligram per two milliliter injection is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms with moderate to severe eczema also called atopic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin or topicals or who cannot use topical therapies. ebgliss can be used with or without topical corticosteroids. Don't use if you are allergic to ebgliss. You should not receive a live vaccine when treated with ebgliss. Before starting ebgliss tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. Respect your time. Ask your doctor about ebgliss and visit ebgliss.com or call 1-800-LILLY-RX or 1-800-545-5979. Call Stuff to her kids at college. That's why she shops at BJ's Wholesale Club saving up to 25% off grocery store prices. And with BJ's gas she gets there for less. This is your home road warrior mom. Home of the save. Open soon. Limited time offer new members only. BJ's Home of the Save. I have unfortunately covered lots of cases where a mother or a father brings an end to their own life and also the lives of their family and their children. Tragically it is a lot more common than I think anyone wants to believe. We already know that Amy was severely depressed. That this was something she had struggled with pretty much her entire life and it's very possible that she wanted to end her life and she thought the best place for Timothy would be to take him with her. We also know that Amy seemed extremely possessive over her son Timothy in that final phone call the day where Timothy went somewhere and Amy died. She called her brother-in-law and she said that Timothy belonged to her and she could do what she wanted with him. Belonged to her. Well if you remember when Jim was threatening divorce a few years earlier he said that he would get full custody of Timothy. Maybe it's really possible that because Amy and Jim's relationship, their marriage, still wasn't good. It was on terrible terms going into 2011. Maybe it's possible that Amy thought that divorce was right around the corner and because of her long and documented history of severe mental illness that she did believe that if they got a divorce that she would lose custody of her son. Also because it does seem that Amy was possessive over her son she said that Timothy belonged to her if she did truly feel that way then why would she give her son away to other people to be raised by other people. I also go back to what she said to her mother where she said that she didn't want Jim her husband to hurt Timothy because of her actions. Some people theorize that what she's talking about here is maybe Timothy wasn't actually Jim's child. We already know that Amy possibly wasn't loyal to him. She was talking about meeting up with her ex-husband. We also know that Jim was told by his doctors that he would never have biological children. Maybe possibly in Amy's mind this was a motive for why she wanted to kill Timothy so Jim would never find out that Timothy wasn't his son and she was worried that he would never have biological children. So I think that's a little too much. She was worried that if he found that out that Jim would want to hurt Timothy. Personally this doesn't make as much sense to me. I think Timothy looks a lot like Jim. I do think that Tim is Jim's child. So personally that doesn't make a lot of sense to me. But also with what Amy wrote she wrote in her note that Timothy is safe and he's with people that love him and care for him. Maybe it's possible that she was talking about heaven. That he was up in heaven. That's why she said he's safe and going to be cared for. We know that Amy made frequent trips to Sterling. Is it possible that she was going to Sterling to find somewhere to bury Timothy's body? This would also explain why there are large plants and weeds stuck in her car. Maybe when she backed up into this field. Maybe the field was where she buried Timothy's body. Now let's go over the theory that Timothy is actually alive somewhere. And he was raised by somebody else. Everyone that knew Amy Frye Pitson said that she would never do anything to harm her son Timothy. That Timothy was her entire world. Jim, her husband, and her family believe the theory that Timothy is still actually out there. So the people that knew Amy the best do not believe that she would ever hurt him and believe that he is still out there. In this theory the reason that Amy went on this big road trip and did all of Timothy's favorite things those weren't necessarily for Timothy but for her because she knew that she was about to give him up and these were going to be their last memories together. And she wanted her son to look back on their final moments together as really really happy ones. The box cutter that Amy used to end her own life only had her blood and DNA on it. No blood or DNA from Timothy. So this doesn't really line up if the blood that was found in the backseat of Amy's SUV belonged to Timothy from when his mother murdered him. If the murder weapon, the weapon that we have that has already killed one person in this case, does not have any of his blood on it. This theory explains that the reason that Amy bought Timothy new clothes and toys and child's toothpaste and craft kits was because these were items that she was planning on handing over to Timothy's new family. It 100% makes sense to me that a mother who's planning to give her son Timothy's blood and DNA up, a child that she does love, would want to send him off with things. That she'd want to buy him new clothes and toys and craft kits and toothpaste to make sure that he's brushing his teeth. The fact that she bought child's toothpaste is what really really makes me believe this theory. It's a small thing but why would she buy toothpaste to bury that with a child? I understand burying a child in new in new clothing with toys but with child's toothpaste, that doesn't really make sense. That's also not something that you buy for somebody that you know is not going to be alive anymore the following day. People that believe this theory believe that the reason that Amy was making all these secret trips to Stirling was because she was actually meeting up with the people that she planned to give Timothy away to. And maybe the reason that Amy had all of these plants and these weeds stuck in her car from backing up into a field while maybe that remote field was the drop-off zone where she handed Timothy over to these new people that were going to raise him. On surveillance footage, when Amy is seen by herself and Timothy is not with her, on that surveillance footage it also witnesses and people that Amy spoke to at these different stores and at the Rockford Inn. And it's very clear that that's not going to be the case for any of them. They said that she was not acting weird. She was acting normal, not in the way that you would expect a mother that just murdered and buried her child. And like we mentioned in the first theory, it happens a lot more than you would want to know where mothers or fathers want to end their own lives and also end the lives of their children with them but experts argue that is extremely extremely unlikely for a parent to kill their child somewhere else and then bring an end to their own life if the entire thing is about amy and timothy being together she doesn't want jim to have him when it makes sense for her to want them to be together but people that believe the theory that timothy is unfortunately tragically no longer with us believe that the reason amy lied and wrote in this note that she gave timothy away to people that love him and are going to care for him is because she didn't want people to know that she murdered her child and didn't want people to remember her in that way there is absolutely zero evidence that timothy pittson is still alive but there's also absolutely zero evidence that timothy pittson is dead either days turned into weeks that turned into months then years and they were nowhere closer to finding timothy and then eight years after timothy pittson was last seen on april 3rd 2019 911 calls came in from newport kentucky reporting that a young man was running over the ohio river bridge and was running in the middle of the street running up to cars and screaming for help this boy claimed to be 14 years old and said that he had just escaped from his kidnappers that had been holding him hostage for eight years and he said that his name was timothy pittson and what time police dispatch hello hamilton county it's campbell i got some information i need to pass on all right what's it what's uh i just want to start with um well it's a little confusing actually i don't know if you have a supervisor you may speak to her nods about a missing child possible abduction case you're a sergeant on duty no not yet we're here so we had this child who said he ran away he said he was kidnapped and we found it looks like back in 2011 he was kidnapped or abducted i'm not quite sure what the situation is i'll let you guys google it and decipher from your own information there i didn't hear anybody saying the last name is pittson p-i-t-z-e-n first name is timothy if you google it it'll just pop right up the boy claimed that he was kidnapped years earlier and said that he was he was sold into human trafficking and he was brutally abused over the years that he was in captivity he describes his entire ordeal and his kidnappers with so much detail when this news broke it broke the internet i remember exactly when this happened and everyone was so hopeful that timothy pittson was finally going to be reunited with his father jim and amy's family were also so excited about this and they were so excited about this and they were so excited about this and they were so excited and hopeful that timothy really really was coming home but the dna test proved that this 14 year old boy was not timothy pittson he actually wasn't 14 years old at all he was 23 year old brian renny he had just been released from prison a month earlier after serving 14 months on felony charges he had a history of mental illness and identity theft hey it's kelly roland you may not know me but i'm kelly roland and i'm your host kelly roland and i'm your host not know this but i have eczema so i get how it can steal your time but why let eczema take over when you can talk to your doctor about ebglis ebglis labrakizumab lbkz a 250 milligram per two milliliter injection is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms with moderate to severe eczema also called atopic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin or topicals or who cannot use topical therapies ebglis can be used with a topical corticosteroids don't use if you are allergic to ebglis allergic reactions can occur that can be severe eye 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their unceasing work over the last eight years and trying to locate timothy we have received support and well wishes from countless people around the country and we are grateful unfortunately this child is not our beloved timothy we know that you are out there somewhere tim and we will never stop looking for you praying for you and loving you we hope that everyone will join us in praying for the young man who claimed to be timothy pittson this entire thing was just a cruel cruel hoax reportedly brian claimed that he saw the timothy pittson case in a tv special and while he was watching this tv special on the case he saw jim pittson and the reason he lied and wanted to pretend to be timothy was because he wanted a father that wanted him as much as jim wanted tim brian rinney pled guilty to aggravated identity theft and he spent two months in prison for the more years in prison this terrible lie devastated the entire family but especially devastated jim pittson jim has never given up hope that his son is still out there and he truly does believe that one day he will be reunited with his son in the first few years after tim went missing his father was hopeful that one day as his son got older and maybe entered school that someone would recognize him he then got hopeful that as his son got older and maybe entered school that someone would recognize him he then got hopeful that as his son got older and maybe entered school that someone would older maybe went online timothy would discover his own case and maybe timothy would find jim before jim found timothy sadly that seems a lot less likely now if timothy pittson was still out there alive he would be almost 22 years old with how much attention this case has gotten over the years it really does seem likely that if timothy was out there and had access to the internet he would have seen his case by now or if he was in school in college because he was in school maybe in the workforce someone else would have recognized him but this is all if you believe that timothy pittson does not know that he is timothy pittson but the thing is timothy was six years old when he went missing he knew his full address he knew his phone number i find it very unlikely that timothy would be at the age that he would just forget who he was his name who his dad was if he was still out there wouldn't he have reached out to his dad by now i think that it is very unlikely that someone would have been able to hide timothy pittson for as long as they have unfortunately but with that being said i think that if people just believe that timothy pittson is no longer out there that means people will stop looking for timothy pittson and i do believe that there is still a very strong possibility that he is out there somewhere i am not 100 sold on the theory that amy ended timothy's life i think it is the most likely unfortunately with how much time has passed but i'm not 100 sold and i know there's so many other people out there that aren't 100 sold either there's too many things in this case that sorry just doesn't line up for me timothy pittson has been missing for over 15 years he was just six years old when he disappeared in may of 2011 if timothy pittson was still alive somewhere he would be 21 years old he would be turning 22 in just a few weeks on october 18th the last age progression of timothy pittson was released in may of 2024 showing what timothy pittson might look like at age 19 i'm gonna have that on the screen now i really encourage everyone that is watching the video version to really study this photo it's very possible that you might know timothy pittson and not know it and if you're not watching the video version i please please beg of you to even if you don't go into the video version of this episode just look it up online and really really take a look at it if you believe that you have any information into the disappearance of timothy pittson please call the aurora police department at six three zero two three four Two, five, six. 5-0-0-0. Even if you're wrong, you can be wrong. It's okay to be wrong. But if you're right, you might just change this entire family's life. I am so extremely interested to hear what all of you believe. I think that the comment section could be extremely split on this episode. Usually when I cover cases that have some sort of unsolved mystery element to them, I kind of feel like I know where the vast majority of you are going to lean, one theory or the other, but I really don't know this one because I personally have gone back and forth over the years. I've known about this case for a very long time, I think about 10 years, and I've gone back and forth so many times. Every time I research it, I swear I think something else. So I already told you where I stand, what theories I believe, how sure. I am one way or the other, but I'm so interested to hear what all of you think. While you're in the comments, just please always remember to be respectful. I completely understand being angry at Amy. I think that no matter what she did, what she did was really, really selfish. But please just always remember to be respectful because there are loved ones of Amy, loved ones of Jim, loved ones of Timothy that are out there, and it is very possible that they could stumble across. And I will see all of you in this episode. And the last thing I'd want anyone to see is family members of victims, family members that we talk about in this case, seeing things that are going to harm them and hurt them and hurt their feelings. So just please always remember to be respectful in the comments. And while you're in the comments, please let me know future case suggestions that you'd want to see in a future episode of Haunted Case. But until then, that is all I have for this week's investigation, and I will see all of you in the next one. I'll see you next Friday when we are hot in the case once again. Then book instantly. ZocDoc. Ready to be seen?