#Impostor and identity issues and the person he impersonated while they were right there. What a unique relationship

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Boy found in Kentucky is NOT missing Timmothy Pitzen

Timmothy Pitzen’s family say they are devastated after the man claiming to be their missing son turned out to be a 23-year-old criminal with a history of lying to the police in a cruel hoax.

‘It’s devastating. It’s like reliving that day all over again and Timmothy’s father is devastated once again,’ the boy’s aunt Kara Jacobs said in a press conference.

The family said that they were elated when they first heard that a boy claiming to be Timmothy had been found wandering the streets of Newport, Kentucky. He told police that he had been kidnapped but had fled his abductors in Cincinnati, Ohio, and run across state lines to safety.

But that hope was cruelly dashed when police ran a DNA test and found that ‘Timmothy’ was actually 23-year-old ex-convict Brian Michael Rini.

‘It’s been awful,’ said Timmothy’s grandmother Alana Anderson. ‘We’re been on tenderhooks… it’s been exhausting.’ 

Incredibly, Anderson said the family didn’t feel anger towards the fraudster, only pity.

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‘It’s devastating. It’s like reliving that day all over again and Timmothy’s father is devastated once again,’ the boy’s aunt Kara Jacobs (pictured with his grandmother Alana Anderson at a press conference)

Police said Brian Michael Rini (left) from Medina, Ohio, lied to investigators when he claimed to be missing Illinois boy Timmothy Pitzen (right) when he was found wandering around on Wednesday 

‘I feel so sorry for the young man who’s obviously had a horrible time and felt the need to say he was somebody else,’ she said.

Timmothy vanished on May 11 2011, after being taken out of school by his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen. She committed suicide in a motel room soon after and left a note saying the boy was safe but would never be found.  

‘Although we are disappointed that this turned out to be a hoax, we remain diligent in our search for Timmothy, as our missing person’s case remains unsolved,’ an Aurora Police Department spokesperson said. 

Another of Timmothy’s aunts, Jen West, was even more generous and said that, while she was crushed, there could be a silver lining to the hoax as it has renewed interest in her nephew’s missing person’s case.

Brian Rini’s criminal history

July 2017: Rini pleaded guilty to ‘disorderly conduct’ and ‘criminal trespass’ after breaking into a home and causing $1,250 worth of damage after throwing an elaborate house party. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison, and released in March this year

December 2016: pleaded guilty plea/no contest to theft charges

April 2016: guilty plea/no contest to ‘making false alarms about law enforcement’

December 2015: guilty plea/no contest after ‘writing a series of bad checks’

November 2015: pleaded guilty/no contest to two counts of theft

June 2015: pleaded guilty/no contest after dialing 911 to falsely claim to police that his ex-girlfriend was going to commit suicide

April 2015: pleaded guilty/no contest to once count of ‘passing bad checks’ – fifth degree felony

October 2013: pleaded guilty/no contest to ‘falsification’

Source: Fox 19 

‘It’s a blessing in that respect, that the more coverage he gets, the better,’ said West, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. 

It is still not clear why Rini pretended to be the family’s missing child. Police have not yet announced any charges but lying about felony offences to the police can result in felony charges, which carry anything from probation up to ten years in jail, plus multiple other charges. 

Rini appears to have a history criminal behavior including charges for burglary, vandalism, using bad checks and giving fraudulent information to the police. He’s only been released from an Ohio jail for the burglary a few weeks before making the Timmothy claim, on March 7.

His own brother, Jonathon Rini, told Fox 8 that Rini should be locked up.

‘He deserves more time behind bars’, said Jonathan, who added that his brother had sometimes given his name to the police to try and avoid arrest.  

‘Once he started using my name for things he was doing, I have no compassion for him whatsoever. He used my name in a traffic stop in Norton and then skipped court and I received a traffic warrant for it,’ said Jonathon Rini. 

‘I’d tell the family that I’m sorry for what he’s done, but for him, I wouldn’t even speak to him,’ Rini said.

Police have confirmed they are investigating Rini’s claims that he had been kidnapped and acknowledged that he had a history of issuing false statements to authorities.  

In 2018, the alleged Pitzner impersonator was arrested and charged by the Norton Police Department on one count of falsification.

Police say he lied about two friends fighting in the back of his car, giving them vague details about the incident using the vehicle’s in-car emergency alert system. He then gave officers false identification and social-security information, which later turned out to belong to his brother.  

‘It’s been awful,’ said Timmothy’s grandmother Alana Anderson. ‘We’re been on tenderhooks… it’s been exhausting’

His own brother, Jonathon Rini, told Fox 8 that Rini should be locked up

He was also arrested and charged in 2017 with burglary and vandalism after breaking into a home in Medina County, Ohio, and throwing an elaborate house party that caused $1,250 worth of damage, The Medina Gazette reports.

Rini had just finished serving an 18 month sentence in Belmont Correctional Institute when he emerged in Newport claiming to be Timmothy. He has been in and out of prison over the past six years, according to WLWT.  

In the wake of the DNA results, Timmothy’s grandmother Alana Anderson expressed the devastation the family is now feeling, following their brief moment of hope.

‘It’s been awful,’ Anderson told reporters. ‘We’ve been on tender-hooks,’ adding that the family has been ‘alternatively hopeful and frightened’ over the last 24 hours.

When asked about Rini and his alleged false statement, Anderson offered compassion, saying the man had ‘obviously had a horrible time and felt the need to say he was someone else, and [I] hope that they can find his family.’

The grandmother said their family would never give up hope that Timmothy may one day be found.

‘My prayer has always been that when he is old enough, he would find us if we couldn’t find him.’ 

According to an officer’s dispatch report from Wednesday, Rini had told police he was born on October 18, 2004, the same day as Timmothy, and also gave his correct middle name of James.

The report also said he claimed that he had managed to flee ‘from two kidnappers that have been holding him for seven years’. He said his abductors had most recently been keeping him in a Red Roof Inn, thought to be in Cincinnati, Ohio. ��   

Rini claimed that when he saw his chance to escape, he fled and ‘kept running across a bridge’ – the state line – and into Newport, Kentucky.  

Rini (left on after claiming that he was the missing boy and right in a mugshot) has an extensive of false claims to police, his criminal records show . He recently finished serving an 18 burglary sentence, before emerging in Newport

An age processed image released last year predicts what Timmothy Pitzen may have looked like at age 13

‘FBILouisville, Newport PD, and HCSO have been conducting a missing person investigation. DNA results have been returned indicating the person in question is not Timmothy Pitzen,’ FBI Louisville tweeted on Thursday.

‘A local investigation continues into this person’s true identity. To be clear, law enforcement has not and will not forget Timmothy, and we hope to one day reunite him with his family. Unfortunately, that day will not be today.’  

Locals who saw Rini on Wednesday said that his face was bruised and he appeared to be ‘very scared and agitated’.

‘He walked up to my car and he went, ‘Can you help me? I just want to get home. Can you just please help me?” a good Samaritan told a 911 dispatcher. ‘And I asked him what was going on and he told me he’s been kidnapped.’ 

One woman revealed to CBS Chicago that the alleged impostor told her he had been running for two hours and that he had ‘been passed around for seven years’.

  ‘Really you felt bad for him, his face looked like he’d been beat up,’ she said. ‘He had a really big bruise on his face. I was hurt for him’ 

Another resident told ABC7: ‘He looked like he had been beat up, punched in the face a couple of times. You could see the fear on him and how nervous he was and how he kept pacing. He just looked odd.’   

On Wednesday afternoon, Rini reportedly gave police a detailed description of his alleged kidnappers, who he says have held him captive for more than seven years.

He described the two kidnappers as ‘two male, whites, body-builder type build,’ according to the police report. 

‘One had black curly hair, Mt. Dew shirt and jeans & has a spider web tattoo on his neck. The other was short in stature and had a snake tattoo on his arms.’   

He then described his alleged captor’s vehicle as a new white Ford SUV, with yellow transfer paint and a dent on the rear left bumper, registered to Wisconsin. 

Several police departments were instructed to search Red Roof Inns in both Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, but workers at several of the hotels said they couldn’t recall anyone matching the description.

Timmothy vanished without a trace in 2011 following his mother Amy Fry-Pitzen’s suicide (pictured together)

His mother took Timmothy on a three-day holiday, visiting the zoo and several water-parks before she was found dead inside a Rockford motel room, having committed suicide  

Timmothy disappeared on May 11, 2011, shortly after being dropped off at Greenman Elementary School, in Aurora, Illinois, by his father.

The boy, just six-years-old at the time, was later picked-up by his mother, who told the school she needed to take her son home because of a family emergency.

Fry-Pitzen, 43, then took her son on a three-day holiday, visiting the zoo and several water-parks across different state lines.

The last known images of Timmothy and his mother together were captured on CCTV, checking out of the Kalahari Resort, in Wisconsin Dells on May 12.   

The following day, Amy was spotted alone by a surveillance camera in a supermarket 120 miles away near Rockford, having purchased a pen, paper and some envelopes. 

On May 14, she was found dead inside her Rockford Inn motel room with a series of slashes to her wrists. She left behind a note that said her son was safe and in the care of others, but added: ‘You’ll never find him’.

‘I was in total shock at the time,’ Timmothy’s dad James Pitzen said to Crime Watch Daily, back in 2017. ‘They told me where she was found, in a cheap little motel. She had a razorblade knife and she cut herself.’ 

Timmothy’s identification card was found among Amy’s possessions, but her son, the Spiderman backpack he’d been pictured leaving school with and her cellphone were all missing.    

James said just hours before she committed suicide he received a call from Amy saying: ‘Timmothy is fine. Timmothy belongs to me. Timmothy and I will be fine. Timmothy is safe’.

‘She was definitely wrestling with the demons. The demons were winning, and they eventually won,’ James said.    

The mother grappled with depression for the majority of her adult life and had attempted to commit suicide on more than one occasion. She had also disappeared for a series of days-on-end before but never with Timmothy.

Timmothy (shown aged 6) vanished after his mother picked him up from Greenman Elementary School and took him on a three day holiday

A report filed by the Sharonville Police Department on Wednesday details boy’s claims to be Timmothy, and even describes his alleged kidnappers

In an interview with People in 2015, Timmothy’s father, James Pitzen (left), described his son as a ‘little mini-me’ and vowed to never give up searching for him

After Rini allegedly claimed to be Timmothy, the Pitzen family were given new hope. 

Timmothy’s maternal aunt Kara Jacobs told NBC Chicago: ‘We hope it’s true. What’s hard is the story that he escaped from captors. And your mind goes in too many directions that you don’t want to think about,’ .

What happened to Timmothy Pitzen? 

On the morning of May 11, 2011, James Pitzen dropped his son off at Greenman Elementary School in Aurora.

At 8:30am, Timmothy’s mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, appeared at the school telling educators that she needed to remove her son from class because of a ‘family emergency’.

Later that day, James returned to the school to pick Timmothy up, but was told Amy withdrew him from class hours earlier.

For more than a day, he found no sign of Timmothy or Amy, until eventually she called James and his brother on May 12, telling them ‘Timmothy is fine. Timmothy belongs to me. Timmothy and I will be fine. Timmothy is safe’.

The last CCTV images of Amy and Timmothy alive together were captured on May 12 as they checked out from the Kalahari Resort, in Wisconsin Dells.

The following day, Amy was spotted alone on CCTV 120 miles away in a supermarket near Rockford, having purchased a pen, paper and some envelopes. 

On May 14 she was found dead in her Rockford Inn motel room having committed suicide by slashing her wrists. 

 A note found next to her body said that Timmothy was safe, and in the care of others, but added: ‘You’ll never find him’.

Timmothy’s identification card was found inside the room, but workers at the motel said Amy had checked-in alone.

Police say they’ve investigated several false leads since Timmothy’s disappearance in 2011.

The last potential breakthrough came in 2014, when a woman said she saw a boy matching his description at her yard-sale. Police were never able to confirm the sighting.

‘And what I’ve prayed about since he’s been gone is that God will keep him close and take care of him, and that maybe by some stroke of luck, he was with people who would love him. And if that’s not the case, it will be heartbreaking to get through.’

However, the brief glimmer of hope turned out to be another false-lead in the missing child case.

The last breakthrough in the disappearance of Timmothy came in 2014 when a woman hosting a garage sale in northern Illinois dialed 911 to tell police a boy matching his description had been standing in the front-yard of her home.

Shortly before her daughter’s suicide, Alana Anderson received a note from her daughter that read: ‘I’ve taken him somewhere safe. He will be well cared for and he says that he loves you. Please know that there is nothing you could have said or done that would have changed my mind.’   

Aurora Police launched an investigation spanning three states – including Illinois and Wisconsin – after her death to find the person allegedly in possession of Timmothy.

Police say they also explored the possibility Amy may have murdered her son in the midst of her turmoil and hidden the child’s body somewhere.

The razorblade-edged knife she used to cut her wrists with showed only traces of her blood.

But three months after Timmothy’s disappearance investigators found a ‘concerning’ amount of blood in the back seat of Amy’s car.  

However, hope the six-year-old could still be alive was revived when the blood was later concluded to have come from a nosebleed suffered by the Timmothy several months earlier.

Analyzing the exterior of Amy’s SUV, police were able to determine the vehicle had at one stage been parked in a grassy area, near a stream and a road treated with glass beads.

They believed this could have been the location where Amy handed over Timothy to the mysterious third-party, but nothing further came from the evidence. 

James Pitzen has previously said he’s never given up hope that his son is alive and will one day return home to him.

‘I always wonder what she told Timmothy, Why hasn’t he tried to call? We taught him how to dial 911. ‘This is your number, this is your mom’s number, you know where you live, your address,’ all the stuff you do,’ he told People in 2015. 

‘Maybe I’ll see Tim in the morning,’ James said he often tells himself. ‘Maybe tomorrow they’ll find him.’

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