Missing boy Timothy Pitzen’s grandmother believes his mother hid him in a Mormon commune before she killed herself 13 years ago

Missing boy Timmothy Pitzen could be locked up in a Mormon commune with no idea who he really is, his grandmother believes.

Timothy disappeared without a trace on May 11, 2011, shortly after being dropped off at Greenman Elementary School in Aurora, Illinoisby his father.

His mother Amy Fry-Pitzen told the school she had to take her six-year-old son home because of a family emergency.

Fry-Pitzen, 43, then took her son on a three-day vacation, visiting the zoo and several water parks and was found dead in a motel room on May 14 alone.

A suicide note she left said her son was safe and “well cared for,” but added: “You will never find him.”

Amy Fry-Pitzen, 43, then took her son on a three-day vacation, visiting the zoo and several water parks and was found dead in a motel room on May 14 alone

Since then, his father Jim Pitzen and grandmother Linda Pitzen – along with the police – have searched fruitlessly for him without any trace.

Timmothy’s childhood friend Hannah Soukup also couldn’t let the matter rest and investigated his disappearance herself.

She believes her missing classmate lives in a remote Mormon commune without access to the internet – and Linda agrees.

“I think she wanted Timm to be raised as a Mormon,” Linda told the newspaper American sunadding that her daughter-in-law had grown up in the religious sect.

“The rest of us aren’t Mormons and I think this was her way of making sure he was after she was gone.

“She never forced it on anyone but Jim. But he was reluctant and I think maybe her church put a little pressure on her, I don’t know.”

What Timmothy would look like today, at the age of 19

Timmothy’s grandmother Linda Pitzen believes he could be locked up in a Mormon commune without any idea who he really is

Timmothy’s childhood friend Hannah Soukup thinks he lives in a remote Mormon commune with no access to the internet – and Linda agrees

Soukup said her old classmate, who would be 19 now like her, must have had no idea who he was so he wouldn’t go looking for his family.

“Whatever Amy did, she hid it well,” she told the US Sun.

“I think she made it clear that his identity needed to be changed, or he needed to stay off the internet so he would never know he was missing.

“I definitely think he’s still alive, but I definitely think he’s somewhere that would be very difficult to find.”

Soukup, whose lasting memory of Timmothy was when they were sent to timeout together to open Thanksgiving treats early, recalled her teacher explaining what happened to him.

‘I remember we all assumed he was ill, so it all happened very suddenly, and because we were all so young we didn’t really understand what was going on, even when Mrs Broach briefly told us what was in a sugar factory had happened. -coated way.

“I remember being really confused that he wasn’t there.”

The first sign that something was wrong was when Jim Pitzen (left) arrived to pick Timmothy up from school and was told that his wife (right) had already picked him up

Soukup said her old classmate, who would be 19 now like her, must have had no idea who he was so he wouldn’t go looking for his family

Another missing poster released in 2019 showing Timmothy when he disappeared, and what he would have looked like as a 14 year old at the time

Soukup only discovered the truth when her mother abandoned her at the age of 11.

“It’s so unfair that he was taken from the rest of his family because his mother had ulterior motives,” she said.

“And it breaks my heart that people are holding him and not letting him know who he is or anyone he knew before, and keeping him isolated from the rest of the world.

“What really scares me, though, is that he could be out there living a normal life with no idea who he is.

“He could be in college with a completely different name and think the people he was handed over to are his family.”

The first sign that something was wrong was when Jim Pitzen arrived to pick Timmothy up from school and was told that his wife had already picked him up.

The couple discussed divorce in the weeks before Fry-Pitzen left with her son, and she was “not happy about the prospect of another divorce.”

He found no trace of Timmothy or Fry-Pitzen for more than a day, until she finally called him and his brother Chuck on May 12.

‘Timothy is doing well. Timothy is mine. Timmothy and I will be fine. Timothy is safe. Tim is my son, I can do whatever I want,” she told them.

She said to Chuck, “What, you don’t trust me? I’m not going to hurt myself. I’m not going to hurt Tim.’

Fry-Pitzen also told her mother, “Everything is fine” and she just needed to spend some time alone with her son.

The last known images of Timmothy and his mother together were captured on CCTV when they visited the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells on May 12.

The last known images of Timmothy and his mother together were captured on CCTV when they visited the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells on May 12.

Here they are walking out the door together, the last moments before he disappeared

The next day, Amy was spotted alone by a surveillance camera at a supermarket 120 miles away near Rockford, after she bought a pen, paper and some envelopes.

The next day, Amy was spotted alone by a surveillance camera at a supermarket 120 miles away near Rockford, after she bought a pen, paper and some envelopes.

She used them to write her suicide note and send it to her mother Alana Anderson.

‘I took him to a safe place. He is well taken care of and he says he loves you. Please know that there is nothing you could have said or done that would have changed my mind,” she wrote.

Fry-Pitzen was found dead in her Rockford Inn motel room on May 14, after committing suicide by swallowing pills and slitting her wrists.

Aurora police launched an investigation in three states — including Illinois and Wisconsin — after her death to find the person who allegedly possessed Timmothy.

Police say they have also investigated the possibility that Amy killed her son amid her turmoil and hid the child’s body somewhere.

The sharp knife she used to cut her wrists showed only traces of her blood.

The couple discussed divorce in the weeks before Fry-Pitzen left with her son, and she was ‘not happy about the prospect of another divorce’

But three months after Timmothy’s disappearance, investigators found a “worrying” amount of blood in the backseat of Amy’s car.

However, hopes that the six-year-old might still be alive were revived when it was later concluded that the blood was from a bloody nose the Timmothy had suffered several months earlier.

By analyzing the exterior of Amy’s SUV, police were able to determine that the vehicle had once been parked in a grassy area, near a stream and a glass-beaded road.

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

The latest breakthrough in Pitzen’s disappearance came in 2014, when a woman organizing a garage sale in northern Illinois called 911 to tell police that a boy matching his description had been standing in the front yard of her home.