Undated photo provided by the Aurora, Ill., Police Department shows missing child, Timmothy Pitzen. Photo: APDNA tests disproved a teenager's claim of being an Illinois boy who disappeared eight years ago, the FBI said Thursday, dashing hopes that the baffling case had finally been solved. Timmothy Pitzen was the name of a boy from Aurora, Illinois, who disappeared in 2011 around the time of his mother's suicide, and there have been a multitude of false sightings and hoaxes over the years. "DNA results have been returned indicating the person in question is not Timmothy Pitzen," FBI spokesman Timothy Beam in Louisville said in a statement. Authorities and Timmothy's family had reacted cautiously to the latest turn in the case after a multitude of disappointments over the years.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 04, 2019 22:18 UTC