A person who this week told police that he was Timmothy Pitzen, an Illinois child who vanished eight years ago, is not actually the long-missing child, the authorities said late Thursday. DNA tests showed that the person who approached passers-by in Kentucky, saying that he had escaped from kidnappers, was not Timmothy after all, the F.B.I. “A local investigation continues into this person’s true identity,” Timothy Beam, an F.B.I. Mr. Beam added, “To be clear, law enforcement has not and will not forget Timmothy, and we hope to one day reunite him with his family. The person asked for help, saying he had been held against his will and traded among people for years, and that he just wanted to go home.

Source: New York Times April 04, 2019 16:04 UTC