05-15-2011, 04:25 PM
ChicagoSunTimes
The father of a missing six-year-old boy from Aurora said he was still waiting late Saturday to learn the whereabouts of his son after his wife — who was found dead of an apparent suicide earlier in the day — had taken him and vanished last week.
“There is a lot of people out looking for him,’’ Jim Pitzen said of his son, Timothy Pitzen, a kindergartener in Aurora.
He said he and police have contacted “a lot of people’’ but they still have no idea where the boy is.
“She was not in a good place when she left,’’ Jim Pitzen said of his wife, Amy Fry-Pitzen, when she left the home Wednesday.
Police said Fry-Pitzen, 43, took her son out of school at 8:35 a.m. Wednesday. Jim Pitzen reported them missing at 1 p.m. Thursday.
On Friday, though, she contacted several family members and friends and told them everything was fine, police said. A relative spoke with Timothy that afternoon and told police the boy did not sound as if her were in distress.
“He sounded okay,’’ Pitzen said a relative on his side of the family told him.
But Saturday, employees at the Rockford Motel, 3851 11th St., found the body of Fry-Pitzen inside a room at 12:30 p.m., Rockford Police Lt. Dane Person said. Her wrists had been slit, authorities said. The boy was not with her.
Police said she left a note indicating that Timothy was fine and that she had left him in the care of unnamed people, but Jim Pitzen said he did not know if that was the case.
In fact, Pitzen said he had “no idea where my wife or son have been for the past three days’’ until police investigated.
Police later determined that Fry-Pitzen and her son stayed at the Key Lime Cove Resort in Gurnee on Wednesday night and at the Kalahari Resort in the Wisconsin Dells on Thursday night, which is where the boy was last seen. Fry-Pitzen was also seen at a grocery story in Winnebago, near Rockford, at about 8 p.m. Friday.
Jim Pitzen said his wife has friends and relatives in Iowa, Ohio, Arizona, and California — but “to my knowledge we don’t have any family or friends in Wisconsin.’’ He said the family had not been to the Kalahari Resort together in the past, nor to Rockford.
“I have no idea why she was there,’’ he said.
He described his son as “an energetic little six-year-old.’’
The couple’s eighth wedding anniversary would have been this week.
Timothy is described as 4-foot-2, 70 pounds, with brown hair and eyes. Anyone who believes they saw either the boy or his mother is urged to call Aurora police at (630) 256-5500.
The father of a missing six-year-old boy from Aurora said he was still waiting late Saturday to learn the whereabouts of his son after his wife — who was found dead of an apparent suicide earlier in the day — had taken him and vanished last week.
“There is a lot of people out looking for him,’’ Jim Pitzen said of his son, Timothy Pitzen, a kindergartener in Aurora.
He said he and police have contacted “a lot of people’’ but they still have no idea where the boy is.
“She was not in a good place when she left,’’ Jim Pitzen said of his wife, Amy Fry-Pitzen, when she left the home Wednesday.
Police said Fry-Pitzen, 43, took her son out of school at 8:35 a.m. Wednesday. Jim Pitzen reported them missing at 1 p.m. Thursday.
On Friday, though, she contacted several family members and friends and told them everything was fine, police said. A relative spoke with Timothy that afternoon and told police the boy did not sound as if her were in distress.
“He sounded okay,’’ Pitzen said a relative on his side of the family told him.
But Saturday, employees at the Rockford Motel, 3851 11th St., found the body of Fry-Pitzen inside a room at 12:30 p.m., Rockford Police Lt. Dane Person said. Her wrists had been slit, authorities said. The boy was not with her.
Police said she left a note indicating that Timothy was fine and that she had left him in the care of unnamed people, but Jim Pitzen said he did not know if that was the case.
In fact, Pitzen said he had “no idea where my wife or son have been for the past three days’’ until police investigated.
Police later determined that Fry-Pitzen and her son stayed at the Key Lime Cove Resort in Gurnee on Wednesday night and at the Kalahari Resort in the Wisconsin Dells on Thursday night, which is where the boy was last seen. Fry-Pitzen was also seen at a grocery story in Winnebago, near Rockford, at about 8 p.m. Friday.
Jim Pitzen said his wife has friends and relatives in Iowa, Ohio, Arizona, and California — but “to my knowledge we don’t have any family or friends in Wisconsin.’’ He said the family had not been to the Kalahari Resort together in the past, nor to Rockford.
“I have no idea why she was there,’’ he said.
He described his son as “an energetic little six-year-old.’’
The couple’s eighth wedding anniversary would have been this week.
Timothy is described as 4-foot-2, 70 pounds, with brown hair and eyes. Anyone who believes they saw either the boy or his mother is urged to call Aurora police at (630) 256-5500.