05-16-2011, 09:31 PM
fuck.
Chicago Trib
As authorities continue to search for the child, details about Fry-Pitzen's troubled past began to emerge. She apparently had tried to kill herself at least once before, according to an ex-husband.
During an argument more than a decade ago with her second husband, Greg Campbell, Amy Fry-Pitzen parked her car on the railroad tracks in Ames, Iowa, in an attempted suicide, according to Campbell.
But before a train passed, she got off the tracks and checked herself into a psychiatric ward for nearly a week, according to Campbell, who was married to Fry-Pitzen from 1995 to 2000.
After being released from the hospital, Fry-Pitzen was prescribed an antidepressant, but she stopped taking the drug around the time of their divorce, Campbell said.
Fry-Pitzen had "a really outgoing personality, but then she'd get depressed sometimes," Campbell said.
Aurora police spokesman Dan Ferrelli confirmed that Fry-Pitzen had suffered bouts of mental illness, had previously attempted suicide and had been on medication for depression. There appeared to have been no argument or event that triggered Fry-Pitzen's decision to flee with the boy last week, Ferrelli said.
Fry-Pitzen's mother, Alana Anderson, declined to comment Monday on her daughter's mental health, only saying, "I'm so stunned. I'm in complete disbelief."
Fry-Pitzen was a wonderful mother and daughter who had "problems" when she was younger, but "everything seemed better" over the last 15 years, Anderson said.
"She absolutely adored her son, and he adored her," Anderson said.
Fry-Pitzen graduated from Libertyville High School and Iowa State University, according to her first husband, Michael Natonski, whom she divorced 20 years ago. At the time of her death, she was working for a property management company in the Chicago area, he said.
James Pitzen, 39, said he last saw his son Wednesday morning on his way to kindergarten. Pitzen dropped Timothy off at kindergarten at 7:45 a.m. Less than an hour later, Fry-Pitzen picked Timothy up from the school and took him to Brookfield Zoo and the KeyLime Cove Water Park in Gurnee without telling family or friends, police said.
Pitzen declined to comment on his wife's mental health, saying only she was a loving wife and mother and "all-around great person." Pitzen said he noticed nothing out of the ordinary with his wife when he dropped her off at work Wednesday.
paternal grandmother of Timothy:
Chicago Trib
As authorities continue to search for the child, details about Fry-Pitzen's troubled past began to emerge. She apparently had tried to kill herself at least once before, according to an ex-husband.
During an argument more than a decade ago with her second husband, Greg Campbell, Amy Fry-Pitzen parked her car on the railroad tracks in Ames, Iowa, in an attempted suicide, according to Campbell.
But before a train passed, she got off the tracks and checked herself into a psychiatric ward for nearly a week, according to Campbell, who was married to Fry-Pitzen from 1995 to 2000.
After being released from the hospital, Fry-Pitzen was prescribed an antidepressant, but she stopped taking the drug around the time of their divorce, Campbell said.
Fry-Pitzen had "a really outgoing personality, but then she'd get depressed sometimes," Campbell said.
Aurora police spokesman Dan Ferrelli confirmed that Fry-Pitzen had suffered bouts of mental illness, had previously attempted suicide and had been on medication for depression. There appeared to have been no argument or event that triggered Fry-Pitzen's decision to flee with the boy last week, Ferrelli said.
Fry-Pitzen's mother, Alana Anderson, declined to comment Monday on her daughter's mental health, only saying, "I'm so stunned. I'm in complete disbelief."
Fry-Pitzen was a wonderful mother and daughter who had "problems" when she was younger, but "everything seemed better" over the last 15 years, Anderson said.
"She absolutely adored her son, and he adored her," Anderson said.
Fry-Pitzen graduated from Libertyville High School and Iowa State University, according to her first husband, Michael Natonski, whom she divorced 20 years ago. At the time of her death, she was working for a property management company in the Chicago area, he said.
James Pitzen, 39, said he last saw his son Wednesday morning on his way to kindergarten. Pitzen dropped Timothy off at kindergarten at 7:45 a.m. Less than an hour later, Fry-Pitzen picked Timothy up from the school and took him to Brookfield Zoo and the KeyLime Cove Water Park in Gurnee without telling family or friends, police said.
Pitzen declined to comment on his wife's mental health, saying only she was a loving wife and mother and "all-around great person." Pitzen said he noticed nothing out of the ordinary with his wife when he dropped her off at work Wednesday.
paternal grandmother of Timothy: