05-15-2011, 06:40 PM
As Aurora police today continued their search for a boy missing after his mother's apparent suicide in a Rockford hotel room, the boy's father waited, hoping for good news from authorities on his son's whereabouts.
James Pitzen, 39, last saw his son Timothy Wednesday morning on his way to kindergarten. Pitzen's wife, Amy Pitzen-Fry checked the boy out of school about 8:30 a.m. that day, before going to Brookfield Zoo and to the Key Lime Cove Water Park in Gurnee that night, police said.
She called relatives Friday afternoon to say that the two were not in danger. That night she was seen at a Sullivan's Foods in Winnebago before checking into a motel in Rockford about 11:15 p.m. without her son, police said. The next day, motel workers found her body.
"She's never done anything like this before," James Pitzen said today, standing in a room filled with Timothy's toys. well no, she's dead.
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James Pitzen, 39, last saw his son Timothy Wednesday morning on his way to kindergarten. Pitzen's wife, Amy Pitzen-Fry checked the boy out of school about 8:30 a.m. that day, before going to Brookfield Zoo and to the Key Lime Cove Water Park in Gurnee that night, police said.
She called relatives Friday afternoon to say that the two were not in danger. That night she was seen at a Sullivan's Foods in Winnebago before checking into a motel in Rockford about 11:15 p.m. without her son, police said. The next day, motel workers found her body.
"She's never done anything like this before," James Pitzen said today, standing in a room filled with Timothy's toys. well no, she's dead.