Via KHOU:
A 14-year-old boy who said he escaped from two kidnappers in Ohio told authorities he is from Illinois, where he went missing nearly eight years ago when his mother apparently took her own life.
Police in suburban Cincinnati’s Sharonville wrote in a short incident report that the teen said Wednesday morning that he had “just escaped from two kidnappers” he described as white men with body builder-type physiques. They were in a Ford SUV with Wisconsin license plates and had been staying at a Red Roof Inn.
The boy, who identified himself as Timmothy Pitzen, told police that after his escape he “kept running across a bridge into” Kentucky.
Timmothy Pitzen was six when he disappeared in 2011 after authorities said his mother took her own life in a Rockford, Illinois, hotel.
Police in the Chicago suburb of Aurora said Wednesday afternoon that the department is sending two detectives to the Cincinnati area. Aurora police don’t know if the boy he has any connection to Pitzen, Aurora Police Sgt. Bill Rowley said.
Update:
Unfortunately, they concluded it wasn’t him through DNA.
Man claiming to be him was actually a 23 year old man named Brian Rini who just got out of jail and has a history of making false claims to the police.