Father awaits word on missing Aurora boy

The father of a missing Aurora boy was still hoping for word about his son Tuesday.

“I’m waiting by the phone for them to call and say, `We found him. Come get him,”’ James Pitzen said. “If someone has him, please turn him in to the police. Please let us know where he’s at.”

There was optimism that 6-year-old Timothy Pitzen may be alive. Pitzen’s wife, Amy Fry-Pitzen, committed suicide in a Rockford hotel room but left a note saying he was fine. Police say she took steps that suggest she may have, as she said in her note, dropped her son off with a friend.

For example, they said a review of photographs of her vehicle’s interior shows that the boy’s car seat and his Spider-Man backpack were missing.

On Wednesday, Fry-Pitzen, without telling anyone, picked the boy up from school in Aurora. Authorities said they went to the Brookfield Zoo that afternoon, and then checked into Key Lime Cove Resort in Gurnee on Wednesday night. They drove to the Wisconsin Dells the next day, checking into the Kalahari Resort, and checked out Friday morning.