Search for Aurora boy comes up dry

Aurora police and nine other agencies conducted a daylong search Thursday of rural roads and parks near Sterling and Rock Falls where Amy Fry-Pitzen may have stopped with her son Timothy, who has been missing since Friday, May 13.

The search did not turn up any new evidence, said Aurora police spokesman Dan Ferrelli.

“We have not found anything of value,” Ferrelli said. “There seems to be a lot of information on this but not necessarily a lot of leads.”

During Fry-Pitzen’s last cellphone communications before she apparently committed suicide Saturday afternoon in a Rockford motel room, Timothy was overheard saying he was hungry, according to at least two sources police interviewed.

So authorities searched parks with picnic tables, wooded areas or “any area that it is possible that they pulled off to get something to eat,” Ferrelli said.

They were seeking toys, clothing or other evidence that could strengthen one working theory that Fry-Pitzen handed her son off to someone before killing herself, he said.

Authorities began the search about 10 a.m. near Dixon and also the Sterling and Rock Falls areas.

They planned to conclude the search around 5 p.m., then decide how to precede in the coming hours and days.

Everyone interviewed in the search for 6-year-old Timothy has been cooperative, Ferrelli said.

Still, the Aurora boy’s location is unknown.

“The fact is we don’t know where he is, and he could be anywhere,” Ferrelli said.

“Every day that goes by, obviously, our concern for his well-being increases.”