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FBI says man who claimed he escaped abductors after 7yrs is not who he claims
DNA tests revealed that an Ohio man who claimed he broke free from kidnappers after nearly eight years in captivity is not Timmothy Pitzen, the FBI said Thursday.
23 year old Brian Michael Rini of Medina, Ohio who described how he fled from his alleged kidnappers and ran across a bridge into Kentucky, said he was the missing child from Aurora, Illinois.
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“It’s devastating. It’s like reliving that day all over again,” Kara Jacobs, Timmothy’s aunt, told reporters. “Timmothy’s father is devastated once again.”
“I have one image. It’s the day I dropped him off at school and he’s off — running off to class — and that’s pretty much the last image I have in my mind of him,” Timmothy’s father, Jim Pitzen, told journalists in 2015.
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