When police arrived, Rini told them it was Timmothy and that she had escaped from the captors as a victim of sex trafficking, Glassman said. Later, DNA test buffers proved that Rini was not the boy.
CNN has contacted Rini’s public defender Richard Monahan to comment.
In May 2011, Timmothy’s mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, withdrew her young son from elementary school and took him to a Wisconsin zoo and water park. Her mother’s body was found three days later in a hotel room in Rockford, Illinois, more than 70 miles from her home in Aurora, Illinois.
She died by suicide, leaving behind a note that said Timmothy was with people who loved her. “You’ll never find him,” the note said.
“We know Timmothy will meet absolutely one day and we look forward to the day she can share her own story and look forward to helping others in the process,” her aunt Kara Jacob told CNN in January.