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During the summer of 2003, Natalie had taken a job working at the Horn Creek Conference center during a Christian summer camp event that was being held there. It was here that she met her boyfriend who had a full time job there, and it was during the Thanksgiving break of 2003 that she decided to make the journey back up to Colorado to visit him, with the couple opting to stay in separate guest cabins for the duration of their trip. Given the pious nature of their location, the couple spent Thanksgiving together taking romantic walks around the snow covered campgrounds hand in hand. Afterwards, Natalie's boyfriend dropped her off back at the cabin shortly after midnight of Friday, November 28th so that she could get some rest. But the next morning, the boyfriend went back to the very same cabin to check up on her, yet found she wasn't there. He looked around a little and was disturbed to find footprints in the snow leading away from the cabin, ones that had obviously been made by someone's bare feet. Given the shape and size, this must have sent him into a panic, wondering what could have frightened his girlfriend so much that she fled into the freezing night in nothing but her bare feet. He followed the tracks for a short while into a wooded area around 200 yards from the camp's conference building before finding her body lying in the snow at around 8:50am But Natalie wasn't just barefoot, she was completely naked. Her exposed arms and legs were all scratched up and bruised, and by the time her boyfriend found her body, rigor mortis had set in. She was completely stiff like a wax model, and it must have been extremely traumatizing for him to see someone he loved so dearly in such a terrible state. Custer County Sheriff Fred Jobe said there was only a single set of prints that had led them to Natalie's body, meaning she had not been pursued by anyone in the moments before her death. He also said that the pattern of her footprints appeared to be erratic as she had been wandering through the area in the daze before she had collapsed. It was also judged that, given the state of rigor mortis she was in, that she had actually died very soon after being dropped off back at the cabin, maybe only 15 to 20 minutes after the boyfriend had departed. An autopsy was performed over at the El Paso County Coroner's office on November 30, with the conclusion being that Natalie appeared to have been in a completely healthy state before she had died. Given that there were pine needles in her hair, with dirt and abrasions on her face and shoulder, and coupled with a chaotic patterning among her footprints, it appeared that Natalie had actually run into one or two trees as she fled her cabin. Evidence of such injuries included, among other things, linear scratches on her forehead, cheeks, neck, chest, abdomen and legs, small contusions just above the trachea on her right cheek and to the right of her chin, and purple contusions on her left forearm, hand and wrist. Other than evidence of injuries which the coroner believed were consistent with running through trees and brush, she had no visible external injuries. It is also interesting to note that the autopsy showed that there were no internal injuries to her brain, so we can safely rule out there being some kind of hemorrhage or tumor being to blame for Natalie's strange behavior. While the autopsy did not determine the cause of death, sheriff Jobe said. They've ruled out anything criminal. It's just really, really weird. But we're still hoping to find out something more conclusive. Lee Roybal, officer in charge of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, also commented on the unusual nature of Natalie's death. 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There was also the complete lack of narcotics in her system, so there was no way a drug could be to blame for the erratic state she was in that evening. There is also the possibility that given she was a recent arrival to a relatively high altitude from sea level Florida, that a lack of oxygen in her brain could be to blame for the delirium. On top of all this, there was an elevated amount of glucose in her urine. As has been stated, there could be no concrete conclusions as to how Natalie had died, but there was much rumor and speculation in the days that followed. For example, there was a great deal of attention paid to her boyfriend, given that he was a natural suspect, having been the past person to see Natalie alive as well as the person who found her corpse first. Yet Natalie's family did not and still do not believe that her boyfriend had anything to do with her untimely death. There was also a great amount of conjecture regarding a supposed eating disorder that Natalie had been dealing with and that the cardiac arrest she suffered was a direct result of malnutrition. Given the mysterious circumstances and a plethora of different theories put forward to explain Natalie's death, it is almost impossible to decide on a definitive explanation as to how or why she passed away. What's clear is that she had absolutely no history of mental illness, had no history of drug use, and was in perfect health right up until that Thanksgiving weekend. Yet suddenly she appears to have had some kind of psychotic break for no obvious reason at all. One moment her boyfriend was dropping her back at the guest cabin and she was perfectly normal. The next she was stripped naked and she was sprinting through the snow covered woods in the dark at such a speed that she collided with tree trunks as she ran. With the whole episode ending and her dropping dead just a few hundred yards away from where she was staying. We have to admit the situation is truly and terrifyingly bizarre, with the information at hand raising many more questions than answers. Although the coroner gave the explanation of excited delirium, it has proved to be a controversial diagnosis. The condition known as excited delirium is not recognized by the World Health Organization, the American Psychiatric association or the American Medical association, and therefore not listed a medical condition in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The UK Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody suggests that the syndrome should be termed Sudden Death in Restraint Syndrome in order to enhance clarity. Examples of deaths due to the condition are found primarily in restraint or attempted restraint situations, while medical preconditions and symptoms attributed to the syndrome are far more varied. In which case can we even place any credence in such an explanation? And if we dismiss it entirely, we are left with a gaping hole in Natalie's story and trying to explain just how she lost her life. But still, is it possible that Natalie encountered someone or something in or around that cabin that gave her such a fright that it could have triggered a highly panicked state that could have been confused with so called excited delirium? And if so, just what was it that she encountered? Could it have been some kind of twin twilight creeper who posed such a terrifying threat that Natalie abandoned all reason and logic, deciding it was better to run naked into the snow in order to escape such a threat? Or perhaps it was something far worse, a large, wild, aggressive animal, perhaps that wasn't about to display the same kind of subtlety and was about to smash its way into the cabin to devour her. It's unclear what caused such a state of fear that night, but one thing is clear in abundance that we will never know exactly what happened to Natalie Drissel, and that we'll have to accept that here we are walking the earth, knowing that at any moment we too could simply fall down dead from some mysterious ailment that leaves our loved ones as baffled as they are heartbroken. On December 14, 2014, a teenage boy is exploring the woods around the back roads of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Around 30ft from the nearest path, it is a quiet, rarely traveled area where the nearest tarmac'd road is just under a mile away, one that cuts through a residential area that hosts only around a dozen or so homes with minimal traffic, little more than a locally known shortcut to and from Route 989, the young lad is in a world of his own, enjoying the peace and tranquility of nature. Completely unaware of what he is about to stumble across. He only spots what he is about to discover because it looks extremely out of place, even among the death and decay of the Pennsylvania winter. The thing has a distinct air of morbidity about it. When he recognizes what it is, he turns on his heels and runs screaming from the woods, Tears in his eyes, his heart racing in his chest. Because what he had discovered that gray December day was a severed head. Only this wasn't the disembodied head of a newly murdered person. This particular head had been embalmed, preserved. When the police finally arrived hours later, they discovered that the eyes of the severed head were shut, but the mouth was wide open. They intensively searched the surrounding area for any signs of the body it had once been attached to, but found nothing. The head was so well preserved that its face was still definitively recognizable. But a subsequent facial reconstruction yielded no clues to the owner's identity. Forensic examiners estimated that it had been there for between one week and a month, just lying there among the fallen leaves, waiting to be discovered. If the gray hairs that covered her scalp were anything to go by, it was thought that the owner of the severed head was anything from 50 to 80 years of age. An anatomy professor turned forensic artist by the name of Michel Vitali examined the head in excruciating detail by request of the local police department. After hours upon hours of study, she came to a shocking conclusion. That whoever had severed the head had done so with the sky skill of an expert pathologist. That they must have had some kind of anatomical training to have completed the task with such precision. A conclusion shockingly reminiscent of the world famous 19th century serial killer, Jack the Ripper. When we lifted the skin flap at the nape of the neck, we could see that the whole purpose of that was to access the key joint that would preserve both the head and the vertebral column. She told local news reporters during a horrifying interview. This is not anybody going with a kitchen knife or anything remotely like that. It was well done and it was placed perfectly. She was dismembered professionally. Another piece of evidence that supported the theory that whoever had severed the head had done so with professional skill was the use of what are known as as eye caps, a common mortician's tool. These are devices that reassemble contact lenses and are worn in a chillingly similar way. They slip between the eyeball and the eyelid of the deceased person and are complete with small ridges or spikes that main the natural curvature of the eye whilst holding the eyelids shut. The pathologists who examined the embalmed head removed these eye caps and found that the person's eyeballs had been removed, but also made a disturbing discovery. The eyeballs had been replaced with small red rubber bouncy balls, the kind a child might play with. Whoever had done such a thing obviously had a sick sense of humor and was undoubtedly a very dangerously disturbed individual. After the initial forensic analysis, the embalmed head was sent over to Salt Lake City Based ISO forensics GO undertook isotope testing on it. For those unfamiliar with the technique, Isotopes are particles that can be found in the human body that come from drinking water that can be traced back to a particular geographical location. When the results of the isotope testing came back, Investigators were able to conclude that the woman had spent the previous several months being something of a nomad, having lived or at least stayed in areas including West Virginia, Western Maryland, Southern Pennsylvania, and even as far as eastern Ohio and New York state. Yet despite there being evidence to the owner of the severed head having lived in so many places, there was little to show that she had ever lived in Beaver county during time leading up to her death or discovered. However, the use of embalming fluid meant that determining the exact time of death was almost impossible. It also made DNA matching next to impossible, as the fluid destroyed nucleotide bonds that enabled such analysis to be undertaken. The small amount that was obtained was so damaged that it could not be matched to any other samples in the national database. But much to the relief of those involved with the analysis, it was discovered that there was no criminal element to her death, that the cardiac arrest was the most likely explanation for her demise. This was due to toxicology tests that had shown that there were trace amounts of lidocaine and atropine in her system, which are both varieties of medication that are used to treat irregular heart issues, Most likely a cardiac arrest, but not completely confirmed. One homicide detective was said to have been extremely skeptical that the owner of the embalmed head had died of natural causes, having seen far too many cases in which the possessiveness of the killer was displayed in their willingness to tamper and toy with the body of their quarry. When interviewed by journalists, Beaver county coroner Terry Tatilovich Rossi said, could it have been someone with a great deal of anatomical knowledge? Yes. Could it have been someone who is just peculiar or bizarre? The answer to that question is also yes. We just don't know at this point. Michael o', Brien, the borough police chief, claimed the embalmed head was Found so far off the road that it was entirely possible that it could have been simply thrown from a passing car. It was also determined that the scent and flavor of the embalming fluid would have made the flesh very unappealing to scavenger animals, so there was little chance it had been dropped by some hungry fox. The placement was deliberate. Someone had wanted it to be found sooner or later. A number of funeral homes that associated with the Pennsylvania Funeral Directors association were contacted with pleas for information, and details of the bizarre case were even shared at a National Funeral Directors association conference. But unsurprisingly, no one could shed any light of the gruesome situation. Every theory, with the exception of grave robbery, had been dismissed, with many agreeing that the most likely explanation is that the owner of the embalmed head had been a victim of the black market trade that deals in the illegal acquisition of human remains, either for professional or recreational purposes. There's a black market on body parts, and that market is pretty extensive, Beaver county District attorney Anthony was reported to have said. Detectives have repeatedly stated that they believed the head may have been removed from the corpse of a natural cause death by what's known as a body broker, an individual or firm who purchases and sells cadavers or remains. One solid reason that this line of investigation is thought to be the most plausible is is because the black market cadaver industry had been linked to similar abuses in the past. Due to the plethora of firms where you can purchase human remains, any attempt to discover where the severed head came from is, according to professor Michel Vitaly, extremely hard to track. If the owner of the severed head is to ever be identified, it would almost certainly require the assistance of of a dentist. The forensic investigation discovered that the owner of the severed head had work done on every single tooth, one of them as many as seven times. On one of the three teeth that had been pulled, forensic dentists discovered a filling compound that wasn't available to dentists before 2004, indicating that the woman must have died after that particular year. So far, analysis of the woman's dental work had produced no leads. But with a forensic facial reconstruction, investigators still hope that someone someday will be able to identify the woman and give her name back. Almost six years later, we are still no closer to discovering the identity of whoever owned the embalmed head or that of the sick individual who had severed or stolen it by replacing the eyeballs with red rubber balls. It might well remain a total mystery who exactly placed the head in the woods out in Pennsylvania. But perhaps the Real question is, do we really want to know the whole story behind it or are we most likely able to sleep easier? Remaining in Blissful Ignorance As a young child I had a very active imagination. As an adult I am very skeptical about ghosts and the paranormal, but as a 7 year old child in the early 90s, I remember seeing and witnessing stuff which a rational mind would conclude to be impossible. Regardless, I remember such events. In some instances I was with other individuals who too shared my experiences of these paranormal sightings, who also have profound memories of them to this day. In the 90s, my family owned a small village pub called the Crown Inn. The establishment is situated in the English countryside. Like many public houses in England, the Crown Inn was very old and at the center of many tragic stories, including murder. I would spend many hours exploring the Victorian building whilst my brother played with his friends in the village and when my parents worked I would often spend a lot of time by myself in the upstairs flat and during these times I recall witnessing objects flying across the room, furniture hovering, feet off the ground and other such occurrences. I would convince myself that these were just simply hallucinations or my excitable imagination. However, the family dog would also react to these unexplained events. On one occasion, Jake, my black Labrador, bolted out of the bedroom with his tail between his legs. When a table lifted off the ground, he ran to the bottom of the stairs and urinated all over the carpet. During this time I was sure that we were not alone in the pub. I will detail one particular night that sits vividly in my mind which I catch myself pondering about to this day. It was late at night, the pub was closed down and everybody in the building was in bed asleep. At this time I shared a bedroom with my brother and also shared a double bed. I remember waking up in the dark and silent room. Only a slight bit of light spilled through the window from the street, very faintly illuminating items around me. I first focused on my brother who was sound asleep just a few feet to my left, still laying on my back. I turned my head the other way and as I was about to close my eyes, something caught my attention on the wall to my right hand side. Adjacent to the bed and slightly raised towards the ceiling was something I couldn't at all comprehend. There were no pictures, paintings or any items hanging from this particular wall and apart from the window the wall was completely bare. Except of course, this strange thing. Being intrigued of this item fully aroused my attention and I must have gazed at this object for what felt to be a Few minutes. The item was almost egg shaped, no larger than an American football. Then I felt my heart starting to beat faster and a cold sensation ran down the length of my spine. As I started to slowly understand what I was looking at. The light reflected off the object to make out what appeared to be a cheekbone. As soon as I recognized this, I could make out a masculine jawline, an ear, a nose and a mouth. I was completely frozen when it was evident I was staring at somebody's face. No other part of the body was visible apart from the facial features. Peering what seemed to be through the wall, the face was slightly turned away from me, as if its attention was drawn to something at the foot of the bed. Through my fear, I did my best to remain completely motionless, still staring at this face, studying this insane image in front of me. I recall its eyes were casually looking away from me, as if in deep thought, almost sorrowful. The bed made a slight noise as I unintentionally shifted my weight on the mattress. Instantly, the face, in a jolting reflex motion, turned straight towards me as if it had been rudely disturbed, its wide open eyes staring directly into mine. In every sense of the word, I was utterly petrified. It sounds peculiar to describe, but the face was contorted with slight such an intense expression, a concoction of extreme delight and anger at the same time. It was horrifying to behold, to say the least. I couldn't breathe, I couldn't move, I couldn't scream as this horrifying thing gazed deep into my eyes, no more than a couple feet away from me, desperately wishing for this crazy event to stop. We both faced each other in the dark for a few moments. It then did something which makes the hair stick up on the back of my neck. Even to this day, the face almost composed itself for a second, until slowly revealing a psychopathic grin, a horrible distorted smile, before slowly descending down the wall. I helplessly watched as the face moved down towards the ground, never breaking eye contact until it was completely out of my sight. I thought my heart was going to explode inside my chest. As I laid there witnessing the face disappear. It's under the bed. It's under the bed. The thought screaming in my mind, I tried to move my arms and legs, but I couldn't. Almost as if I was paralyzed, I tried and tried again, desperately trying to get myself out of the room. In one last final attempt, my arms broke free, followed by my legs. I stood up in the bed and darted across the mattress, over my brother and out of the room, never Once looking behind me, I ran directly into my parents room, screaming all the way there, waking up the whole pub, including Jake, the family dog. My mom consoled me for a while and for the rest of the night I stayed in my parents bed. It took a few nights before I built up the courage to go back into that room again. With an adult's mind, it would be a fair conclusion that I likely suffered from sleep paralysis, which is something I do suffer with time to time as an adult. With those who are unfamiliar with this condition, it is where you become temporarily paralyzed just before falling asleep or waking up. On rare occasions, individuals also claim to have hallucinations during these episodes, expressing seeing ghosts or demons. I'm slightly skeptical of this because I hadn't knowingly suffered from sleep paralysis until I was in my teens and although it's happened to me a handful of times, I have never hallucinated episodes in bed like this never happened to me again. And with everything else that I experienced in that building for the 10 years we lived there, I simply can't rule out that something else was awake with me in the room that night. The other day I remember this one little story that happened to one of my friend's old neighbors. His old neighbor lived in a really small RV park. Anyway, he liked to go back there to visit her a lot since they were pretty close. I was his ride at the time, so I would usually end up hanging out there with them. The small RV park was located right off a main road and a highway that led directly into one of our small historic townships. The park was shaded by mostly tall oak trees, so it was often nice and breezy in the hot summers. Since it was such a small neighborhood. In the RV park, everyone had no choice but to know everyone. While we were hanging out there one day, my friend's former neighbor and her other neighbor started commenting on the fact that there were tons of ants. That was unusual to them since they lived there for years and never had that problem before. Eventually, after dealing with the ants being absolutely everywhere for a couple days, my friend's old neighbor decided to go outside and try to track the ant trails to see where they may be coming from. She ended up tracking them to an RV that was one space away from hers. There she found several trails of them both going into and coming from this man's rv. Everyone in the little neighborhood knew that the man who lived in that RV was somewhat of a hoarder and he was not clean at all. So she knocked on his door a few times, but he didn't seem to be there, so she decided to tape a note to his door for when he got home. In the note, she asked that he please have his son maybe pick up some ant traps and also to have him maybe clean up a little. The man who lived there was quite weak and ill with mrsa. I believe MRSA is a disease that can be passed through through bodily fluids and such, and I also believe it is eventually fatal. Thankfully, though, he had his son around to do his errands and some other things to help care for him. A couple days after she had left the note on his door, she got a knock on her door and it was the man's son. What he had to say was the grossest and most horrifying thing I have heard. What had happened was that when the man's son came by to take his dad to an appointment, he knocked but didn't get an answer. As he was waiting for his dad to answer the door, he realized he hadn't heard from him in almost a week. I guess his dad usually called him at least every other day or so. Since his dad wasn't answering him, his son went to go grab the spare key that his dad had given to him previously. When he let himself into his dad's rv, he made a morbid and terrifying discovery. He found his dad's decomposing body still in his bed, totally covered in ants. He ran out of there and it didn't take long for a neighbor to find him sobbing next to his vehicle. Within minutes, the whole small community had heard the gruesome news. As it just so happened, I had taken my friend over there for us to all hang out again on the day his old neighbor had heard the terrible news. We didn't even get a chance to sit down before she was already telling us about it. As she was telling us about all the ants on his body, I just couldn't help but to think about how ants come into your house, crawl all over your sinks, counters and dishes, and even in your food. So for whatever reason, the ants were truly the most horrific part to me. After all, MRSA can be passed through bodily fluids. We didn't go back there for a while after hearing that. When we did, though, they were still in the process of trying to move the RV out of there. And that was after a man in a full hazmat suit spent days, days cleaning it out. The whole thing just kind of freaked us all out, though, especially the ants. In 2004, in the sleepy Chicago suburb of Aurora, Illinois, Amy Pitzon would give birth to her firstborn son. After some deliberation, she and her husband, James would name the boy Timothy. The first six years of the boy's life were happy and uneventful, and we have every reason to believe that he was loved and well looked after by his two young parents. He had an extensive collection of relatives that he visited regularly who cared for the boy just as much as his own parents did. But Timothy and his family were headed towards a tragedy that would confound and puzzle all that became familiar with it, a mystery that would remain unsolved even to this day. On the morning of May 11, 2011, James Pittson woke up, made breakfast for himself and his son, and then drove the boy to his kindergarten class over at Greenman Elementary School on West Galena Boulevard before he headed to work. But for some reason, a short while later, just after 8:00am Amy Pittson arrived at the school telling a member of the teaching staff that there was a family emergency and that she needed to take Tim Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile. I don't know if you knew this, but anyone can get the same Premium Wireless for $15 a month plan that I've been enjoying. It's not just for celebrities. So do like I did and have one of your assistant's assistants switch you to Mint Mobile today. I'm told it's super easy to do@mintmobile.com Switch upfront payment of $45 for 3 month plan equivalent to $15 per month required intro rate first 3 months only, then full price plan options available, taxes and fees extra fee full terms@mintmobile.com the out of school for the Day Timothy's kindergarten teacher naturally obliged his mother, letting the young boy out of class, to accompany her wherever she was headed after wishing her the best with whatever emergency she was dealing with. However, instead of dealing with this apparent family emergency, Amy Pitson's whereabouts are unknown until around 10am that same morning when she arrived at a vehicle repair shop in Aurora. A friendly employee of the shop then drove Pitson and her son over to the nearby Brook Creek Zoo, where the pair then spent the remainder of the morning and the early afternoon relaxing and exploring the various animal exhibits that were on display there. At around 3pm, Amy and her son arrived back at the vehicle repair shop, collecting her car before driving over to the Key Lime Cove Resort in the small town of Gurney over in Lake county, which is known for its large water park as well as being a subsidiary of Six Flags. After taking Timothy around the water park, Amy and her son spent the night at the resort, leaving early the next morning before driving over state lines to Wisconsin. Here they checked into Kalahari Resort in the Wisconsin dells at around 10am, both being recorded on CCTV cameras. But since then, neither hide nor hair of Timothy Pittson has been seen anywhere. For all intents and purposes, the young man had vanished into thin air. Around lunchtime the following day on May 13, Amy Pittson made a series of phone calls to some of her relatives, including her brother in law and her mother. She assured them that they were not to worry, how she and Timothy were both sick, safe and well, and that neither of them were in any danger. These relatives would later confirm that Timothy was indeed present with his mother at the time of these calls, since he could be heard in the background complaining that he was hungry. In the investigation that followed, cell phone records showed that the calls were made from an area close to Sterling in Vernon County, Wisconsin, and that the pair were apparently on the move again via Route 40. Yet, contrary to what one might expect, Amy Pittson did not contact her husband, the one person you might assume she would call to inform of her and her son's whereabouts. James had been frantic with worry ever since the evening of May 11, when he had returned home to find the house empty and had subsequently heard the news that his wife had taken Timothy out of school. On the evening of May 13, Amy Pittson was recorded on the security cameras of a Winnebago Family dollar store. She was alone when she purchased a notebook, some stationery and some envelopes. She was still all on her own when she was sighted at a branch of Sullivan's Food, also in Winnebago, Wisconsin, where she apparently visited the pharmacy counter before swiftly leaving. She was not spotted again until just past 11 that night, when she had apparently returned to Illinois, checking into a room at the Rockford Inn in the city of Rockford. The following day, in the early afternoon of May 14, a member of the housekeeping staff at the inn visited the room that Amy Pittson was staying in with the intention of cleaning the room. There was no do not Disturb sign present on the door handle and when the housekeeper knocked, there was no reply from inside the room. So, against her better judgment, she unlocked the room and walked inside. There, to her absolute horror, she found Amy Pittson lying face up on the sheets that were soaked with blood. Pittson had taken an overdose of powerful antihistamines before slashing her own wrist. She had also apparently left a note on a nearby dresser stating that she was well and truly sorry for the mess she had caused, but that Timothy would never be found. However, the note was quick to reassure those that read it that Timothy was in fact safe with people who would care for him, but that it would be pointless to look for him, since his new guardians had hidden him away and would never give him up. After being called, police quickly arrived on the scene to shut off the hotel room for forensic examination. They located the knife that Amy Pittson used, and a close inspection of her car found traces of what appeared to be an alarming amount of her son's blood. Yet upon analysis, only Amy's blood was to be found on the knife at the scene. To the relief of investigators, close relatives of the Pittsons revealed that in the run up to Timothy's disappearance, he had suffered a rather large nosebleed in the car, and this was why so many trace particles could be found inside the vehicle. Amy Pitson's cell phone was nowhere to be found at the scene of her death, but it was later found in a grassy verge on the edge of Route 78, evidently tossed out of the window of her moving vehicle as she returned to Illinois. But analysis of her cell phone records shed no further light on what she had done, nor why she had done it. And there were no clues regarding her son's whereabouts to be found. Furthermore, the analysis of Amy's vehicle revealed that at some point she had been parked in a grassy area. There were traces of clay embedded in the vehicle's tiny tires, which investigators surmised had come from a place with a stream or a river nearby. Thus, it was highly possible that Amy had driven into a rural area, possibly off the road, in order to hand Timothy over to his new keepers. Pittson has since made it abundantly clear that he believes that his son is still very much alive. And In August of 2018, the sincere canceled law enforcement TV show Live PD showed their viewers some digitally generated age progression images showing what Timothy might look like at age 13. The guest on that episode of the show was Angeline Hartman of the national center for Missing and Exploited Children, who urged members of the public to come forward with any and all information that might help police locate Timothy. But none of the calls that were made as a result came to anything at all. However, less than a year later, calls were made to police in Northern Kentucky that brought a phenomenal amount of hope to those who wished for Timothy's return, but also revealed an unfathomable mystery and an unimaginable evil. On 3rd April 2019, citizens in the city of Newport called local police to inform them that a teenage boy was wandering in nearby streets, apparently in a daze after having run across a bridge on the Ohio River. Police soon located the young man, who was shaken, distraught and exhausted, and who required a great deal of consoling before he could even bring himself to speak. Police asked the teenager for his name and his reply shook them to their core. Timothy, he stammered. T. Timothy Pittson. The boy was rushed to Louisville, Kentucky's largest city, where he was interviewed by detectives regarding his apparent disappearance eight years previously. He said he couldn't remember a thing, that the most he could recall was escaping a house in neighboring Ohio before running across the river bridge. But DNA tests would reveal something that was devastatingly disappointing to James Pittson, who was indescribably overjoyed at the sudden breakthrough in the case. The boy was not Timothy Pittson. The entire story was an intricate lie fabricated by then 23 year old Brian Michael Remi Reaney has been released from Belmont Correctional Institution in Ohio just shy of a month prior to his terrible claims, he had served just 14 months on charges of burglary and vandalism resulting from acts committed in Medina County. Sgt. Bill Rowley, spokesman for Aurora police, later released a statement saying, although we are disappointed that this turned out to be a hoax, we remain diligent in our search for Timothy as our missing person's case remains unsolved. One cannot possibly imagine what would have possessed Brian Michael Reaney to tell such a heinous and evil lie. It is possible that he had seen an episode of Live PD or somehow heard of Timothy's disappearance whilst incarcerated and wished to hit back in a world that he viewed with what must be a remarkable degree of contempt. 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