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He claimed he was missing boy Timmothy Pitzen. But he’s actually Brian Rini, a 23-year-old ex-convict
- The FBI said DNA tests had debunked Brian Rini’s claims that he was Timmothy Pitzen, who vanished in 2011
- Rini was released from prison less than a month ago, having served 14 months for burglary and vandalism
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The person who told Kentucky police he was missing Illinois teen Timmothy Pitzen is a grown man with a criminal record, the FBI and state records said.
Brian Michael Rini, 23, told neighbours in the Kentucky town of Newport that he had escaped kidnappers and was Timmothy, who would be 14 years old, briefly raising hope that the long-lost boy had been found, FBI spokesman Todd Lindgren said.

Timmothy was last seen after his mother pulled him out of school in Aurora, a far-west suburb of Chicago, and then committed suicide.
Lindgren, of the agency’s Cincinnati bureau, said that DNA tests conducted at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital showed that the person who claimed to be Timmothy was in fact Rini.
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