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DNA tests show that the person found Wednesday in Northern Kentucky is not Timmothy Pitzen, the FBI said Thursday afternoon. "DNA results have been returned, and the person in question is not Timmothy Pitzen," FBI Louisville spokesman Timothy Beam said in an emailed statement. Instead, officials said it was a 23-year-old man from Medina, Ohio – Brian Michael Rini

A person claiming to be a 14-year-old boy who went missing from Aurora at the age of 6 was actually a 23-year-old man from Ohio, police said Thursday. Investigators ran a DNA test on the person who appeared in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area on Wednesday, claiming to be the child who disappeared from the Illinois town more than seven years ago. Authorities confirmed Thursday that results indicated "the person in question is not Timmothy Pitzen."

Investigators claim that a 14-year-old boy in Ohio identified himself on Wednesday as Timmothy Pitzen, a 6-year-old boy who vanished in 2011, and said he had just escaped the grasp of two kidnappers who allegedly held him for seven years. The boy told police that on Wednesday morning, he had "just escaped from two kidnappers" whom he described as white men with body builder physiques, according to an incident report from the Sharonville Police Department obtained by The Associated Press. "One had black curly hair, Mt. Dew shirt and jeans, & has a spider web tattoo on his neck," the...