TIMMOTHY Pitzen’s family members continue to be haunted by the cryptic words shared in his mom’s suicide note, warning the missing boy would never be found, thirteen years on from his puzzling disappearance.

Six-year-old Timmothy was last seen clutching the hand of his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, as the pair checked out of a waterpark hotel resort in the Wisconsin Dells, on May 13, 2011.

Amy Fry-Pitzen took her own life and left behind a suicide note warning that her son Timmothy would never be found

Timmothy would be 19 today if he’s still alive. Seen above is a new age progression photo generated by the National Center for Missing & Exploited ChildrenCredit: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

The mother and son had spent the last 48 hours embarking on a spontaneous road trip across state lines that began with Amy taking Timmothy out of school on the morning of May 11 in Aurora, Illinois, under the guise of a family emergency.

Timmothy’s father, Jim, was none the wiser to Amy’s plans. He arrived at the school to pick him up at the end of the day to find the boy had already been collected hours prior.

Jim Pitzen would be forced to report his son missing the following day when all of his calls and texts to Amy went unanswered for almost 24 hours.

Amy, 42, was eventually found dead inside a motel in Rockford, Illinois, on May 14, having taken her own life with an overdose of antihistamines and deep razor cuts to her wrists.

However, there was no sign of little Timmothy, and other items of his, including his favorite Spider-Man backpack, were missing from the room.

Amy left behind a suicide note assuring loved ones that Timmothy was safe and had been placed in the care of others who “love” him.

Chillingly, she warned he would “never be found.”

As Amy promised, almost no traces of Timmothy have been yielded in the 13 years since.

But the boy’s devastated family members still cling to hope he’s alive and they remain determined to prove Amy wrong by finally bringing him home.

“She has followed through on that, on him not being found, which unfortunately hasn’t changed – yet,” Jen West, Timmothy’s paternal aunt, defiantly told The U.S. Sun.

“I’m a very positive person, so I always take to positive approach of someday, he’ll be here when the time’s right.

“I think Amy was very smart and she was planning this for a long time […] so she did a good job of keeping him from us, unfortunately.

“[But] I don’t believe she could hurt him.

“I think he’s alive and out there still, somewhere.”

‘HE’S STILL OUT THERE’

Steadfast in her belief that her nephew is alive, Jen has developed a theory of what she believes happened to Timmothy to explain his prolonged absence.

She and all other family members of Timmothy have said repeatedly and unanimously over the years that Amy was a doting mother who would simply be incapable of hurting the boy.

With that in mind, Jen takes Amy’s parting letter at face value and believes she handed the boy over to another family in an illegal adoption she’d spent months planning.

In part, Amy’s suicide note read, “Some people leave notes & some don’t. I couldn’t decide, so this is my version.

“Tim is somewhere safe with people who love him and will take care of him. You will never find him.

“To whoever finds me, sorry about the mess.”

Timmothy’s aunt, Jen West, told The U.S. Sun that she believes her nephew is still alive as Amy would’ve never hurt him

Timmothy Pitzen was six when he vanished in May 2011

Timmothy was taken out of school by his mom on May 11, 2011, 45 minutes have his father dropped him off

Jen believes Timmothy may be being held in a remote location with limited access to the internet, on a commune, or something of the like.

Alternatively, she believes her nephew may have been fed so many lies over the years that he no longer remembers who he really is, and he may be leading a completely normal life under a new alias.

Detailing her theory, she shared, “I really think she told a story to a group of people that was very believable, either that she was dying or that her husband was abusive, or just some other wackadoodle thing that sounded very real.

“And then she gave him to somebody who thinks they were protecting him from us for some reason […] and he was just six years old, and when you’re told something enough times at that age you’re going to start believing it.

“But he’ll still have repressed memories […] and I’ve always thought that maybe something would happen, maybe a memory would pop up and start a chain reaction in his mind to help him realize who he is.

“And that could still happen.”

WITHOUT A TRACE

The Pitzen mystery began on May 11, 2011, when Amy arrived at Greenman Elementary School at 8:15am – 45 minutes after his dad dropped him off – and told school administrators she needed to take him out of class because of a family emergency.

In truth there was no family emergency, none at least that Jim Pitzen was made aware of, and surveillance footage from inside the school showed Amy leading her son outside by his hand.

What, don’t you trust me? I’m not going to hurt myself. I’m not going to hurt Tim.

Amy Fry-Pitzen

Jim Pitzen was confused when he arrived at the school gates later that afternoon to be told that Timmothy had been collected by Amy hours ago.

The couple had been enduring a turbulent time in their marriage, and Jim had recently stated his intention to divorce Amy and take full custody of Timmothy.

Calls and messages to her cell phone went unanswered.

Amy and Timmothy, meanwhile, were spending the day at Brookfield Zoo, around 30 miles from Aurora.

Later that same day, the mother and son headed northbound for an hour to Key Lime Resort, a hotel and waterpark in Gurnee.

Then, on the morning of May 12, Amy took Timmothy to the Wisconsin Dells, where they checked into Kalahari Resort.

En route to the resort, they made a series of stops to buy clothes, toys, gas, and a small arts and crafts kit.

Jim Pitzen reported his son missing in Aurora the same day.

Police did not issue an Amber Alert because Amy hadn’t yet committed a crime and Timmothy wasn’t suspected of being in any danger.

On May 13, surveillance video captured the last known images of Timmothy and his mother together as they checked out of the Kalahari Resort.

The young boy is seen holding Amy’s hand as they wait in line, still wearing the same Spider-Man backpack he’d worn to school two days before. (The backpack has never been recovered)

Where the mother and son headed next is a question that continues to perplex investigators.