Authorities have rejected a teenager's claim that he is an Illinois boy who disappeared in 2011 at age 6.
The FBI says DNA testing ruled out the teenager as being Timmothy Pitzen, missing from Aurora, Illinois.
Police say the story of the teenager found wandering streets in Newport, Kentucky, yesterday didn't check out.
In 2011, six-year-old Pitzen's mother picked him up at school in Illinois, took him to the zoo and a water park, and then killed herself at a hotel, leaving a note in which she said her son was fine but that no one would ever find him.
Today, a 14-year-old boy came forward to tell authorities he is Timmothy.
The boy claimed he escaped from two kidnappers in the Cincinnati area and then fled across a bridge into Kentucky.
Police in the Cincinnati suburb of Sharonville wrote in a short incident report that the boy said he had "just escaped from two kidnappers" he described as white men with body builder-type physiques.
They were in a Ford SUV with Wisconsin license plates and had been staying at a Red Roof Inn.
"The City of Sharonville Police Department, like every other police agency in the greater Cincinnati area, was requested to check their Red Roof Inn hotels regarding this incident," the post read. "To the best of our knowledge, we have no information indicating that the missing juvenile was ever in the City of Sharonville."
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