The fraud has shocked the country.
By Kyle Swenson Kyle Swenson Reporter for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow April 5 at 6:19 AM The news brought a flood of interest and hope. On Wednesday, police in Newport, Ky., revealed that a young man found wandering local streets claimed he was Timmothy Pitzen, an Aurora, Ill., boy who had vanished after his mother’s apparent suicide in 2011.
“Your heart takes over and you want to believe,” the member of another family duped by a missing child impostor told the New Yorker’s David Grann in 2008. It was only after Anderson’s death in 1984 that DNA testing showed she was probably not a member of the royal bloodline, according to Refinery29.Authorities nationwide searched for the missing child. Five months after he vanished, a 12-year-old Iowa runaway named Arthur Hutchins Jr. was caught by police in Illinois. Investigators began questioning him on whether he was Walter.
But Christine became sure that the boy wasn’t her son after a trip to the beach, because Walter was terrified of water, and Hutchins jumped right into the waves. She told the police this was not Walter. Authorities decided Christine was mentally ill, and she was locked up in Los Angeles County General Hospital’s psychiatric ward for a week. While she was away, Hutchins confessed to the charade. Police later determined that the real Walter was probably killed by a child serial killer.
“I wanted the attention at the time,” he later told the New Yorker. “It was a psychological need. Today, I wouldn’t do it.” “Most people who go to church don’t believe in God, very few of them really believe, but somewhere deep inside they try to convince themselves there is a God,” he said. “It’s the same thing for [Barclay’s] family. It’s happened exactly the same.”
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