Timmy Wiltsey was just five years old when his mother Michelle Lodzinski said he vanished from a carnival in Sayreville, New Jersey, wearing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sneakers and a red tank top and shorts.
In the aftermath of his 1991 Memorial Day weekend disappearance, the community banded together to search for the missing child — but Timmy would never be seen alive again.
Then, less than three years later, Lodzinski disappeared, leading some to wonder whether someone was targeting the family or if there was another explanation, according to the “The Blue Blanket Mystery” episode of Dateline: Secrets Uncovered.
Who was Timmy Wiltsey?
Timmy was a vibrant, happy child. “His personality was the biggest one in the room and he was as cute as his pictures are,” his friend and neighbor Tara Packard recalled. “He loved playing in the back yard. He had a lot of trucks, like dump trucks, out there and he also loved Ninja Turtles.”…