The source provides an extensive summary of the disappearance and death of five-year-old Timmy Wiltsey in New Jersey in 1991, focusing heavily on his mother, Michelle Lodzinski. Lodzinski initially claimed Timmy vanished at a carnival, but her shifting stories and lies quickly made her the prime suspect. After Timmy’s skeletal remains were found almost a year later, wrapped in a blanket prosecutors argued belonged to him, the case went cold until a 2014 indictment for murder. The episode follows the ensuing legal odyssey, detailing Lodzinski's 2016 conviction, which was ultimately overturned by the New Jersey Supreme Court in 2021 due to insufficient evidence for knowing or purposeful murder, resulting in her acquittal and release. The episode concludes by emphasizing that Timmy's death remains an unsolved mystery despite the legal closure for his mother.

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