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Kidnapping of Paul Fronczak

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Paul Joseph Fronczak was a newborn who was kidnapped from his mother's arms by a woman posing as a nurse in a Chicago hospital in April 1964. Paul was thought to have been returned to his parents in 1966 when a toddler found abandoned in a stroller in New Jersey was determined to be the missing boy. However, the man who grew up as Paul Fronczak later found out by DNA testing that he was not the biological son of the Fronczak's. In 2015, Moore's team of genetic genealogists uncovered the true identity of the man raised as Paul Fronczak.[1] It was discovered that his real name is Jack Rosenthal and he has a missing twin named Jill. The parents who abandoned him have since died, but his bioligical siblings and cousins were found alive.[2][3]

The real Paul Fronczak was found living in Michigan in 2019, but the he did not want to go public until he fix up some loose ends.[4] In November 2020, it was revealed that the Paul Fronczak was raised as Kevin Baty. He had lived in Manton, Michigan all his life and did not know that he was the real Paul Fronczak until his DNA confimed his real identity in 2019. The women who raised Baty as her son had died in 2004, but it's suspected she or her friend Linda Taylor were the ones who kidnapped him in 1964. It turned out that he didn't want to go public because he was getting treatment for Cancer. He died in April 2020 and his family only agreed to posthumously reveal his name in November.[5]

References[edit]

  1. Fronczak, Paul; Tresniowski, Alex (2018). The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me. Howard Books. ISBN 978-1501142123. Search this book on
  2. Knapp, George; Adams, Matt; Russell, Ian (July 3, 2015). "I-Team: Man's identity revealed, 50-year-old mystery solved". LasVegasNow.com. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  3. A.P. (2019-02-18). "Kidnapping blunder: man learns he was returned to wrong family 55 years later". New Zealand Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  4. "Man stolen as a baby found living in Michigan 55 years after crime". KLAS - 8 News Now. 2019-12-12. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  5. https://www.woodtv.com/news/target-8/mi-man-idd-as-baby-kidnapped-from-chicago-hospital-in-1964/


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