With the help of DNA testing and some intrepid sleuthing, Fronczak discovered that he was not Dora and Chesters biological son and that the real Paul Fronczak was living in Manton, Mich. having been rechristened Kevin Baty. The leads dry up, the publicity dies down, and it appears the Fronczaks will never see their child again and then, 15 months later, on July 2, 1965, a baby in a stroller is found abandoned in Newark, New Jersey. Chester and Dora Fronczak's son, Paul, was . Flash forward decades later, and Fronczak is still searching for the answer to the eternal question, Who am I?. He is Jack Rosenthal. Mother and son then made plans to meet, but they never got the chance due to Baty being diagnosed with cancer. The moment often seems a little too convenient, a little made-for-the-movies, but it can actually happen in real life. But not for Paul Fronczak. A man in the tiny town of Manton, Michigan, has been identified as Paul Joseph Fronczak, the baby who was kidnapped from his mother's hospital room in April 1964 by a woman posing as a nurse.. Our investigation into this matter remains ongoing as we continue to pursue all leads. Even in the search for a cold case killer, there are not always happy endings, with the potential for multiple innocent bystanders to be affected. Dora Fronczak did get to speak to him on the phone before he died. On his birthday, mysteries remain for Paul Fronczak, man at center of stolen baby case. They married around Dec 1975 according to Ancestry obit collection. Paul has a lot of journey still to go. We've received your submission. Subsequent DNA testing proved that Baty was actually Paul Fronczack. Congratulations are given, and celebrations are thrown in anticipation of the big arrival. The woman who kidnapped Paul would have simply invented a birth date. Paul Fronczak, who was found in rural Michigan, was snatched from Michael Reese Hospital more than 55 years ago, news station WGN-TV reported. The movie by CNN Films and RAW who previously collaborated on Three Identical Strangers, a 2018 documentary about triplets separated at birth and raised apart,goes on to reveal that the man raised as Fronczak was in fact another missing boy called Jack Rosenthal, who had gone missing along with his twin sister Jill when they were two-years-old. Paul Fronczak, according to WGN, only found out in recent months that he was the newborn swiped from Michael Reese Hospital more than five decades ago. The woman . Turns out, this "nurse" was a woman in disguise who literally kidnapped this baby from the arms of his mother. Very little information has been made public, and his abductor remains unknown. We also get present-day interviews from the former student nurse who was working the maternity ward on that day and brushed paths with the kidnapper and a former detective, among others. This multi-purpose floor lamp gives you targeted lighting for everything from needlecrafts to reading, as well as the full-spectrum light houseplants need to stay healthy and strong. If you wrote this as a scripted piece, people would say thats not believable., She added: I was very interested in ideas of family and is it nature or nurture that shapes us? The name of the deceased is Kevin Baty, who was reportedly born in Michigan in 1964 and died of cancer earlier this year. And thats because we all have one desire in our life to find who we are, our true identity. Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Provides full-spectrum light plants crave. It follows Paul Fronczak, a man who discovers he had been abandoned as a child and mistakenly returned to another family whose young son was missing. He pleaded guilty to multiple counts of murder and kidnapping in June last year and was sentenced to life without parole. Armed with the results of the DNA test, he decided that he would set out on a journey to find the real Paul Fronczak and to find out who he, himself, truly was. She requested to return him to the nursery for testing and vanished into hin air with him. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Families. So many lives changed forever. Paul Fronczaks story is true, but it is filled with the kind of wild twists and turns that you might expect from an overstuffed detective novel. In it, he tells an amazing story of his life. These include his parents, who were deceased, and some siblings, including a twin. No, Paul Fronczak's twin sister was not found, and she has yet to be found. The 57-year-old saw his life turned upside down as it turned out the doting parents who raised him were not his biological mum and dad. (The black-and-white footage lends to the feeling were watching a B-movie from the 1960s.). After me and my sister vanished my parents became recluses, no one ever saw them again- no one ever talked to them. No one has thought about what are the possible consequences.. Paul Fronczak was abducted from a Chicago hospital in 1964, before being allegedly found 15-months later. March 14, 2014 -- A cold lead has come back to life in the half-century-old case of stolen baby Paul Fronczak after a . Paul's (Jack's) incredible story continues as he searches for the rest of the truth about his life before he was taken in as the Fronczak family's son. No new air dates so I downloaded the CNN app. We found the real Paul Fronczak more than one year ago, in late. However, this is no ordinary story, and what ended up happening is something straight out of a suspense or mystery novel. The Lost Sons is a 2021 American-British documentary film, directed by Ursula Macfarlane. Paul discovered the truth about the kidnapping when he was ten after stumbling upon a box of newspaper cuttings about the case. So this is interesting: I found his obituary and it says he died on April 25, 2020 and lists his birthdate as March 14, 1964. Kevin Ray Baty (14 Mar 1964) was born Paul Joseph Fronczak (25 Apr 1964) at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. When Pauls wife gives birth to a daughter, he again begins to question what really happened to him. Fronczak said in an earlier interview: Everything Ive heard from other members of my family, pretty much made it clear to me that me and my twin sister Jill were abused, neglected and ultimately I was abandoned. He said: We were able to find out who was actually my biological family. This is probably the craziest story Ive ever read. [4], The Lost Sons received positive reviews from critics. In 2019, a Michigan man named Kevin Ray Baty was identified as the baby Paul Fronczak who had been kidnapped from a Chicago hospital in 1964, though his identity was not revealed to the public until 2020, when Ray died of cancer on his 56th birthday. The parents, not knowing any better and trusting someone dressed as a nurse, allowed the woman to take the one-day old infant from their room. Fronczak since learned that the man Kevin Baty spent the first 10 years of his life . The FBI declined to confirm whether the case has been solved. The Lost Sons provides helpful graphics guiding us along the way, but still there are times when its difficult to keep track of all the adopted relatives and second cousins and false leads. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Paul discovered his real name was Jack Rosenthal, The "realPaul" was kidnapped as a baby from Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, The case of the missing baby had made headlines across the country at the time, An artificially made photo of what Jill could look like today, Paul discovered he was abandoned as a baby, He discovered the truth when he found a box with newspaper clippings about the case, Dora and Chester Fronczak achieved national media attention with their search for their missing son, Paul's biological mum with his sister Linda, Paul left with his dad Chester and his brother Dave, Paul with his mum and his daughter Emma Faith, I was left abandoned as a baby but then raised by the WRONG family for 50 years I am still searching for the truth, Pedestrian who killed cyclist in clash over riding on pavement is JAILED after victim, 77, fell into path of car, Model 'paid thousands to smuggle 5m criminal cash into Dubai by hiding money in her holiday luggage', MI5 has blood on its hands after my daughter Saffie Roussos, 8, was killed in Manchester bombing attack, Dad 'fatally shot daughter, 7, in head & gunned down headteacher mum' who died of 'shock' from wounds in double killing, Rolf Harris sued over 'fresh sex attack after molesting vulnerable 10-year-old girl at school holiday camp', UK weather: Exact date snow and hail will hit Britain as chilly winds from the north blow in -1C temperatures, Frogmore eviction shows King Charles has drawn a line with Harry - now he must do two more things with the spoilt brat, Im a prison officer & worked with some of Britains feared men but I made a BIG mistake on my first month on the wing, horrifying memory of seeing the babies sitting "in a cage", Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Paul Fronczak was barely a day old when he got kidnapped. Upon finding out he is not biologically related to his parents, Fronczak sets out to discover his true identity, and the whereabouts of the real Paul Joseph Fronczak.[1]. This baby, named Paul Fronczak just after his birth, was taken from Michael Reese Hospital in 1964 by a woman dressed as a nurse. During his search, Paul met a number of biological relatives and says that everyone remembers the twins, Jack and Jill but there are not many willing to talk about them. https://t.co/7yidh6Uq15. Ex-wife of Alexander Franklen Bowers; Private and Walter James Harrison. He was known as Kevin Baty. In 2018, The American Psychology Association published an article examining the psychological impact of discovering you are not biologically related to a parent, sibling or child a fairly common phenomenon that allegedly affects between 1-30 per cent of families around the world. And if you dont know that there's nothing that can feel that void. The DNA tests proved their suspicions and verified that the man living as Baty for 56 years was truly Paul. The baby vanished after a woman posing as a nurse requested to take him to the nursery for testing. A newborn baby who was abducted in 1964 from a Chicago hospital has been located living under a different name. On April 26, 1964 at the now defunct Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Dora and Chester Fronczak arrived at the hospital to give birth to their son, named Paul Joseph Fronczak. He passed away in April 2020. It was really the missing Paul, confirmed with DNA. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes surveyed 20 critics and, categorizing the reviews as positive or negative, assessed 16 as positive and 4 as negative for a 80% rating. Federal investigators in Chicago became aware of Baty back in 2018. Maybe faked pregnancy, etc. She never returned, and neither did the child. Deangelo was identified not because he himself had been looking to identify his own genetic background, but because a distant relative had, allowing police to build a family tree and use public records to identify potential suspects. I think its going to bring back bad stuff because there wasnt much good in that family. We see archival clips of news conferences from the time, with Dora and husband Chester in a state of shock and investigators from the Chicago Police Department and the FBI telling the press they were working on a number of leads. I don't know how birth certificates worked if you had a home birth in the 1960s or if you took in a relatives child but people that have kidnapped kids and passed them off as their own. For some unknown reason, she quickly left the city and moved to Arkansas for a year, before returning with Baty. 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When the results came back proving they were not related, he reached out to an investigative journalist, George Knapp, at News 8s sister station in Las Vegas, KLAS-TV. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. A photo of this man as an adult is posted with this case summary. He said: [Baty] actually talked to my mom. He has now devoted himself to finding his missing sister. He declined to comment on whether he planned to meet his biological mother, who lives in the Chicago suburbs. There's a picture in the article, and not surprisingly, Paul/Kevin is a dead ringer for the age progession picture we've seen posted in many articles over the years. Social Security numbers weren't required for kids or infants until the mid to late 80s. Call him Paul Fronczak, Kevin Baty, or Jack Rosenthal; he is the kidnapped twin brother of Jill Rosenthal.. Paul realized as he grew up that the people he was growing up with were not his real family because they did not look the same and did not make him feel like family. In a Michigan town, there lived a man named Kevin Baty, whose family suspected that he might be the missing baby. KNAPP'S NEWS. Is it genes or blood?. At the time the desperate mum and dad had said that the toddler's ear was the same shape as baby Paul's. If you wrote this as a scripted piece, people would say thats not believable. Jack was also found abandoned in a Newark parking lot on July 2. Paul discovered that the people he was grown up with were not his real family because they didn't look like him and . This story has been shared 220,330 times. Before his death from cancer on April 25, 2020 (which was also his actual birth date), Kevin Baty reportedly spoke several times with his birth mother, Dora; his biological father Chester died in 2017. Now he's on a desperate quest to find the truth. His actual birth date was April 25, the date he died aged 56. And if she wasnt murdered by them, then shes still out there., Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Satch. Robert is at least her fourth known husband. My first focus is on my family and spending time with them, my second is on my career. I am a proud husband to a wife who works in education and the father to two wonderful children. "Because they gave me the greatest gift that was life and I wanted to repay them because this horrible tragedy happened to them and was just swept under the rug. In 2019, The Pentagon allegedly instructed members of the US military to avoid using at-home DNA testing kits, citing concerns of mass surveillance and the potential for private companies to exploit genetic materials for questionable purposes. After many twists and turns, he discovers that he was not the kidnapped child, that his real name is Jack Rosenthal (from Atlantic City, New Jersey), that he has a still missing twin sister named Jill, and that the real Paul Fronczak is still alive and known by an adoptive name. Its a work in progress because Ive learned so much about what makes me, me, and really, its going to help me, I think, moving forward. Ballard pushed back against the idea that the only way for the Colts to cement a starting quarterback for the next decade is to trade up with the Bears and draft him No. Knapp credits national publicity that eventually lead to the real Paul Fronczak, a man living in Michigan by the name of Kevin Baty. Picture the excitement and joy your family feels when your little one finally arrives. The Lost Sons was produced by CNN Films, Raw and Campfire, the team behind Three Identical Strangers, the 2018 hit documentary about identical triplets adopted as infants by separate families. The Lost Sons tells. Sadly, they were unable to discover any information which would lead them to where the woman had gone. Paul Fronczak reached out to Kevin Baty but reportedly has had little communication with him. The dad-of-one unearthed some dark secrets including that the first year of his life he lived in an abusive home with a disturbed veteran father and an alcoholic mother. From one evil action. And, Fronczak found out that he was actually Jack Rosenthal and that he and his twin sister, Jill, disappeared when they were two years old without a trace. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. The Associated Press noted that police, at the time, said blood type and ear shape were about the only leads they had because the boy had no blemishes or birthmarks. From what I understand, after watching a show, his children were convinced of him being the missing child. Did he stay in a small, isolated town in MI because he couldnt obtain paperwork without triggering an investigation? Why Violence Is Increasing. Kevin Baty died in 2020, on the same date he'd been born at that Chicago hospital. He was a horrible man and it is good that he was identified, but does the end justify the means?, Peter Neufeld, a co-founder of The Innocence Project, which uses DNA to exonerate people who were wrongly convicted, told The Times: There is a whole generation that says, I dont really care about privacy. He said that he wrote a book, called The Foundling, and sent Baty a copy. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? (See image below.) Paul says he is open to everything to find his sister and has even tried hypnotherapy, remote viewing, and talking to psychics and mediums. He also shares the aftermath of what happens when you open this Pandoras box as well as his research of finding Jill. And if she wasnt murdered by them, then shes still out there.+. Now imagine that happiness abruptly ending because your baby disappears without a trace. Just ask Paul Fronczak. Warner Bros. Paul Fronczak, who was . Paul Fronczak's story is true, but it is filled with the kind of wild twists and turns that you might expect from an overstuffed detective novel. This entire story is just so sad for all of them. LEFT abandoned as a baby in a freezing car park - Paul Fronczak couldn't have had a more heartbreaking start in life. Nov 7, 2020. Paul Fronczak Paul found that he and his twin had both gone missing after they were allegedly neglected by their parents Gilbert and Marie- who are both deceased now. In 2015, The Guardian reported on a murder in Italy that rocked the small town of Brembate di Sopra when Yara Gambirasio, 13, was brutally murdered back in 2010. That was the last time they saw their infant son. The name of the deceased is Kevin Baty, who was reportedly born in Michigan in 1964 and died of cancer earlier this year. But several months ago, the FBI located the other Paul Fronczak in rural Michigan and informed him of his real identity, WGN-TV reported. Paul is the twin brother of Jill Rosenthal, who was kidnapped along with her. His quest is chronicled in the CNN documentary The Lost Sons, which, despite some cheesy re-creations and a few overwrought attempts at symbolism, offers an insightful and fascinating look at an incredible true story. It looks to me from some research that the woman was using a former name and not her most recent husband's name. Mother of Kevin Ray Baty; Private and Private. Newspapers at the time quoted Dora Fronczak as saying, thats my baby. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Could he be the same baby? The couple and their new son had no idea until 50 years later they discovered the horrifying mix up due to a DNA test. View Source Share Save to Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Memorials Region North America USA Illinois Cook County Alsip Holy Sepulchre Cemetery Fronczak was a baby who was taken from . I hit pause and it restarted and no fast forward so it took even longer to finish. Family members claim that their parents used to abuse the twins and kept them in a cage. With three lamp heads in complementary colors, it is a stylish statement . The extraordinary, intertwined cases of two missing baby boys have been solved after nearly 60 years thanks to DNA-testing websites, an explosive new documentary has revealed. Prayers up for all of them. A baby named Paul Fronczak who famously was kidnapped one day after he was born at a Chicago hospital in 1964 reportedly has been found living in rural Michigan under another identity. Macfarlane hopes that The Lost Sons may shake loose some missing pieces of the puzzle. Read Next: The Enchanted, Good Manners, Co-Husbands Head Malaga Festivals Spanish Screenings Content, Will Hollywood Hit Cannes? I cant give up because eventually, someone who knows something is going to talk. A baby was found abandoned in New Jersey with ears similar to parents Chester and Dora Fronczaks missing son, WGN-TV reported. Piero Bonicelli, the editor of newspaper Araberara, said the experience was like taking the lid off an open sewer.. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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He didn't know the snatch until he discovered a box of newspaper clippings about the kidnap case. As for Fronczak, his biological parents are dead and his living biological siblings have cut off contact. MANTON, MI Five decades ago, a baby was abducted from a hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Eventually, "Paul" found out he was reallyJack Rosenthal. I have loose ends to tie up, the man told the outlet. Fronczaks biological parents have already died and his siblings arent willing to say why he was abandoned though other relatives say that the couples children were neglected and abused. In the 1960s, Facial similarities with the lost baby were enough for Jack to be handed over to the Fronczaks. I wonder if her 1964 husband is still around. Among the reviews, it determined an average rating of 6.4 out of 10.[5]. No more details were released at the time, possibly because Real Paul/Kevin was very sick. STATEMENT FROM PAUL FRONCZAK December 20 2019 Hi everyone, it's Paul. Woman hurt that her husband will be walking down the aisle of his brothers ceremony, but she wont. Theyre dead or theyre dying off. Theres a lot of parts that are astounding and harrowing, but theres also a kind of epic mythical quality to them as well.. At age 10, Fronczak happened across a trove of newspaper clippings about his parents, Dora and Chester, who made international headlines when their baby was kidnapped from his hospital bed and found two years later. Its a race against time because theres not a lot of people left who can tell Paul anything about what happened to him and Jill, she says. Alhough his real parents had since died, Fronczak/Rosenthal did meet some of his extended family. According to Target 8, the FBI has reopened the investigation, however, they are not providing any information which is normal on any ongoing investigation. Proceeds get reinvested into having active, retired and wounded officers, their families and supporters tell more of these stories. Is it genes or blood?. In the 2010s, now in his 50s, Paul began an extensive investigation involving DNA tests, private investigators, and tapping into his media contacts for publicity, to determine what really happened. His search caused a strain in his relationship with his parents who spent years without speaking to him. IMDb's advanced search allows you to run extremely powerful queries over all people and titles in the database. And that was based on the one photo they had of him, taken on the day of his birth before he was cruelly snatched away. In a Michigan town, there lived a man named Kevin Baty, whose family suspected that he might be the missing baby. Paul did not actually manage to meet the original Paul but he arranged for his mum to speak to him over the phone. But before he passed, he connected by phone with Dora Fronczak, his birth mother. Thats just heartbreaking, says Macfarlane. The FBI got involved in that case and thought that this child may well be the missing infant. In most cases, this would have been just that the end of one family's nightmare. George Knapp shared recent items of interest, including articles on alien tourists and a canine-like cryptid: He told The Sun Online: There has been a new incident that makes me think our parents abandoned both of us because they were scared. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. But growing up Paul said he always felt different than the rest of his family and after a DNA test in 2012, he confirmed he was not the Fronzcaks' biological son. In 1964, a woman pretending to be a nurse kidnapped an infant boy named Paul Fronczak from a Chicago hospital. That became an issue. Fascinating story though. Investigators believe Kevin Baty was the kidnapped infant, Paul Fronczak. December 20, 2019 / 7:45 AM / CBS News. According to The Sun, his twin sister, Jill, also went missing, reportedly after being neglected by their parents. The whole situation is surreal, like some type of movie plot, but it actually happened. From his post, it appears Kevins daughters had some contact with them until the results came back and Kevin didnt want the publicity. He is now 49 years old and lives in Nevada. On April 26, 1964, Dora Fronczak gave birth to a son named Paul at the now-shuttered Michael Reese Hospital in Bronzeville on the South Side. Kevin Baty died in April. Adjustable arms. Ben Bradley, of News 8 sister station WGN, reported that a stepbrother of Baty claimed that Lorraine had been dating a doctor in Chicago around that time frame. Sounds like she may have needed a baby to keep one of her husbands around at that time in her life. Want to make sure you never miss a story from Law Enforcement Today? He told The Sun Online: I cant give up because eventually, someone who knows something is going to talk. In 2019, Donna Fronczak first heard the voice of her son who went missing all those years ago in a phone call. Sounds like a happy ending, right? He was the biological child of Chester Stanley Fronczak Jr and Dora Vucson Fronczak kidnapped from hospital by an unidentified person. Fifteen months later he was allegedly found as a toddler in a mall in New Jersey and joyfully reunited with his frantic parents who claimed to recognise him, sparking headlines around the world.