The FBI declined to confirm whether the case has been solved. 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. 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 childs age and overall appearance seem consistent with the missing child, and an FBI eager to solve the case brings the boy to Chicago, whereupon Dora Fronczak declares, Oh, my God, thats my baby!, Dora Fronczak, whose baby was kidnapped in 1964, appears on The Lost Sons.. In The Lost Sons, Paul Fronczak tells how he learned as an adult that the couple who raised him werent his biological parents. December 20, 2019 / 7:45 AM / CBS News. There had to be more people that knew or suspected something. 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 took the the test as he had always had an inkling he didn't quite fit in. Paul discovered that the people he was grown up with were not his real family because they didn't look like him and . 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]. Indeed, the Fronczaks loved and raised Paul alongside his younger brother, but from that day forward, Paul was never totally sure of his identity. No new air dates so I downloaded the CNN app. But before he passed, he connected by phone with Dora Fronczak, his birth mother. Now a handsome, charismatic, middle-aged man, Fronczak is front and center for the bulk of the documentary, sharing his life story and recounting how he always felt a sense of uneasiness as he bounced from Chicago to Arizona to Las Vegas, playing in rock bands and trying his hand at acting, working as a stand-in for George Clooney on Oceans 11 and appearing for a split second in the Jackie Chan-Chris Tucker comedy Rush Hour.. WhilePaul Fronczak succeeded in reuniting a mother and son, there are still a few questions about his own identity. This story has been shared 220,330 times. Not even the biggest manhunt in Chicago's history could help recover the child. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Now recent media reports say a man living in rural Michigan may be the child of Chester and Dora Fronczak who was abducted on April 26, 1964, from a Chicago hospital. 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.. Op/Ed: Police and U.S. Border Patrol Securing Communities. So many broken hearts. Mother of Kevin Ray Baty; Private and Private. 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. Is it genes or blood?. They were usually obtained when a person started working. Someone is rummaging through the attic or a closet or a chest of drawers and comes across a box containing newspaper clippings revealing a shocking secret, a secret that changes everything. Robert is his step-father and unlikely to have any knowledge or involvement with abduction. 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. Dora gets some closure but then hes taken away from her. You are using an out of date browser. Before I found out who I was I always had this emptiness inside me and nothing that I did ever made me satisfied. April 27, 2022, 8:38 PM. Domestic Television Distribution, Warner Bros. International Television Distribution, "The FBI said I was my parents' stolen baby - but I found the truth", "A baby snatched from a Chicago hospital in 1964 was reunited with his parents 15-months later. After confronting his mother, Fronczak discovered that he was the kidnapped toddler in the articles. Fronczak since learned that the man Kevin Baty spent the first 10 years of his life . Running time: 99 minutes. It is also the date when he died, in a different state and under a different name. It may not display this or other websites correctly. 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. He said: [Baty] actually talked to my mom. The Lost Sons tells the tale of Paul Fronczak, now 57, who was taken from a Chicago hospital as a newborn in 1964. Chris Elliot is a pen name for safety reasons. 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Proceeds get reinvested into having active, retired and wounded officers, their families and supporters tell more of these stories. Though there was little evidence linking him to the case, the couple adopted the child and raised him as their own. There still is no indication as to who kidnapped Baty on that April day five decades ago, and the chances of learning that information seem slim at best. He said: 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. This man told Knapp that the DNA results said: Theres no remote possibility that you are the Fronczak babyI was like, wow.. Some 10,000 babies were examined and tested by 1966 to see if they could be the boy., Paul Fronczak, baby kidnapped from hospital in 1964, found living under another identity https://t.co/DkL6yThC1z pic.twitter.com/654ybRlOEt, New York Post (@nypost) December 19, 2019. 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. A newborn baby who was abducted in 1964 from a Chicago hospital has been located living under a different name. (See image below.) Our investigation into this matter remains ongoing as we continue to pursue all leads. Jack was also found abandoned in a Newark parking lot on July 2. Weve witnessed this scene in feature films and on streaming shows time and again. No, Paul Fronczak's twin sister was not found, and she has yet to be found. So parents or guardians could claim kids until the end of the 1980s without proof the kids existed or that kids weren't being claimed by multiple people. If you wrote this as a scripted piece, people would say thats not believable. It makes me wonder how he obtained a birth certificate, drivers license, passport, etc. It is suspected the snatch plot may have involved the mob. Heard about this after it aired. Thanks for contacting us. 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. Identity of Fronczak baby kidnapped in 1964, is finally known. Sadly, despite all of this effort, there was still no sign of the mysterious woman or the baby boy. This awful scenario, unfortunately, became reality for the Fronczak family in 1964. According to The Foundling, there were no other real tests to help identify missing persons, much less children. All the dark, really tragic things that happened when I was in that situation before I was abandoned., Our @SusanSamples reported this story nearly a year ago. Michael Reese Hospital via Getty Images courtesy of CNN Films. Remember how Jack now had a twin? Baty died on his real birthday, April 25, 2020, a year after learning that the name he knew all of his life was a lie. A photo of this man as an adult is posted with this case summary. In most cases, this would have been just that the end of one family's nightmare. Could he be the same baby? 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. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in. But his story didnt end there. Nov 7, 2020. So if you were following this case, you might remember that Jack Rosenthal/Paul Fronczak had found the missing Paul Fronczak, alive in Michigan. Im so glad they were able to get answers but also so sad for the mother never being able to meet Paul. And if she wasnt murdered by them, then shes still out there., Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. 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