This story has been shared 220,330 times. 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. Kevin Ray Baty Self - Stolen Baby found in 2019 (archive footage) Paul Fronczak Self CeCe Moore Self - DNA Detective Director Ursula Macfarlane All cast & crew Production, box office & more at IMDbPro More like this 7.3 752 Is Not a Number Watchlist 7.3 The Soul of America Watch options 6.4 The Freeway Killer: Lost Murder Tapes Watchlist 6.3 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. Kevin was raised and identifies with Robert as his father. The Lost Sons tells the tale of Paul Fronczak, now 57, who was taken from a Chicago hospital as a newborn in 1964. (The black-and-white footage lends to the feeling were watching a B-movie from the 1960s.). From his post, it appears Kevins daughters had some contact with them until the results came back and Kevin didnt want the publicity. They were usually obtained when a person started working. Woman hurt that her husband will be walking down the aisle of his brothers ceremony, but she wont. Director Ursula Macfarlane does an admirable job of weaving together a complex, sometimes convoluted and ultimately heart-tugging story, starting at the shocking beginning. 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]. CNN Films presents a documentary directed by Ursula Macfarlane. He is Jack Rosenthal. No one has thought about what are the possible consequences.. I dont know the family. Mich. having been rechristened Kevin Baty . Police found little baby Paul abandoned in a New Jersey car park in 1965 - and returned him to his overjoyed parents Dora and Chester. Paul is the twin brother of Jill Rosenthal, who was kidnapped along with her. 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 told The Sun Online: I cant give up because eventually, someone who knows something is going to talk. In 2019, The MIT Technology Review estimated that 26 million Americans had taken a consumer DNA test, allowing researchers to technically track the genes of every single citizen, through their relations. . Fronczak, previously Rosenthal, who wrote a 2017 memoir, The Foundling, that the film is based on, told Deadline that he wanted to get to the bottom of the story no matter what the cost is because he cant live a lie. The man, who didnt want to be identified by his new name, said hes still coming to grips with the news of his abduction. He still doesnt know why he was abandoned as a young child, but he remains hopeful that he will be able to find his missing twin, Jill. LEFT abandoned as a baby in a freezing car park - Paul Fronczak couldn't have had a more heartbreaking start in life. Thanks for being a part of the LET family! In a Michigan town, there lived a man named Kevin Baty, whose family suspected that he might be the missing baby. Fronczak since learned that the man Kevin Baty spent the first 10 years of his life . 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. Whilst the majority of testing companies claim that they wont release details to law enforcement, some officers have been found to have used the sites by setting up a private account and uploading crime scene DNA, and other companies have quietly changed their fine print in the last few years. It makes me wonder how he obtained a birth certificate, drivers license, passport, etc. Marriages broke down, children cut off parents, one woman was beaten up multiple times. And if she wasnt murdered by them, then shes still out there.+. Paul/Kevin did read Jack/Paul's book and apparently enjoyed it and let his friends and family read it as well. The Lost Sons tells. Fronczak was only 1 day old when a woman posing as a nurse entered his mothers hospital room and claimed she needed to bring the infant to a doctor, only to never return with the newborn, the report said. Thats just heartbreaking, says Macfarlane. Anyone else find the same thing? David Fronczak has been frustrated and spoken out about the situation. One cousin shared their horrifying memory of seeing the babies sitting "in a cage", while other family members say the twins were always crying. In the winter of 1974, when Paul was 10 years old and living a normal, happy, regular life with his parents and little brother, he was snooping around for Christmas presents in the crawlspace of the family home in Oak Lawn when he came across a pile of newspaper clippings detailing his kidnapping as a newborn and his return to his parents 15 months later. 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. Eventually, though, most of the mysteries are solved, though we still dont know for sure who kidnapped 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.. Paul discovered the truth about the kidnapping when he was ten after stumbling upon a box of newspaper cuttings about the case. 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 newborn baby who was abducted in 1964 from a Chicago hospital has been located living under a different name. If you wrote this as a scripted piece, people would say thats not believable. In The Lost Sons, Paul Fronczak tells how he learned as an adult that the couple who raised him werent his biological parents. In 2018, DNA testing was famously used to identify a suspect in the notorious case of the Golden State Killer, leading to the arrest of Joseph James Deangelo, now 75, on suspicion of at least 13 murders, 50 rapes and 120 burglaries across California between 1973 and 1986. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Both had grown up under names that were not their own. From the tribute wall posts on obit, it doesnt appear they ever met. Before I found out who I was I always had this emptiness inside me and nothing that I did ever made me satisfied. They reached Baty in time for him to meet his biological mother Dora in 2018, but he sadly died of cancer last year. 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. Premieres at 8 p.m. Sunday on CNN and available then on demand. His actual birth date was April 25, the date he died aged 56. Now imagine that happiness abruptly ending because your baby disappears without a trace. When police were alerted to the abduction, they launched what, at the time, was referred to as the largest manhunt to find the infant. Paul Fronczak, who was . It was the search for a 5ft 4in woman, disguised as a nurse, who walked into the maternity ward of the city's Michael Reese Hospital on April 27, 1964, asked a new mother, Dora Fronczak, for her . Make sure you click followingand then click see first so you dont miss a thing! 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. 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. In fact, as a new documentary The Lost Sons recounts, that was only the start of a decades-long quest. By 2027 the genomics industry will be worth an estimated $31billion. In order to provide the best information, here is a little background. He also made it his mission to find out who and where the real Paul Joseph Fronczak really was. Just ask Paul Fronczak. 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. Chris Elliot is a pen name for safety reasons. As for Fronczak, his biological parents are dead and his living biological siblings have cut off contact. He died in April. I talk to all these different people and they all have the same vision.". Sadly, they were unable to discover any information which would lead them to where the woman had gone. 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. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. 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. My first focus is on my family and spending time with them, my second is on my career. His April 2020 obituary is very carefully worded. His parents explained that he had been abducted as a baby but he was eventually found. All Rights Reserved. Heard about this after it aired. But several months ago, the FBI located the other Paul Fronczak in rural Michigan and informed him of his real identity, WGN-TV reported. The woman . The Bizarre Case Of Paul Joseph Fronczak's Kidnapping. Was hoping to see the situation take a more positive direction. It was a magical moment, in more ways than one. So, he died on his actual birthday, but his birthday that he celebrated growing up was a month earlier than when he was actually born. Paul Fronczak reached out to Kevin Baty but reportedly has had little communication with him. The DNA tests proved their suspicions and verified that the man living as Baty for 56 years was truly Paul. I always knew in my heart that Paul was alive and I was going to find him and we did. Among the reviews, it determined an average rating of 6.4 out of 10.[5]. He was the biological child of Chester Stanley Fronczak Jr and Dora Vucson Fronczak kidnapped from hospital by an unidentified person. Which makes sense given that using the correct date would risk him being suspected and easily identified throughout the years. This is probably the craziest story Ive ever read. I really think we are going to find Jill, I think shes alive," he told The Sun Online. The story has been turned into a documentary, The Lost Sons. The boy the Fronczaks brought home in 1965 had no idea about his ordeal or the unusual circumstances surrounding his birth until he was about 10 years old. In a nutshell: Paul was stolen from a Chicago hospital on April 27, 1964, just 36 hours after birth, by a woman who has posed as a nurse and has never been identified. I am a current law enforcement lieutenant and have been an officer for over twenty years. There had to be more people that knew or suspected something. You could not make it up, says Ursula Macfarlane, the director of The Lost Sons, which debuts at SXSW this week. 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. Malia Fullerton, an expert in DNA forensics and ethics at the University of Washington, told The New York Times at the time of his arrest: This is really tough. For some unknown reason, she quickly left the city and moved to Arkansas for a year, before returning with Baty. Jodie Hope May 13, 2020 / 8:06 pm. He said: We were able to find out who was actually my biological family. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. 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. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. WGN: The story of Kevin Baty of Manton, Michigan News WGN reports on the search for the real Paul Fronczak. They reached out to the Fronczaks, who were still grieving, and brought the toddler to them to see. In 2019, Donna Fronczak first heard the voice of her son who went missing all those years ago in a phone call. Chester and Dora Fronczak's son, Paul, was . Several years ago, the FBI reopened the investigation into the disappearance of Paul Joseph Fronczak, an FBI Chicago spokesperson told WGN-TV. His kidnapper was a woman who disguised as a nurse. The Fronczaks identified the boy as their missing son and took him home, thrilled to have their child returned to them. The couple and their new son had no idea until 50 years later they discovered the horrifying mix up due to a DNA test. Could he be the same baby?A baby is kidnapped from a hospital, months later, a toddler is abandoned. The following year the FBI reopened the case and six years later the original Paul was found- who was renamed, Kevin Baty. However, all of his hard work did eventually pay off. Robert is at least her fourth known husband. We've received your submission. Jill, her twin brother Jack and Jill were born October 27, 1963. As a result of the DNA test, Paul set out to find out exactly who he was and where he came from. 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. Family members claim that their parents used to abuse the twins and kept them in a cage. Theyre dead or theyre dying off. In a Michigan town, there lived a man named Kevin Baty, whose family suspected that he might be the missing baby. There, he discovered three mysterious boxes full of . A devastating loss director Ursula Macfarlane compares to them losing him twice. Adjustable arms. 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. Investigators believe Kevin Baty was the kidnapped infant, Paul Fronczak. Our hero did not meet the real Paul in person, but communicated with him on the phone. 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