Posted at 01:41h . By 2027 the genomics industry will be worth an estimated $31billion. Knapp credits national publicity that eventually lead to the real Paul Fronczak, a man living in Michigan by the name of Kevin Baty. Paul Fronczak said he has some solid leads on who kidnapped the Fronczak baby but is still trying to crack that mystery. According to Newsweek, a nurse walked into Dora Fronczak's room at Michael Reese Hospital and stated that she needed to take baby Paul to be examined by a doctor. He said that he wrote a book, called The Foundling, and sent Baty a copy. Eventually, "Paul" found out he was reallyJack Rosenthal. Paul Fronczak was barely a day old when he got kidnapped. Family members claim that their parents used to abuse the twins and kept them in a cage. 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. According to Target 8, the FBI has reopened the investigation, however, they are not providing any information which is normal on any ongoing investigation. I talk to all these different people and they all have the same vision.". Get unprecedented access to some of the most powerful stories that the media refuses to show you. Mich. having been rechristened Kevin Baty . 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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. A newspaper clipping from the 1964 disappearance of Paul Fronczak, later renamed Kevin Baty. Chris Elliot is a pen name for safety reasons. Sadly, there arent many happy reunions in The Lost Sons. Baty was able to speak briefly to Dora (Chester died in 2017), but he was sick with cancer and they were never able to meet in person. 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. He later discovered that he had four siblings including a twin sister named Jill who remains missing to this day. Director Ursula Macfarlane does an admirable job of weaving together a complex, sometimes convoluted and ultimately heart-tugging story, starting at the shocking beginning. Investigators believe Kevin Baty was the kidnapped infant, Paul Fronczak. I dont know what peace would be like for Paul.. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. It reads: Kevin was born on March 14, 1964 and was raised in the Lake City/Manton area by his parents Robert and Lorraine Fountain.. Investigators also learned who the real Paul Fronczakthe baby kidnapped decades priorwas: a man who grew up as Kevin Baty. The woman who raised Baty, Lorraine Fountain, died in 2004. 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Now, a man in Manton, Michigan has been identified as that baby. 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. You must log in or register to reply here. In 2013, the FBI reopened the kidnapping case. We are being led to believe the Chicago mob was involved, he said. I dont know the family. As for Fronczak, his biological parents are dead and his living biological siblings have cut off contact. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Because when you have that part missing, its really hard to grow as a person, at least to be the fullest person that you can be., Director Ursula Macfarlane told Variety: You could not make it up. In late 1965 an abandoned toddler was found wandering around a Newark, New Jersey store and was thought to be Paul Fronczak. Kevin Baty died in April. 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. 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. And through the help of genetic genealogist, CeCe Moore, Paul managed to find out he was actually Jack. 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.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 . We've received your submission. He pleaded guilty to multiple counts of murder and kidnapping in June last year and was sentenced to life without parole. December 20, 2019 / 7:45 AM / CBS News. The woman . That was the last time they saw their infant son. I hit pause and it restarted and no fast forward so it took even longer to finish. But his quest goes on, to find his twin, Jill. I agree. Way too long but a great story. 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.. 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 who has received hundreds of messages on his blog from people with similar experiences, says he wants to inspire as many as possible in finding their real identity saying "only the truth will make you happy.". Paul and Emma eavesdropped on one of those calls and were elated for the long-suffering Dora. It looks to me from some research that the woman was using a former name and not her most recent husband's name. DNA tests reveal #Nevada man was falsely identified as baby kidnapped in 1964. Who is he? This story has been shared 220,330 times. Sounds like a happy ending, right? The adoption and questionable details were obviously known or suspected. The results of the DNA test came back and showed that there was no way he was the real Paul Fronczack. It was easier to enroll in school prior to needing a social. No, Paul Fronczak's twin sister was not found, and she has yet to be found. I really think we are going to find Jill, I think shes alive," he told The Sun Online. 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. This baby, named Paul Fronczak just after his birth, was taken from Michael Reese Hospital in 1964 by a woman dressed as a nurse. 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. The Lost Sons is a 2021 American-British documentary film, directed by Ursula Macfarlane. Theres a lot of parts that are astounding and harrowing, but theres also a kind of epic mythical quality to them as well.. A baby is kidnapped from a hospital, months later, a toddler is abandoned. Robert is at least her fourth known husband. Subsequent DNA testing proved that Baty was actually Paul Fronczack. Provides full-spectrum light plants crave. His April 2020 obituary is very carefully worded. In it, he tells an amazing story of his life. Paul/Kevin did read Jack/Paul's book and apparently enjoyed it and let his friends and family read it as well. Federal investigators in Chicago became aware of Baty back in 2018. The infant was a day and a half old when a woman dressed as a nurse came in to the room, said the doctor wanted to see the baby and promptly disappeared with the child. April 25 is the birth date for the real Paul Fronczak. 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. View Source Share Save to Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Memorials Region North America USA Illinois Cook County Alsip Holy Sepulchre Cemetery A devastating loss director Ursula Macfarlane compares to them losing him twice. Immediate Family: Daughter of Frank Raymond Arnold and Blanche E Boyer. The story has been turned into a documentary, The Lost Sons. 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. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in. https://t.co/7yidh6Uq15. After confronting his mother, Fronczak discovered that he was the kidnapped toddler in the articles. Prayers now Paul-Jack will be able to uncover what happened to his twin sister. He was kidnapped April 26, 1964. 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. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. This man told Knapp that the DNA results said: Theres no remote possibility that you are the Fronczak babyI was like, wow.. Theyre dead or theyre dying off. 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. His love of aviation never faded despite racism that kept him and other Black pilots from getting jobs with airlines. (The black-and-white footage lends to the feeling were watching a B-movie from the 1960s.). He passed away in April 2020. Chester and Dora Fronczak's son, Paul, was . Click to check it out. 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. She loses Paul twice.. 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. Fronczak since learned that the man Kevin Baty spent the first 10 years of his life . Op/Ed: Police and U.S. Border Patrol Securing Communities. Indeed, the Fronczaks loved and raised Paul alongside his younger brother, but from that day forward, Paul was never totally sure of his identity. 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. 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. His mother was not the easiest person to identify. But what happens next is incredible, andneither the police, the public, or the Fronczak family could have anticipated or imagined the unbelievable story that would unfold from the bizarre kidnapping of this precious boy (via The Foundling). . I am a current law enforcement lieutenant and have been an officer for over twenty years. In The Lost Sons, Paul Fronczak tells how he learned as an adult that the couple who raised him werent his biological parents. On April 25, 2020, just 18 months after learning his real identity, Kevin Baty passed away. That became an issue. There was so much potential for both families to find more answers and closure. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. They reached Baty in time for him to meet his biological mother Dora in 2018, but he sadly died of cancer last year. You are using an out of date browser. From what I understand, after watching a show, his children were convinced of him being the missing child. With so much stuff happening in the world on social media, its easy for things to get lost. Heard about this after it aired. "I will leave no stone unturned. 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