In April 1964, a woman disguised as a nurse walked into a Chicago hospital room and took a one-day-old infant out of the the arms of a young mother named Dora Fronczak. That day, Chicago police kicked off the biggest manhunt in the city's history in an effort to find the kidnapped "Baby Fronczak." Weeks passed without any sign of the kidnapper or the infant. Two years after the kidnapping, the case went cold…
Co-hosted by Paul Jack Fronczak and Tracey Hastings, Season 1 pulls you into the decades-long search for answers, identity, and justice. No theories. No holding back. Just the raw, unfiltered truth - told straight from the source.
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Episode Transcript
In April 1964,
a woman walked into a hospital in Chicagopretending to be a nurse.
She told a new motherthat a doctor needed to run some tests
and stole her baby.
The baby had been named Paul Fronczak,
and his kidnaping shook the nation.
It prompted a massive manhunt.
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Hospitals changed their policies.
Families were torn apart.
Maybe you're familiar with this story,but you haven't heard it from me.
I am Paul Fronczak,
and together with my co-hostTracey Hastings.
I'm going to tell my story my way.
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