Search for son who was kidnapped at birth resumes after half a century

Modern technology has fuelled hopes of finding the ‘real’ Paul Fronczak, writes Carol Channing

IN 1964, newborn Paul Joseph Fronczak was stolen from the Michael Reese hospital in Chicago by a woman posing as a nurse. She was never caught.

Almost two years later, the shape of the ear of an abandoned baby found outside a discount shop in Newark, New Jersey, led investigators to believe they had found the stolen baby and Paul was “reunited” with his Chicago family.