Paul Fronczak triple disappearance

Baby Paul Joseph Fronczak was born on April 26, 1964, at Michael Reese Hospital. One day later, a woman dressed as a nurse entered the room of Dora Fronczak, baby Paul's mother, and told her that the doctor wanted baby Paul examined. Dora handed baby Paul to the unknown woman, and the woman left the hospital with baby Paul and was never seen again. The investigation was the largest manhunt in Chicago history up to that point, involving 175,000 postal workers, 200 police officers, and the FBI. Six hundred homes were searched by midnight that night, but there was no trace of baby Paul. == Abandonment of Jack Rosenthal ==

On July 2, 1965, a male toddler, later known to be Jack Rosenthal, was found abandoned in a pushchair in a busy shopping center in Newark, New Jersey. Law enforcement expected the case to be solved quickly, but no one came forward to claim the toddler. He was then put into foster care, and given the name Scott McKinley. FBI later notified the Fronczaks and said that they believed Scott McKinley might be baby Paul Fronczak, as McKinley was the only child they reviewed whom they could not fully rule out as baby Paul. The Fronczaks traveled to New Jersey, and said that McKinley was baby Paul. McKinley was later adopted and raised as Paul Joseph Fronczak. Today, it is generally believed that Jack Rosenthal was abandoned by his parents, Gilbert and Marie Rosenthal. == Later developments ==

When Paul Fronczak was 10, he entered the crawlspace in his home looking for Christmas presents, and instead found newspaper clippings about the kidnapping of baby Paul. He brought the newspapers to his mother, who scolded him and said, "Yes, you were kidnapped, we found you, we love you, and that's all you need to know." Fronczak said that since then he had always wondered if he was actually his parents' child. He did not bring the subject up to his parents for almost 40 years. In 2012, Fronczak decided to take an IdentiGEN DNA test. He asked his parents, and they were surprised, but agreed and met him in Chicago so they could take DNA samples together. Their meeting ended and Paul returned home to Las Vegas, then his parents changed their minds and told him by phone that they did not want him to send in the DNA kit. After struggling with the decision, Fronczak decided he would send in the samples anyway. He later received a phone call from IdentiGEN, and the caller told him there was "no remote possibility" that he was his parents' biological child. Discovery of baby Paul 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 Baty died of cancer on his 56th birthday. Before his death, he spoke multiple times on the phone with his biological mother, Dora Fronczak, but they were never able to meet in person. Baty had been raised by Lorraine Fountain, who had been dating a doctor from Chicago when she suddenly moved to Arkansas for a year and then returned with baby Paul, who was raised as Kevin Baty. Fountain died in 2004. It is unclear how Kevin got the last name Baty. The perpetrator of his kidnapping has not been identified to this day. The FBI investigation into the kidnapping remains open. ==See also==