214|Kidnapped Baby, Mistaken Identity & the Search for Family With Jack Fronczak & Tracy Hastings

Imagine discovering that the story you’ve been told about your identity your entire life isn’t true. Paul Jack Fronczak grew up believing he was Paul Fronczak—the baby kidnapped from a Chicago hospital in 1964 and later believed to have been found and returned to his family. But after becoming a father himself, lingering questions about his past eventually led him to DNA testing. The results changed everything. The man raised as Paul Fronczak was not biologically related to the Fronczak family. His search for answers would eventually reveal his true identity as Jack Rosenthal—and another stunning discovery: he had a twin sister, Jill, whose disappearance remains a mystery. In this episode of *Interrupted: Act 2 – Reinventing Your Legacy*, Paul Jack Fronczak and his co-host Tracey Hastings share the extraordinary twists and turns of this decades-long search for identity, biological family and the truth about what happened to him. But his story has become about much more than solving his own mystery. We also talk about his work helping foundlings and others with unknown origins search for their roots, reconnect with biological family and find answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Where did I come from? This is an unforgettable conversation about kidnapping, DNA, genetic genealogy, missing children, family secrets, foundlings, identity and the deep human need to know our own story. Resources & Learn More 🎙️ The Fronczak Files Podcast: Listen on Apple Podcasts 🌐 The Fronczak Files: TheFronczakFiles.com 📖 The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me: The Foundling — Simon & Schuster 📖 True Identity: Cracking the Oldest Kidnapping Cold Case and Finding My Missing Twin: Learn more about True Identity 🎬 The Lost Sons documentary: The Lost Sons — CNN Films 🔎 The Search for Jill Rosenthal: Help Find Jill    Jack & Jill Rosenthal Foundation for Missing and Unidentified Children     [lacoach@comcast.net](mailto:lacoach@comcast.net) Podcast Creation Membership https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-landing-page-page Quiz https://podcrafter.net/podcrafter-quiz-page