CHICAGO — The FBI said this week it is reopening its investigation into the 1964 kidnapping of a newborn boy from a Chicago hospital, after recent DNA testing revealed that a boy found in New Jersey more than a year later and returned to the elated parents wasn’t actually their son.
Paul Fronczak, 49, of Henderson, Nev., is a married father now and works as a college administrator. He told the Chicago Sun-Times in June that he had long wondered why he didn’t resemble his parents, Chester and Dora Fronczak, so they underwent DNA testing to see whether he was their biological son. He wasn’t.
“I really feel in my heart that the real Paul Fronczak is alive and well and out there, and nothing would make me more happy in this life than to find the real kidnapped child, and at the same time, I wouldn’t mind finding out who I am,” Fronczak told the newspaper.
Hundreds of police officers and FBI agents searched for the Oak Lawn couple’s newborn son after his abduction from Michael Reese Hospital in April 1964.
A woman who answered the phone Wednesday at a listing for Dora Fronczak in Oak Lawn declined to comment about the reopening of the investigation.
