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  • The WITNESS: A Babysitter’s Chilling Account | The Fronczak Files Ep. 5
    Jul 22 2025

    Hidden Abuse • Firsthand Testimony • 1960s Cold Case • Mob Ties • Twin Disappearance

    A knock on the door. A mother’s strange request. A terrified pair of twins hidden upstairs.


    In this haunting episode of The Fronczak Files, Paul and Tracy speak with Susan Woolard, a babysitter who, in 1965, was pulled into a disturbing household secret in Pitney Village, New Jersey. Her memory is vivid. Her guilt has never left. What she reveals may be the last eyewitness account of Jack and Jill together.


    Could this teenage girl have unknowingly witnessed the early signs of a tragedy? Was fear—and the shadow of the Mob...what kept her silent?


    🎧 This episode explores:

    • Susan’s firsthand account of the abuse and neglect she witnessed

    • What made her defy orders and check on the hidden babies upstairs

    • Why neighbors still won’t talk, nearly 60 years later

    • The chilling detail about Jill’s condition and Jack’s black eye

    • How this one act of courage may have changed the investigation forever


    If you’re drawn to:

    • First-person true crime narratives

    • Cold cases with long-silenced witnesses

    • Stories shaped by guilt, courage, and survival

    • The power of speaking out—even decades later

    …this episode will stay with you.


    What if the person who saw it all… never forgot?


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  • The Reveal: The DNA Detective Who Found Jack | The Fronczak Files Ep. 4
    Jul 15 2025

    Genetic Breakthroughs • Identity Found • Cold Case Clues • Genealogy Experts • First Family Connection

    A stranger’s email. A shrinking database. A second chance to find out who Jack really is.

    In this pivotal episode of The Fronczak Files, Paul is joined by CeCe Moore—the world-renowned DNA detective known from The Genetic Detective—and Carol Rolnick, the tireless researcher who was the first to say: “I think I found your family.” What unfolds is the turning point in the mystery: the moment they stop searching for Paul… and start finding Jack.



    🎧 This episode explores:

    • How CeCe Moore found Jack in one of the earliest successful DNA solves

    • Why 2014’s tiny testing pool made this discovery nearly impossible

    • Carol’s role in piecing together the first real family connections

    • What it means to carry an identity that isn’t yours—and finally face the truth

    • The emotional moment the real story begins to surface


    If you’re drawn to:

    • Groundbreaking DNA and genealogy work

    • Real stories of adoptees and foundlings

    • Cold cases cracked open with science and persistence

    • The emotional journey of discovering your true identity

    …this episode is the one you’ve been waiting for.


    What if the person who found you… wasn’t looking for you at all?


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  • The Discovery: The DNA Test That Changed Everything | The Fronczak Files Ep. 3
    Jul 8 2025

    The Test. The Silence. The Truth. | The Fronczak Files: Episode 3 – “The Discovery”

    DNA Revelations • Identity Crisis • Family Secrets • Genetic Genealogy • Media Breakthrough

    A simple over-the-counter DNA kit. A quiet kitchen conversation. A decision that would change everything.

    In this revealing episode of The Fronczak Files, Paul finally confronts the truth he’s always suspected: he’s not the Fronczaks’ biological son. What begins as a personal journey spirals into a media storm and a national search to find the real Paul Fronczak. Alongside Emmy-winning journalist George Knapp, who was the first to believe his story, Paul shares the emotional toll, the silence that followed, and the courage it took to mail that test.


    This episode explores:

    • The emotional weight behind taking a DNA test

    • Why Paul’s parents begged him not to send the results

    • The devastating moment Paul’s identity was shattered

    • How a single email to George Knapp changed everything

    • The media whirlwind that reignited a 50-year-old mystery


    If you’re drawn to:

    • Real-life identity revelations

    • Foundling and cold case investigations

    • Stories of truth, loss, and family loyalty

    • Groundbreaking uses of DNA in unsolved cases


    …this episode will leave you stunned.


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  • The Abandonment: Their Son Was Kidnapped | The Fronczak Files Episode 2
    Jul 1 2025

    A Phone Call. A Black Eye. A National Manhunt. | The Fronczak Files: Episode 2 – “The Abandonment”

    🔍True Crime • Unsolved Mysteries • Identity Discovery • Foundling Case • FBI Cold Case

    Two years after a newborn was stolen from Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, a single unexpected phone call reignites a family's fading hope—and unravels one of the most shocking true crime stories in U.S. history.

    In this powerful episode of The Fronczak Files, Paul Fronczak reveals the moment his life changed forever, from being found in a stroller with a black eye in Newark, NJ, to becoming the center of a coast-to-coast FBI manhunt.

    👁️‍🗨️ This episode explores:

    • The chilling phone call that reopened a cold case
    • What it means to be labeled a “foundling”
    • How the FBI narrowed one kidnapped child from over 10,000 potential matches
    • The foster family that gave Paul a name, a birthday, and a second chance
    • The bittersweet reunion with parents who barely recognized him

    Watch as emotional truths surface, forgotten trauma is uncovered, and long-lost connections are pieced back together.

    If you’re fascinated by:


    • Real-life identity swaps
    • Child abduction stories
    • DNA discovery & genetic genealogy
    • FBI cold case investigations
    • Emotional family reunions

    …this episode will grip you from start to finish.


    Join the conversation:

    What would YOU do if your past wasn’t what you thought it was?


    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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  • The Kidnapping
    Jun 24 2025

    In 1964, a woman disguised as a nurse walked into a Chicago hospital, took a newborn from his mother’s arms, and vanished. The baby was never seen again… until a 10-year-old boy found a box of newspaper clippings hidden in a crawlspace. That boy was Paul Fronczak.

    The Fronczak Files isn’t just a true crime podcast. It’s Paul’s firsthand account of a mystery that shattered his identity and changed hospital security forever.

    In Episode 1, Paul and co-host Tracey Hastings take you from the hospital room where it began to the moment in December when everything changed.

    What really happened to Baby Paul?

    Who was the woman in the nurse’s uniform?

    And why did no one tell Paul the truth?

    Subscribe now and turn on notifications. The truth is finally coming out, and some people don’t want it told.

    Drop your questions for Paul and Tracey in the comments!!!

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  • Season One Trailer
    Jun 20 2025

    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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