FBI reopens 50 year old case - Wrong child returned to kidnap parents - Polidicks

[quote]The FBI has reopened an investigation into the disappearance of a newborn boy stolen from a Chicago hospital in 1964. It comes after DNA tests showed that the child who was returned to the missing boy's parents is not their son. Paul Fronczak, 49, was raised by Chester and Dora Fronczak after detectives found him abandoned in New Jersey in 1965. But he questioned his identity as he felt he did not look like them, reports say. Hundreds of police officers and FBI agents searched for the baby after his abduction from Michael Reese Hospital in April 1964 - when he was just one day old. A woman dressed as a nurse reportedly told Dora Fronczak that the doctor wanted to examine her son. She handed him over and he was never returned. Over a year later, a boy deemed to resemble the missing child was found abandoned outside a shop in Newark and given to the Fronczaks.[/quote] [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23620072]Article (BBC)[/url]

didnt they make a movie about this? or was it just a similar concept changeling i think it was called

[QUOTE=Rediscover;41765168]didnt they make a movie about this? or was it just a similar concept changeling i think it was called[/QUOTE] I actually watched that movie recently. But I'm pretty sure these are different cases.

Poor guy, growing up and then realizing something was wrong, i hope he had at least, had a good relationship with his foster-parents.

[QUOTE=Sword and Paint;41765539]Poor guy, growing up and then realizing something was wrong, i hope he had at least, had a good relationship with his foster-parents.[/QUOTE] Well he was abandoned and assumed to be the missing child, so he was brought up by the parents as though he were actually their son. Quite fortunate for him, as I doubt he'd have been brought up better by foster parents.

Hate to say it, but their kid is probably dead. Even if the kidnappers didn't kill him, lots of people don't make it to 50.

why did they not DNA test as soon as they found the baby? you can't just take any old newborn off the street and think "hmm this looks like a 1 year old so it's PROBABLY theirs".

But then where did he come from?

[QUOTE=SgtCr4zyGunz;41766803]why did they not DNA test as soon as they found the baby? you can't just take any old newborn off the street and think "hmm this looks like a 1 year old so it's PROBABLY theirs".[/QUOTE] 1964.

[QUOTE=SgtCr4zyGunz;41766803]why did they not DNA test as soon as they found the baby? you can't just take any old newborn off the street and think "hmm this looks like a 1 year old so it's PROBABLY theirs".[/QUOTE] I'm not quite sure if those tests existed 50 years ago. [editline]8th August 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=scout1;41766859]1964.[/QUOTE] Meanwhile I still think that 50 years ago is the 1950s somehow.

[QUOTE=Rediscover;41765168]didnt they make a movie about this? or was it just a similar concept changeling i think it was called[/QUOTE] Can't remember the name but Angelina Jolie played the mother and the guy from Burn Notice was a cop/FBI agent or something other.

[QUOTE=scout1;41766859]1964.[/QUOTE] oops. i could have sworn they started DNA testing sometime in the 70s. figured it'd make sense to test the kid ASAP just to be sure.

[QUOTE=SgtCr4zyGunz;41766803]why did they not DNA test as soon as they found the baby? you can't just take any old newborn off the street and think "hmm this looks like a 1 year old so it's PROBABLY theirs".[/QUOTE] well because dna testing wasn't invented until almost 15 years later.

[QUOTE=Midas22;41766916]Can't remember the name but Angelina Jolie played the mother and the guy from Burn Notice was a cop/FBI agent or something other.[/QUOTE] Bruce Campbell or Jeff Donovan?

[QUOTE=Rediscover;41765168]didnt they make a movie about this? or was it just a similar concept changeling i think it was called[/QUOTE] That was actually about the Wineville Chicken Coop murders.

Didn't some french guy tried to mimic some american kid to be adopted.

[QUOTE=J$ Psychotic;41766741]Hate to say it, but their kid is probably dead. Even if the kidnappers didn't kill him, lots of people don't make it to 50.[/QUOTE] No he's not did you read the article

[QUOTE=silentjubjub;41770126]No he's not did you read the article[/QUOTE] He might be. The 'wrong' child, who is 50 years old now, is alive and looking for his (foster) parents' real kid, the one that was abducted. That kid may or may not be dead.

Return him to the abandoned shop and demand a refund.

The title made me think this would be about an unwanted child being abandoned by his parents and returning as an adult to kidnap them as payback

[QUOTE=Simski;41771990]The title made me think this would be about an unwanted child being abandoned by his parents and returning as an adult to kidnap them as payback[/QUOTE] I think you may have just written an episode of a kidnapping show on the ID channel

[QUOTE=SgtCr4zyGunz;41766969]oops. i could have sworn they started DNA testing sometime in the 70s. figured it'd make sense to test the kid ASAP just to be sure.[/QUOTE] We live in a country where kids are not DNA tested at birth, or even before it, even though we have the technology to do it. People don't want to know. You give someone a kid and say "This is yours" and they're happy to accept it. You'll notice that in this story the kid is the one who wanted to know, not the parents. It's a serious issue, imagine you're married and your wife has 'your' baby, do you REALLY want to know if that kid is yours or not? Maybe you'd be happier just accepting that kid as yours and leave it at that.

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;41774337]We live in a country where kids are not DNA tested at birth, or even before it, even though we have the technology to do it. People don't want to know. You give someone a kid and say "This is yours" and they're happy to accept it. You'll notice that in this story the kid is the one who wanted to know, not the parents. It's a serious issue, imagine you're married and your wife has 'your' baby, do you REALLY want to know if that kid is yours or not? Maybe you'd be happier just accepting that kid as yours and leave it at that.[/QUOTE] [del]DNA tests are still incredibly expensive. They can cost over $5000 per test, iirc.[/del] Okay after some research, they're not nearly as expensive as I thought. :v:

[quote]Wrong child returned to kidnap parents [/quote] Really misinterpreted the title. I thought it meant the wrong child returned later to kidnap his parents.