The foundling the true story of a kidnapping, a family secret, and my search for the real me
In 1964, a woman pretending to be a nurse kidnapped an infant boy named Paul Fronczak from a Chicago hospital. Two years later, police found a boy abandoned outside a variety store in New Jersey. The FBI tracked down Dora Fronczak, the kidnapped infant's mother, and she identified the abandoned boy...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,
2017
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| Summary: | In 1964, a woman pretending to be a nurse kidnapped an infant boy named Paul Fronczak from a Chicago hospital. Two years later, police found a boy abandoned outside a variety store in New Jersey. The FBI tracked down Dora Fronczak, the kidnapped infant's mother, and she identified the abandoned boy as her son. The family spent the next fifty years believing they were whole again -- but Paul was always unsure about his true identity. Then, four years ago -- spurred on by the birth of his first child, Emma Faith -- Paul took a DNA test. The test revealed definitively that he was not Paul Fronczak. From that moment on, Paul has been on a tireless mission to find the man whose life he's been living -- and to discover who abandoned him, and why. |
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| Physical Description: | 347 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781501142123 (hardcover) 1501142127 (hardcover) 9781501142321 (pbk.) 1501142321 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: | Alex Tresniowski is a writer who lives and works in New York. He was a writer for both Time and People magazines, handling mostly human-interest stories. He is the author or coauthor of more than twenty books, including the 2005 true-crime thriller The Vendetta , which was used as a basis for the 2009 Johnny Depp movie Public Enemies . For more about this story and the author, please visit AlexTres.com. |
