Paul, Scott and Jack: three families and three of the childhood of one of the kidnapped boy
In 1964 newborn Paul Joseph Fronzak was kidnapped from the hospital Chicago. This story spread through the front pages of all the American media. Two years later, in abandoned on the street the boy learned of the missing baby and returned to his parents. Many years later, Paul began to study the history of his own mysterious kidnapping, and that information shocked him.
Paul Fronsac was ten years old when he went down to the basement to find Christmas gifts that parents hid from him. He pushed the sofa and found three boxes of letters, cards of condolence and newspaper clippings. "200 attempts to find a missing child," reads one headline. "The mother asks the kidnapper to return the child," read another. Photos Paul recognized his parents, they looked younger and was very frustrated. And then the boy read that their son was kidnapped.
26 April 1964 Dora Fronsac gave birth to a boy at the hospital, Michael Reese in Chicago. The mother spent with the child all the time when he did not sleep with the other children in the maternity ward. But the next morning to the chamber of Dora entered the woman in the uniform of a nurse, took the child for a visit and never returned. The boy was gone, too.
When the hospital staff realized that something went wrong, has begun an active search. But the police and the parents of the missing reported only in a few hours. In three hours of the day hospital staff contacted the father of Paul Chester Transcom, who at the time worked as a mechanic at the factory.
Then began the largest search in the history of Chicago: participated in 175 thousand postal workers, 200 police officers and FBI agents. By midnight they searched 600 houses, but it has not brought any results.
Excited about my discovery, Paul went upstairs, clutching the newspaper clippings to ask the parents. But Dora was so mad excessive curiosity of the boy. And then gave up and said, "Yes, you were kidnapped, then you've found, we love you, and that's all you need to know."
So he learned about the next part of this story — how she got Prosekov. After the abduction Dora and Chester for another week left in the hospital waiting for news. Upon returning home, they literally were persecuted by the press. Despite the publicity, the police had no leads — the child simply disappeared without a trace. The investigation was postponed.
In March 1966 Dora and Chester received a letter from FBI in Newark, new Jersey, was found the baby, which describe the missing Floor.
Boy left in a wheelchair in the middle of the Mall. He was found and sent to the guardians, family Eckerts. Child baptized and called Scott McKinley. Adoptive parents are so in love with the boy that wanted to adopt him. However, this is not managed: detective from new Jersey thought that this boy could be the missing kid from Chicago.
The FBI began the test. The problem was that the investigators did not have any data about the missing boy: no fingerprints, no blood. All they had was a photo of the child, taken the day of his birth. And the shape of the ear in the photo was similar to the ear of the baby was found.
Frontage was delighted with this news.
Three months later, Dora and Chester went from Chicago to pick up the boy. But first they had to pass a series of psychological tests and obtain permission to take the child.
Dora said it was her son.
The parents took the Floor in Chicago and officially adopted him. Frontage were loving parents, although overprotective, which was understandable. Sometimes however, this led to quarrels. Paul was sent to Catholic school with a strict dress code, although the guy has always loved rock music and wore long hair.
After high school, Paul went away from home and became the bassist in a rock band in Arizona. Five years later, when the band broke up, he went home, sat around, and then went into the army. After the army, he moved around a lot, worked as a salesman, model and even an actor. Eventually he settled in Las Vegas.
In 2008, Paul married a second time. When his wife, Michelle, said that expecting a child, Paul was delighted. But the question the obstetrician about the disease, which is hereditary in his family, put the Floor in a dead end. He didn't know how to answer the doctor. Ever since he learned about his kidnapping, the Floor often wondered if he really is the son of his parents.
He always felt different relatives. His parents were closer to his younger brother Dave. They were quiet and restrained, and the Floor always loved loud music and motorcycles. Yes, and they looked different.
The question of whether he was the kidnapped boy, began to tear the Floor constantly.
Besides, Sex was off the cost of the test. But in 2012, he saw the sets for a home DNA test and bought a few pieces. When he came to visit parents, Paul gathered all the strength in his fist and asked whether they thought about whether or not he was their son. Dora and Chester admitted that they had doubts. And so the idea to do a test, and they agreed. In a few minutes analyses were sealed in vials, and the Floor was lucky parents to the airport.
But by the time the plane landed, Dora and Chester had to change your mind. They asked Paul not to send the samples to the lab.
Paul sent the samples to the lab. When he was at work, he called and said that he is not the biological son of the Odra river and Chester.
The test results raised two important questions: who is really Paul's parents and what happened to the real Paul, which in 1964 was kidnapped from the hospital? Before you tell your parents the news, Paul was contacted by a journalist who investigates, George Nappa, and asked for help. Soon the Floor of Fronsac again appeared on the front pages of Newspapers. The family who tried to avoid media attention, was just furious and did not speak with his son for over a year.
The FBI reopened the case of the missing boy. In Chicago, they found ten folders of documents to the investigation, but according to the law, Paul didn't want them to see. However, he managed to contact an agent retired Bernie Carey. The agent acknowledged that not everyone was convinced, then, that you've found the right boy.
The search for the biological parents, the Floor was more fortunate. A team of volunteers, DNA detectives, took the case for free. They started a Grand quest with the DNA of the Floor. Despite the fact that Paul has been found in the state of new Jersey, detectives, genealogists found his family in another state to Tennessee. The search lasted for a few months while volunteers are not learned from a conversation with a potential relatives of the Floor of the missing twins.
3 Jun 2015 Paul found out that actually his name is Jack Rosenthal and he's six months older than I thought. But most importantly he had a twin sister, who, like him, was gone. In the case of a missing.
First meeting with biological relatives Sex pleased. He was always fond of music and was happy to learn that his cousin is also a musician.
But not all family members were happy to see the Floor. He soon discovered that his real family has a dark side. His mother was an alcoholic, and his father returned from the war in Korea pissed all over the world. They ignored their children, even put them in a cage. No one knows exactly what happened, but every time when family members asked about the twins, they were told that they are followed by someone from relatives. Paul believes that the family experienced something terrible, since they decided to get rid of his son. Because it would be difficult to explain the absence of one of the twins. Once he even dug up the garden in front of house their biological parents in search of the remains sisters.
Two years after DNA test Gender reconciled with his foster parents and finally got them to talk.
Dora showed Sex photo album and writing family Eckert, which cared for the boy and named him Scott.
The floor still does not give up and continues to search for the real son of his adoptive parents. He even hired a private investigator who works on this case. The next step in the investigation — the exhumation of two bodies.
Paul has already divorced his second wife. He acknowledges that in many ways, this contributed to his obsession with the investigation. But Paul believes that this helped him to understand many things about myself.
Paul's daughter Emma is now nine years old. She finds it very funny to call the father of Jack and sometimes his teasing. But he decided not to change the name.
Keywords: Search | Kidnapping | Investigation | Son