582 // Paul Fronczak w/ Jack Fronczak and Tracey Hastings - Part 1

Missing

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In this new episode, Crawlspace Media's Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with Jack Fronczak and Tracey Hastings of The Fronczak Files podcast. Jack has an absolutely wild story about being found abandoned at about 2 years old. He was given to the Fronczak family after the FBI made a connection between the abandoned baby in New Jersey in 1965 and a newborn stolen from a Chicago hospital in 1964. Jack lived as Paul Fronczak for decades until eventually taking a DNA test and opening up the incredible mystery of his true identity. For more on Jack's story, check out his official site: www.foundlingpaul.com. Check out the Fronczak Files podcast: https://www.thefronczakfiles.com/. Follow them on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheFronczakFiles. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fronczak-files/id1821960075. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3194WehXg2DF0r56mlhnd1. IG: https://www.instagram.com/thefronczakfiles/. FB: https://www.facebook.com/thefronczakfiles. Jack's books: https://www.thefronczakfiles.com/books. Main podcast theme by Kevin Macleod. Check out his work at⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://incompetech.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠. Additional music by David Williams. See his work at⁠⁠ ⁠⁠http://williamsflutes.com⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Missing: IG: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/⁠⁠. TT:⁠⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm⁠⁠. FB:⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM⁠⁠. X:⁠⁠ https://twitter.com/MissingCSM⁠⁠. Spotify:⁠⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/0yRXkJrZC85otfT7oXMcri⁠⁠. Youtube:⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm⁠⁠. Apple:⁠⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing/id1006974447⁠⁠. Follow Crawlspace: IG:⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠. TT:⁠⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠. FB:⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠. X:⁠⁠ https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod.⁠⁠ Spotify:⁠⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/7iSnqnCf27NODdz0pJ1GvJ⁠⁠. Youtube:⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace⁠⁠. Apple:⁠⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340⁠⁠. Check out our entire network at⁠⁠ http://crawlspace-media.com/⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Today on missing, we host an incredible conversation with Paul Jack Franzak and Tracy Hastings,
0:41.5	two folks who are working on a podcast called the Franzak Files. Lance, what do you think of this
0:48.5	incredible conversation? Really tough to wrap my head around it and I was so grateful that
0:53.6	Paul Jack and Tracy both had really good attitudes.
0:57.6	We were able to laugh about this.
0:59.2	I mean, in a sense, it is a tragic story.
1:01.5	There are people who are still missing.
1:03.4	There are people who are victims.
1:04.8	But the intricacies and the unbelievablyness of it, it is a true story, but the unbelievablyableness of it
1:14.1	is really hard to wrap your head around. I can't wait to hear what the listeners think of this
1:20.6	and what they get out of this. One of the best conversations I think we've had on this show in a long
1:25.3	time. Yeah, I have to agree. It's really unbelievable, actually.
1:30.1	And Paul Joseph Franzak, he's written a couple of books now.
1:35.7	One is called The Foundling that was out in 2017.
1:40.5	And his second book was called True Identity.
1:43.9	And Lance, this story is bonkers because he was located in New Jersey abandoned as a boy about one and a half or two years old.
1:54.7	The FBI actually thought he was the baby who had been abducted from a Chicago hospital a year earlier. And they delivered him
2:04.6	to the parents of that missing child. He was raised his entire life believing that he was Paul
2:10.6	Franzac. Turns out, that's not exactly the case. And he was not that boy who was abducted from the Chicago hospital. So many
2:20.4	mysteries are now opened. Where is that boy? Who is he? As we get into this conversation,
2:26.6	there are more mysteries and more mysteries. It is wild. But as you said, Jack and Tracy,
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