600 // Live w/ Paul Jack Fronczak & Tracey Hastings of The Fronczak Files

Missing

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

3.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In this new episode, Crawlspace Media's Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna host a live Youtube show with Paul 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. Missing Jill Rosenthal: ⁠https://www.missingkids.org/blog/2022/finding-the-missing-piece-brother-searches-for-twin-sister⁠. 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 In today's new episode, we speak with Paul Jack Franzak and Tracy Hastings of the Franzak Files podcast.
0:43.4	And this was a live show that we did on our YouTube channel a couple of weeks ago.
0:50.0	And we've also spoken with them before on the podcast in episodes 582 and 583.
0:56.7	Lance, what did you think of this live conversation with Jack and Tracy?
1:00.3	Well, I think it was necessary that we had to bring our new friends of the show out to the public here
1:06.0	and have them interact with the live audience because their story, Jack's story especially, is incredible.
1:13.6	And it really takes him to explain it and Tracy's contributions to the story to paint a much more clear picture because we even joke about it.
1:23.6	It is confusing. Jack's past is confusing. He has become so well adjusted. I think that's an
1:29.9	important part of the story as well to say that even though he's gone through this in his life,
1:34.8	he is adapted and turned himself into a pretty incredible multi-talented individual and someone
1:44.1	who is able to adjust and adapt and move on and do that
1:48.5	in a healthy way. So I think that that's important as well. I love this conversation. I could
1:52.5	talk to them forever about what's happened to Jack. Yes. And we get into Jack's story right away
2:00.3	in the conversation. But yeah, he was, he was abandoned as a kid.
2:05.3	He was abandoned and found and sent to live with a family that wasn't his. It is a really wild
2:11.7	story. And he's written a couple of books about it. There is a documentary about it called
2:17.1	The Lost Sons. There are links in the show notes for all this. But he's written a couple of books about it. There is a documentary about it called The Lost Sons.
2:18.5	There are links in the show notes for all this.
2:20.2	But he's back now with the living and breathing Franzac files.
2:25.3	And him and his co-host, Tracy, they are now trying to help other people in finding their real families.
2:32.7	It was mind-blowing to hear how many people are living with a family
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