Episode 38 - Paul J. Fronczak

Thin Air Podcast

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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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April 26th, 1964. Dora and Chester Fronczak are at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital after giving birth to their first child, a son named Paul. Around 9:30 a.m., a woman - who Dora assumed was a nurse, entered the room, looked at Paul and left. 4 hours later, around 1:50 p.m., the same woman entered again, this time claiming that the baby was needed for an examination in the nursery. Dora handed Paul to her, she left, and, shortly after, both Paul and the unknown woman vanished. The trail quickly went cold, and it seemed that baby Paul was gone forever. But this was only the beginning of the mystery. To hear the full story, listen now on your favorite podcast app!

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1:23.6	In Hospital Room 418B, Dora and Chester Fronzac,
1:28.6	aged 28 and 33, respectively, had given birth to a healthy baby boy who they named Paul.
1:38.1	Per hospital custom, a single photograph was taken of Paul, and he was tagged with a bracelet bearing his name.
1:46.6	A birth certificate was issued, but no fingerprints or footprints were taken and no blood was drawn despite that being common practice today.
1:57.0	36 hours after Paul's birth, a middle-aged woman dressed as a nurse entered Dora's hospital room.
2:07.4	She told Dora that they needed to examine Paul in the nursery to run some tests. Although Dora wasn't familiar with the woman, the pretext,
2:17.6	her uniform, reasons, and relatively calm demeanor, made sense and put Dora at ease.
2:26.6	Dora handed Paul to the woman and she left the hospital room.
2:32.2	According to news articles at the time, the unidentified woman then leaves with baby Paul,
2:38.0	out the rear entrance of the hospital.
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