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Coffee and Cases Podcast

Jill Rosenthal Part 1

Coffee and Cases Podcast

Cloud10

True Crime

4.7639 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What if the story you were told about who you are was only part of the truth? In Part 1 of our coverage of the Jill Rosenthal case, we begin not with Jill, but with a little boy named Paul Joseph Fronczak—a child connected to one of the most shocking hospital kidnappings in American history. In 1964, a newborn was taken from Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago by a woman dressed as a nurse. Nearly two years later, a young boy was found abandoned outside a store in Newark, New Jersey. Was he the missing baby everyone had been searching for? Or had one mystery simply been mistaken for another? This episode is about identity, family secrets, impossible choices, and the kind of truth that waits for decades before cracking everything open. And trust me—this is only the beginning. Listen now to Part 1 of our coverage of the case of Jill Rosenthal. Please check out Paul and Tracy's podcast, The Fronczak Files to support their efforts to help others and to hear even more about Paul's life story and where it has led them today. Check out their website at https://www.thefronczakfiles.com/ to listen to their podcast, for information on Paul's books, and to help support their search for Jill. If you’re caught up on regular episodes and want more Coffee and Cases, join us on Patreon, where we cover solved cases and additional bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/coffeeandcases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Dot-uk-Uk slash podcast to learn more. There are some family stories that get told so often,

0:26.6

they become almost polished by repetition. The edges soften, the details become familiar.

0:32.9

Everyone knows where the story begins, where it turns, and how it ends. Maybe it's the story of how your

0:38.2

parents met, or the storm that rolled in the night you were born, or the family emergency that

0:42.8

somehow became funny years later because everyone survived it. But other family stories are different.

0:48.5

Some are not told at all. They live in boxes, in clipped newspaper articles, and hushed conversations that stop when a child walks in the room.

0:57.6

They live in the spaces between what people say and what they refuse to say.

1:01.7

And sometimes those stories are hidden, not because they're unimportant, but because they're too painful, too complicated, too dangerous to touch.

1:09.8

For most of us, identity feels like one of the few things

1:12.5

we can count on. We may not know everything about our families, and we may not understand every choice

1:17.7

made before we were born, but we assume we know the basics, our name, our parents, our birthday,

1:24.3

the people we came from, the story of how we entered the world. But what if one of those

1:28.8

basics was wrong? What if the name you had carried your whole life was connected to a story that

1:33.3

didn't actually belong to you? What if the parents who loved and raised you had been told a truth

1:38.6

that turned out not to be true at all? And what if discovering who you really were did not solve the mystery, but open the

1:46.1

door to an even bigger one? This is a story about a stolen baby, a found child, a family secret

1:52.7

hidden in a crawl space, and a truth so unbelievable that if it were written as fiction, we might

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