mission. what really happened to me? that s what i needed to find out. it all starts in chicago, 1964, that s what paul s mother gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. as i was leaving this woman walked in. she was dressed in white. i just thought, she s a nurse. but she wasn t. and before anyone knew it, that baby was gone. her doctor came in, and he said, mr. franzak, your baby has been taken. setting off a frantic search for the baby and that mysterious woman. she must have been desperate for a baby that she would come and take someone else s baby from them. but nothing. then 15 months later, a toddler was found abandoned in a stroller on a sidewalk in
a $500 prepaid card when you upgrade. call today. . in our national lead, when paul was a boy he discovered he had been kidnapped as a newborn, and reunited with his family two years later.
opening incredible doors into his past, and raising deep questions for all of us about what identity truly means. but there s more. for the rest of paul franzak s story, tune in the lost sons premieres sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. also this weekend, a cnn special, you do not want to miss a court ordered conservatorship controlled britney spears life for years. watch the cnn special report, toxic, britney conspiracy battle for freedom here on cnn. in our money lead, a double whammy could make your next shopping trip a little more painful. costco is limiting how much toilet paper, how many paper towels and how many cleaning supplies you can purchase. the store says demand has increased because of the delta variant, and they simply cannot find enough trucks, truck drivers and shipping containers to keep up with demand and to
that s what he had been told. that s what he thought was true. as an adult, paul started doing more research, and he discovered that everything he thought he knew about himself was in fact a lie. and now the new cnn film the lost sons takes an intimate look at paul s story and the unimaginable journey he s taken searching for himself. our kate bolduan has a preview. reporter: as a child, paul franzak thought he knew who he was but he did not. at the age of 10 he discovered a box full of old newspaper clippings in his house. so i started reading it, and it said paul joseph franzak, and i saw a picture of my mom and dad, and they looked sad and heartbroken, and distraught. i said, mom, what is this, this is about me. what is this. you were kidnapped, we found you, we love you, we ll never talk about that again. and they didn t. but paul couldn t let it go. years later he embarked on a
newark, new jersey, when no one steps forward to claim the child, investigators start thinking maybe this could be the missing child from chicago, so they set up a meeting with the franzaks . they open the door and the mom said, oh, my god, that s my baby. and that should be the happy ending to the story. a family, reunited, or so they thought. i love my family, and i loved my family upbringing. but paul could never shake the feeling that he didn t belong. and when he became a father himself, questions about his family s medical history spurred him into action. asking his parents to take a dna test. he s like, i can t believe it. i m not the real paul franzak, i don t know my birthday. he s like, i don t even know where i was born or who my parents are. and if you can believe it, that s really just the beginning. cnn films the lost sons is narrated by paul franzak himself