they re looking at all the original research. they re planning to reinterview witnesses they can find who are still available and able to be interviewed. so they re starting over, basically, with their investigation. you wrote, ellen, in your piece that physical evidence might benefit from modern testing. what does that mean? right. you know, i tried to push joan high to tell me, the spokeswoman for the fbi. she couldn t elaborate. she said they might be able to retest some physical evidence they still have. you quote paul fronzak from your piece. he says, quote, i think the perfect ending would be to find the real paul. see he s doing well. on the same day find my real family. it would also be nice to have an actual birth date i could believe in. what about the parents, chester and doris? they thought they had their little boy. now they don t. i imagine this is pretty tough for them? yeah. you know, i i haven t had a cannes chance to talk to them. we did go to their house. t
first, let s talk about this one man who grew up doubting who he really was. turns out, he was right. and his story has now gotten the fbi s attention. want to get to that in just a moment. first, this nevada man grew up thinking this. thinking he was the baby in this headline. kidnapped as a newborn. abandoned as a toddler. reunited with his parents. grew up happy, healthy, case closed. except nearly five decades later, paul fronzak found out none of that is true. he learned his parents, doris and chester fronzak, actually aren t his parents after all. his name, his nationality, his age, he has no clue. and the chicago tribune is reporting the fbi has reopened this kidnapping case from all the way back to 1964. i want to turn now to ellen hurst, metro desk reporter from the chicago trib. what a story. let me start at the beginning
he s bought this dna test. he says, hey, mom and dad, you mind taking this? what happened? right. so, you know, it took him a long time to work up the courage to even broach the subject with his parents. it wasn t something they liked to talk about. when his parents came to visit him at his home in nevada, he asked them to take this test. and they did. and then, yeah, he got the results back and he said that he sort of knew what they were going to be. he had a hunch that it was going to come back and say that these weren t his parents. you know, kind of reopened some old wounds. it s been hard for them. we re going to talk about the psychology of that and the wounds in just a minute. as it turns out, paul fronzak isn t really paul fronzak. you have this ground man, this father now looking for his own family. the real paul fronzak is still missing if he s still alive. fbi has been reopening that case. do they have any leads? right. so the fbi, you know, by happenstance they still
question? sure. tell us about the telephone conversation. you guys wouldn t be sitting here if you weren t double checking, making sure he wasn t double checking his numbers. more times than not we don t check. we check later in the day or the next day when we come home. i for some reason somebody at my work said, do you have 32. i said, i think i do. i looked and i didn t. so for some reason i called paul. not the norm. but he didn t want to do it then. he ll call me back in a couple hours. so no. we had to talk about it then. not even. i don t know. i have no idea. i don t play a lot. i don t expect to win. it was kind of shocking. it was fun last night, them guys getting in the convertible to go for a little cruise. my son thinking that s so exciting. i think this topped it. i work at a printing company.
commenting at this time. paul did say his parents have been struggling with it. you know, it s been really hard for them. you know, they didn t want to talk right now. but it s something, the invest is ongoing. hopefully they ll be able to help. understandable. their world has really just been rocked. ellen hirst, chicago tribune. thank you. joining me now, human behavior expert wendy walsh. let me quote this. this is paul fronczak. he had this dna test. finds out his parents aren t his parents. he writes his parents this letter. wouldn t you and dad like to know what happened and who i really am? you have been wonderful parents. i m not doing this to hurt you or discredit the fabulous job you did in raising me. this is just about finding the truth. for this paul fronczack, what is this like? i m sure he s going through a