Paul Fronczak / Kevin Baty at birth / Michael Reese Hospital Chicago

Dora and Chester after the abduction

(LO via AP)

News sketch of potential kidnapper

(UPI)

Paul Joseph Fronczak / Jack Rosenthal after he’s found by Newark Police

(AP)

Paul Fronczak today

(Marcus Villagran / Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP Images)

Rendering of what Paul would look like

(ABC News via Phojoe)

Paul Fronczak / Kevin Baty as an infant; Kevin Baty as an adult

(Paul Fronczak / Kevin Baty at birth / Michael Reese Hospital Chicago; Kevin Ray Baty / findagrave.com)

The Foundling

(Paul Fronczak / The Foundling)

Georgia:

Paul Fronczak’s Triple Disappearance

Episode sources:

1. The Foundling by Paul Fronczak 

2. “DNA test uncovers kidnapping, mob, police corruption” by John Forest and George Knapp (8 News Now) 2026

3. “Stolen At Birth: Paul Fronczak Closer to Finding Possible Blood Relatives” by Lauren Putrino, Gail Deutsch, Andrew Paparella and Luaren Effron (ABC News) 2014

4. “DNA test shows ‘64 kidnapping never solved” by Ellen Jean Hirst and Andy Grimm (The Chicago Tribune) 2013

Karen:

The 1990 Michigan Wedding Sting

Episode sources:

1. “The Wedding Sting” by Jeff Maysh (The Atlantic) 2015

2. “The Setting Moon” by Dennis Niemiec (Detroit Free Press) 1991

3. “Reagan’s National Drug Strategy” (University of Michigan)

4. “When Nancy Reagan Told Kids to ‘Just Say No’” by Jake Rossen (Mental Floss) 2017

5. “The failure of Reagan Era Drug Policy and D.A.R.E.” by Anna Lipke (Clemson University)

6. “Look back at the fake wedding that was actually a police drug sting, 25 years later” by Blake Thorne (M Live) 2015

7. “Undercover legend Lacy Moon Brown dies at 63” by Rosemary Arnholt (Lapeer Area View) 2006

8. “Linden couple planned area’s most dramatic police sting” by Hannah Ball (Weekend Times) 2015

9. “Just say ‘I do’” (The News Journal) 1990

10. “Bogus wedding leads to arrest of 15 suspected drug dealers” (Knight-Ridder Newspapers / The Duluth News-Tribune) 1990

11. “Drug suspects nabbed at fake wedding” (Deseret News) 1990

12. “Michigan violent crime rate plunges from peak decades ago” by Brad Devereaux (Michigan Live) 2016

Nancy Reagan in the 1986 “Just Say No” address

Flint, MI

(Don Harrison / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Generic / Flickr)

Moon, bottom left, with contraband

(Shiawassee County Sheriff's Department)

Moon getting into his “wedding” tux

(Shiawassee County Sheriff's Department)

SPOC Band Tees

(Shiawassee County Sheriff's Department)

Debbie, with Vic Wasylyshyn standing behind her in the track suit

(Shiawassee County Sheriff's Department)

Debbie, left, Moon, right, apprehending a suspect at the “wedding”

(Shiawassee County Sheriff's Department)