REAL LIFE:

A BABY abduction tale that gripped the US for more than 40 years is set to be made into a film.

Paul Fronczak was just a day old when he was snatched from his mother’s arms by a woman posing as a nurse.

His disappearance in Chicago in April 1964 sparked one of America’s biggest ever manhunts.

Police tested 10,000 babies in a vain attempt to find him.

Paul appeared to have vanished for ever until the FBI decided a toddler who had been found hundreds of miles away in New Jersey, and was now with foster parents, was the missing child.

He was handed over to delighted Dora and Chester Fronczak who had to adopt him as there was no concrete evidence he was their son.

No blood tests or fingerprints had been taken from the baby, but detectives decided he was the missing boy as he looked similar.

For more than 40 years, this Paul lived with an unsettling feeling he had been raised by strangers.

It was only when his own daughter was born in 2009 that he decided to find out the truth.

Now 54, he has finally tracked down his real family thanks to the latest DNA technology.

And he still hopes to reunite the now widowed Dora with the baby she lost more than half a century earlier.

Paul said: “When I started out looking my main mission was to find [the missing] Paul.

“When I found out who I was it was a bonus.”

He learned of the abduction when he was just 10 years old – eight years after being “reunited” with his parents. One Christmas, while hunting for presents in the basement, he found three unmarked boxes packed with old newspaper

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