Wow! What a scumbag.

Does anyone else notice a ressemblance between his 'daughter' and missing child Katherine Mary Lyon ?

compare:
http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/8uftx.html

and
http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/65dfmd.html
The dates are fuzzy but it struck me as being the right time frame.

Maybe I'm way off - any opinions?

It's creative, I'll give you that! And the two pictures do look similar. BUT... Suzanne Davis aka Sharon Marshall aka Tonya Hughes was abducted around the time she was age 6. If you look at the photo her with Floyd, the young girl doesn't look much older than 6 or 7.
Katherine Lyon was abducted when she was 10 years old. If you compare the two pictures, Katherine Lyon looks much older at the time of her disappearance than the child who was in the picture with Floyd. In any case, though, VERY creative! Nice work. :)

You guys should read the book about Sharon Marshall than you would see what a true sicko this creep really is......UM only scratched the surface. There is a very lengthy thread on websleuths website about her. There are several missing children whose families have been tested and compared to "Sharon Marshall's" dna in hopes that they can finally find out who she is. To my knowledge there hasn't been a match. That would be great news to one day find out who she was, if she had been abducted or abandoned to Floyd as he claims and to give her family at least some closure about what ever became of her.

As for the Lyons girl that is a good try but she went missing along with her sister so it would seem that both were probably abducted. I have came across a few profiles on the Doe Network of girls that I thought looked similar to Sharon as well.

They aren't really sure how long Good Old Frankie had this girl before the photo was taken.
I'm curious about the gap in years between the last time he was seen by anyone, and when he shows up with this little girl

The fabric of her blouse in the photo is what we used to call "little people print", and my mom first started sewing us clothes with it sometime around 1972 and '73.

I was surprised to see just how much Suzanne/Sharon/TonyaDawn and Cheryl Ann resembled each other.

Sometimes, as I'm sure happens with a lot of other people, my mind occasionally "matches" up random seemingly unrelated things.

So, I apologize in advance if the results of my latest wool gathering session do not make sense, as I am not sure of all the exact details of either case.

I wondered while pondering on the Little Miss Panasoffkee case whether that girl couldn't have been the real mother of Suzanne/Sharon/TonyaDawn?

If you use circular logic, the years could pan out, as they don't have certain dates on either girl really, and Little Miss did have one child before she died.

Floyd said on UM that regarding Suzanne, "she was abandoned to me and I raised her".

someone on another board suggested that perhaps Floyd had been involved with Suzanne's real mother, and killed her, thus leaving her baby an orphan, which he then couldn't leave with anyone without answering questions, and made up the abandonment story.

The years sort of do fit, and if you look at the Little Miss P drawing, there is a bit of a resemblance between the two.

If Little miss was estranged from her family, that would explain them not trying to find her sooner, or them not having knowledge of a grandchild.

I wonder if anyone has attempted a DNA match of Suzanne with the DNA of Little Miss P? DNA of Michael must still be in storage somewhere, perhaps matrilineal comparison could be attempted?

I know they mention that little miss panasoffke could possibly be native american, while Sharon was blond,

But genetics are funny that way. Both my parents are dark haired and dark eyed, but I took after a great grandparent from Ireland who had blond hair and blue eyes.

And just where is Michael's real father???? Why has he never been located??

Maybe that's just a detail they're leaving out, but I wonder if anyone has ever looked up where Michael may have been conceived and seen if any unsolved murders of young men turn up??

I missed seeing the Floyd/Marshall case on UM, but it's certainly one of the stranger ones out there, as it's one of the few documented cases of a (presumed) stranger abductor who actually kept the abductee alive for years.

IMO, comparing "Sharon Marshall" to Doe Network profiles will be unlikely to get a hit though, since she likely was never reported missing in the first place, given both the time of the abduction and the lack of any identification since - either it was a voluntary turn-over to Floyd (which is what he claimed, although he's hardly a reliable source) or he murdered her family and took her (certainly possible, given his character, although if so, the mother was likely someone who "wouldn't be missed"

Regarding her DNA - my understanding is that it's in CODIS, which, if my understanding is correct, means it would regularly get run against other missing persons in CODIS, yes?

yeah this guy is a real creep, this case was also one of the most interesting, amazing after all this time they are no closer to the answer

Evil man, no updates ? is he on death row?

Evil man, no updates ? is he on death row?

Yes he is on death row but still isn't saying anything about "Sharon Marshall's" real identity or what he did with Michael.

Ugh, if that scumbag dies without telling anyone what he did with Michael...

:mad:

This is def one of the cases on UM that intrieged me the most. Just the sheer mystery of who Sharon really was...and what happened to Michael(dead I would guess, although he could have given him to someone to take care of...unlikely though, I know)

Sharon's life was so tragic...abducted(possibly)then hit by a car without every finding/beng reunited with her family. Just really, really sad.

I don't think the truth will ever be known in this case...at least not the whole truth, but I wish it were.

is there any place to view this case online? i have never seen it

Hmm, well Franklin Floyd, wow, by my standards he is bizarre. I am pretty sure he killed Michael but who knows? As someone else said above, the truth will probably never be known. He (Floyd) probably decided if he could not have him no one would. It is my opinion, in fact it seems pretty much everyone agrees that Franklin Floyd, based on the circumstances I have come to understand, killed Sharon Marshall but he was never charged. I guess he killed her but made it look like a car accident or something or made it look like he accidently ran over her or something. The cops basically thought he did it but he was never charged in the case, of course that was before Michael Hughes went missing. My question is was Sharon Marshall killed in Oklahoma or in Florida? I am no death penalty supporter but if Marshall was killed in Oklahoma, I am surprised that the state of Oklahoma has not charged him in that case as Oklahoma's death penalty works at a substantially quicker pace than Florida's. Since the state of Oklahoma resumed executing people in 1990, they have executed 90 people. That can be compared to the 67 people that have been executed in Florida since they resumed executions in 1979.

Floyd's case has proceeded as follows:
On November 12th, 1997 Franklin Delano Floyd was indicted by the Pinellas County, Florida grand jury on one count of first degree murder. On September 27th, 2002 Franklin Delano Floyd was found guilty as charged by a Pinellas County, Florida jury. On October 1st, 2002 the same jury recommended by a vote of 12 to 0 that Floyd be sentenced to death. Floyd was officially sentenced to death on November 22nd, 2002.

Since that time, Floyd's direct appeal was filed with the Florida Supreme Court on January 9th, 2003. It was denied on October 12th, 2005. Floyd next filed a writ of habeas corpus with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida in St. Petersburg on on July 27th, 2006. The appeal was denied on November 30th, 2006. Floyd next appealed with his federal habeas corpus to the U.S. 11th circuit court of appeals in Atlanta, Georgia on on January 19th, 2007. This time the decision of the lower court was reversed and the case was remanded to the Pinellas County Circuit court on May 10th, 2007 for an evidentary hearing. Floyd was deemed incompetent to understand the proceedings by the circuit court so all proceedings with that court are on hold. Floyd filed a state habeas corpus with the Florida Supreme Court on June 3rd, 2008. This appeal was denied on December 17th, 2008. However Floyd's prospective execution date has been stalled in definitely as he cannot be executed as long as he is declared incompetent. Plus because the case was reversed and remanded by an upper appeals court, in essence his federal appeals will start all over again if and when the Pinellas County Circuit Court declares him competent.

is there any place to view this case online? i have never seen it
Websleuths.com has about 3 or 4 threads on it. Another site that has even more info, coldcaseinvestigations.com

I hope one day they can match DNA with some missing children from that time.

Most Baffling mystery on UM.

Wow! What a scumbag.

Does anyone else notice a ressemblance between his 'daughter' and missing child Katherine Mary Lyon ?

compare:
http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/8uftx.html

and
http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/65dfmd.html
The dates are fuzzy but it struck me as being the right time frame.

Maybe I'm way off - any opinions?
I don't think it's her because the Franklin abducted "Sharon" when she was like 6 years old. It says that in the UM segment.

Regarding a previous question about what happened to Michael Hughes biological father. I don't know a too much about this case, but didn't FDFloyd "pimp out" his daughter/wife Sharon? Is it possible that she didn't have a boyfriend who fathered the child, but that the pregnancy just resulted from forced prostitution?

I believe that CD said the book she read on this case mentioned that Sharon had other children who were adopted out. IIRC, she was about 17 years old when Michael was born. If he was the child she kept, after giving the other children up for adoption, how young was she when she started having kids!?

And is there a possibility that the other children were adopted out (or given to FDFloyd's pervert friends or something) and Floyd chose to keep Michael because he looked the most like Sharon, his mother? IMO, Michael looked like Sharon, and we all know what a sick twisted freak Floyd has proven to be.

Also, Michael was 2 when his mother was killed. He was then put into foster care (was it because Floyd was suspected of Sharon's murder and was on the run?)

While in foster care, Michael's foster parents said he had many difficulties such as limited muscle control. They said he was nonverbal and often hysterical. At the age of two, he tested at the mental equivalent of a 9-month-old child.

Once he was away from Floyd and with a foster family, Michael was said to have made great developmental progress. Is it possible that sexual abuse is what caused the child to be non-verbal? Seems like I've read something about such things manifesting in odd ways like that. Or do you think he was just ignored, and not nurtured or taught anything, and as a result was delayed until he was placed with a family who cared enough to love him and teach him?

I know the woman he killed, Cheryl, was an exotic dancer friend of Sharon's, but why did Floyd kill her? What were the circumstances surrounding that murder?

I know the woman he killed, Cheryl, was an exotic dancer friend of Sharon's, but why did Floyd kill her? What were the circumstances surrounding that murder?

After reading about this on wikipedia, apparently Sharon was also an exotic dancer and she worked with Cheryl. Wikipedia also said Sharon was an excellent student in high school and had even been offered a college scholarship. How she ended up an exotic dancer is beyond me. Maybe Floyd made her work there. I should get my hands on the book crystaldawn had mentioned earlier in this thread. Sounds like a good read.

Regarding a previous question about what happened to Michael Hughes biological father. I don't know a too much about this case, but didn't FDFloyd "pimp out" his daughter/wife Sharon? Is it possible that she didn't have a boyfriend who fathered the child, but that the pregnancy just resulted from forced prostitution?

I believe that CD said the book she read on this case mentioned that Sharon had other children who were adopted out. IIRC, she was about 17 years old when Michael was born. If he was the child she kept, after giving the other children up for adoption, how young was she when she started having kids!?

And is there a possibility that the other children were adopted out (or given to FDFloyd's pervert friends or something) and Floyd chose to keep Michael because he looked the most like Sharon, his mother? IMO, Michael looked like Sharon, and we all know what a sick twisted freak Floyd has proven to be.

Also, Michael was 2 when his mother was killed. He was then put into foster care (was it because Floyd was suspected of Sharon's murder and was on the run?)

While in foster care, Michael's foster parents said he had many difficulties such as limited muscle control. They said he was nonverbal and often hysterical. At the age of two, he tested at the mental equivalent of a 9-month-old child.

Once he was away from Floyd and with a foster family, Michael was said to have made great developmental progress. Is it possible that sexual abuse is what caused the child to be non-verbal? Seems like I've read something about such things manifesting in odd ways like that. Or do you think he was just ignored, and not nurtured or taught anything, and as a result was delayed until he was placed with a family who cared enough to love him and teach him?From what I remember from reading the book about Sharon Marshall/Franklin Floyd, I believe Michael Hughes' biological father was a young guy about twenty-one or so. He frequented the club that Sharon worked at and soon, they became a couple. He worked at a hotel or something. I don't think the guy knew that Sharon was pregnant since Floyd forced Sharon to leave town with him.

It's sad to think that the guy never knew his own son and to make matters worse, Michael was stuck with a monster like Floyd.

I'd like to know more about the circumstances involving Sharon's death. The segment said she was struck by a hit and run driver. Then it said that Floyd was the main suspect and he fled with Michael shortly after. Was he ever investigated more about this or was he dropped as a suspect because of lack of evidence? Other than him being a nut job, why was he the main suspect in her death? Were the two having problems in the marriage? Was she finally going to try and leave Floyd?

The more I think about this, the more I want to read the book. Anyone know the title and author? I'm sure I can find it for cheap on Amazon.com.

I'd like to know more about the circumstances involving Sharon's death. The segment said she was struck by a hit and run driver. Then it said that Floyd was the main suspect and he fled with Michael shortly after. Was he ever investigated more about this or was he dropped as a suspect because of lack of evidence? Other than him being a nut job, why was he the main suspect in her death? Were the two having problems in the marriage? Was she finally going to try and leave Floyd?

The more I think about this, the more I want to read the book. Anyone know the title and author? I'm sure I can find it for cheap on Amazon.com.-As I recall, Floyd was first looked into as a suspect. However, since he was tight friends with the police sheriff, there was not too much pressure against him. Small town police corruption at it's finest.

-If my memory is right, there were a few witnesses who claimed to have seen Floyd around the time and area where they found Sharon's body. To add to that, Floyd had a poor alibi.

-Sharon merely married Floyd because she was afraid of him. Floyd viewed Sharon as a sex object and servant. At any time, he could snap at her. He actually wanted to make Sharon a porn star so he could make money off of her. I'm sure Sharon enjoyed any sort of time away from Floyd.

-Sharon did say that she wanted to leave Floyd after she had Michael. She made friends at the strip club she worked at. They also wanted Sharon to leave Floyd.

-The book is "A Beautiful Child" by Matt Birbeck.

Thanks for the info. I had wondered how Sharon ended up working at a strip club despite being a good student in high school and getting offers from colleges. Floyd must have really wanted to cash in on her good looks; making her a stripper and wanting to make her a porn star. That poor girl. And to think she was only 18 when this was going on. I was still very immature and lost at that age. I can't imagine how she handled being a mother at that age and having to live with that psycho who dominated her every move.

I personally think Floyd killed Sharon because she was going to come forward about the other murder he was eventually convicted for. Or maybe he was jealous that she had Michael with another man, who knows? There's no doubt in my mind Floyd killed Michael as well and this whole "he's alive but I'm not telling where he is" is such a ruse it's ridiculous. Who would continue to care for a boy and not come forward and confirm that he's still alive? After all these years...I hate to say it but he's dead. Floyd should be fried.

Franklin Delano Floyd was one of the more gross people ever shown on this show, wasn't he? And that is saying a lot......he was so smug that no one else "had the right to love him or cherish him" in regards to that poor little boy.

I found the book, "A beautiful child," this past Friday at my local Borders store and I read the entire thing in a day and a half.

There are no words to accurately describe what a waste of human life Franklin Delano Floyd is. He came off like a jackass while he was intereviewed during the Unsolved Mysteries segment but you have to read this book to truly understand what a disgusting, pathetic and truly evil man he is. Here are a few notes to give you an idea...

In 1962, he abducted a 4 year old girl out of a bowling alley and brutally raped her. That's right, he raped a 4 year old girl. And the injuries he gave her while he was raping her are too sickening for me to even type out. While he was out on parole in the early 90's, he found a job as a maintenance worker in an apartment complex which meant he had keys to every apartment. A female tenant came home one day and found Floyd in her bedroom sniffing her underwear. When Floyd noticed her looking at him in horror, he tackled her to the floor with a knife and started stabbing her while saying, "You're boyfriend told me to do this." Luckily, the boyfriend entered the apartment shortly after and was able to save her. After this act, Floyd was denied any custody of Michael. Which of course led to the kidnapping in 1994. In 1989, he slowly and brutally tortured an exotic dancer before killing her execution style.

The girl he kidnapped, raised like a daughter, married then eventually killed was the most depressing thing about the book. As a child she was called Suzanne. During her teenage years, her name was Sharon. And the last months of her life, she was known as Tonya. This girl was extremely beautiful and very intelligent with a high IQ. She was a straight "A" student and listed among Who's who of American high school students of 1985. She excelled in several after school activities. She was awarded a full schloarship to Georgia Tech University, her dream school and she dreamed of studying aerospace engineering and working for NASA.

After graduation, Floyd took this girl with such a promising future and destroyed her life in every way possible. After killing the exotic dancer, Floyd took Sharon to Arizona and then moved several more times. He forced her to work as a stripper 7 days a week because that's where the "big money" was. He never worked and lived off the money Sharon was earning. It wasn't long before he made Sharon work as a prostitute as well. Then he forced her to get breast implants from a cheap surgeon for half the normal price which put her in extreme physical pain. The reason he made her get breast implants was because he wanted to get her started working in the porn industry. If she so much as said "no," to him about anything, he'd beat the crap out of her. Shortly before her death, she tearfully confessed to a fellow co-worker that Floyd had been molesting her for years. But she swore the woman to secretcy otherwise she knew she would be killed because Floyd had some connections with police officers in the small town.

Eventually, she worked up the courage to take Michael and try to escape but she was conveniently run over by a car and killed before she could leave and Floyd was all to eager to pick up that $80,000 life insurance check that he worked out shortly before she died. There was no emotion out of him while his wife was in a hospital bed in a coma. In fact, nurses reported that he appeared angry when her vital signs were getting better and it looked as though she would wake from the coma.

This man is pure evil.

I have no problems believing that Floyd was a police informant in one or several locations. That would explain why he wasn't arrested or seriously questioned for the majority of the offenses that he seems to have committed.The UM conversation shows that clearly is NOT a 'criminal mastermind" by any stretch of the imagination.

As bad as Floyd is, the worst thing about this case is the general police incompetence involved here. Floyd isn't a genius and if the police officers w/ training and the weight of the law behind them couldn't stop him (or worse ,didn't want to as he was an information source) then serious changes in departmental policies need to be undertaken.

this is truly a sad story and i'm dying to read the book. However, what happened to the people that knew Frank or Sharon? I just dont get how he could move and do all those things and not one person has come forward to talk about what happened. Or am I mistaken? Someone had to know Franklin. What about his family or friends????

I found the book, "A beautiful child," this past Friday at my local Borders store and I read the entire thing in a day and a half.

There are no words to accurately describe what a waste of human life Franklin Delano Floyd is. He came off like a jackass while he was intereviewed during the Unsolved Mysteries segment but you have to read this book to truly understand what a disgusting, pathetic and truly evil man he is. Here are a few notes to give you an idea...

In 1962, he abducted a 4 year old girl out of a bowling alley and brutally raped her. That's right, he raped a 4 year old girl. And the injuries he gave her while he was raping her are too sickening for me to even type out. While he was out on parole in the early 90's, he found a job as a maintenance worker in an apartment complex which meant he had keys to every apartment. A female tenant came home one day and found Floyd in her bedroom sniffing her underwear. When Floyd noticed her looking at him in horror, he tackled her to the floor with a knife and started stabbing her while saying, "You're boyfriend told me to do this." Luckily, the boyfriend entered the apartment shortly after and was able to save her. After this act, Floyd was denied any custody of Michael. Which of course led to the kidnapping in 1994. In 1989, he slowly and brutally tortured an exotic dancer before killing her execution style.

The girl he kidnapped, raised like a daughter, married then eventually killed was the most depressing thing about the book. As a child she was called Suzanne. During her teenage years, her name was Sharon. And the last months of her life, she was known as Tonya. This girl was extremely beautiful and very intelligent with a high IQ. She was a straight "A" student and listed among Who's who of American high school students of 1985. She excelled in several after school activities. She was awarded a full schloarship to Georgia Tech University, her dream school and she dreamed of studying aerospace engineering and working for NASA.

After graduation, Floyd took this girl with such a promising future and destroyed her life in every way possible. After killing the exotic dancer, Floyd took Sharon to Arizona and then moved several more times. He forced her to work as a stripper 7 days a week because that's where the "big money" was. He never worked and lived off the money Sharon was earning. It wasn't long before he made Sharon work as a prostitute as well. Then he forced her to get breast implants from a cheap surgeon for half the normal price which put her in extreme physical pain. The reason he made her get breast implants was because he wanted to get her started working in the porn industry. If she so much as said "no," to him about anything, he'd beat the crap out of her. Shortly before her death, she tearfully confessed to a fellow co-worker that Floyd had been molesting her for years. But she swore the woman to secretcy otherwise she knew she would be killed because Floyd had some connections with police officers in the small town.

Eventually, she worked up the courage to take Michael and try to escape but she was conveniently run over by a car and killed before she could leave and Floyd was all to eager to pick up that $80,000 life insurance check that he worked out shortly before she died. There was no emotion out of him while his wife was in a hospital bed in a coma. In fact, nurses reported that he appeared angry when her vital signs were getting better and it looked as though she would wake from the coma.

This man is pure evil.

That must be the reason why he married her to get his hands on the life insurance and on Micheal.
Till this day,it is still not knowing what Sharon's real name is.
The last thing I have read on WS is that the latest lead is a dead end and there will be no DNA tested,because the girl in person is never reported missing.
Very odd,because just like Sharon,her birthname has changed too when she was adpoted out by her bio. mother in 1970 to a couple. Later it seems that her adpoted mother was addicted to drugs and living as a prostitute amd told that she had given her adopted daughter away.She never gave information to who

I found the book, "A beautiful child," this past Friday at my local Borders store and I read the entire thing in a day and a half.



Thank you for the short summary. I had no idea this individual was even sicker than I thought! I am kind of nervous about the disturbing content of the book, but would like to read it. This is one of the most baffling UM cases. I really wish Michael was ok and was given away to stable people. Unfortunately...that doesn't seem likely.

Thank you for the short summary. I had no idea this individual was even sicker than I thought! I am kind of nervous about the disturbing content of the book, but would like to read it. This is one of the most baffling UM cases. I really wish Michael was ok and was given away to stable people. Unfortunately...that doesn't seem likely.

The book is disturbing because it goes into detail of how truly sick Floyd is. But the book is no more disturbing than others that have been written about UM cases over the years.

Michael's story is indeed a sad one. The kid went through hell when he was left alone in Floyd's care. He was just starting to finally function like a normal little boy in the care of his foster family when Floyd kidnapped him.

But by far, the most tragic aspect of the book is Sharon's life. She was so beautiful, so well loved, so intelligent and outgoing...and Floyd treated her like an abused slave up until the day he killed her. In high school, her teachers adored her but could always tell something was on her mind. She had to rush home every day right after school to make sure she had Floyd's dinner on the table by a certain time. For everything she went through for so many years, it's a miracle she was able to function as well as she did, and touch so many lives in the process.

Had she never been killed and been successful in breaking free from Floyd once and for all, she would have been in serious therapy the rest of her life. Probably much worse.

It's still an interesting book, though.

The book is disturbing because it goes into detail of how truly sick Floyd is. But the book is no more disturbing than others that have been written about UM cases over the years.

Michael's story is indeed a sad one. The kid went through hell when he was left alone in Floyd's care. He was just starting to finally function like a normal little boy in the care of his foster family when Floyd kidnapped him.

But by far, the most tragic aspect of the book is Sharon's life. She was so beautiful, so well loved, so intelligent and outgoing...and Floyd treated her like an abused slave up until the day he killed her. In high school, her teachers adored her but could always tell something was on her mind. She had to rush home every day right after school to make sure she had Floyd's dinner on the table by a certain time. For everything she went through for so many years, it's a miracle she was able to function as well as she did, and touch so many lives in the process.

Had she never been killed and been successful in breaking free from Floyd once and for all, she would have been in serious therapy the rest of her life. Probably much worse.

It's still an interesting book, though.

I do think it that Floyd couldn't handle it,that Sharon that never followed his footsteps but was raising above the life that he forced her into.
She was smart,beautiful and very loved,even when she forced to have sex with men.
He always wanted her to feel like worthless and couldn't handle it that she was beloved by people around her.I do think that even,when she was dead at the memorial that was held to honor her,he knew that he could never achieve people who cared or loved him the way that Sharon was loved.
In his twisted mind he wanted Micheal to love him.As most people.. I do believe that Micheal is killed because he refused to give any affection to Floyd.Even Floyd told his sister that he drowned him,because Micheal answered "NO" when Floyd repeatedly asked Micheal if he loved him,when he was drowning him.As much as Floyd lied,I do believe he was telling the truth that time.
I do hope that someday they find the brave little boy and that he may find his peace to his mother's grave (with her real name on the tombstone)
I hope this will happen before Floyd dies.