Franklin Delano Floyd

[connieallbright]

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?

[LooksLikeCRicci]

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.

[crystaldawn]

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.

[Tendervittles]

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??

[egswanso]

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?

[atm8588]

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

[sdb4884]

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

[crystaldawn]

Originally Posted by sdb4884

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.

[Apostapler]

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

[Mysteryphile]

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.

[tiddlywinks950]

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

[kadrmas15]

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.

[bugnpinky]

Originally Posted by tiddlywinks950

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

[sdb4884]

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

[sdb4884]

Most Baffling mystery on UM.