Poor Michael

[cookie1630]

Just watched a case and looked up the details this guy was really messed up.

"Suzanne Davis'" case is incredibly complicated. She was abducted by Franklin Delano Floyd between June 1973 and August 1975. Her background is unknown, as is her age and true identity. Floyd claims to have taken over as her parent when she was abandoned and raised her under aliases in several states. She was born around 1969.
"Davis" attended school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1975. She graduated from high school in Forest Park, Georgia in 1986. "Davis" then moved to Phoenix, Arizona later in the year and began using the alias "Sharon Marshall."
Investigators discovered child pornography in a pickup truck Floyd used. About 40 photographs depict "Davis" from the age of 4 to a pre-teen, displaying her genitals and engaging in sexually explicit conduct. These photographs reveal that the defendant was sexually abusing her for a considerable length of time and memorializing the offense conduct. The photographs also included 33 pictures of another female child and 16 of a beaten and tied adult female displaying her genitals.
Floyd and this unidentified female were married in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1989 under the aliases of "Clarence Marcus Hughes" and "Tonya Dawn Tadlock." Both of then were wanted in connection with a Florida homicide by April 1990; before any legal proceedings began against them, "Tonya" was killed in a suspicious hit-and-run accident in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Floyd is the main suspect in her death.
"Tonya" gave birth to a son in Tampa, Florida in 1988. The child, Michael Anthony Hughes, was abducted by Floyd on September 12, 1994 -- four years after "Tonya's" death. Floyd walked in to Michael's school in Choctaw, Oklahoma and abducted the child at gunpoint. Floyd also kidnapped Michael's school principal and tied him to a tree. He was found hours later by people working in a nearby yard.
Michael Hughes was living with foster parents when Floyd kidnapped him. Michael has never been found. Floyd has claimed he is living in a foreign country, but authorities presume he is dead. Floyd was arrested and charged with Michael's kidnapping. Floyd is not Michael's biological father. Floyd confessed to his sister in a telephone call from the county jail that he drowned the first-grader in a motel bathtub. A formerly sealed court document alleges Floyd confessed to three people, including his sister, that he killed Michael in Georgia. Another person linked to Floyd during the kidnapping claims to have seen Floyd bury Michael in a cemetery.
The sentencing memo describes Floyd as a "violent sexual predator and a career criminal. When he was 17 in 1960, he got in a shoot out with police who confronted him during a burglary. He was convicted of child molestation in 1962 for abducting a 4-year-old girl from a bowling alley and raping and sodomizing her.

Floyd has never provided any details about "Tonya's" history. A search of missing persons' databases has turned up zero leads as to "Tonya's" true identity. Her son remains missing as well. Floyd used the aliases "Trenton Davis"; "Charles Hughes"; "Warren Judson Marshall"; "Preston Morgan"; and "Kingfish Floyd." He was employed as a painter before his arrest.

Do you remember this case.

[synthisislab]

Originally Posted by cookie1630

Just watched a case and looked up the details this guy was really messed up.

"Suzanne Davis'" case is incredibly complicated. She was abducted by Franklin Delano Floyd between June 1973 and August 1975. Her background is unknown, as is her age and true identity. Floyd claims to have taken over as her parent when she was abandoned and raised her under aliases in several states. She was born around 1969.
"Davis" attended school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1975. She graduated from high school in Forest Park, Georgia in 1986. "Davis" then moved to Phoenix, Arizona later in the year and began using the alias "Sharon Marshall."
Investigators discovered child pornography in a pickup truck Floyd used. About 40 photographs depict "Davis" from the age of 4 to a pre-teen, displaying her genitals and engaging in sexually explicit conduct. These photographs reveal that the defendant was sexually abusing her for a considerable length of time and memorializing the offense conduct. The photographs also included 33 pictures of another female child and 16 of a beaten and tied adult female displaying her genitals.
Floyd and this unidentified female were married in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1989 under the aliases of "Clarence Marcus Hughes" and "Tonya Dawn Tadlock." Both of then were wanted in connection with a Florida homicide by April 1990; before any legal proceedings began against them, "Tonya" was killed in a suspicious hit-and-run accident in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Floyd is the main suspect in her death.
"Tonya" gave birth to a son in Tampa, Florida in 1988. The child, Michael Anthony Hughes, was abducted by Floyd on September 12, 1994 -- four years after "Tonya's" death. Floyd walked in to Michael's school in Choctaw, Oklahoma and abducted the child at gunpoint. Floyd also kidnapped Michael's school principal and tied him to a tree. He was found hours later by people working in a nearby yard.
Michael Hughes was living with foster parents when Floyd kidnapped him. Michael has never been found. Floyd has claimed he is living in a foreign country, but authorities presume he is dead. Floyd was arrested and charged with Michael's kidnapping. Floyd is not Michael's biological father. Floyd confessed to his sister in a telephone call from the county jail that he drowned the first-grader in a motel bathtub. A formerly sealed court document alleges Floyd confessed to three people, including his sister, that he killed Michael in Georgia. Another person linked to Floyd during the kidnapping claims to have seen Floyd bury Michael in a cemetery.
The sentencing memo describes Floyd as a "violent sexual predator and a career criminal. When he was 17 in 1960, he got in a shoot out with police who confronted him during a burglary. He was convicted of child molestation in 1962 for abducting a 4-year-old girl from a bowling alley and raping and sodomizing her.

Floyd has never provided any details about "Tonya's" history. A search of missing persons' databases has turned up zero leads as to "Tonya's" true identity. Her son remains missing as well. Floyd used the aliases "Trenton Davis"; "Charles Hughes"; "Warren Judson Marshall"; "Preston Morgan"; and "Kingfish Floyd." He was employed as a painter before his arrest.

Do you remember this case.

This case sounds very familiar in that I've probably seen it before. It seems to me that Floyd kidnapped the girl and possibly killed the girl's (Tonya's)mother (who probably didn't have any family or friends to speak of unless they weren't aware that Tonya even existed). Did the dirtbag kill the Principal too? Is the dirtbag still alive? If so, is he still in prison? This case is very disturbing and I hope that they put that wretch behind bars until he dies. I wonder if he has any family? If so, I don't think that anyone would come forward to claim him as a family member. I know that I wouldn't. Then again, I'd want to help investigators piece together this puzzle as much as possible.

[Kane]

The principal is alive. In fact, he was interviewed in the America's Most Wanted segment, when that show did a story on the Michael Hughes abduction.

As for Franklin Delano Floyd, he is on Florida's death row. In 2002, he was convicted and sentenced to death for a murder in an unrelated case. Check out the 2002 article at the following link, which I found via Google.

http://www.sptimes.com/2002/11/23/Ta...death__k.shtml

I don't about any of you, but judging from his UM interview, Floyd strikes me as arrogant. My suspicion is he still won't give any information that could help find Michael Hughes.

[crystaldawn]

There is a very interesting book about this case that I own and highly recommend called "A Beautiful Child" by Matt Birkbeck. It tells much more about "Sharon" even that she had other children before Michael that she gave up for adoption. It goes into greater detail than UM did also about the suspicious "accident" that took Sharon's life.

Well that sleaze Franklin Floyd isn't dead.....yet. He has been sentenced to death though for the murder of a young woman so is thankfully behind bars of course. He still won't say much about Michael but in the book it stated that he once told his sister he drown Michael in a bathtub (which he later recanted). No thankfully he didn't kill the Principal as he was interviewed on the segment. I believe he tied him to a tree and then left with Michael and the Principal was able to summon help for himself a few hours later.