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Anytime a young person dies, an overwhelming sense of loss is felt. A death, regardless of the person’s age, is never easy to accept, but when a young life is cut far too short, the pain can be hard to comprehend. It’s a grief that feels unfair, raw & often impossible to put into words.
This case details the sudden death of a 20-year-old woman in Oklahoma whose investigation proved to be far deeper & darker than authorities could have ever imagined. The case uncovered the life of a young woman who had an unimaginably complicated & confusing identity.
It all began on a stormy night on April 25, 1990 when a few men were making their way to a motel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. As they drove down a dark road, they spotted debris in the road & when they stopped & climbed out to look more closely, they saw a blue high-heeled shoe in the middle of the road. They were horrified when they noticed that off to the side of the road, a blond woman was lying face down. Her body seemed to be convulsing as her arms & legs twitched in different directions so they immediately called an ambulance & she was rushed to the hospital.
The woman was monitored in the ICU with a closed-head injury & given medications to control the swelling in her brain. The following day, a much older man came to the hospital, identifying himself to the medical staff as Clarence Hughes, the injured woman’s husband & the father of their 2-year-old son, Michael Hughes. He explained that they lived about two hours away in Tulsa where his wife, 20-year-old Tonya Hughes, worked as a stripper. The hospital staff members found the man to be very odd & even more concerning, Tonya’s body showed signs of old bruises that were inflicted before her accident.
Sadly, Tonya Hughes died on April 30 as a result of her injuries from what was believed to be a hit-&-run accident. She was only days from celebrating her 21st birthday. Meanwhile, hospital staff were left to wonder if there was more to the story & maybe foul play was involved.
As word of Tonya’s death spread, her friends & co-workers from the club where she danced in Tulsa, wanted to notify her family of her sudden death. When they got in touch with a woman they believed to be her mom, she informed them that her daughter died twenty years earlier when she was only 18-months-old. This was the moment that people began to realize that their friend, Tonya Hughes, wasn’t who they thought she was. But if she wasn’t, then who was she?
Meanwhile, the young woman they only knew as Tonya, was laid to rest with a tombstone that simply read: Tonya, I’ll always be with you.
The women who danced alongside Tonya at Passions Club in Tulsa described her as a very smart woman who was always reading. They knew her husband, Clarence, to be a highly controlling man who never allowed their son to be out of his sight; Tonya wasn’t allowed to go anywhere alone with Michael. Not only that, but the bruises they saw on her body were evident of a violent life behind closed doors. When they asked her about these injuries, they didn’t believe the stories she told as a cover or the excuses she made.
Tonya did admit to those closest to her that she wanted to leave & escape her husband, but she felt trapped & unable to safely get away without risk of her son being harmed.
Only one day after Tonya’s death, there were concerns about Clarence being able to properly care for his 2-year-old son, Michael, who was born in 1988. Michael was removed from his care & on May 1, 1990, he was placed into the home of Merle & Ernest Bean.
The couple immediately noticed that if the little boy was told no, he would throw an incredible tantrum that put him at risk for harming himself. When angry, 2-year-old Michael would throw himself backwards & strike his head on the tile floor. As they took him into their home, Merle & Ernest were told that he would only drink from a bottle & the only beverage he would accept was Pepsi. This was something they immediately set out to eliminate & very soon, Michael was drinking milk out of a cup & settling into his new, loving home. As time went on, Merle & Ernest noticed that the little boy seemed like a new child.
Throughout the years, Clarence continued to fight for custody of his son during a time when he was allowed visitation. The Beans noticed on days that Michael would have a scheduled visit with his father, he was highly unhappy. One time he hid under the piano & referred to Clarence as, That mean man.
When a paternity test was done, it proved that Clarence Hughes was not the biological father of Michael & his legal rights to the child were immediately terminated.
On the week that Clarence’s visitations with Michael were terminated, Merle noticed a pickup truck driving slowly by their house. Feeling unsettled, she contacted the Department of Human Services & when she asked for Clarence’s physical description as well as the description of his car, she realized that the man who was loitering around their house was Clarence Hughes. However, when she reported this, her concerns were not taken seriously & she was basically told that she was only being paranoid.
On September 12, 1994, when Michael had been under the care of Merle & Ernest for more than four years, he was a 6-year-old 1st grader at Indian Meridian Elementary School in Choctaw, Oklahoma when Clarence went into the boy’s school & pulled a gun on the principal, James Davis. Clarence told James that he was ready to die & if he didn’t help him, James would be killed.
They went to Michael’s classroom & the trio left the school property in James’ truck. They drove to a remote, wooded area where Clarence handcuffed James’ hands together around a tree & duct taped his face & mouth. He drove away in James’ truck with Michael, leaving the man tethered to the tree. Principal Davis remained in this spot until someone just so happened to come upon him & contacted authorities 4.5 hours later.
The FBI was contacted & a kidnapping investigation began, which brought to light the true identity of Clarence Hughes. When they pulled the man’s file, they noticed that when he tried to collect on his late wife’s life insurance policy four years earlier, the social security number he provided belonged to a man named Franklin Delano Floyd.
Authorities came to learn that Franklin Floyd had many aliases throughout the years, including Trenton Davis, Warren Marshall & Clarence Hughes.
His criminal record proved that he was a highly dangerous man who was a convicted pedophile. In 1962 when he was working as a trucker at 19-years-old, he abducted a 4-year-old girl from a bowling alley in Georgia & raped her in the nearby woods & he was sentenced to serve 10-20 years in prison.
In November 1962, he was moved to a state hospital in Georgia for psychiatric testing. In 1963, when he was taken out for a medical errand, he escaped, fled to Macon & robbed over $6,000 from a bank (equivalent to about $63,000 in 2025).
On his release in November 1972, he was sent to live at a halfway house & only two months later, in January 1973, he attacked a woman at a gas station & tried to sexually assault her, but thankfully she managed to escape. After his arrest, he was able to post bond & when he never showed up for his hearing in June 1973, he became a fugitive & had been on the run for over two decades.
While investigators continued to desperately search for Michael, knowing the boy’s life was in grave danger, they began to put the pieces of the puzzle together in regards to the boy’s mother, Tonya Hughes, who died four years earlier at 20-years-old in 1990. Police were sure that the man they now knew to be Franklin Floyd, rather than Clarence Hughes, was likely responsible for her death that was posed as a hit-&-run.
During the search for Michael, the case became extremely convoluted when photos of his mother, Tonya Hughes, began to circulate throughout the media. A woman named Jenny Fisher contacted the FBI & explained that she had been best friends with the woman depicted in the photos during their time together at Forest Park Senior High School in Forest Park, Georgia. However, the woman on the news was not Tonya Hughes, her name was Sharon Marshall. The man in the photos who was said to be her husband, Clarence Hughes, was actually Sharon’s father, Warren Marshall.
Those that knew Sharon Marshall during high school in the 1980s described her as extremely smart, kind, funny, caring, very mature & outgoing; she was in ROTC, science club as well as the gifted program. According to Jenny, her friend was a brilliant, ambitious student who had gotten accepted into Georgia Tech on a full scholarship where she dreamed of one day becoming an aerospace engineer.
Sadly, Sharon’s dreams for her further came crashing down when she called Jenny hysterically crying & told her she was pregnant. She explained that her dad was not only demanding that she give the baby up for adoption, but he was also forbidding her to go away to college, something that absolutely crushed Sharon.
Sharon’s friends remember Warren Marshall as an odd man who kept an unusually close eye on his daughter, to the point that he seemed to at times be inappropriate with her. Sharon had always maintained that when she was in 2nd grade, her mom was killed after she was hit by a car on a bridge.
As Jenny Fisher continued to speak with investigators, they were given insight into the disturbing relationship between who Jenny knew as Warren Marshall & his daughter, Sharon. During a visit to Sharon’s house, Jenny was stunned when she noticed a drawer full of sexy lingerie & when she asked her friend about it, Sharon told her that her dad bought these outfits for her.
Jenny also recounted a horrific night when she slept over at Sharon’s house where Sharon’s bedroom didn’t have a door, instead it was covered by a curtain. When the girls were getting changed & wearing only underwear at the time, the man we now know to be Franklin Floyd, busted into the room holding a gun. He left, but once they were changed, he came back & ordered Jenny to lay on the floor on a sleeping bag with a pillow over her head while he raped Sharon at gunpoint.
When it was over & Floyd left the room, neither girl spoke about what had happened. The next morning, Sharon gave Jenny a big hug & told her, Daddy’s just like that. I’m ok, you’re ok, let’s just go. Jenny was so terrified that she never told a soul about what happened during their sleep over.
Investigators were determined to learn more about the timeline of Sharon’s life. They knew that she was 20-years-old when she died in April 1990, which meant that she would have been born in 1969 or 1970. They were aware that Franklin Floyd was incarcerated during these years between 1963-1972, which meant that it was impossible that he had been Sharon’s biological father.
Knowing that the man’s history involved abducting a child, the pieces of the puzzle began to fall into place & police theorized that he likely kidnapped Sharon when she was a young child. This meant that she would have been under the man’s control for about fifteen years before her death. But they were left to figure out the true identity of Sharon Marshall/Tonya Hughes. Where had she been born, who were her real parents?
While investigators continued to search for Michael Hughes, they knew that he was kidnapped by a highly dangerous man who was accustomed to living a life on the run under various aliases. Investigators wondered if he might go back to a state where he previously obtained a driver’s license under an alias to renew his license. They soon realized that they were correct & he renewed a driver’s license in Louisville, Kentucky under Warren Marshall.
On November 10, 1994, when Michael had been missing for two months, FBI agents traveled to Louisville & disguised themselves as a UPS driver who was delivering his driver’s license. 51-year-old Franklin Floyd was surrounded by FBI agents & taken into custody, but sadly, Michael was nowhere to be found. Neighbors indicated they had never seen a young boy with him.
Floyd hadn’t mentioned a son, instead, he spoke incessantly about a daughter who he claimed was a prostitute. He showed photos of her to his neighbors, who indicated that the man could be heard wandering around his apartment all night long.
When questioned about Michael’s whereabouts, Floyd claimed that his son was still alive, but he’d left him with a rich person; something they knew was nothing more than a ridiculous lie. They were certain that the boy was deceased.
Despite the fact that investigators felt certain that Franklin Floyd was responsible for the murder of Michael Hughes, they felt it would be difficult to win a murder case without a body. He was charged with Michael’s kidnapping, carrying a firearm during the commission of a kidnapping, carjacking, carrying a firearm during the commission of a carjacking, felony possession of a firearm & interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle. He was found guilty of all charges & sentenced to 52 years in prison without parole.
During Michael’s kidnapping, Floyd stole principal James Davis’ truck & police learned that the truck was found abandoned in Texas the following month. In 1995, after a mechanic in Kansas purchased the truck at an auction & began working on it, he found an envelope stuffed between the truck bed & the top of the gas tank. When he opened it, he was horrified to see that it contained very disturbing photos so he contacted authorities.
Investigators saw that the contents of the envelope contained 97 photos of young women in sexually explicit poses, including Sharon when she was as young as 4-years-old. There was one chilling photo of an unknown young woman who was in various stages of disrobe & showed that she had been badly injured. The extent of her injuries were so severe that investigators believed she likely died.
Because the woman in the photos had very distinct tan lines, investigators theorized that she may have lived in a warmer state & sent the images to various states, including Florida, to see if the woman matched the description of any unsolved missing person cases.
On March 29, 1995, a highway crew off of Interstate 275 in Pinellas County, Florida came across decomposed skeletal human remains. After four days of digging, 90% of the skeletal remains as well as a breast implant, clothing & jewlery were recovered. At the time, the victim was unidentified & dubbed Jane Doe I-275.
It was apparent that the woman had been murdered as there were two bullet holes to the back of her skull & one of her orbital bones had been fractured.
One year after these remains were recovered, investigators were notified by the FBI that they had photos of a woman who had been severely beaten. As they reviewed the photos, they noticed that a shirt was wrapped around the beaten woman’s neck that matched the shirt that was recovered with the human remains off of I-275.
With the use of dental records, it was determined that Jane Doe I-275 was Cheryl Ann Commesso, who had been missing for six years, since 1989.
Investigators learned that Cheryl had worked as an exotic dancer at Mons Venus in Tampa, Florida prior to her disappearance. As they interviewed her co-workers or those who knew her, they learned that she was a colleague & close friend of Sharon Marshall & had spent a lot of time with Sharon & her dad, Warren.
Those who worked with her at the time, warned her to keep her distance because they didn’t trust Warren. In 1988 Heather Lane, a former dancer at Mons Venus, remembered Sharon Marshall as a very shy person who didn’t speak much about her past or her life in general. She’d heard rumors about Sharon’s dad & their weird relationship. According to Heather, Sharon’s dad often encouraged her to find out about parties held at the club & make herself available for them.
When Heather invited Sharon to dance at an exclusive event that was supposed to involve no lap dancing & no contact between customers & dancers, Heather was alerted to the fact that Sharon was standing by the women’s bathroom, offering sexual services to men for $50. When she confronted her about it, Sharon told her that her dad instructed her to do it & even purchased the condoms she planned to use. Heather was utterly disgusted by this & couldn’t fathom how a father would put his own daughter in this position.
It wasn’t long before Sharon realized that she was pregnant & she gave birth to her baby boy, Michael. She immediately took to motherhood & Michael became the center of her world; he was likely the best thing that had ever happened to her.
Meanwhile, Sharon’s friendship with Cheryl Commesso continued & some of Cheryl’s fellow dancers noticed bruising & markings on her body that suggested she was being abused. They suspected that Warren was responsible for the abuse as he had always seemed obsessed with Cheryl.
One night in 1989, Heather Lane was leaving the club when she saw Warren in his truck talking with Cheryl, who stood at the driver’s side window. She could see that they were in a heated argument; Warren was screaming at Cheryl & threatened to kill her. Heather immediately ran over to intervene & Warren threatened to run her over with his car. The women walked away from his truck & Heather assumed Cheryl was heading home to where she lived with her father, but sadly, this was the last time Heather ever saw her friend & co-worker. Cheryl vanished in April 1989 when she was only 18-years-old.
Cheryl’s beloved red Corvette was found abandoned & her family reported her missing. When they contacted the staff at Mons Venus, they were told that she may have gone down to Miami to dance, but they knew that she would have never left without her car.
Cheryl was a former beauty pageant winner who dreamed of one day becoming a model & posing for Playboy. Her friends spoke highly of her lovely personality & sadly, despite extensive searches, she remained missing until her remains were found six years later.
After Cheryl vanished, Sharon & Warren suddenly left the Tampa area & around this time, a neighbor by their trailer saw a suspicious man in a truck who walked around the Marshall’s trailer. Moments later, their trailer exploded in what was believed to be a case of arson, likely someone who Warren hired.
FBI special agent Joe Fitzpatrick now realized that Sharon & Warren left Tampa because he had just murdered Cheryl Commesso. They changed their names; Sharon Marshall became Tonya Dawn Tadlock while Warren became Clarence Hughes, names that were inspired from tombstones they’d seen in Alabama.
Since a now Clarence Hughes knew that investigators would be on the hunt for a man, his daughter & her child rather than a man, his wife & their child, they stopped off in Louisiana to get married & Tonya’s name was changed yet again, now to Tonya Hughes.
Franklin Floyd was already serving 52 years for Michael’s kidnapping & in 1997, he was charged with Cheryl’s first-degree murder & sentenced to death five years later in 2002.
Investigators felt a sense of relief that this dangerous monster would be unable to harm anyone else, but they were still left to find Michael’s body & learn the true identity of Sharon Marshall/Tonya Hughes.
In 2002, author Matt Birkbeck was notified about a photo that was posted on a missing persons website that depicted a little girl sitting on the lap of a man that was supposed to be her father. Under the photo was a caption that indicated she had been kidnapped & raised as his daughter, then he married her & eventually murdered her. The girl in the photo had a hauntingly sad expression on her face.
Birkbeck contacted a now retired Joe Fitzpatrick from the FBI about the photo & when he saw the image, he believed that the little girl that appeared to be about 5-years-old was Sharon Marshall.
Matt Birkbeck decided to write a book in order to get to the bottom of who Sharon Marshall was & he knew that the person who had the answer was Franklin Floyd. He visited the county prison to meet with Floyd.
Franklin Floyd was born in 1943 & after his father died, his mother struggled to care for him & his siblings so she sent them to live at the Georgia Baptist Children’s Home. While here, he said he was abused & routinely sexually assaulted by the boys within the home.
During Matt Birkbeck’s visit with Floyd, he denied being responsible for any of his crimes. When Matt would broach the subject of Sharon, he refused to discuss this topic or that of Michael.
When Matt asked where he got Sharon, Floyd said, I didn’t get her anywhere, she just came with me. He denied it all; kidnapping Sharon as well as murdering her, Michael or Cheryl Commesso. When Matt published his book in 2004 that was titled, A Beautiful Child, he still had no clear answers & the only thing that was apparent was that Franklin Floyd was absolutely psychotic. In 2018, Matt released his second book about the case, Finding Sharon.
Matt’s book brought attention to Sharon’s case which gradually began to grow & spread around the internet as more & more people tried to learn her true identity.
In 2005, Matt got an anonymous email that asked, Would the DNA of Sharon’s daughter help you? Megan DuFresne knew that she was adopted, but when she came across Matt’s book when she was a junior in high school, she knew there was more to her story. The more she learned, the more her anger & sadness grew about the life her mom was forced to live & the pain she must have endured.
Megan was told that her birth mom had been killed in a car accident, but she eventually learned that in 1989, Clarence & Tonya Hughes went into a New Orleans attorney’s office indicating that they weren’t able to afford another child. Six weeks later, Megan was born & given up for adoption.
In 2010 or 2011, Megan submitted her DNA to see if she could find any relatives. Her birth mother had given birth three times; once in high school, then to Michael in 1988 & to Megan the following year. Very little is known about the true identity of each of the baby’s fathers. Sharon was said to have gotten pregnant in high school with her boyfriend at the time, Michael Hughes father’s identity has only been speculated & Megan’s father’s identity is unknown though some Reddit users have speculated that it may be Floyd.
When the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children got involved in 2011 & paired up with retired FBI agent Joe Fitzpatrick, a meeting was arranged with Franklin Floyd. They knew the man was a pathological liar & felt it was unlikely they would get any true information from him.
When two FBI agents, Scott Lobb & Nate Furr, visited Floyd in prison in 2014, they had three questions for him: Who is Sharon Marshall, what happened to Michael & were you responsible for the death of Sharon Marshall. They began with trying to learn Sharon’s identity, but like with Matt Birkbeck, he refused to talk about it & began to endlessly rant, believing the men to be attorneys.
When they explained they were from the FBI & they were there because they were reopening Michael’s investigation, he told them, I would appreciate it if you close it. As they spoke about Michael, he became emotional as they continued to demand to know how the boy was killed. Suddenly Floyd stopped crying & said, I shot him twice in the back of the head to make it real quick.
Rather than allowing Michael to live in the loving home he’d established with Merle & Ernest Bean over the past four years, on the very day that Floyd abducted Michael, he killed him. As they were driving toward Texas he claimed that Michael got out of control & he couldn’t handle it. He realized that Michael didn’t want to be with him & raising a child as a fugitive of the law wouldn’t work. Rather than dropping him off to safety, he murdered him.
When he told the agents about the murder, he showed zero remorse. Merle & Ernest Bean were devastated to learn of Michael’s fate since they’d been so close to legally adopting him.
Floyd claimed to have buried Michael at the last Oklahoma exit before the Texas border on Interstate 35. In March 2015, investigators searched the 2,000-square-foot area in question for 16 hours & were unable to find Michael’s remains or any evidence associated with the crime.
Experts hadn’t expected to find Michael’s remains since local wild hogs that roam the woods would have eaten the boy’s bones, but they hoped to find bullet casings or some remaining fabric or material from Michael’s shoes or clothing, but they didn’t.
Now they were left to figure out the true identity of Sharon Marshall. Through his endless rants in conversation, he began talking about how he was the best looking bus driver in the world in North Carolina when he met a woman in 1974 named Sandi Brandenburg. She was a single mother to four young children who he met at church. He introduced himself to her as Brandon Cleo Williams, an alias the FBI had never been aware of.
Sandi had three daughters & one son; Suzanne, Allison, Amy & Philip. The FBI agents finally learned the true identity of Sharon Marshall; she was Sandi’s eldest daughter, Suzanne Marie Sevakis. Now nearly four decades after she was taken, agents realized that Suzanne’s biological parents, Sandi & Cliff, were still alive.
When Floyd crossed paths with Sandi, he noticed her crying & when he asked her what was wrong, she explained that she was at risk for losing her three daughters & not only that, she was currently pregnant & soon gave birth to a baby boy, Philip.
Seeing her struggle, he vowed to marry her & help raise her children. After a month of dating, they were married & Floyd convinced her to move her family to live with him in Dallas, Texas.
Suzanne Sevakis was born in Livonia, Michigan on September 6, 1969 to parents Sandra Francis Brandenburg & Clifford Ray Sevakis, who were high school sweethearts. Sandi & Cliff started dating when she was 17 & by 19-years-old, Sandi was pregnant with the little girl she later nicknamed Suzie.
Cliff was deployed to Vietnam when Sandi gave birth & he first met his daughter during a leave when she was 6-months-old. On his return, he found himself a different man & meanwhile, Sandi was out seeing other men & told him that she wanted a divorce.
After Sandi got married a second time, she had her two middle daughters, Amy & Allison, but the couple went on to divorce. Sandi moved herself & her three daughters to a trailer in a mobile home park that was situated on a hill. During a terrible storm, a tornado blew through & tipped their trailer sideways leaving the surrounding area in ruins. After the stress of this event, Sandi found herself struggling with PTSD.
When Sandi went to social services for help & explained that she was struggling to take care of her three daughters, they took the girls from her & a 23-year-old Cliff stepped in to try to help. However, at the time, he was still struggling & realized that he was also not capable of raising three young children.
When Sandi met the man who introduced himself as Brandon Williams, she was in an exceptionally low, vulnerable time in her life. With his support, she felt a tremendous relief & he helped her get her children back. However, it wasn’t long before Brandon started doing things that made her very uneasy. He carried a knife with him at all times & told Sandi, You think you’re gonna leave me? That’s not happening.
One day while Sandi was out buying diapers for her children, she wrote a bad check at 7/11 & ended up being sentenced to 30 days in jail. While she did her time she left her children under the care of her husband.
On her release, Sandi was stunned to find their home empty with her husband & children nowhere to be found. When she went to the police & they learned that he was the children’s step father, they informed her that he had a right to take them & there was nothing they could do for her.
She eventually found her two middle daughters, Allison & Amy, in the care of the local church social services group while Suzanne & Phillip were nowhere to be found.
When Floyd first left Texas with Suzanne, he took her to Oklahoma & enrolled her into elementary school using the name Trenton B. Davis for himself while Suzanne still used her real name. It was nine years later when they moved to Georgia & Suzanne became Sharon Marshall as she entered high school.
On June 3, 2017, Suzanne’s tombstone was changed to reflect her true identity with the help of her biological daughter, Megan & author Matt Birkbeck & she finally had the memorial service she always deserved. It’s a sad fact to know that because Suzanne had been taken at such a young age, she never knew her true identity.
When Megan DuFresne became a mother herself, she named her baby boy Michael in honor of the brother she never got to meet.
It wasn’t until March 7, 2019 when Matt Birkbeck received a Facebook message from a man named Steve Patterson, who believed he might be the long lost baby Philip. He said he was born, raised & still lived in North Carolina. When his father passed away in early March 2019, his mother, Mary, showed him documents that proved his birth name was Philip Brandenburg.
Mary explained that years earlier she met a woman named Sandi Brandenburg at the hospital; Mary had just lost another pregnancy & she was very distraught. Meanwhile, Sandi was struggling to care for her three daughters & knew she could not handle a fourth child.
Weeks later, Sandi showed up on Mary’s doorstep with a baby in her arms as she explained she was leaving town with her three daughters & her new husband, but she couldn’t care for an infant. As she handed the baby over to Mary, she could see Floyd lurking in the distance. They drove off & she never saw them again. Mary changed Philip’s name to Steven & she & her husband raised him as their own.
After Steve got in touch with Matt, a DNA test was arranged & in February 2020, it proved he was Sandi’s biological son & Suzanne’s little brother. Steve has since gotten into contact with Suzanne’s biological daughter, Megan, who remains close with her biological grandfather, Cliff Sevakis & his wife, Jen.
When Megan got married, Cliff flew out to be there & he was able to dance with his granddaughter. He knows that Suzanne is gone while he feels thankful that he has Megan in his life. On the other hand, when Megan’s adoptive mom, Mary, tried to get in touch with Sandi to establish a relationship with her biological granddaughter, she had no interest.
In 2022, Netflix released a documentary about Suzanne’s life, titled Girl in the Picture. Several people in the documentary expressed their frustration that Sandi hadn’t tried harder to find Suzanne & save her from the monster who ended up controlling her life until her untimely death at only 20-years-old.
Franklin Delano Floyd died at age 79 of natural causes on January 23, 2023 where he was incarcerated at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, Florida.
References:
- Matt Birkbeck: Solving the mystery of Baby Philip
- Netflix: Girl in the Picture
- Variety: ‘Girl in the Picture’: Were Michael Hughes’ remains every found, is Frank Floyd still alive & more unanswered questions
- The Oklahoman: After 20 years of lies, kidnapper admits killing Oklahoma boy
- Newsweek: ‘Girl in the Picture’: Who was Suzanne Sevakis?
- Independent: Raised by, abused by & then married to her kidnapper: The horrifying true story behind Netflix’s Girl in the Picture
- Wikipedia: Franklin Delano Floyd
- Newsweek: What happened to Franklin Delano Floyd & where is he now?
- Justia U.S. Law: United States v. Franklin Delano Floyd
- Tampa Bay Times: A tortured trial//How police think Cheryl Ann Commesso wound up in muck along I-275
