June 17, 1943 - Franklin Delano Floyd
Floyd's case is defined less by a single act than by a decades-long pattern of exploitation across multiple victims — a child taken from her family in 1975, raised under a false identity, and whose true name wasn't confirmed until nearly four decades later. The web of crimes he left behind, including murder, kidnapping, and the long-unresolved fates of the children in his custody, drew investigators and genealogists into a prolonged effort to reconstruct what had happened to people who, for years, had no official identities at all.
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Franklin Delano Floyd (June 17, 1943 – January 23, 2023) was an American murderer, rapist, child sex offender, and death row inmate. He was convicted of the 1989 murder of Cheryl Ann Commesso, as well as the kidnapping of six-year-old Michael Anthony Hughes, who he claimed was his son. Floyd was also considered a person of interest in the 1990 hit-and-run death of Sharon Marshall, Michael's mother and Floyd's second wife. It was later discovered that before becoming his wife, Sharon had been kidnapped by Floyd as a child and raised as his daughter.
Sharon's true identity remained a mystery until 2014, when she was positively identified as Suzanne Marie Sevakis, the daughter of a woman to whom Floyd was briefly married. Floyd disappeared with Sevakis, her two sisters and infant brother Phillip (also known as "Stevie") while her mother was serving a thirty-day jail sentence in 1975. Sevakis' brother remained missing until 2019 when a man came forward believing he was Phillip; DNA tests confirmed his identity in 2020.
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