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Blonde, blue-eyed, beautiful and blessed with a bubbly personality - the quintessential girl next door. That was Sharon Marshall. She was also very intelligent, an avid reader near the top of her high school class, listed in Who's Who of American High School Students, a Lt. Colonel in the ROTC and she had earned a full scholarship to Georgia Tech University where she planned to study aerospace engineering. Sharon proudly graduated from high school in Forest Park, GA in 1986.

Only her name wasn't really Sharon Marshall - she didn't know what her real name was. Nor did she know who her parents were or even what day, month, year or in which city or state she was born. It is thought that Sharon was born sometime in the late 1960's although no one knows for sure because Sharon had been kidnapped when she was just a toddler, probably sometime between 1973-1975.

Franklin Delano Floyd, a psychopath, sexual predator and convicted felon, abducted and raised Sharon as his own daughter while posing as her ailing father, all the while sexually abusing her from a very young age. Floyd would later claim that he had "rescued" Sharon when she was unwanted and abandoned by her biological parents.

The first known public record of Sharon exists in 1975 in an Oklahoma City school where she was registered under the alias "Suzanne Davis".

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Sharon's good natured personality and good grades ultimately worked against her. Although she had few friends and sometimes dressed inappropriately, no one was suspicious of the young lady who had to be home by 4:30 p.m. everyday to help her sick father or wondered why she moved so often that she was in the fourth school in a single year during her high school career. If anyone did get curious and questioned her about the whereabouts of her mother, Sharon would explain that when she was a young girl her mother had died of cancer or she was known to tell others, her mother had died in a fatal car accident. When the questions became too probing or intense Floyd and Sharon would pick up and move to places like Oklahoma City, Louisville, Atlanta, Phoenix, Tampa, New Orleans and Tulsa.

It is known that upon her graduation Sharon moved to Phoenix, AZ. Sometime during the next couple of years Floyd and Sharon moved to Tampa, FL where she gave birth to a baby boy on March 21, 1988 using the alias "Tonya Dawn Tadlock". She subsequently named the baby Michael Anthony Hughes and it is thought she used the last name Hughes because at the time, Floyd was using the aliases Charles Hughes and Clarence Marcus Hughes although, he also used many other aliases over the span of his criminal career. The natural assumption is that Floyd was Michael's biological father, however, this theory was disproved with DNA test results in the 1990's.

Franklin Delano Floyd

During this time period, Sharon began to work as an exotic dancer, her dreams of studying aerospace engineering by now a distant memory. Sharon made friends with Cheryl Ann Commesso, 19, an exotic dancer who worked at the same club. Cheryl was beaten and killed by two shots to the back of the head in 1989. She was dumped along Florida Interstate 275 and for a long time was known simply as "Jane Doe I-275". Soon after, Floyd and Sharon left Florida and shortly after that, the trailor they had occupied burned to the ground.

In yet another twist to this stranger than fiction story, Sharon and Floyd were married in 1989 in New Orleans under the aliases Clarence Marcus Hughes and Tonya Dawn Tadlock. Floyd and Sharon, along with Michael, then headed to Oklahoma.

In April of 1990 Sharon was killed in a suspicious hit and run accident while both she and Floyd were being sought in connection with Cheryl Ann Commesso's murder investigation. Floyd remains the primary suspect in the hit and run that killed his daughter/wife.

After his mother's death, when DNA test results proved conclusively that Floyd was not Michael's biological father, Floyds visitation rights were terminated and Michael was put into foster care. His foster parents, who had begun formal adoption proceedings, reported that when he first came to them Michael was non-verbal, had limited muscle control and often exhibited hysterical behavior. While in their care, however, Michael apparently made great progress.

In the final twist to this bizarre and sad story, Michael was kidnapped by Floyd from Indian Meridian Elementary School in Choctaw, OK on September 12, 1994. He held school officials at gunpoint and forced Michael and the school principal into the principal's pick-up truck. Eventually Floyd let the principal go, basically unharmed but traumatized, tied to a tree. Young Michael was never seen again.

Floyd was arrested two months later in Kentucky where he steadfastedly refused to give any information as to Michael's whereabouts. Floyd claimed Michael was out of the country or possibly in the Atlanta, GA area. However, multiple witnesses have come forward saying Floyd confessed to them that he murdered Michael by drowning him in a bathtub, somewhere in the Atlanta area. Still other witnesses say they saw Floyd bury Michael's' body in a grave. Floyd was tried and sentenced to 55 yrs in prison for Michael's kidnapping.

Some time later, a mechanic working on Floyd's old pick-up truck, which had been auctioned, discovered a multitude of photos wedged over the gas tank. The explicit photographs clearly proved Sharon had been subjected to sexual abuse her entire life. In addition, photos showing Cheryl Ann Commesso beaten and bound and sitting on the sofa in Floyd's old trailor in Florida, were discovered along with photos of other females. These photographs were used as evidence against Floyd in the Commesso murder trial in 2002 where he was later convicted and sent to death row.

After Sharon's death, upon further investigation into Floyd's background, investigators learned that he was a career criminal who had first been arrested at the age of 17 in a gunfight with law enforcement during a burglary. Floyd was also arrested for abducting and raping a young woman at a bowling alley in 1962. All told, Floyd has admitted to convicting at least 19 felonies.

Floyd has not been convicted of either Sharon or Michael's murders but is still under investigation for both crimes. He has a documented history of schizophrenia, was raised by two alcoholic parents and at some point was turned over to an orphanage by his mother who never came back to retrieve him. Floyd's defense attorneys presented these facts in his defense at his trials in an attempt to solicit sympathy from the juries.

Franklin Delano Floyd now sits on death row at the Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, FL.

Sadly, Michael Hughes has never been located and is presumed dead. His mother "Sharon Marshall" still remains unidentified and is buried in Choctaw, OK.


http://hubpages.com/hub/Cold_Case_Sharon_Marshall
 
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I must admit that I am haunted by this case. As a child I looked just like Sharon/Suzanne.

Other details haunt me too.

From my personal experience, if you are a child in an abusive household, Pedos pick up on this and spoil and flatter you until you do as they say.

I won't go any further but I have been haunted and ashamedby it, Always
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And he's taking forever to put it together.
He actually posted that more than an hour ago but deleted it.

I wonder.... Rhonda Moore?
 
And he's taking forever to put it together.
He actually posted that more than an hour ago but deleted it.

I wonder.... Rhonda Moore?

I was opening the comments to view the previous ones in the original update that he posted and got the error message that the post didn't exist. Damn thing was deleted just as I was reading it as someone said the family had just posted something.

As I said over there in the newer comments, great birthday present for me coming home and seeing that she's finally been identified.

http://www.mattbirkbeck.com/blog/finally

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Her name is Suzanne Marie Sevakig and she was from North Carolina.

For those who read the book, you'll recall Floyd fled Florida in 1973. He ended up in North Carolina a year later using another alias and met a recently divorced woman with four children - three young daughters and infant son. Floyd and the woman later married, and in 1975 the woman was sentenced to 30 days in jail for a small crime. When she was released Floyd was gone and so where her children. She found two daughters at a local social services agency, where Floyd had taken them. The mother went to the local police and FBI and tried to file kidnapping charges but they declined to investigate saying that since Floyd was their stepfather he apparently had a right to take the children.
Three months later, Floyd and Suzanne, then six years old, were in Oklahoma City. Her little brother was never found.

Earlier this year the FBI interviewed Floyd in prison in Florida and somehow gleaned the info about the woman. They visited with her in June, showed her the photos of Floyd and Suzanne (her sitting on his lap). The woman immediately identified him as her husband and Sharon as her daughter. The agents took a DNA sample and four weeks later (in July) visited with the mother again to inform her the test was a positive match.

The young woman we knew as Sharon Marshall was indeed Suzanne.
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From April of this year:

Suzanne’s missing brother has possibly been identified- what a convoluted mess.
Cannot find an update as to whether the DNA results are in....

Forty-five years ago today, a baby boy was born in a North Carolina hospital. Named Phillip Steven Brandenburg, the infant quickly disappeared. He is listed on some websites as a missing endangered child—a boy who some have believed was abducted by a killer now awaiting execution in Florida.

But the boy is not even mentioned by other databases. Just weeks after his birth, his biological mother married a man named Franklin Delano Floyd, whose trail of felonies spanned the country and have been the subject of best-selling true-crime books.

The existence, let alone whereabouts, of the boy named Phillip Steven could not be determined for decades by anybody—detectives, writers, or family members.

Also born on April 12, 1974 at the Carolinas Medical Center in Lincolnton was Phillip Steven Patterson, adopted by a couple named Mary and Bob Patterson just six weeks into his life.

Just weeks ago, amid a time of family mourning, Patterson’s mother told him something. That something resulted in him going to a local police station, and giving a DNA sample to law enforcement.

His cheek swab could provide some resolution: whether the two Philip Stevens with the same first and middle names, and birthdays, are the same person.

The 45-year-old man believes he is the long-lost infant boy—and so does his adoptive mother, whose recollections line up with most of what is known about a killer’s run of crimes decades ago.

The boy she had raised was listed as “endangered missing” on one of the major missing persons websites, Doe Network. Appended was a horrifying tale of how two and perhaps three people had come to gruesome ends in connection with a man now on Florida death row.

She printed out a paper copy and showed her son. And together, they were stupefied.

That listing showed that he had been considered abducted by a man posing as Brandon Cleo Williams in 1974—but who was really a convicted murderer named Franklin Delano Floyd, an infamous child abductor and killer whose crimes did not truly come to an end until the 1990s.

Neither Mary nor Steve had ever known how their lives may have briefly crossed the paths of a notorious criminal, albeit briefly, more than 40 years earlier.


Mary Patterson remembers seeing “Williams” from afar in 1974. But the new husband wanted nothing to do with Phillip Steven, because he was not his own child, as it was explained to her back then. She never actually spoke with the man later revealed to be Franklin Delano Floyd.

With the adoption still officially pending, Sandi and “Brandon” Williams left town. According to the Doe Network, the couple and the three girls all moved to Texas. In 1975, Sandi Brandenburg was reportedly jailed on a minor charge for 30 days—and according to some accounts she was released only to find her husband had abducted all four children.

Other accounts, like Birkbeck’s two books, go on to say that the two middle children were later located by the mother, and at least partly raised by her.

It was the fourth child, the boy, who remained unaccounted for amid all the investigations.

All accounts agree: the eldest girl was taken away by the “Williams” man—who was really Franklin Delano Floyd. As was later established through DNA, that girl was really Suzanne Marie Sevakis, the biological daughter of Sandi Brandenburg—and she would later live under assumed names in constant travel with Floyd, posing various as his wife or daughter. Sevakis, a pretty blonde who was long known as Sharon Marshall during her school years, was eventually killed in a mysterious hit-and-run accident in Oklahoma in 1990—a death for which Floyd has long been suspected but never charged.

At the time of her death, Suzanne Marie Sevakis was known as Tonya Dawn Hughes.


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https://www.forensicmag.com/news/20...dna-results-putting-him-wake-death-row-killer
 
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