Speaker 1: Hey there, listeners, I want to give you a heads
Speaker 1: up that this episode will discuss sexual assault. Please take
Speaker 1: care while listening. Previously on Hello John Dale.
Speaker 2: When I couldn't find him, I packed everything in a
Speaker 2: duffel bag because somebody said he went to Michigan.
Speaker 3: I was going to find her. I had to find her.
Speaker 4: And I kept screaming, She's not his child, he's not
Speaker 4: her father, and he just wanted her. I never thought
Speaker 4: it would be the Knight fair it one.
Speaker 1: There's this case I keep returning to. In nineteen sixty two,
Speaker 1: a man kidnapped a four year old from a bowling
Speaker 1: alley in Hateful Georgia. He didn't make it very far
Speaker 1: before the police got him. Authorities all agreed the man
Speaker 1: needed psychiatric hile, so they hospitalized him, but he didn't
Speaker 1: get any help. Instead, he escaped from the hospital, stole
Speaker 1: a car, and bought a gun. Now he is on
Speaker 1: the run. Eventually he ended up in Making Georgia, and
Speaker 1: this man, who was just twenty years old, ropped a
Speaker 1: bank out of six grand. He said he needed the
Speaker 1: cash to appeal his kidnapping conviction, so he went to
Speaker 1: prison for the bank robbery and then after it was
Speaker 1: released on parole. He went ahead and tried to kidnap
Speaker 1: a woman in Atlanta by forcing himself into her car,
Speaker 1: but the man was caught. By now, he was thirty
Speaker 1: years old. Here's FBI agent Scott lob So.
Speaker 5: He knew he was going to go back to prison
Speaker 5: for that because they knew who it was.
Speaker 1: And he goes on to run again towards Charlotte, North Carolina,
Speaker 1: where he meets a woman in dire need of help.
Speaker 1: She lost her children and was desperate to get them back.
Speaker 1: You're probably wondering why I'm telling you about this fugitive.
Speaker 1: It's not just a scary story or one of the
Speaker 1: horrible things I come across in my work with NamUs.
Speaker 1: By now, this man was a known fugitive, and you
Speaker 1: know him too.
Speaker 6: Franklin Floyd was caught, his probation clearly violated.
Speaker 1: And the mother, desperate to get her kids back from
Speaker 1: social services, was of course Sandy. This was the faithful
Speaker 1: moment when Floyd kidnapped her daughter, Susie Sabakas. It took
Speaker 1: law enforcement several years to put the pieces together. By then,
Speaker 1: Floyd had already committed more crimes, each worse than the last,
Speaker 1: and it didn't help police that Floyd used more aliases
Speaker 1: than I think anyone's been able to count. Once Agent
Speaker 1: Scott lob learned about Floyd, he started asking himself who
Speaker 1: was the girl in the room with Floyd?
Speaker 5: Wanted to answer was there ever a missing child report
Speaker 5: for this girl? And the FBI was never able to
Speaker 5: locate one because it didn't exist.
Speaker 1: While Steve's story was hidden for so long, his sister
Speaker 1: SUSY's would end up well documenting. In fact, it was
Speaker 1: her kidnapping that first made me aware of this family.
Speaker 1: A book had been written about her ordeal. A couple
Speaker 1: of decades later, Susie was a subject of a Netflix documentary.
Speaker 1: Susie employed assumed so many aliases over the years. By
Speaker 1: the time she was twenty, no one knew who she was,
Speaker 1: no one except the man who stole her. Before I
Speaker 1: tell you how her twisted story came to light, let's
Speaker 1: go back to her high school years, when Susie went
Speaker 1: by the name of Sharon Marshall. Sharon was an ambitious
Speaker 1: teenager who dreamt of going to college. She had friends,
Speaker 1: but what I've learned is she didn't really confide in anyone.
Speaker 1: She kept secrets to herself, including a big one. Floyd
Speaker 1: didn't just kidnap Susie. He was now passing her office
Speaker 1: his real daughter. My name is Todd Matthews. And this
Speaker 1: is hello John Doe. A sleuth, a family, and a
Speaker 1: serial killer. The story of a family torn apart by
Speaker 1: a tragedy quest to bring them back together. Chapter five,
Speaker 1: The Fugitives. After Floyd left Sandy and took off with
Speaker 1: her six year old daughter, he was almost gone without
Speaker 1: a trace.
Speaker 5: He'd been all over the country with her, started in Georgia, Florida,
Speaker 5: eventually ending up in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: This is former FBI agent Scott lob He had ended
Speaker 1: up dedicating several years of his life to this case.
Speaker 1: As he began putting the pieces together, he realized that
Speaker 1: Floyd criss crossed the country and started passing off his
Speaker 1: captive as his daughter.
Speaker 5: We didn't know at the time. The FBI didn't that
Speaker 5: with any evidence that Franklin Floyd had kidnapped her. Now
Speaker 5: had we had that, certainly there's a kidnapping investigation to
Speaker 5: be had there because he drug her all over the country.
Speaker 1: In other words, the FBI would have been on the
Speaker 1: case had they known Floyd was crossing state lines. But
Speaker 1: remember there wasn't even a missing person's report because when
Speaker 1: Sandy tried to report Susia's missing, authorities turned her away
Speaker 1: because Andy was married to Floyd. Finally, in the mid eighties,
Speaker 1: when Susie was a teenager, they stopped out side of Atlanta, Georgia,
Speaker 1: Floyd and Rose Susie in high school. Except he didn't
Speaker 1: use her real name. He told the schooler name was
Speaker 1: Sharon Marshall. That's the name I'm going to use for
Speaker 1: part of this episode. That's how our friends and you
Speaker 1: were back then. Sharon began as a sophomore at Forest
Speaker 1: Park High School.
Speaker 3: Typical eighties, big hair. It was really a good time.
Speaker 1: The way me or Murdock describes it, it was kind of
Speaker 1: an all American high school, kind of like Ferris Bueller's
Speaker 1: Day Offer something. She was in Sharon's grade Classic in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 3: I was a cheerleader.
Speaker 6: Yes, we had the jocks, the cheerleaders, but everybody got along.
Speaker 3: It wasn't bullying and.
Speaker 7: Any of that stuff, So it wasn't like it is today,
Speaker 7: totally different.
Speaker 6: Every Friday or Saturday nights to play the schools that
Speaker 6: surrounded our area, so that was a big thing.
Speaker 3: Everybody loved.
Speaker 1: At football games, their mascot was the Panthers. It wasn't
Speaker 1: exactly a small town. It was right outside Atlanta, but
Speaker 1: it was small enough that you noticed when there was
Speaker 1: someone new.
Speaker 3: It was kind of weird coming into the middle of
Speaker 3: the semester.
Speaker 1: I guess this is Sherry Bailey, also class of eighty six.
Speaker 1: She was in the gifted program.
Speaker 8: I mean, I was gifted, but I was also one
Speaker 8: of those that didn't really care.
Speaker 1: In the middle of sophomore year, she noticed a new
Speaker 1: student in her gifted English class, Sharon.
Speaker 8: Obviously, her father, her whatever, moved her around a lot,
Speaker 8: but she ended up staying I think.
Speaker 3: Probably the longest. At first part.
Speaker 8: She was there middle of sophomore year, junior year, and
Speaker 8: then senior year.
Speaker 1: Sherry noticed a minute she stepped into English class. Everyone
Speaker 1: then Sharon was beautiful, blue eyes, long blonde hair that
Speaker 1: was blown out, kind of like Farah faucet.
Speaker 8: Of the boys jaws dropped to the floor, and you know
Speaker 8: they were They thought that they'd been gifted an angel
Speaker 8: from heaven.
Speaker 1: She was also exceptionally smart. You had to be to
Speaker 1: be in those gifted classes.
Speaker 3: We're Generation X, so we were the ones that you know,
Speaker 3: we were.
Speaker 8: The people who basically didn't care.
Speaker 3: You know, we still don't. She did the She cared
Speaker 3: a lot about her education.
Speaker 1: Not just that, but Sharon went out of her way
Speaker 1: to be kind.
Speaker 8: She always tried to make other people feel like they
Speaker 8: were worthy, specifically people who were not popular, not not smart,
Speaker 8: not the normal. She was always rooting for the underdog.
Speaker 1: There was a sweetness of Matterr that Sherry recognized instantly,
Speaker 1: the two bonding right away. They went from classmates to
Speaker 1: real friends when Sharon started dating Jason. He was Surry's
Speaker 1: friend and he was on the football team. Cherry would
Speaker 1: pick up both Jason and Sharon from their houses on
Speaker 1: the way to school. Sharon lived less than a mile
Speaker 1: away from Sherry in a plain, little ranch house.
Speaker 8: I would go to pick her up, and Jason would
Speaker 8: have to lay down on the back floorboard of my
Speaker 8: car because her dad would date Jason.
Speaker 1: So this big old football player would have to squeeze
Speaker 1: his ass into the back of sherry seventy eight Mustang.
Speaker 8: So we would pull up and her dad would stand
Speaker 8: on the front porch and wait for her to get
Speaker 8: into the car and wait for us to leave.
Speaker 3: He always stayed on the porch, so we didn't really
Speaker 3: come close to him, but we knew he was creepy.
Speaker 1: Sneaking around was a little strange to Sherry, But what
Speaker 1: was really strange was that she wasn't allowed inside Sharon's house.
Speaker 8: Her dad would not let us in, and my other
Speaker 8: friends who were friends with her were never let inside either.
Speaker 1: Sherry said she just seemed embarrassed by Floyd's rules, the
Speaker 1: way most teens would be by their parents. But Sherry said,
Speaker 1: what made the relationship unusual was how Sharon went out
Speaker 1: of her way to do things for her father.
Speaker 8: You know, she had told us that her mom died
Speaker 8: of cancer and that she had to take care of
Speaker 8: him and do all the things that mom did, you know,
Speaker 8: cook for him and clean and do all that stuff.
Speaker 3: So that was why she had to go straight home
Speaker 3: after school, which.
Speaker 8: Was a weird way to put it, but that was
Speaker 8: the way she put it to us.
Speaker 1: Sherry didn't know what went on in that ranch house
Speaker 1: behind closed doors. No one really did. I don't know
Speaker 1: if Sharon, your mom is alive and well and hoping
Speaker 1: she'd come home, but even her peers were skeptical of
Speaker 1: the story, Sharon told, here's her classmate, me and Murdock again.
Speaker 3: She told one.
Speaker 6: Friend that her mom died of cancer, and then told
Speaker 6: another friend she died in a car wreck over a bridge.
Speaker 6: And then one friend says, well, wait a minute, you
Speaker 6: said she died of cancer. She said, well, she had
Speaker 6: cancer when she's in the car wreck. So I'm sure
Speaker 6: she was just trying to shut them up because she
Speaker 6: couldn't say anything.
Speaker 1: Franklin Floyd was a lifelong criminal, and like most he
Speaker 1: had patterns. He would kidnap children and he would assault
Speaker 1: them when he is barely an adult. Floyd was convicted
Speaker 1: of molesting a four year old girl. What kind of
Speaker 1: nineteen year old attacks a child in the woods? Floyd did,
Speaker 1: and after he kidnapped Sharon, he studied sexually abusing her too,
Speaker 1: from a very young age. This wouldn't come out until
Speaker 1: many years later, but on a level, Sherry already knew
Speaker 1: what her friend had been going through.
Speaker 8: A Few of the friends that she did make were
Speaker 8: people who were also also were abused, But I think
Speaker 8: that she probably knew people just generally kind of recognized
Speaker 8: people who had been through similar things.
Speaker 1: Sharon never told Sherry what was going on at home,
Speaker 1: and vice versa. But neither of them had good childhoods
Speaker 1: Mine wasn't normal.
Speaker 3: I would like to say it was, but it wasn't.
Speaker 3: I had stepfather who was sexually abusive me. I just
Speaker 3: think that like finds like whether they know why or not,
Speaker 3: your heart just think your car just knows.
Speaker 1: Based on what Sandy tell me about Floyd's behavior, I
Speaker 1: can say he probably controls Sharon with fear. If he
Speaker 1: threatened Sandy against leaving, he likely did the same as
Speaker 1: Sharon made her stay quiet, not just about the many
Speaker 1: names and secrets, but about the abuse. Sharon was trapped
Speaker 1: and we had no idea how close we were to
Speaker 1: a monster. Though the whole time, Sherry seemed to know
Speaker 1: all was not well with her friend back in high school,
Speaker 1: but Mia didn't really get it until her ordeal was
Speaker 1: made public. Back then, Mia didn't know it was a
Speaker 1: criminal or that her friend needed help.
Speaker 6: People didn't talk about what happened in people's houses, so
Speaker 6: nobody would have thought anything different. So after the story
Speaker 6: came out, it was very eye opening for all of
Speaker 6: us because none of us would have ever thought she.
Speaker 3: Lived the life she lived.
Speaker 1: What's amazing, sureI said, is how Sharon maintained such composure.
Speaker 1: She got great grades, participated in ROTC, had serious romantic relationships.
Speaker 3: She had a spirit that nobody could break. He knew
Speaker 3: he was never able to break her. He tried really hard.
Speaker 1: Back then they buckled down and hit the books. Surey said,
Speaker 1: Sharon had a seriousness about her a drive.
Speaker 3: I don't know that she watched TV.
Speaker 8: I don't remember talking about that at all, because of
Speaker 8: course that was of boat days and Fantasy Island and.
Speaker 3: All that good stuff.
Speaker 8: So I think she spent most of her time studying
Speaker 8: because that was her escape.
Speaker 1: Maybe all that studying would even be her way out,
Speaker 1: a way to escape Floyd. Sharry remembered that day in
Speaker 1: Gifted class when she showed up ecstatic.
Speaker 8: She had a full ride to Georgia Tech. That was
Speaker 8: all she ever wanted. She was beside herself. I mean,
Speaker 8: that was what she'd been wanting all along.
Speaker 1: She was absolutely tickled. This was her dream school that
Speaker 1: would jump start her aerospace career. Around that time and
Speaker 1: senior year, everyone geared up for graduation, excited for what
Speaker 1: would come next. But then Sharon's life changed again. She
Speaker 1: was with a new boyfriend, a guy named Curtis.
Speaker 9: I was hopelessly, helplessly, deeply crazy about it.
Speaker 1: Up until this moment, Sharon was focused on her future
Speaker 1: in the file. She was going to move to Atlanta
Speaker 1: and start Georgia Tech. Then she would begin her career
Speaker 1: in aerospace, maybe as an engineer, maybe she'd go into
Speaker 1: space herself. For Sharon, the sky was well the limit.
Speaker 1: But then something happened in her senior year that slung
Speaker 1: her off course. It would jeopardize everything she didn't build,
Speaker 1: and even if she didn't say anything, the secret she'd
Speaker 1: been keeping became clear.
Speaker 7: And then it started being obvious that she was pregnant.
Speaker 1: She started showing people at school.
Speaker 6: Noticed our counselor was a male. He asked a female
Speaker 6: counselor to talk to Sharing because he didn't feel comfortable,
Speaker 6: and so she brought her in the office and she said, Sharing,
Speaker 6: you know, if you're pregnant, your scholarship's going to be avoided.
Speaker 7: You can't have it. And Sharing says, I'm not pregnant.
Speaker 1: Sharon tried to hide it, but couldn't. She knew what
Speaker 1: was at stake. This was nineteen eighty six teenage pregnancy,
Speaker 1: particularly in the South was an incredible taboo. She lost
Speaker 1: her scholarship.
Speaker 8: They took it away from her because she was pregnant.
Speaker 8: They couldn't have that, which ridiculous. I mean, through all
Speaker 8: everything that she'd been through, not that they knew that,
Speaker 8: but I'm pretty sure she could have still gotten an
Speaker 8: aeronautics engineering degree and had a baby and taking care
Speaker 8: of it.
Speaker 3: You know, she could have juggled that.
Speaker 1: To me, this feels like such a knife twist. Charon
Speaker 1: already endured being kidnapped by Floyd, lied on his behalf,
Speaker 1: changed her name from Susie to Sharon, moved around, survived
Speaker 1: sexual abuse, and the one thing that stood in the
Speaker 1: way of her dreams was some old fashioned policy about
Speaker 1: teen pregnancy. Some say it was a school's decision. Curtis
Speaker 1: as Floyd kept her from college.
Speaker 9: He talked her out of going.
Speaker 1: Here's her friend Cherry again.
Speaker 8: People said that she wasn't at graduation. She was at graduation.
Speaker 8: We talked to her in the parking lot. She was
Speaker 8: in her cap and gown.
Speaker 3: I did see her, but she was nine months pregnant
Speaker 3: at graduation. That would not let her walk.
Speaker 1: Charon and made salutatorian. Basically, that's the runner up to
Speaker 1: the valedictorian. In other words, she was a damn good student.
Speaker 3: She looked so pregnant in that white gown. I don't
Speaker 3: even were talked about.
Speaker 8: I just remember, you know, standing out of the parking lot,
Speaker 8: talking about what was going to happen after her graduation,
Speaker 8: about the parties or whatever.
Speaker 1: But when Sherry went out that night, she didn't see
Speaker 1: Sharon like she had hoped. She didn't see her that
Speaker 1: summer either. Sharon just dropped off the map.
Speaker 3: It was that night, you know. It was after that night,
Speaker 3: which is never saw each o threed. She just disappeared.
Speaker 1: It's not like there were social media or even cell phones.
Speaker 1: With Sharon out of her house, there wasn't a landline
Speaker 1: to call. Sherry kind of assumed Sharon and going somewhere
Speaker 1: to have the baby, but wasn't sure what happened beyond that.
Speaker 8: I mean, I guess we must have thought that he
Speaker 8: took her somewhere to like a girls, you know, away
Speaker 8: where teenage girls or something.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but she.
Speaker 1: Never forgot about Sharon. Imagine what she'd be doing after
Speaker 1: college and into middle age.
Speaker 8: She'd probably be living in Texas working for NASA. I
Speaker 8: have a couple of sweet little kids.
Speaker 1: When Cherry thinks about Sharon, she can still picture her
Speaker 1: in the hallways at Forest Park High School.
Speaker 8: Probably just propped up against lockers, talking and just being
Speaker 8: the girls, laughing and being happy. When we finally get
Speaker 8: out of side of her dad. She had the you know,
Speaker 8: the blown out curl, super blonde, and she weared.
Speaker 3: She would wear Jason's letterman jacket, which.
Speaker 8: Would swallow her old because she was all of maybe
Speaker 8: five foot two.
Speaker 1: Sherry wouldn't be the only person to lose track of
Speaker 1: Sharon Marshall. She's right. Right after graduation, Sharon employed packed
Speaker 1: up and moved across country, just as Floyd had done
Speaker 1: for decades. It was by design. It's why he changed
Speaker 1: her name from Susie to Sharon. He didn't want her
Speaker 1: to ever be found. So let me tell you what
Speaker 1: actually happened. After graduation, Sharon, her boyfriend Curtis, and her
Speaker 1: father left Georgia.
Speaker 9: I pretty much sold everything I had so we could
Speaker 9: have money to move out to Arizona.
Speaker 1: Curtis wasn't exactly thrilled about the situation. He hated Floyd,
Speaker 1: said he was a rattic. He could yell at the
Speaker 1: top of his lungs in public.
Speaker 9: Sharon or Suzanne would giggle whenever he did that, like
Speaker 9: it was nothing, and I'm like sitting there looking at
Speaker 9: him like freaking morn. I was nice to him because
Speaker 9: of her, and there were a few times where I
Speaker 9: tried to talk her into her and I'd taken off
Speaker 9: somewhere else, but she didn't want to leave her dad.
Speaker 1: That's why Floyd followed him to Arizona. She didn't want
Speaker 1: to leave him behind. Previously, Floyd had done odd jobs
Speaker 1: for money, but now I let a teenager beat the breadwinner.
Speaker 9: At the time, waterbeds were still kind of popular, so
Speaker 9: I do some waterbed installing, so I would work. Those
Speaker 9: two would be at home at the apartment. It's a
Speaker 9: single level apartment, but I know that Diphit used to
Speaker 9: sleep on the couch most of the time. I'm always
Speaker 9: complaining about his back and excuse my friends sometimes, but
Speaker 9: I really hate that guy.
Speaker 1: One day, Curtis came home to a horrible surprise. There
Speaker 1: were two strangers standing in his apartment.
Speaker 9: She pulled me in the bedroom and told me the
Speaker 9: child not yours. I'm giving it up for adoption. And
Speaker 9: I'm like flabbergasted, and of course I get mad, I
Speaker 9: get pissed. I started screaming because I felt very betrayed.
Speaker 1: Curtis kicked the two out, he was so pissed off.
Speaker 9: They ended up moving to staying in a motel or
Speaker 9: something in town. She was a waitress somewhere last I heard,
Speaker 9: and I just I didn't talk to him again.
Speaker 1: At the time. Curtis Hitt now the full extent of
Speaker 1: Floyd's abuse, Mia said she can imagine how scared Sharon
Speaker 1: must have been.
Speaker 7: People want to judge and say, why didn't she do
Speaker 7: this and that?
Speaker 6: But how can you stand up to a man when
Speaker 6: you're that tiny and you're scared of death of him?
Speaker 7: So I'm sure she couldn't stand up. Jim sawen to
Speaker 7: stay with Curtis.
Speaker 1: The baby, born in nineteen eighty six, was put up
Speaker 1: for adoption in Arizona, and not long after Floyd and
Speaker 1: Sharon took off again. Floyd had a habit of ducking
Speaker 1: and dodging questions. He'd been doing this since the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 1: It's what allowed him to continue living as a fugitive.
Speaker 1: You could say Stateton federal agencies are also to blame.
Speaker 1: Considering how many cracks in the system that Susie fell through.
Speaker 1: Scott lob, the FBI investigator, said it was hard to
Speaker 1: pinpoint exactly where they went and why he.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't talk about it. He wouldn't talk to anybody about it.
Speaker 5: If he did, he he lied and just or just
Speaker 5: outright was defiant, said, I'm not going to say anything.
Speaker 1: This was the time before we had cell phones in
Speaker 1: our back pockets, bouncing across towers that tracked our every move.
Speaker 5: They didn't have the technology back then, you know, the
Speaker 5: instant access to the fingerprint database when he fingerprints somebody.
Speaker 5: But when he thought somebody was getting too close, if
Speaker 5: something didn't seem right to him, one of the neighbors
Speaker 5: gave him a sideways glance or started asking too many questions,
Speaker 5: he'd pick up and off they go to the next town.
Speaker 5: So he just continually moved when he felt the walls
Speaker 5: were closing in.
Speaker 1: Which led them to Florida. Two years after she graduated,
Speaker 1: Sharon was pregnant again. This time, it wasn't entirely clear
Speaker 1: who the baby's father was, but Floyd apparently thought it
Speaker 1: was his. The boy was born on April twenty first,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight. Sharon called him Michael Hughes Here's her
Speaker 1: friend Sherry.
Speaker 8: Michael was the only one he let her key, and
Speaker 8: he knew how much she loved him.
Speaker 1: While in Florida, they moved into the Golden Lantern trailer Park,
Speaker 1: and instead of doing anything related to aerospace or Georgia Tay,
Speaker 1: Sharon became a dancer at a strip club. It was
Speaker 1: called Mann's Venus, and there was a brunette dancer who
Speaker 1: apparently took a liking to Sharon. The two became fast friends.
Speaker 1: Her name was Cheryl and comesso. Cheryl was a natural performer.
Speaker 1: She always sang and danced, and she was even in
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty seven Miss Brandon beauty pageant, named for
Speaker 1: the town where she lived with her family. Her big
Speaker 1: dream was to be a playboy, and when Floyd tells
Speaker 1: Cheryl he could help her become a centerfold, she believed him.
Speaker 1: But in April nineteen eighty nine, Cheryl, who was eighteen
Speaker 1: at the time, left home to spend the night with friends.
Speaker 1: That was the last time anyone saw her. She had
Speaker 1: ended up being one of the many Jane does in
Speaker 1: this story. After Cheryl went missing, Sharon and Floyd left
Speaker 1: town again. By this point, they had moved so much
Speaker 1: they were always strangers to their neighbors. But this time
Speaker 1: Floyd settled on a new tactic. He married Sharon. He
Speaker 1: wasn't just abut her behind closed doors. Now, who's fixing
Speaker 1: to pass her off as his wife in public? In
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine, they got married in New Orleans. She
Speaker 1: was just nineteen years old and he was forty six.
Speaker 1: He used the name Clarence Marcus Hughes. Susie Sevegas, who
Speaker 1: had become Sharon Marshall, now took on another alias, Tanya
Speaker 1: don Hughes. Later he'd tell government investigators that it was
Speaker 1: a marriage of convenience so that Michael could have a father,
Speaker 1: and this marriage would help him fly under the radar.
Speaker 1: Authorities were looking for a man and his daughter, not
Speaker 1: a wife.
Speaker 5: They had dialed in where Franklin Floyd had taken her.
Speaker 5: He'd been all over the country with her, started in
Speaker 5: Georgia to Florida, eventually ending up in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: Tanya aka Sharon aka Susie worked as a dancer at
Speaker 1: an Oklahoma City strip club. After years on the run,
Speaker 1: Floyd was caught in Oklahoma City on a complaint of
Speaker 1: assaulting another woman.
Speaker 5: He was a handyman at an apartment complex and got
Speaker 5: caught in some girl's apartment.
Speaker 1: But Floyd, being slippery, wouldn't stay in custod deeper loan.
Speaker 1: He had continued dugging and dodging until authorities finally caught
Speaker 1: up with Floyd and locked him up permanently. This time
Speaker 1: the charge was murder. After high school graduation, Mia and
Speaker 1: Surry went on with their lives. Mia started organizing class reunions,
Speaker 1: but her old classmate Sharon never once showed up. Then
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety one, she got the news our.
Speaker 7: Five year reunions.
Speaker 6: Someone had said that she had passed away and we
Speaker 6: didn't know all the details.
Speaker 5: Sharon Marshall. She was found the victim of a hit
Speaker 5: and run accident in Oklahoma City and died five days
Speaker 5: later in a hospital.
Speaker 1: Mia remembers when Curtis found out, he got in.
Speaker 7: His car and drove four hours. I think he said
Speaker 7: to her grave.
Speaker 9: Site, and then I found out all was shit about Franklin.
Speaker 9: It was just stuff starting adding over my head, and
Speaker 9: so God, I wish I would have figured that out
Speaker 9: for a long time ago. She was approbably had a
Speaker 9: better lady, and you know, it really messed with me
Speaker 9: for a few years. I felt very guilty.
Speaker 1: This is what the police report said. In April nineteen ninety,
Speaker 1: a woman left her motel room in Oklahoma City to
Speaker 1: go to a convenience store to buy milk. She was
Speaker 1: wearing headphones as she walked along the center of an
Speaker 1: interstate road. She was struck by a car. Police identified
Speaker 1: her as Tanya Hughes, but when they went looking for
Speaker 1: a birth certificate, they found she used the name of
Speaker 1: an infant born in nineteen sixty seven who died in pneumonia.
Speaker 1: So who was she? As investigators started to piece this
Speaker 1: story together, they realized they hit and run victim was
Speaker 1: Sharon Marshall. I know what you're thinking. There are so
Speaker 1: many unanswered questions, including.
Speaker 5: A big one.
Speaker 1: Who was behind the wheel of the hit and run?
Speaker 1: Next time on Hello John Doe.
Speaker 5: The actual folders for the case, I would say, would
Speaker 5: stack about six feet high. It's one of the most
Speaker 5: unique cases I was ever involved with.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I screamed, sometimes I cried.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 4: It was like reading a horror story that you're a
Speaker 4: part of, but not a part of.
Speaker 5: I'm about to put my hand up to cut him off,
Speaker 5: and that's when he leaned back, closed his eyes, lifted
Speaker 5: his head a little bit, and I realized at that
Speaker 5: point he was recalling facts.
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