Franklin Delano Floyd

Franklin Delano Floyd (June 17, 1943 – January 23, 2023) was an American murderer, rapist 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, whom 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.