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As a teenager, Sharon Marshall appeared to have the whole world open to her. She was reportedly a Lieutenant Colonel in the ROTC and one of the best and brightest students in her class, an undeniably intelligent young woman with a kind heart to match. Upon graduating from high school in 1986 from Forest Park, Georgia,Sharon had earned a full ride scholarship to the Georgia Institute of Technology with the plan to study aerospace engineering so that she could fulfill her dream of working at NASA. Despite this incredible opportunity, Sharon never went to college as she was harboring a secret. Sharon was pregnant during the final months of high school by her boyfriend, who she never told about the baby. Sharon hid her secret well and she ended up giving birth and allowing a wealthy couple from Texasto adopt the baby boy. However, the pregnancy had shaken up her life plans and at one point, she apparently even tried unsuccessfully to run away with her boyfriend. After losing her chance to attend college,Sharon ended up moving to Tampa, Florida for a new start with a man named Franklin Delano Floyd. Despite having moved with Frank, Sharon started to date another man,and she was soon pregnant for a second time. She once again, never told the baby's father about the pregnancy. This time however, she chose to keep the child and raise it with Frank. Sharon gave birth to her son Michael Gregory Marshall in 1988. Frank and Sharon had a complicated relationship. It wasn't quite clear if it was romantic or not,but the two lived together and both provided for Sharon's son Michael. Frank worked as a painter,but he frequently suffered from a bad back and so he was rarely able to actually work. Because of this, Sharon became an exotic dancer to provide for them but they also began to rely on welfare checks to survive. Her coworkers thought of Sharon as kind and friendly,but she was especially close to an 18-year-old co-worker named Cheryl Commesso. Despite the women's friendship, Frank and Cheryl were known to have frequent disagreements,though there were reports that the two of them may have been involved in a brief relationship. On a weekend in 1989,Frank, Sharon, and Cheryl went on a boating trip together, where a fight broke out between Cheryl and Frank. Following the argument, Cheryl allegedly reported Sharon to Social Services for misrepresenting her true income as an exotic dancer. Sharon had been hiding some of the money she made to still get checks from the government, but Cheryl's call meant that Sharon no longer qualified for welfare aid. Enraged by Cheryl's actions, Frank went to the club where Sharon and Cheryl both worked and confronted her just outside the business. Witnesses reported that Frank actually punched Cheryl in the face during the altercation. Shortly after, Cheryl left her father's house to travel to stay with a friend, but when she never called her dad to tell him that she had arrived safely, he reported her missing. Her abandoned Corvette was discovered at the airport and an investigation ensued to find the missing woman. Both Frank and Sharon were seen as persons of interest but for years, no evidence ever arose to connect them to Cheryl's disappearance. The two quickly packed up and left the area, which only increased suspicion, especially since they started using different names as they traveled. Frank and Sharon ended up etting married in 1989. And Frank claimed itwas to give Sharon's son is family name to belong to,though the couple frequently went by different aliases. They ended up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, here Sharon was once again, working as an exotic dancer. Sharon easily made friends everywhere the couple of went, but no one seemed to like Frank as he was aggressive and unpleasant. Reportedly, Frank once gain, got into a fight with another dancer Sharon worked with,and when the woman yelled that Sharon should leave him, he responded, "If she ever left me, I'd kill the."Little did Frank know, Sharon was making plans to leave him for a man she had met at the club where she worked. She have left Frank earlier, but she was afraid of what he would do to her or her son, Michael. Before she was ever able to leave though, Sharon was the victim of a sudden accident. She was found unconscious by a highway and it appeared as though she had been the victim of a hit and run. Frank claimed that he was asleep at the time of the accident. Though rushed to the hospital, Sharon never regained consciousness. Her friends from the club would come to visit her where she recovered, and many claimed that she was getting better, but Frank soon banned them from seeing her without explanation. Five days after the incident, Sharon died from her injuries, but many were suspicious of Frank's strange actions, especially since Sharon seemed to be recovering before suddenly dying. The doctor was also suspicious and based off of old bruises he noticed on her body,he classified her death as a homicide and even said that the head injury that killed Sharon may not have been caused by a vehicle. Though no one could prove that Frank had been the one to run over Sharon, or that he had possibly killed her while in the hospital, many came to that same conclusion, especially when her coworkers had been the ones to pay for her headstone rather than Frank. Frank soon contacted life insurance companies to claim the $80,000 policy he had taken out on Sharon only a few months prior to her death. The problem was that Frank frequently used aliases and so the social security numbers he provided never matched his name. After a few tries, he finally provided his real name, Frank Delano Floyd. It was then that all of Frank's lies began to unravel. It turned out that he had quite the criminal history. When Frank was 19 in 1962, he was convicted of abducting and assaulting a four-year-old girl,which resulted in him being sentenced to serve 10 to 20 years in prison. However, he escaped the mental hospital where he was first placed by stealing a vehicle. Frank's shocking story was only beginning as the day after his escape, he robbed a bank and was subsequently captured again. In 1972, Frank was released, but almost immediately he tried to abduct a woman from a gas station and was once again arrested.This time however, he paid his bail,but skipped his court date. A federal warrant was issued for his arrest but he quickly vanished and began using fake names while on the run. That is until he finally had to give his real full name to the life insurance company. Frank attempted to flee from authorities but he was soon captured in Georgia and placed in prison to finish his sentence.For the friends of Sharon, they felt that Frank's arrest was a way to serve justice to her untimely death. During this time, Frank had reportedly given Michael to Social Services before he went on the run,and Michael was soon put into the foster care system where he was placed with a loving family.However, everyone was shocked by the little boy's behavior as he appeared to be non-verbal and what only scream and moan to communicate.Frank insisted he was Michael's father and so the child was frequently brought to visit him while incarcerated. When Michael showed hesitance to visit Frank,a DNA test was eventually performed. Even though Frank initially resisted, it was discovered that despite what Frank said, Michael was not his biological child and so the visits were stopped. But this shocking story doesn't end here,and it was far from over. When Frank was finally released from prison in September of 1994 after serving four years, he started stalking Michael and his foster parents in Oklahoma. He knew he would never be given custody of the child and so he devised a plan to take him. On September 12th, 1994, Frank showed up at Michael's elementary school and demanded to see theprincipal, James Davis. When he wasn't allowed to take Michael, Frank pulled out a gun and threatened Davis. Michael was finally collected, all without alerting anyone at the school. And Frank forced the principal under gunpoint to take the two of them to an area a few miles from the school grounds. There, Frank tied Davis to a tree, leaving him unharmed,and fled with Michael in Davis's truck. When the abduction was finally known, a frantic search began, but it would take two long months for anything to be discovered. Frank was found in Louisville, Kentucky and arrested, but there was no sign of Michael. Even after extensive searches,there was no trace of what had happened to the little boy and Frank refused to tell anyone. Talking about Michael to the police, Frank stated, "It's none of your business where he is nor do I care how much any of you in Oklahoma miss him or love him." The first of many twists was revealed during Frank's trial for kidnapping Michael. In 1995, skeletal remains were found covered in vines in Pinellas County, Florida. The remains weren't immediately identified, but an investigation determined that the victim had died from a beating and two gunshot wounds to the head.