I spoke with one of the federal investigators who put Franklin Floyd in prison in 1995 (for kidnapping Michael Hughes) and passed along the tidbit from one of Sharon's classmates about hearing a toddler in the background during phone calls with Sharon.
His first thought was that perhaps it was Sharon's child. Then he thought again and suggested that the boy was another of Floyd's victims, stolen from his mother and headed for destination unknown. There's really no way to know, but it does open a door into Floyd's world and prompts discussion as to whether he was even more of a monster than we believed. As it stands he's still rotting in a Florida prison. Anyone hoping he'd get zapped into oblivion anytime soon will be disappointed to know some of the evidence from his trial was lost and he'll most likely avoid the executioner and live out the rest of his days on the taxpayers dime behind bars. I've heard from a good number of readers who want to visit with Floyd hoping a passionate appeal would somehow lead him to divulging Sharon's origins. Forget it. You'd have better luck trying to talk a banana into peeling itself. I spent six hours with the man during prison interviews and came to the (quick) conclusion he was more than a sociopath - he was a vicious killer. That opinion was quickly formed after Floyd showed me disturbing photos he took of a severely beaten, nearly unconscious Cheryl Commesso. He obtained the photos while representing himself during his murder trial, and they revealed how he had burned the young woman with cigarettes throughout her body. He also left her bloodied and near death before shooting her twice in the head. We'll keep everyone posted when new leads come in.
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Dianna
1/27/2011 12:37:04 pm
Sadly, I don't think we will ever know all of the crimes that this man has committed.
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Renee
3/23/2011 06:12:01 pm
what if floyde never left oklahoma with precious michael anthony??!!!? i mean floyde waited a while to execute an extravagant mind shocking plan to kidnap michael. seeing that floyde is not intelligent and not presuasive but rather erratic, pitiable, and enormous sense of pitiful cowardice. in which maybe contact other fellow scum to trade off/drop michael to an older couple so desperate for a child for reasons unknown but floyde knew it would be a matter of time before he would be in custody again. but sooner than later, like he was. simply pushing all search resorces for michael to go towards following his unfathomable natural stench that the search for michael went cold. not because of his lies of the "mafia" etc... but rather the only time he felt incontrol and the only time he came to the illusion of being witty/smart feared was with the company of girl known as sharon marshall and many other aliases, that floyde cannot stand the thought of no one outing him for what and who he really is.!! a degenerate illegitimate unfathomable parasite. just an observation and of my own opinion.
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carey
5/23/2011 06:43:36 am
Hi Matt. Nice to hear you have a new book coming. Will watch for it, whens the release?
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Cindy
2/2/2012 02:29:04 pm
Matt,
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Jill
1/19/2013 05:45:44 am
That's okay, I'm sure there is no time limit on how long they will hold floyd's place in Hell.
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deirdre
7/4/2013 09:30:12 pm
Hi matt, im in the middle of reading ur book for the second time its by far my fave book an ive read a lot of books on serial killers, u wrote it very well. This book haunts me an gets me to the core its so horrible wat that young girl went through, thank us much for writing it. The police should have kept floyd in prison all them years ago he was always a danger to women if so this story would never have happened
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10/14/2013 05:02:05 am
Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact
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