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[man 1] It's late at night
in Oklahoma City, in April of 1990.
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[indistinct radio chatter]
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Two or three guys are in a truck
driving along the road.
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And they see some kind of debris.
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-[engine stops]
-[vehicle door opens, closes]
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[suspenseful music playing]
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And then they see off to the side,
there's a body.
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And it appears to be a young woman,
a blonde-haired woman.
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[sirens wailing]
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And they call an ambulance.
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She's rushed to the hospital,
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and her husband, Clarence,
eventually shows up.
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He says her name is Tonya Hughes,
that she's a stripper in Tulsa,
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and that they have
a young son named Michael.
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And he's much older
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and he's just kind of this weird guy.
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So, the doctors,
as they continue to examine her,
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they see old bruises.
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They see old injuries.
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There's something wrong with this picture.
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[monitor beeping rapidly]
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Ultimately, she passes away.
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[flatlining]
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[pensive music playing]
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The girls Tonya danced with
want to find her family.
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So they call this woman
and they tell her that her daughter died.
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And she says,
"What are you talking about?"
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"My daughter died 20 years ago.
She was only 18 months old."
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They realize that
who they just buried was not Tonya Hughes.
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So now they're asking,
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"What happened?"
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"And who the hell is she?"
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[pensive music continues]
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[film whirring]
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[music continues]
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[music fades]
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[bottles clinking]
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I met Tonya at Passions
in the fall of 1989.
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[electro music playing]
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We became friends
because we were the babies of the group.
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[electro music continues]
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And so we just kind of clicked together.
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We weren't like
the biker-chick type girls.
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We were just kind of like the type of girl
that went to school, graduated.
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I was going to college at that point.
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And so we had a lot in common.
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I could tell she was smart.
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You know, constantly reading.
Always wanting to get more knowledge.
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We talked all the time.
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Tonya was my best friend.
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[indistinct chatter]
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[Karen] When I met Tonya,
I met her husband, Clarence.
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He was an older man,
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and they had a two-year-old son, Michael.
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[relaxing music playing]
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Her son meant everything to her.
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He was her world.
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He was always smiling and happy.
I mean, he loved her so much.
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[music continues]
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Every time I've seen them together,
Michael would be right next to his mother.
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He wouldn't be next to Clarence at all.
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I asked her,
"Why don't we take Michael to the zoo?"
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And she's like, "No, no, no, no."
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Michael couldn't go anywhere
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with her alone.
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When we use dressing rooms,
you see each other.
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She had bruises.
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The whole backside of her.
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She said she'd slipped and fallen,
but I know different.
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[sniffling] And it was bad.
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[tense music playing]
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And it got worse.
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It kept getting worse.
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One day, Tonya came and told me
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that Clarence had taken
a life insurance policy out on her.
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She was terrified.
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She really wanted to run,
but she had Michael
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and he kept him under lock and key.
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Very lock and key.
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I think she was scared
he was going to hurt her and him.
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And I don't think she could've gotten
Michael away from Clarence.
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She… She was stuck
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and didn't know how to get out.
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[siren wailing]
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[Karen] Clarence called me
on April 25th, 1990,
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and told me that she'd been involved
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in a hit-and-run in Oklahoma City.
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[siren wailing]
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[suspenseful music playing]
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She never told me
that they were going out of town.
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[vehicles passing by]
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Why shouldn't she tell me that?
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None of it felt right.
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[suspenseful music playing]
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[man 2] Tonya Hughes arrived, uh,
sometime after midnight.
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She had a medium-severe
closed-head injury.
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She needed to be placed in the ICU
and treated as best we could
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with intravenous fluids,
medications to control her blood pressure,
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and medications
to control the brain swelling.
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Now, Clarence told me
that she was in the ICU,
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and that she was not allowed any visitors.
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I wasn't supposed to go see her,
nobody was supposed to go see her,
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but I went up anyway.
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And that's when the nurses came in,
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and that's when they told me
that they felt this was foul play.
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The nurses told me
it wasn't a hit-and-run.
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But what caught my attention
was the scratch marks right here.
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Like, somebody's hand scratches.
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To me, it looked like
she had been in a fight.
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[monitor beeping]
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[Engles] She was in pretty good shape,
considering an auto-pedestrian accident.
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Her vital signs were stable.
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But she, uh, seemed
to have a sinking spell
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and it… it was a mystery to me.
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[monitor beeping rapidly]
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[flatlining]
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[Karen] I'd gotten home and the phone
had rang. It was the hospital.
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That she had passed.
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[somber music playing]
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She was 20 years old when she died.
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[sobbing]
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[birds chirping]
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And that's how we found out
her name wasn't her name.
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[somber music continues]
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Her name wasn't actually Tonya Hughes,
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and we didn't know
who she was at that point.
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That's why we only put "Tonya"
on her tombstone
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And I don't think Michael was safe
with Clarence at all. At all.
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The hospital asked me
about Michael's condition
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and said that he was not talking.
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And I go, "That's not him."
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And that's when they gave me
the information to go to DHS.
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DHS came and got Michael
and put him in a foster home.
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[film whirring]
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[gentle music playing]
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-There he is.
-That's it.
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-Uh-huh. Mickey Mouse Club.
-Yeah.
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We had to wear
the Mickey Mouse hat that day.
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We got Michael on May 1st of 1990.
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Michael's mom passed away the day before,
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and he had just celebrated
his second birthday.
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We got instructions from the caseworker
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that he's still on the bottle
and he can only have Pepsi.
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If you ever told him no,
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he would go into hysteria.
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He would lay on the floor,
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like right out there
on that ceramic floor,
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and he would bang his head on the floor.
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He'd raise his head that high--
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Yeah, to the point where we were afraid
he was gonna injure himself.
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It was messed up in a way,
but he was a good kid.
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[Merle] The very first night
I took him off the Pepsi.
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Took him off the bottle.
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And just gave him a cup with milk in it.
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And so, you know, I thought,
"Man, what am I doing?"
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You know,
when you take a baby off a bottle,
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they're not too happy
the first few nights.
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Well, he started to settle.
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By the end of that week…
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-[Ernest] …he's a different kid.
-…he's a different kid.
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I never thought I'd see the day
that he would do that.
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We get Michael for four years.
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Just over the first two years,
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he actually started to grow
emotionally, physically, mentally.
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[happy music playing]
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The… The whole time we had Michael
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his dad had tried to get Michael back.
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[Clarence] My son is punished
for wanting to see his dad.
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Locked in his room,
his toys are taken away,
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and he told…
he's told that his dad's a mean man.
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We cannot allow removal of child
from a non-cruel and abusive home
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due to a wet diaper
or perceived lack of affection,
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which I was unable to give my son
during a period of a weak time
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when my wife died tragically.
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[Ernest] Now, he had visiting rights.
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Michael was made to go for visits.
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Michael didn't like that.
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We would tell Michael
that he had to go see his dad.
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He would crawl up under the piano bench
and he just kept saying,
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"That mean man.
That mean man. That mean man."
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It wasn't a good day for Michael, ever.
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[Clarence] Let me leave this thought
with you.
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Broken homes and cruel things
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perpetrated on children
cause a criminal to be born.
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[ominous music plays]
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It was assumed by everybody
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-that he was the father.
-…that he was the dad.
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DHS called me and said that, um,
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we needed to take Michael
for a paternity test.
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The paternity test came about
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and it was proven
he was not the father in any way.
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No… No biological relation.
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[suspenseful music playing]
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[Merle] And they terminated
his parental rights.
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So then the visits stopped.
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So that same week,
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this pickup truck came by
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and this man is going, like,
five or ten miles an hour.
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He just kept looking at me the whole time.
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I'm thinking, "What's the man looking at?"
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I had this hunch. I don't know what.
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And I called DHS and I said,
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"Can you tell me what kind of vehicle
Clarence Hughes drives
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or what he looks like?"
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And when they described him to me, I said,
"That man was just by my house."
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Then they said, "You're just paranoid."
And I said,
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"No, I really feel like
something's going on."
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[ominous music playing]
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[man 3] On September 12th, 1994,
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we got the call that there was a man
had been tied to a tree in the woods,
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handcuffed, duct-taped.
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[music continues]
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The suspect casually walked in.
He asked to see the principal.
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He said he was there to get his son.
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He actually pulled a gun
partially out of his pocket.
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And said, "I wanna get Michael,
and you're gonna help me do that."
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He told me that he was ready to die.
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If I didn't help him,
I wasn't going to live.
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[Billy] And then he walked
into the classroom,
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with the principal at gunpoint
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and kidnapped Michael from the school,
along with the principal.
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He said, "We're gonna walk out here,
we're gonna take your truck."
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"And I want you to drive
a little ways to a dirt road."
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They stopped eventually.
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The principal was walked
into the wood line
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where he was handcuffed to a tree
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and then duct-taped
around his face and mouth.
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Eventually, after a period of time,
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someone found him
and called the authorities.
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After we cleared the scene,
we went ahead and contacted the FBI.
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The next day, agent Joe Fitzpatrick
came to my office, introduced himself.
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[pensive music playing]
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[objects clattering]
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[bell tinkling]
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[Joe] You fight more crime
in New York City on the way home
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than you do here in Oklahoma City.
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We don't have many kidnappings
in Oklahoma,
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but if we had a kidnapping,
I knew it was coming to me.
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In kidnappings, you wanna make
the recovery in the first 48 hours.
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If you don't,
your chances go down drastically.
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The very first thing we did
was put out an all-points bulletin.
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All the agencies in Oklahoma
were on the lookout for a young boy
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by the name of Michael Hughes,
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who had been taken by a person
claiming to be the boy's father,
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Clarence Hughes.
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We pulled his file and saw that in 1990,
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he tried to collect
on his wife's life insurance policy.
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But the social security number he gave
was for a man named Franklin Floyd.
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So Clarence Hughes's real name
was Franklin Delano Floyd.
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[dramatic music playing]
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Franklin Floyd had so many aliases.
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Trenton Davis, Warren Marshall,
and Clarence Hughes.
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We also realized that Franklin Floyd
had been in a halfway house.
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The fact he's in a halfway house
means he came out of prison.
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So I immediately pulled
his criminal record.
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In 1962, he abducted a girl.
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He robbed a bank in 1963.
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He was released
into a halfway house in 1972.
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Then in 1973, he attacked a female.
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He was arrested, posted bail,
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but then he failed
to appear in court for trial.
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He'd been on the run ever since that time,
and a fugitive for almost two decades.
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All this information together,
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very simple to analyze
that we had a real problem.
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[newsreader 1] Franklin Floyd spent
ten years in prison in the '60s.
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After getting out,
he didn't report to his parole officer
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and was missing for the next 17 years.
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[newsreader 2] He was an expert
in being on the run
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and knew how to conceal his identity.
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[pensive music playing]
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And there were real questions
about the boy's mother,
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who had died four years before.
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[newsreader 2] The finger of blame
started pointing at Franklin Delano Floyd
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when co-workers of Tonya's,
from a Tulsa strip joint called Passions,
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went to police with their story.
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[ominous music playing]
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When I first learned that Tonya was
actually killed by a hit-and-run driver,
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it was more than likely
Franklin Floyd had committed that.
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I mean, this guy was gonna be violent.
Catching him might be tricky.
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[music continues]
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Behavioral Science told me I had a week.
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Said after a week, Floyd would
most likely get tired of the boy,
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and he'd become a liability,
and he would kill him.
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[newsreader 3] Floyd and young boy
are believed to be driving
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in a 1994 Ford pickup, full size.
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The tag number, QCN305,
Oklahoma license plate.
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[newsreader 4] Tonya Hughes
was the mother of the boy
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kidnapped from the Choctaw school,
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but she was run over by a car
in Oklahoma City in 1990.
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[newsreader 5]
Leads concerning Michael Hughes
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should be directed to the FBI at 842-7471.
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In 1994, there was a big news report,
um, about the kidnapping.
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My mom was watching the news and she said,
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"Jenny, they have her under
a different name. Some name Tonya."
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"But that's Sharon. I'm telling you,
that's Sharon on the news."
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And I was like, "What's wrong?"
You know, "Is Sharon on the news?"
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"Are they interviewing her?
What's going on?"
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[sobbing] And my mom said, "No."
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"She is-- Sharon's dead."
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[sniffling]
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I called the FBI.
I called the hotline and I said, you know,
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"There was a news report we had on about
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a girl named Tonya."
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"I know who she is."
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"Her name is Sharon Marshall."
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[sniffling] "She was
my high school best friend."
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[film whirring]
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[upbeat music playing]
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I met Sharon in 1984
at the student council camp.
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[woman] I was a classmate
of Sharon Marshall.
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We were in the gifted program together
at Forest Park Senior High.
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Sharon was in class of 86.
I was class of '87.
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I had two full years
with her being my best friend.
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It's a typical high school.
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[Sherry] Wild hallways, crazy kids.
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[whistling]
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People sneaking out
to the back parking lot to smoke.
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We would go to a mall
just to look for boys.
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We all had big hair and crazy clothes.
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It was just your normal
1980s high school kind of vibe.
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[Jenny] It all started
when I met Sharon at that summer camp.
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It was just instant best friends.
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I felt, from the first day,
I had known her my whole life.
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I remember her
the first day she came into that class
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because all the boys went, "Wow!" [laughs]
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She was just super smart. She was in ROTC.
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She was in science club.
She was in the gifted program.
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She had a lot going on for her.
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Sharon's friends were the outcasts.
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We weren't really all that popular.
We were the gifted kids.
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You know, the gifted kids are
not necessarily usually the popular ones.
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[chuckles]
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"Sherry, your yearbook's as bad as mine
to find a place to sign."
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"You're a really sweet and strange girl."
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"Stay that way."
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"Keep your unique style and be yourself."
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"Love you, Sharon Marshall."
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She always went for the underdogs.
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Just the kind of person she was.
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[Lynn] High school, for me,
was a little tough.
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I was smaller than the other guys.
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I was involved in art.
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Being almost beat up, being called a fag.
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That was normal.
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00:21:20,821 --> 00:21:23,991
And my sophomore and junior years
were only made happy
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due to a couple of people.
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And one of those people
was Sharon Marshall.
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During school,
there was always a note for me
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that said, "Hey, Ray baby."
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"Hope you're having a good day.
I love you, Sharon."
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[Jenny] She was very mature for her age.
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She was very adamant from day one
that she wanted to go to Georgia Tech,
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and she wanted to be
an aerospace engineer.
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I remember the phone call when she called
and she was screaming on the phone.
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"I did it. I got in."
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"I got accepted to Georgia Tech,
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and I got a full scholarship,
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and I'm gonna be
in the aerospace engineering department."
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She was so excited.
It was the best day of her life.
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And she was so, so happy.
It's all she talked about.
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Her dad bought a full-page ad
in the yearbook
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to congratulate her
on the scholarship at Georgia Tech.
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Dad said, "Lookout, Georgia Tech!"
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"Hello, future Air Force General
and aeronautical engineering career. Dad."
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00:22:36,938 --> 00:22:38,940
There were parents
who took out full-page ads
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but they were all baby pictures
and, you know…
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Why would a dad
choose something sexy for his daughter?
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That doesn't make any sense.
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We just thought her dad
was really strict and really weird.
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[Jenny] The first time I met her father
was when he brought Sharon up to my house.
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He pulled my dad aside
and asked for a loan.
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And my dad said, "No way." [laughs]
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You know, "No."
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And that put a real bad taste
in my parents' mouth.
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And that was day one.
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She told me
her mother was hit by a car on a bridge
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and died when she was in the second grade.
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She was in charge
of cooking dinner every night.
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Um, she wasn't… wasn't really allowed
to talk on the phone.
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She said, "Don't call here too much unless
I know in advance you're gonna call."
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"But I can call you."
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As soon as he would come home,
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I mean, she would get real anxious
in her voice
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and she's like, "Okay, okay, I got to go."
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00:23:42,462 --> 00:23:43,713
You know? And she would hang up.
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00:23:43,797 --> 00:23:44,923
[line disconnects]
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00:23:47,384 --> 00:23:49,052
[phone ringing]
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And I remember the phone call
when she called,
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and she's bawling her eyes out,
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00:23:54,141 --> 00:23:55,976
and she said she was pregnant.
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00:23:57,811 --> 00:24:00,397
And I remember, um, being shocked.
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You know, crying
when she told me she was pregnant.
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And going, you know,
"Oh my God, what are you going to do?"
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00:24:05,944 --> 00:24:08,572
[tense music playing]
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She's like, "Well, I'm gonna have it.
I'm gonna put him up for adoption."
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00:24:13,702 --> 00:24:16,204
"But Daddy won't let me go
to college now."
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00:24:17,831 --> 00:24:20,750
"You have to, you got a scholarship.
You're going to Tech. You're so smart."
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00:24:20,834 --> 00:24:23,587
"You wanna be an aerospace engineer.
You're gonna do all these things."
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00:24:23,670 --> 00:24:25,589
She said,
"Somebody has to take care of Daddy."
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00:24:25,672 --> 00:24:26,715
[receiver clicks]
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00:24:30,510 --> 00:24:34,347
[Lynn] I think it actually crushed her,
not being able to go to Georgia Tech,
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00:24:34,431 --> 00:24:36,641
because that's all she worked for.
406
00:24:37,767 --> 00:24:39,769
I mean, that's all she worked for.
407
00:24:40,937 --> 00:24:42,939
[ominous music playing]
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00:24:49,196 --> 00:24:51,114
Sharon called one day and said,
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00:24:51,198 --> 00:24:52,949
"We're leaving in a coupla days
for Arizona."
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00:24:56,578 --> 00:24:58,497
She said, "I'm gonna
have the baby out there."
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00:24:58,580 --> 00:25:01,416
And she told me
she was gonna put him up for adoption.
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00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:03,460
She said Daddy wouldn't let her keep it.
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00:25:11,343 --> 00:25:13,345
[film whirring]
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00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:20,101
[newsreader] Police say
51-year-old Franklin Floyd
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00:25:20,185 --> 00:25:21,895
entered the Indian Meridian…
416
00:25:21,978 --> 00:25:24,689
[Walsh] Twice now,
America's Most Wanted highlighted
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00:25:24,773 --> 00:25:26,149
the Michael Hughes abduction.
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00:25:26,233 --> 00:25:30,237
After last Saturday's episode, the show
got close to 20 calls from viewers
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00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,031
who claim to know something
about the boy's whereabouts.
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00:25:33,114 --> 00:25:36,952
One of these tips is going to be the tip
that leads us to Michael Hughes.
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00:25:38,328 --> 00:25:40,997
When Michael went missing,
it was all over the news.
422
00:25:41,081 --> 00:25:44,584
And I believe
that's when I met Joe Fitzpatrick.
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00:25:44,668 --> 00:25:46,795
[suspenseful music playing]
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00:25:50,298 --> 00:25:53,677
And, um, I sat and talked with him
for hours.
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00:25:56,179 --> 00:26:01,351
And he said, "Jenny, not only is she dead,
but she's not who you think she is."
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00:26:04,521 --> 00:26:07,399
[Joe] We showed her photographs
of Tonya Hughes.
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00:26:07,983 --> 00:26:11,111
And she said
that was who she knew as Sharon Marshall.
428
00:26:14,322 --> 00:26:18,410
And that, uh, this man
who we knew as Clarence Hughes
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00:26:18,493 --> 00:26:22,080
was who she knew
as Sharon's father, Warren Marshall.
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00:26:24,332 --> 00:26:26,334
[Jenny] They thought this was his wife.
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00:26:26,418 --> 00:26:28,712
They said, "They're married."
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00:26:28,795 --> 00:26:33,049
And I'm like, "No, that's her father.
They're not married."
433
00:26:33,133 --> 00:26:35,176
And they said,
"No, honey, they're married."
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00:26:35,260 --> 00:26:37,887
And I was like, "No. That was her father."
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00:26:40,265 --> 00:26:45,437
We had a portrait of very different people
of who Sharon was.
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00:26:51,276 --> 00:26:53,695
[Joe] We realized,
after talking to Jenny Fisher,
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00:26:53,778 --> 00:26:56,239
that Tonya also had aliases.
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00:26:56,781 --> 00:26:58,950
[suspenseful music playing]
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00:26:59,034 --> 00:27:04,039
We discovered that,
in 1989, one year before her death,
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they changed their names.
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00:27:06,416 --> 00:27:08,501
Sharon Marshall became Tonya,
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00:27:08,585 --> 00:27:12,213
and Warren Marshall
became Clarence Hughes.
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00:27:13,882 --> 00:27:18,553
And the names they used
were taken off tombstones in Alabama.
444
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,184
And then they got married
under the new names, in New Orleans,
445
00:27:25,185 --> 00:27:27,979
which means
this man married his own daughter.
446
00:27:29,564 --> 00:27:30,982
It was unbelievable.
447
00:27:32,692 --> 00:27:34,194
One question led to another.
448
00:27:34,277 --> 00:27:36,863
And soon police were wondering
just who they were dealing with.
449
00:27:36,946 --> 00:27:39,699
Investigation showed
she went by many names,
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00:27:39,783 --> 00:27:43,119
like Tonya D. Hughes
and Tonya Dawn Tadlock.
451
00:27:43,203 --> 00:27:45,622
But who was this woman and who killed her?
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00:27:46,748 --> 00:27:47,874
There's a big question here.
453
00:27:47,957 --> 00:27:52,212
What happened to Sharon Marshall
in this time period between high school
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00:27:52,295 --> 00:27:54,631
until she was found dead
on the side of the road?
455
00:27:54,714 --> 00:27:56,716
-[film whirring]
-[somber music playing]
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00:27:59,803 --> 00:28:01,429
Her death was suspicious.
457
00:28:03,682 --> 00:28:06,309
But there was no proof
that Floyd killed her.
458
00:28:08,937 --> 00:28:10,897
What happened to Sharon Marshall?
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00:28:10,980 --> 00:28:12,982
[music continues]
460
00:28:24,577 --> 00:28:25,787
[dramatic whoosh]
461
00:28:25,870 --> 00:28:27,872
[music fades]
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00:28:30,542 --> 00:28:32,252
[Jenny] I heard from her one time.
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00:28:32,335 --> 00:28:34,504
She told me, you know, "We're moving some,
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00:28:34,587 --> 00:28:36,464
we're going to go out West.
We're doing this…"
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00:28:36,548 --> 00:28:39,259
They, somehow, in all of that,
ended up down in Tampa.
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00:28:42,554 --> 00:28:46,516
She was employed as a stripper
in one of the clubs there.
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00:28:49,602 --> 00:28:52,647
[woman] Mons Venus, in the late 1980s,
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00:28:52,731 --> 00:28:57,318
was the only place to go
for adult entertainment.
469
00:28:57,861 --> 00:28:59,612
[rock music playing]
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00:29:03,575 --> 00:29:08,705
This was known as a place
that had the most beautiful girls
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00:29:08,788 --> 00:29:09,914
in the world.
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00:29:10,915 --> 00:29:13,543
We didn't just wear lingerie.
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00:29:13,626 --> 00:29:17,046
We wore amazing French lingerie.
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00:29:17,130 --> 00:29:18,923
We were the best of everything.
475
00:29:20,633 --> 00:29:23,887
We had everyone come through here.
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00:29:24,429 --> 00:29:25,680
Women.
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00:29:25,764 --> 00:29:27,182
Athletes.
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00:29:27,265 --> 00:29:28,349
Musicians.
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00:29:29,267 --> 00:29:30,310
Businessmen.
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00:29:31,186 --> 00:29:33,188
Every night, it felt like a party.
481
00:29:33,271 --> 00:29:34,898
[film whirring]
482
00:29:45,950 --> 00:29:49,996
I remember the day that
Sharon Marshall walked through the door.
483
00:29:50,538 --> 00:29:53,249
She looked like a living baby doll.
484
00:29:54,417 --> 00:29:57,504
She dressed very innocent.
485
00:29:59,214 --> 00:30:01,132
She had a full lace cover-up.
486
00:30:01,633 --> 00:30:05,804
So she was never walking around
completely naked like everyone else.
487
00:30:07,597 --> 00:30:09,641
She really did look like a little girl.
488
00:30:12,477 --> 00:30:14,729
She was very shy.
489
00:30:15,730 --> 00:30:18,191
She just really didn't talk
about her past.
490
00:30:19,025 --> 00:30:21,194
And she didn't talk about herself.
491
00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:26,407
But she and I were starting
to become friends.
492
00:30:27,075 --> 00:30:31,079
And that's when
the girls in the club started telling me
493
00:30:31,162 --> 00:30:34,958
about her dad
and their weird relationship.
494
00:30:39,128 --> 00:30:44,050
Sharon's dad told her
that she needed to inquire
495
00:30:44,133 --> 00:30:46,219
about the parties that I was setting up,
496
00:30:46,302 --> 00:30:49,013
and she needed to tell me
that she was available.
497
00:30:49,097 --> 00:30:51,266
[rock and roll music playing]
498
00:30:56,020 --> 00:30:58,523
There is this millionaire's club here
499
00:30:58,606 --> 00:31:02,402
and their parties were the easiest to do.
500
00:31:03,111 --> 00:31:06,739
You dance three songs, no lap dancing.
501
00:31:06,823 --> 00:31:08,408
No one touches you.
502
00:31:08,491 --> 00:31:12,537
And walk out of there with,
you know, 500 to 1,000 dollars.
503
00:31:12,620 --> 00:31:15,665
And that was the first party
I took Sharon to.
504
00:31:18,459 --> 00:31:21,045
One of the men told me,
505
00:31:21,713 --> 00:31:25,842
"You'd better go get Sharon
and I need her to leave now."
506
00:31:25,925 --> 00:31:28,261
"She's in front of the women's bathroom."
507
00:31:29,554 --> 00:31:32,056
She was standing outside, at the door,
508
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:38,563
and she was offering sex services
to these men for 50 dollars.
509
00:31:40,732 --> 00:31:45,904
She said, "Well, my dad told me to do it
and he bought me condoms."
510
00:31:47,572 --> 00:31:49,157
That was disgusting.
511
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,200
I couldn't believe
512
00:31:52,535 --> 00:31:53,453
that a man
513
00:31:54,662 --> 00:31:57,040
would put their daughter
in that situation.
514
00:31:57,123 --> 00:31:59,125
[ominous music playing]
515
00:32:08,593 --> 00:32:10,845
Sharon never told me she was pregnant,
516
00:32:10,929 --> 00:32:13,222
but it became apparent.
517
00:32:13,306 --> 00:32:15,308
[solemn music playing]
518
00:32:24,317 --> 00:32:28,237
Sharon's relationship with her son,
Michael, was beautiful.
519
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,240
She was a wonderful mother.
520
00:32:31,324 --> 00:32:33,409
She was so engaged with him.
521
00:32:34,410 --> 00:32:37,830
And just seeing the way he looked at her.
522
00:32:38,873 --> 00:32:40,083
I think that was…
523
00:32:40,792 --> 00:32:43,711
that was the best thing
that ever happened to her.
524
00:32:44,587 --> 00:32:45,922
[birds chirping]
525
00:32:46,005 --> 00:32:47,715
[serene music playing]
526
00:33:02,146 --> 00:33:04,899
[woman] When I was 15,
I started babysitting Michael.
527
00:33:05,858 --> 00:33:07,110
He was my buddy.
528
00:33:09,112 --> 00:33:12,824
He would head-butt me.
Forehead to forehead.
529
00:33:15,201 --> 00:33:17,662
We'd stare at each other. Daw!
530
00:33:18,830 --> 00:33:20,039
Ah-wah-wah-wah.
531
00:33:20,123 --> 00:33:23,084
He'd take his mouth and do it on my cheek.
Ah-wah-wah-wah.
532
00:33:23,835 --> 00:33:25,253
He was such a sweetie.
533
00:33:32,677 --> 00:33:33,511
[film whirring]
534
00:33:35,388 --> 00:33:38,683
I lived in the Golden Lantern
Mobile Home Park here in Florida.
535
00:33:39,183 --> 00:33:43,187
And I lived about one city block
from Sharon and Warren Marshall.
536
00:33:44,731 --> 00:33:47,316
Sharon and Warren's trailer
was… was normal.
537
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,153
Two-bedroom, one-bath.
Average-sized trailer.
538
00:33:50,236 --> 00:33:52,655
Warren slept on the hide-a-bed,
in the living room.
539
00:33:52,739 --> 00:33:54,449
Sharon had the back room.
540
00:33:54,532 --> 00:33:57,744
And then the middle front room
was Michael's.
541
00:34:00,163 --> 00:34:02,915
He didn't have a crib.
I always thought that was weird.
542
00:34:02,999 --> 00:34:04,500
He had like a little pack 'n play.
543
00:34:04,584 --> 00:34:09,297
What's funny is they didn't have family.
And they only have one or two friends.
544
00:34:10,506 --> 00:34:12,717
Sharon had a friend, Cheryl.
545
00:34:13,342 --> 00:34:17,638
She would come over to Sharon and Warren's
house like one to three times a week.
546
00:34:19,140 --> 00:34:22,226
And she'd always dress nice
and had her nails done.
547
00:34:22,310 --> 00:34:24,062
And she was so nice.
548
00:34:24,145 --> 00:34:27,982
Like she, literally, would come through
the trailer park with her Corvette.
549
00:34:28,066 --> 00:34:29,525
It was a beautiful car.
550
00:34:29,609 --> 00:34:32,987
And see me at the pool and just wave.
551
00:34:33,071 --> 00:34:35,573
And as a 15-year-old,
somebody that pretty,
552
00:34:35,656 --> 00:34:37,366
it just made you feel good,
553
00:34:37,450 --> 00:34:42,455
you know, that someone of her level,
class, and style was saying hi.
554
00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:48,169
[Heather] Cheryl was just gorgeous.
555
00:34:48,252 --> 00:34:49,962
She was Italian.
556
00:34:50,046 --> 00:34:54,759
She had this long,
beautiful, thick, black hair.
557
00:34:54,842 --> 00:34:58,554
She had a wild look, but she really
wasn't wild. She was very naive.
558
00:35:00,973 --> 00:35:03,601
She was a beauty pageant winner.
559
00:35:03,684 --> 00:35:06,854
And she saw Mons Venus
as a stepping-stone.
560
00:35:10,358 --> 00:35:13,111
She was hoping to become a model.
561
00:35:13,194 --> 00:35:14,904
She wanted to be in Playboy.
562
00:35:16,656 --> 00:35:22,245
But then I find out that Cheryl
was hanging out with Sharon and her dad,
563
00:35:22,328 --> 00:35:25,248
and I was concerned about her safety.
564
00:35:25,331 --> 00:35:27,333
[ominous music playing]
565
00:35:29,877 --> 00:35:32,296
[Michelle] One night,
we were watching wrestling.
566
00:35:32,380 --> 00:35:35,550
And Warren went to put in a video
so we could record it.
567
00:35:35,633 --> 00:35:37,552
And that's when I saw
568
00:35:38,177 --> 00:35:41,264
Sharon and Cheryl on the beach
569
00:35:41,347 --> 00:35:42,390
without tops,
570
00:35:43,808 --> 00:35:44,976
and dancing.
571
00:35:48,020 --> 00:35:51,816
I just remember sitting there
and going, "That's Sharon."
572
00:35:51,899 --> 00:35:54,735
"Is he recording his own daughter?"
573
00:35:59,198 --> 00:36:01,868
And then he realized,
"Oh shit! I need to--" You know?
574
00:36:01,951 --> 00:36:04,412
"You don't ever talk about this.
This is not something--"
575
00:36:04,495 --> 00:36:07,165
"That was just fun," blah-blah-blah-blah.
I was just like, "Okay."
576
00:36:10,042 --> 00:36:12,628
"Yeah, I… I got to go. My curfew is up."
577
00:36:15,131 --> 00:36:17,717
[Heather] One of the girls
told me about the video.
578
00:36:18,843 --> 00:36:21,971
When Cheryl comes in, I'm irate with her.
579
00:36:25,808 --> 00:36:31,772
And she tells me Sharon's dad said,
"Let me take pictures of you."
580
00:36:31,856 --> 00:36:35,943
"And I'm going to take this video
and I'm going to submit it to Playboy,
581
00:36:36,027 --> 00:36:37,695
and you're going to be a star."
582
00:36:38,905 --> 00:36:40,907
[disturbing music playing]
583
00:36:47,246 --> 00:36:51,709
And she said,
"He was trying to have sex with me."
584
00:36:51,792 --> 00:36:54,587
"And I didn't want to have sex with him."
585
00:36:56,047 --> 00:36:57,965
"I was fighting him off."
586
00:37:01,093 --> 00:37:03,429
"And a switch flipped
587
00:37:03,930 --> 00:37:06,015
and he became very violent."
588
00:37:10,603 --> 00:37:13,814
I just told her,
"I can't protect you from them."
589
00:37:13,898 --> 00:37:15,775
"You need to stay away from them."
590
00:37:15,858 --> 00:37:18,236
[unsettling music playing]
591
00:37:22,949 --> 00:37:26,452
But all of a sudden,
Sharon and her dad disappeared.
592
00:37:28,663 --> 00:37:31,958
She just didn't show up for work.
She never said anything.
593
00:37:33,751 --> 00:37:37,588
I thought they must have left
because there was so much talk.
594
00:37:38,923 --> 00:37:41,133
And we were trying
to get her away from him.
595
00:37:43,844 --> 00:37:46,472
But the baby was never out of his sight.
596
00:37:47,515 --> 00:37:50,226
And she was afraid for that.
597
00:37:50,309 --> 00:37:53,271
And there was no way
she was leaving Michael.
598
00:37:53,354 --> 00:37:55,690
[unsettling music continues]
599
00:38:09,453 --> 00:38:11,455
[film whirring]
600
00:38:16,377 --> 00:38:18,379
[birds chirping]
601
00:38:21,382 --> 00:38:25,970
Jennifer Fisher didn't know
what happened to Sharon all those years.
602
00:38:26,053 --> 00:38:27,763
-[inaudible]
-[phone ringing]
603
00:38:27,847 --> 00:38:31,434
And I said, at the time we had no clue,
you know, what was going on.
604
00:38:31,517 --> 00:38:33,144
We thought her father was just a weirdo.
605
00:38:34,145 --> 00:38:38,274
But I remember one day Sharon wanted me
to spend the night at their house.
606
00:38:38,357 --> 00:38:39,650
My dad was out of town.
607
00:38:39,734 --> 00:38:42,820
My mom said, "Just this once
I'm gonna let you go down
608
00:38:42,903 --> 00:38:44,196
and spend the night down there."
609
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,032
"And do not tell your father."
610
00:38:47,575 --> 00:38:48,909
My mom dropped me off.
611
00:38:50,244 --> 00:38:53,247
We were starting to change,
to get ready for bed.
612
00:38:53,331 --> 00:38:55,082
She pulled open one of her drawers
613
00:38:55,166 --> 00:38:58,753
and pulled out all this
very, very sexy lingerie.
614
00:38:59,795 --> 00:39:02,590
And she said, "Oh, Daddy buys this stuff
for me and lets me have it."
615
00:39:02,673 --> 00:39:07,261
I said, "Oh my God, these are beautiful.
But, uh, hello, why do you have this?"
616
00:39:08,346 --> 00:39:11,640
And she's like, "Oh, I just keep it
in here 'cause it's just pretty."
617
00:39:14,518 --> 00:39:15,770
And, um…
618
00:39:17,605 --> 00:39:18,564
[sighs]
619
00:39:19,190 --> 00:39:20,858
[sobs]
620
00:39:20,941 --> 00:39:22,693
He came in with a gun.
621
00:39:26,072 --> 00:39:29,617
They didn't have doors in their house.
They had curtains. There were no doors.
622
00:39:30,451 --> 00:39:32,286
And he walked in with a gun.
623
00:39:33,871 --> 00:39:36,457
And he pointed it at us and he said,
"What are y'all doing?"
624
00:39:36,540 --> 00:39:38,501
I mean, he screamed
at the top of his lungs.
625
00:39:38,584 --> 00:39:39,585
I screamed.
626
00:39:39,668 --> 00:39:44,173
Um, we only had underwear on.
We… We were just changing.
627
00:39:44,256 --> 00:39:47,718
I didn't have clothes on.
I grabbed everything to hold up.
628
00:39:49,345 --> 00:39:52,515
And he starts laughing.
Maniacal, evil laugh.
629
00:39:52,598 --> 00:39:55,017
And then he says,
"I'll be back." And walked out.
630
00:39:55,559 --> 00:39:58,020
And I looked at Sharon
and she… she just laughed.
631
00:39:58,104 --> 00:39:59,647
"Oh, Daddy's just being silly."
632
00:40:03,651 --> 00:40:04,652
[sniffling]
633
00:40:07,905 --> 00:40:09,782
So we changed and then he came back.
634
00:40:09,865 --> 00:40:10,825
[sniffling]
635
00:40:11,450 --> 00:40:12,827
And he still had the gun.
636
00:40:13,577 --> 00:40:15,371
And he ordered me to lay down,
637
00:40:15,454 --> 00:40:18,582
on the floor, on a sleeping bag,
and put a pillow over my head.
638
00:40:19,208 --> 00:40:20,209
And I did.
639
00:40:22,169 --> 00:40:24,588
And he raped her at gunpoint. [sobs]
640
00:40:27,842 --> 00:40:29,176
And I was in the room.
641
00:40:34,265 --> 00:40:35,141
[sniffling]
642
00:40:37,518 --> 00:40:40,146
And we didn't talk after that.
He got up and he left.
643
00:40:41,021 --> 00:40:42,982
And I was… I just laid there.
644
00:40:44,275 --> 00:40:48,487
[sniffling] The next morning she came over
and she gave me a big hug,
645
00:40:48,571 --> 00:40:49,697
and she said,
646
00:40:50,322 --> 00:40:51,740
"Daddy's just like that."
647
00:40:52,825 --> 00:40:56,078
She said, "I'm okay. You're okay."
648
00:40:56,620 --> 00:40:58,330
She said, "Just let it go."
649
00:40:59,540 --> 00:41:01,542
[solemn music playing]
650
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,673
I never said a word to anybody
because I was scared.
651
00:41:08,340 --> 00:41:09,258
[sniffling]
652
00:41:12,344 --> 00:41:14,847
It's hard because through the years,
653
00:41:14,930 --> 00:41:19,101
this has been
the most painful thing in my life.
654
00:41:19,185 --> 00:41:21,395
It's changed who I was as a person.
655
00:41:22,104 --> 00:41:24,106
It changed how I view the world.
656
00:41:24,190 --> 00:41:26,108
It changed everything about me.
657
00:41:26,734 --> 00:41:27,985
[birds chirping]
658
00:41:28,068 --> 00:41:30,070
[solemn music continues]
659
00:41:37,828 --> 00:41:40,706
I don't know anybody
who had as miserable a life as she had
660
00:41:40,789 --> 00:41:42,833
for as long as she had.
661
00:41:43,667 --> 00:41:45,961
I hated the fact that,
662
00:41:46,921 --> 00:41:51,592
as a child, she was sexually abused.
663
00:41:53,219 --> 00:41:57,139
And then, uh, he took her around
to strip clubs
664
00:41:57,223 --> 00:42:00,601
to perform and make a living for him.
665
00:42:01,435 --> 00:42:03,103
And that made me hurt for her.
666
00:42:03,187 --> 00:42:05,147
I hurt… I hurt a lot for her.
667
00:42:05,231 --> 00:42:09,443
I can't imagine anybody
being under those conditions
668
00:42:09,527 --> 00:42:11,487
for that long a period of time.
669
00:42:22,373 --> 00:42:24,375
[pensive music playing]
670
00:42:28,170 --> 00:42:32,299
We knew that Floyd committed
sexual crimes against Sharon.
671
00:42:33,592 --> 00:42:38,556
And we know he had a history of
abduction, rape, and violence.
672
00:42:39,723 --> 00:42:41,517
As always, this was a pattern.
673
00:42:43,978 --> 00:42:46,564
He'd been convicted in 1962
674
00:42:46,647 --> 00:42:49,567
of abducting a four-year-old girl
and raping her.
675
00:42:51,318 --> 00:42:53,487
He was a convicted pedophile,
676
00:42:54,947 --> 00:42:58,492
In the 1990s, again, he attacked a woman.
677
00:42:58,576 --> 00:43:02,621
So we begin to see
the pattern of violence and abuse.
678
00:43:06,125 --> 00:43:08,168
But going through Floyd's past,
679
00:43:08,877 --> 00:43:11,380
it was obvious that something was off.
680
00:43:12,172 --> 00:43:14,174
[suspenseful music playing]
681
00:43:16,218 --> 00:43:18,095
An agent comes up with a neighbor
682
00:43:18,679 --> 00:43:22,975
that knew Franklin Floyd
in the 1970s, in Oklahoma City.
683
00:43:24,977 --> 00:43:26,812
And the neighbor had a picture
684
00:43:28,606 --> 00:43:32,651
of Floyd with Sharon
when she was about 5 or 6 years old.
685
00:43:34,153 --> 00:43:38,198
Behavioral Science agent tells me
it's a typical picture of an abused child
686
00:43:38,282 --> 00:43:41,076
because she's looking sad,
she's not smiling.
687
00:43:41,994 --> 00:43:44,246
So we looked at the timeline.
688
00:43:46,332 --> 00:43:51,337
And we realized Sharon
was 20 years old when she died in 1990.
689
00:43:51,420 --> 00:43:55,591
Which means she would have been born
around 1969 or 1970.
690
00:43:56,091 --> 00:43:59,928
Floyd was in prison from 1963 to 1972.
691
00:44:02,848 --> 00:44:07,394
There was no way
he could be Sharon's biological father.
692
00:44:07,895 --> 00:44:09,605
He wouldn't have a child. I mean…
693
00:44:10,230 --> 00:44:13,233
It wasn't logical
that the girl belonged to him.
694
00:44:14,943 --> 00:44:16,904
Floyd had a history of kidnapping.
695
00:44:16,987 --> 00:44:21,450
So when I saw it, I said, "Oh my God.
He had probably kidnapped her too."
696
00:44:23,035 --> 00:44:24,787
[music fades]
697
00:44:27,539 --> 00:44:31,669
We have concern that she
may have been kidnapped as a young child,
698
00:44:31,752 --> 00:44:35,422
and had been kept
in the custody of Franklin Floyd
699
00:44:35,506 --> 00:44:37,174
during this whole time period.
700
00:44:39,426 --> 00:44:41,595
[Joe] He kept her for over 15 years.
701
00:44:44,515 --> 00:44:49,603
I know, at this point, that her real name
wasn't Sharon Marshall or Tonya Hughes.
702
00:44:51,689 --> 00:44:54,108
But I had no idea who she actually was,
703
00:44:55,275 --> 00:44:56,402
who are her parents,
704
00:44:57,653 --> 00:44:58,862
where she came from,
705
00:44:58,946 --> 00:45:00,406
what her true name was.
706
00:45:01,448 --> 00:45:02,658
We just didn't know.
707
00:45:06,537 --> 00:45:10,582
You get a little queasy in the stomach
because you realize that
708
00:45:11,750 --> 00:45:14,211
this horrendous case just got worse.
709
00:45:16,839 --> 00:45:19,550
We thought, therefore,
that Michael was in real danger.
710
00:45:22,761 --> 00:45:25,389
So we knew we had to act, and act fast.
711
00:45:28,976 --> 00:45:30,978
[suspenseful music playing]
712
00:45:33,230 --> 00:45:36,483
[Billy] Franklin Floyd had been
a federal fugitive for 17 years.
713
00:45:36,567 --> 00:45:38,944
So we knew he was gonna be hard to find.
714
00:45:39,027 --> 00:45:40,529
He was just out there somewhere.
715
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,324
And God bless those FBI agents
716
00:45:44,408 --> 00:45:50,122
who took over that case
and decided, "We got to do this."
717
00:45:50,789 --> 00:45:53,083
Joe Fitzpatrick came up with a plan.
718
00:45:53,584 --> 00:45:55,586
[Joe] Any criminal case like this,
719
00:45:55,669 --> 00:45:59,089
the best indication you have
of what someone's gonna do in the future
720
00:45:59,173 --> 00:46:01,133
is what they've done in the past.
721
00:46:02,843 --> 00:46:04,970
[Billy] This guy's had so many aliases,
722
00:46:05,053 --> 00:46:09,600
and people like that tend to redo
the same thing over and over again.
723
00:46:09,683 --> 00:46:11,226
They have a pattern, usually.
724
00:46:13,228 --> 00:46:15,731
[Joe] I figured he was using
the same aliases.
725
00:46:15,814 --> 00:46:18,484
I figured he'd go to the places
he'd been before.
726
00:46:18,567 --> 00:46:20,778
Phoenix, Florida, Georgia,
and… and Kentucky.
727
00:46:20,861 --> 00:46:21,862
[phone ringing]
728
00:46:21,945 --> 00:46:24,990
So I put a stop on all of his aliases.
729
00:46:25,949 --> 00:46:27,910
[Billy] They alerted
all the different states
730
00:46:27,993 --> 00:46:32,623
where he had obtained
a driver's license under different names,
731
00:46:32,706 --> 00:46:35,417
thinking that he might
try to renew a driver's license.
732
00:46:35,501 --> 00:46:37,419
[pensive music playing]
733
00:46:39,505 --> 00:46:40,756
[Joe] Sure enough,
734
00:46:41,381 --> 00:46:44,468
he renewed that driver's license
under Warren Marshall
735
00:46:44,551 --> 00:46:46,261
in Louisville, Kentucky.
736
00:46:50,641 --> 00:46:52,100
And I flew to Kentucky,
737
00:46:52,935 --> 00:46:57,397
and we had an agent in Louisville
dress up in a UPS uniform.
738
00:46:57,481 --> 00:46:58,899
[suspenseful music playing]
739
00:46:59,733 --> 00:47:03,695
Arrest procedure had to be
delivering his driver's license to him
740
00:47:03,779 --> 00:47:05,656
and arresting him at that time.
741
00:47:05,739 --> 00:47:07,741
[music continues]
742
00:47:13,330 --> 00:47:15,123
[music intensifies]
743
00:47:15,207 --> 00:47:16,333
[siren wailing]
744
00:47:16,416 --> 00:47:18,544
And we delivered the driver's license.
745
00:47:23,924 --> 00:47:25,467
And agents surrounded him
746
00:47:26,218 --> 00:47:27,970
and took him into custody.
747
00:47:41,859 --> 00:47:45,737
Immediately following his arrest,
agents went to his residence,
748
00:47:45,821 --> 00:47:47,281
talked to all the neighbors.
749
00:47:47,364 --> 00:47:49,783
[reporter] Floyd lived
in this rundown apartment building,
750
00:47:49,867 --> 00:47:52,703
just east of downtown Louisville,
about six weeks.
751
00:47:52,786 --> 00:47:56,039
Not long enough for his neighbors
to know much about him.
752
00:47:56,123 --> 00:47:58,500
To my knowledge,
he didn't even talk to anybody.
753
00:47:58,584 --> 00:48:00,043
Just came in and came out.
754
00:48:00,127 --> 00:48:04,131
Didn't talk to anybody
about family or anything like that, so…
755
00:48:04,214 --> 00:48:06,216
No one had seen Michael.
756
00:48:07,175 --> 00:48:11,388
I checked with both employments
where he was presently employed
757
00:48:11,471 --> 00:48:13,223
and with his previous employ as a painter.
758
00:48:14,391 --> 00:48:15,809
No one had seen Michael.
759
00:48:17,936 --> 00:48:19,646
He had a bus ticket
760
00:48:19,730 --> 00:48:23,442
from Atlanta, Georgia
to Louisville, Kentucky
761
00:48:23,525 --> 00:48:25,819
for one person and one person only.
762
00:48:34,036 --> 00:48:36,246
He's my son, I love him very much.
763
00:48:36,330 --> 00:48:38,040
[keys jingling]
764
00:48:38,123 --> 00:48:39,666
I hope that they find him.
765
00:48:40,500 --> 00:48:45,172
[Joe] The next day, I sat him down and…
and I asked if Michael was still alive.
766
00:48:47,507 --> 00:48:49,509
And he claimed that he was.
767
00:48:49,593 --> 00:48:52,095
He said he left him with a rich person.
768
00:48:52,179 --> 00:48:55,307
There's no rich person who
has anything to do with Franklin Floyd.
769
00:48:56,892 --> 00:49:00,854
They were all such ridiculous statements.
This… This is another one of his lies.
770
00:49:00,938 --> 00:49:02,940
[solemn music playing]
771
00:49:08,195 --> 00:49:11,615
At this point,
I felt certain Michael was dead.
772
00:49:11,698 --> 00:49:15,786
But it… it's a child,
and you… you hope you're wrong.
773
00:49:16,954 --> 00:49:18,080
[cameras clicking]
774
00:49:19,206 --> 00:49:20,207
We miss Michael.
775
00:49:21,875 --> 00:49:23,293
He's like a son to us.
776
00:49:27,172 --> 00:49:28,340
Michael, we love you.
777
00:49:29,091 --> 00:49:32,344
Uh, if we knew where to come to get you,
we'd come get you
778
00:49:32,427 --> 00:49:33,679
but we don't know where.
779
00:49:36,223 --> 00:49:40,978
There'd be many times that we'd be driving
down the road and I'd see a kid in a car
780
00:49:41,061 --> 00:49:43,271
and the hair was
the same color as Michael's,
781
00:49:43,355 --> 00:49:45,774
and I'd try to get up beside him
and see it wasn't Michael.
782
00:49:45,857 --> 00:49:47,359
But there's… there's always,
783
00:49:48,151 --> 00:49:50,320
you know,
until you get the final definite,
784
00:49:50,404 --> 00:49:53,490
there's always that thought
that maybe he's still out there.
785
00:49:54,658 --> 00:49:56,201
There's just something about him.
786
00:49:56,284 --> 00:50:01,248
The way he looks, his big brown eyes
that conveys the love that he has for us.
787
00:50:01,331 --> 00:50:05,127
We have that same love for him
and we just want to have him back.
788
00:50:05,669 --> 00:50:07,004
[sniffling]
789
00:50:07,087 --> 00:50:08,588
[cameras clicking]
790
00:50:08,672 --> 00:50:10,674
[siren wailing in distance]
791
00:50:12,009 --> 00:50:14,011
[birds chirping]
792
00:50:16,013 --> 00:50:17,973
[Joe] As this case was set up for trial,
793
00:50:18,056 --> 00:50:22,728
we realized that charging Floyd
for Michael's murder on its merits is weak
794
00:50:22,811 --> 00:50:24,479
because we don't have a body.
795
00:50:24,980 --> 00:50:26,690
It would be a hard case to win.
796
00:50:32,654 --> 00:50:35,532
[man] You can make a murder case
without a body.
797
00:50:35,615 --> 00:50:37,534
But we know that
if we're gonna get a conviction,
798
00:50:37,617 --> 00:50:39,828
we have to prove it
beyond a reasonable doubt.
799
00:50:39,911 --> 00:50:41,163
And at this point,
800
00:50:42,414 --> 00:50:43,498
it's a close call.
801
00:50:43,582 --> 00:50:48,253
So what seemed like a pretty
straightforward and easy case to prove
802
00:50:48,336 --> 00:50:52,424
was really not that easy a case.
We had some hurdles we had overcome.
803
00:50:53,050 --> 00:50:56,428
So we charged him with
kidnapping Michael Hughes,
804
00:50:56,511 --> 00:50:59,639
carjacking,
using a firearm during the carjacking,
805
00:50:59,723 --> 00:51:03,351
which added a five-year minimum
mandatory sentence on to that.
806
00:51:03,435 --> 00:51:06,772
We also charged him
with a second firearm offense
807
00:51:06,855 --> 00:51:10,275
for using the firearm
during the commission of the kidnapping.
808
00:51:10,901 --> 00:51:13,236
That added an additional 25-year sentence.
809
00:51:16,198 --> 00:51:19,868
[Billy] The first time I saw him was when
he was being escorted into federal court.
810
00:51:19,951 --> 00:51:23,747
He just had this empty, deadly stare.
811
00:51:24,581 --> 00:51:27,834
That stare was a Charlie Manson stare.
812
00:51:28,335 --> 00:51:29,836
It was scary to me.
813
00:51:30,587 --> 00:51:32,255
[tense music playing]
814
00:51:32,339 --> 00:51:35,008
[reporter] Is justice going to be
served here, Mr. Floyd?
815
00:51:40,555 --> 00:51:45,310
Floyd started off defending himself
and… and he was very aggressive,
816
00:51:45,393 --> 00:51:46,770
asking dumb questions.
817
00:51:49,106 --> 00:51:52,109
He knew that this judge may allow him
818
00:51:52,192 --> 00:51:56,404
to argue his case, and have
what we call hybrid representation.
819
00:51:56,488 --> 00:51:59,407
He wanted to get up and tell the story.
He wanted to talk.
820
00:51:59,950 --> 00:52:02,577
And the only way he could do that
without taking the witness stand
821
00:52:02,661 --> 00:52:04,746
was to be able to argue to the judge.
822
00:52:07,666 --> 00:52:10,001
He would ramble and go off on tangents.
823
00:52:10,085 --> 00:52:14,673
It was just ego, hubris,
narcissistic personality,
824
00:52:14,756 --> 00:52:16,716
sociopathic personality.
825
00:52:20,637 --> 00:52:23,348
[Jenny] I testified
in Michael's kidnapping trial.
826
00:52:23,431 --> 00:52:27,352
The hardest thing, terrifying,
was having to face him in court.
827
00:52:28,937 --> 00:52:31,189
To testify with him sitting right there.
828
00:52:32,732 --> 00:52:34,776
And I remember on the stand,
829
00:52:34,860 --> 00:52:38,280
looking over
and staring right in his eyes.
830
00:52:39,156 --> 00:52:43,577
And, like, "I got you. I got you, fucker."
831
00:52:43,660 --> 00:52:45,662
[music continues]
832
00:52:46,872 --> 00:52:50,041
[Billy] Floyd got up
to ask her a question.
833
00:52:50,584 --> 00:52:54,546
You drew your opinion
about me in the way I am
834
00:52:54,629 --> 00:52:57,799
based on the information
that the FBI told you, right?
835
00:52:58,758 --> 00:53:04,806
And she said, "No, I drew my opinion
about you when I saw the type of lingerie
836
00:53:04,890 --> 00:53:07,976
you were buying your daughter
and how you made her dress.
837
00:53:08,059 --> 00:53:10,729
That's when I drew my opinion about you.
838
00:53:11,479 --> 00:53:15,817
And I looked right in the face and I said,
"You are her daddy."
839
00:53:15,901 --> 00:53:18,737
"She called you daddy.
You were her father."
840
00:53:19,404 --> 00:53:23,366
And his… his attorney
just threw his papers up in the air.
841
00:53:23,450 --> 00:53:25,118
There was nothing they could do.
842
00:53:26,453 --> 00:53:28,330
[Mark] Look, it was not an easy case.
843
00:53:28,413 --> 00:53:30,624
It… It was all circumstantial.
844
00:53:30,707 --> 00:53:33,001
I mean, that's what gave me heartburn.
845
00:53:37,339 --> 00:53:39,925
I've never lost a case at trial. Never.
846
00:53:40,967 --> 00:53:45,347
But every time, at the end of trial,
you get butterflies in your stomach.
847
00:53:48,058 --> 00:53:51,728
The judge released the order
and we were successful on all counts.
848
00:53:56,233 --> 00:54:00,737
After evading the law for two decades,
he was sentenced to 52 years in prison,
849
00:54:00,820 --> 00:54:03,365
no parole,
for the kidnapping of Michael Hughes.
850
00:54:06,326 --> 00:54:08,703
[reporters clamoring]
851
00:54:08,787 --> 00:54:12,040
-[reporter] Mr. Floyd, what do you think?
-Fuck you and Oklahoma, son of a bitch.
852
00:54:12,123 --> 00:54:14,417
-Fuck off, you motherfucker!
-[reporter 2] Where's the boy?
853
00:54:14,501 --> 00:54:15,627
Fuck you!
854
00:54:19,381 --> 00:54:21,925
[ominous music plays]
855
00:54:22,008 --> 00:54:23,635
[Joe] Then I got a call from an agent.
856
00:54:23,718 --> 00:54:27,430
They found the principal's truck,
which Floyd stole in the kidnapping.
857
00:54:29,140 --> 00:54:32,560
And they found photographs
that'd been taped underneath the truck.
858
00:54:32,644 --> 00:54:34,020
[suspenseful music plays]
859
00:54:35,313 --> 00:54:37,774
They were all, almost all
860
00:54:39,734 --> 00:54:40,568
obscene.
861
00:54:41,069 --> 00:54:41,945
Pornography.
862
00:54:44,447 --> 00:54:49,035
It was very obviously Floyd's
because included in these photographs
863
00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:51,913
were some photographs of Sharon
when she was small.
864
00:54:56,626 --> 00:55:00,630
Also, in these photographs,
was a young lady we hadn't seen before.
865
00:55:02,340 --> 00:55:05,552
She was in various stages
of being disrobed and beaten.
866
00:55:09,139 --> 00:55:15,061
And I said, "He could not have beaten her
to this extent and not killed her."
867
00:55:15,145 --> 00:55:16,146
He'd had to.
868
00:55:18,273 --> 00:55:19,733
We had another mystery.
869
00:55:19,816 --> 00:55:20,775
Who was she?
870
00:55:22,277 --> 00:55:25,989
Looking at her, she had…
she had real tan lines.
871
00:55:26,698 --> 00:55:30,660
And I go, "Well, they could've spent time
in Florida, Georgia, and Kentucky."
872
00:55:31,244 --> 00:55:33,997
So I sent the photographs
down to those offices
873
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:36,541
and asked them to check
their unsolved cases.
874
00:55:36,624 --> 00:55:39,127
Now this is what you call
a shot in the dark.
875
00:55:42,130 --> 00:55:44,716
[newsreader] A highway crew
makes a grisly discovery.
876
00:55:44,799 --> 00:55:47,344
A badly decomposed human skull.
877
00:55:47,427 --> 00:55:50,847
Four days of digging
produces 90 percent of a skeleton,
878
00:55:50,930 --> 00:55:54,142
along with a breast implant,
and some clothing and jewelry.
879
00:55:57,896 --> 00:56:01,858
When we examined the skull, we found
two bullet holes to the back of the skull
880
00:56:01,941 --> 00:56:04,944
and the orbital bone was broken
under one of the eyes.
881
00:56:05,028 --> 00:56:07,655
It was definitely not a natural death.
882
00:56:07,739 --> 00:56:10,367
There was definitely
homicidal violence involved in it.
883
00:56:10,450 --> 00:56:12,869
So, yes, it was classified as a homicide
almost immediately.
884
00:56:14,329 --> 00:56:17,624
We looked at all of the local agencies.
885
00:56:17,707 --> 00:56:20,627
We weren't able to identify the skeleton.
886
00:56:21,753 --> 00:56:24,631
About a year later,
we got notified by the FBI
887
00:56:25,256 --> 00:56:29,677
that they had photos from another case
of a young lady that was being beaten.
888
00:56:30,929 --> 00:56:32,180
And as we look at them,
889
00:56:32,263 --> 00:56:34,724
the shirt wrapped around
the neck of the girl who's been beaten
890
00:56:34,808 --> 00:56:37,435
matches the shirt
that we have tied in a knot.
891
00:56:37,519 --> 00:56:42,065
We went ahead and got dental records
from them and Jane Doe I-275,
892
00:56:42,148 --> 00:56:43,775
which is what she was known as.
893
00:56:45,068 --> 00:56:47,153
And we were able to actually identify
894
00:56:47,821 --> 00:56:50,073
the skeleton
on the side of the interstate.
895
00:56:50,156 --> 00:56:51,408
Ms. Cheryl Commesso.
896
00:56:54,577 --> 00:56:57,831
And during our investigation,
we discovered that Cheryl had worked
897
00:56:57,914 --> 00:57:00,750
as an exotic dancer at the Mons Venus.
898
00:57:03,878 --> 00:57:05,755
[newsreader]
Now, police want to talk to anyone
899
00:57:05,839 --> 00:57:08,883
who knew Cheryl Commesso back in 1989.
900
00:57:22,188 --> 00:57:25,275
[Heather] After the videotape
of Cheryl and Sharon,
901
00:57:30,864 --> 00:57:33,867
there just was a lot of gossip going on.
902
00:57:33,950 --> 00:57:36,369
Everyone in the club was talking about it.
903
00:57:39,330 --> 00:57:42,333
And then Cheryl showed up at the club.
904
00:57:44,002 --> 00:57:48,339
And she had a bruise on her cheek,
a black eye.
905
00:57:48,423 --> 00:57:50,717
She had marks on her neck
906
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:53,136
where you could see
she had been strangled.
907
00:57:55,930 --> 00:58:01,060
And that's when I knew that this had gone
from Warren being a twisted pervert
908
00:58:01,144 --> 00:58:03,313
to him being physical.
909
00:58:05,523 --> 00:58:07,901
And he was obsessed with her.
910
00:58:07,984 --> 00:58:09,903
He called many times to the club
911
00:58:10,528 --> 00:58:13,948
and he was asking me
a lot of questions about Cheryl.
912
00:58:14,032 --> 00:58:16,075
He wanted to know her last name.
913
00:58:16,159 --> 00:58:18,328
He wanted to know where her dad lived.
914
00:58:20,622 --> 00:58:23,416
Every time he called and asked for Cheryl,
915
00:58:23,500 --> 00:58:26,878
I would tell him that
she isn't here and then I'd hang up.
916
00:58:28,546 --> 00:58:29,964
We did everything we could
917
00:58:30,048 --> 00:58:32,926
to try to create separation
between the two of them.
918
00:58:36,471 --> 00:58:40,308
But shortly after that,
I was walking out of the club.
919
00:58:41,726 --> 00:58:43,853
Sharon's dad was in the parking lot.
920
00:58:43,937 --> 00:58:45,939
[suspenseful music playing]
921
00:58:48,316 --> 00:58:52,278
And Cheryl was standing next to his car
and they're having a heated argument.
922
00:58:54,239 --> 00:58:55,782
And he was screaming at her.
923
00:58:57,200 --> 00:58:59,536
And he said he was going to kill her.
924
00:59:02,121 --> 00:59:05,375
So, I ran over there. I intervened.
925
00:59:07,293 --> 00:59:10,755
Then he got mad at me,
and he revved his car at me
926
00:59:10,838 --> 00:59:12,465
and the car lurched.
927
00:59:12,549 --> 00:59:15,468
He was acting like
he was going to hit me with the car.
928
00:59:18,638 --> 00:59:20,390
I walked away holding her,
929
00:59:21,015 --> 00:59:22,684
walked her to her car.
930
00:59:22,767 --> 00:59:25,186
I thought she would go home to her dad.
931
00:59:25,770 --> 00:59:28,273
And that was the last time I saw Cheryl.
932
00:59:31,568 --> 00:59:33,278
[music fades]
933
00:59:35,321 --> 00:59:38,324
[Michelle] All of a sudden,
Sharon and Warren had to go out of town.
934
00:59:38,408 --> 00:59:41,452
And they asked if I could collect the mail
and keep my eyes on the trailer.
935
00:59:42,996 --> 00:59:45,957
And one night,
the neighbor right across the street
936
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:48,543
went outside
to smoke a cigarette out on the porch,
937
00:59:48,626 --> 00:59:50,211
and there was a guy in a truck.
938
00:59:52,380 --> 00:59:56,009
And he gets out of the truck,
goes around to Sharon and Warren's house.
939
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:01,180
About five minutes later, he comes out,
gets in the truck, takes off.
940
01:00:01,764 --> 01:00:04,183
Flicks his cigarette, comes inside,
and he said…
941
01:00:04,267 --> 01:00:06,394
"All of a sudden I hear this boom!"
942
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:09,772
He looked out the window
and there's this big ol'…
943
01:00:09,856 --> 01:00:11,733
[exploding]
944
01:00:11,816 --> 01:00:15,486
Right through the center. And like,
literally, the stove went through the…
945
01:00:15,570 --> 01:00:17,155
Like just… [mimics blast]
946
01:00:18,197 --> 01:00:20,658
People, you know,
that were chitter-chatting,
947
01:00:20,742 --> 01:00:23,411
you know, by the pool, by the mailbox,
you know, that…
948
01:00:24,829 --> 01:00:29,584
Warren had hired somebody
or made somebody, uh,
949
01:00:30,418 --> 01:00:31,794
burn down his trailer.
950
01:00:36,591 --> 01:00:39,719
[Joe] We finally knew
why Floyd left Florida in such a hurry.
951
01:00:41,596 --> 01:00:44,557
He was fleeing because
he had killed Cheryl Commesso.
952
01:00:48,895 --> 01:00:52,190
Floyd knew that law enforcement
would be looking for
953
01:00:52,273 --> 01:00:55,526
a man, his daughter, and her child.
954
01:00:55,610 --> 01:00:59,614
They would not be looking for a man,
his wife, and their child.
955
01:01:00,531 --> 01:01:02,784
And that's why they stopped
and got married.
956
01:01:03,451 --> 01:01:05,453
[pensive music playing]
957
01:01:15,713 --> 01:01:18,716
[newsreader] The story of Floyd's
criminal life spans half the nation,
958
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:21,135
from Oklahoma,
where his wife turned up dead,
959
01:01:21,219 --> 01:01:24,430
he kidnapped his son
and abducted a school principal,
960
01:01:24,514 --> 01:01:27,392
to this underbrush, near Interstate 275,
961
01:01:27,475 --> 01:01:30,228
where the skeletal remains
of Cheryl Commesso turned up.
962
01:01:30,311 --> 01:01:32,146
Former detective Mark Deasaro says
963
01:01:32,230 --> 01:01:34,941
Floyd will murder again
if he ever gets out of prison.
964
01:01:35,024 --> 01:01:37,402
He's a… He's a sociopath and a predator.
965
01:01:37,485 --> 01:01:39,946
Floyd was charged with first-degree murder
for Cheryl Commesso.
966
01:01:40,029 --> 01:01:42,073
[ominous music plays]
967
01:01:45,284 --> 01:01:47,078
[Mark] I always felt
that we had a good case
968
01:01:47,161 --> 01:01:48,579
when you looked at all the evidence,
969
01:01:48,663 --> 01:01:51,082
even though, the majority of it
may have been circumstantial.
970
01:01:51,165 --> 01:01:54,043
It was just overwhelming,
the fact that we could put her there,
971
01:01:54,127 --> 01:01:56,337
we could put him there.
We could put them together.
972
01:01:56,421 --> 01:01:58,923
We had people that observed arguments
between them.
973
01:01:59,006 --> 01:02:03,094
Franklin Floyd faces lethal injection
for the murder of a Tampa nude dancer.
974
01:02:03,177 --> 01:02:04,804
[ominous music plays]
975
01:02:06,889 --> 01:02:09,684
[Michelle] The detectives, they asked me
to identify some photos.
976
01:02:10,935 --> 01:02:14,897
There's a photo
of Cheryl's body laying on that mattress.
977
01:02:14,981 --> 01:02:18,317
The exact same dirty, nasty mattress
978
01:02:19,026 --> 01:02:21,654
on that hide-a-bed in his living room.
979
01:02:24,574 --> 01:02:29,203
I was in that man's house
at least seven times a week.
980
01:02:31,372 --> 01:02:33,499
And out of those seven times,
981
01:02:33,583 --> 01:02:36,127
every day that couch was open.
982
01:02:36,711 --> 01:02:40,548
There was no… no misrepresentation.
983
01:02:40,631 --> 01:02:43,259
That was the same mattress.
984
01:02:44,135 --> 01:02:46,179
I knew. I was…
985
01:02:47,930 --> 01:02:48,765
Yeah.
986
01:02:49,265 --> 01:02:51,350
We had Floyd for 52 years.
987
01:02:52,059 --> 01:02:56,773
But now we had a chance to convict
Floyd on a murder investigation.
988
01:02:56,856 --> 01:03:00,151
A capital crime,
for which he could get the death sentence.
989
01:03:06,783 --> 01:03:09,076
Franklin was found guilty
of first-degree murder.
990
01:03:11,412 --> 01:03:12,914
He was sentenced to death.
991
01:03:15,708 --> 01:03:18,169
[Joe] It was a very good feeling
to hear the verdict.
992
01:03:18,252 --> 01:03:21,839
There was a great deal of satisfaction
in knowing that Floyd was going to be
993
01:03:21,923 --> 01:03:24,133
where he couldn't hurt anybody.
994
01:03:29,222 --> 01:03:33,476
Now, the bad aspect of this case,
even after trial is
995
01:03:35,186 --> 01:03:36,771
I had no idea where Michael…
996
01:03:37,355 --> 01:03:38,439
the body is.
997
01:03:44,946 --> 01:03:48,908
[Billy] It was just a freak accident
that those photos were found,
998
01:03:48,991 --> 01:03:52,954
and he eventually got convicted
of a homicide.
999
01:03:53,037 --> 01:03:55,456
Uh, it wasn't the one we wished to have.
1000
01:03:56,040 --> 01:04:01,796
But I think in every police officer's
career there's something that lingers.
1001
01:04:05,299 --> 01:04:07,885
I took a picture of Michael Anthony Hughes
1002
01:04:07,969 --> 01:04:10,847
and I actually taped that
right above my computer,
1003
01:04:10,930 --> 01:04:12,974
where I had to look at it every day.
1004
01:04:13,057 --> 01:04:15,810
It was something that just gave me hope.
That's what it did.
1005
01:04:15,893 --> 01:04:18,980
It kept me going
every day at the office, like…
1006
01:04:20,147 --> 01:04:23,025
We need to not come to this.
And it will happen.
1007
01:04:23,109 --> 01:04:24,235
Someday.
1008
01:04:25,653 --> 01:04:27,947
When I left, it was still taped there.
1009
01:04:28,030 --> 01:04:32,702
And as I clean my office to leave,
I finally took that picture off.
1010
01:04:33,411 --> 01:04:35,997
And retired.
1011
01:04:42,587 --> 01:04:45,256
In the 27 years I worked for the FBI,
1012
01:04:45,339 --> 01:04:47,592
I've come awfully close
to closing every case.
1013
01:04:52,763 --> 01:04:56,601
Two of them that I was not able to close
at the time I retired
1014
01:04:57,101 --> 01:05:00,563
was finding Michael
and identifying Sharon.
1015
01:05:00,646 --> 01:05:02,648
[solemn music playing]
1016
01:05:30,259 --> 01:05:33,679
[man] In 2002, a friend
just sent me a photograph,
1017
01:05:33,763 --> 01:05:35,598
saying you have to look at this.
1018
01:05:35,681 --> 01:05:38,601
It was a picture
on what was called the Doe Network.
1019
01:05:38,684 --> 01:05:40,394
It was a missing person website.
1020
01:05:41,479 --> 01:05:43,481
And it was a picture of a little girl
1021
01:05:44,231 --> 01:05:47,860
sitting in the lap of a man
that was supposed to be her father.
1022
01:05:47,944 --> 01:05:54,450
And the caption was underneath
that she had been kidnapped,
1023
01:05:55,534 --> 01:06:01,040
raised as his daughter
and married and killed.
1024
01:06:01,791 --> 01:06:03,167
And I said, "Oh my God."
1025
01:06:03,250 --> 01:06:06,921
But then more you looked at the picture,
and the more you looked at her,
1026
01:06:07,004 --> 01:06:09,298
you could see
something was terribly wrong.
1027
01:06:11,050 --> 01:06:13,761
And I just looked at it and said,
"I have to dig into this."
1028
01:06:13,844 --> 01:06:17,682
The first person I think
I spoke with was Joe Fitzpatrick.
1029
01:06:17,765 --> 01:06:19,767
[suspenseful music playing
1030
01:06:21,018 --> 01:06:25,356
And he says that there were two mysteries
that he had hoped to resolve.
1031
01:06:26,524 --> 01:06:28,067
Who is Sharon Marshall,
1032
01:06:28,150 --> 01:06:30,277
and what happened to Michael Hughes?
1033
01:06:30,361 --> 01:06:32,238
[indistinct chatter]
1034
01:06:32,321 --> 01:06:34,782
And even though
he was kind of leery talk to me,
1035
01:06:34,865 --> 01:06:37,827
you could tell that
there was some unfinished business here.
1036
01:06:39,704 --> 01:06:41,789
This case meant something to Joe.
1037
01:06:41,872 --> 01:06:46,919
And he was really affected
by the girl that was in the picture.
1038
01:06:49,380 --> 01:06:50,381
It was her.
1039
01:06:51,340 --> 01:06:52,299
It was Sharon.
1040
01:06:52,842 --> 01:06:53,759
It was
1041
01:06:54,427 --> 01:06:55,511
the goodness.
1042
01:06:55,594 --> 01:06:56,637
It was
1043
01:06:57,304 --> 01:06:59,223
how people talked about her.
1044
01:07:00,099 --> 01:07:02,810
It was her accomplishments,
1045
01:07:02,893 --> 01:07:05,938
and it was just
this beautiful young woman.
1046
01:07:06,897 --> 01:07:08,274
who was trapped in evil.
1047
01:07:09,442 --> 01:07:11,235
And she had been forgotten.
1048
01:07:13,154 --> 01:07:16,657
I just said, "You know,
this is more than just a crime story."
1049
01:07:18,576 --> 01:07:22,788
I wanted to do everything I could
to try to find Sharon's identity.
1050
01:07:22,872 --> 01:07:26,167
I thought that was really important
and I felt, "You know what?"
1051
01:07:27,293 --> 01:07:28,377
"Let's do this book."
1052
01:07:34,675 --> 01:07:39,138
And the only person that knew
her real identity was Franklin Floyd.
1053
01:07:41,057 --> 01:07:43,684
I said, "Let me take a shot
1054
01:07:44,226 --> 01:07:47,438
and see if I can go
interview Franklin Floyd."
1055
01:07:51,901 --> 01:07:53,444
[gate buzzing]
1056
01:07:56,447 --> 01:07:59,575
And I go down there
and they bring me into this county prison.
1057
01:08:00,076 --> 01:08:02,787
[gate buzzes and opens]
1058
01:08:03,454 --> 01:08:06,540
So they brought Floyd
into an interview room to meet with me.
1059
01:08:06,624 --> 01:08:09,627
And they had brought
all of his files with him, too.
1060
01:08:10,669 --> 01:08:11,921
[chains jangling]
1061
01:08:12,004 --> 01:08:14,006
[suspenseful music playing]
1062
01:08:16,133 --> 01:08:19,011
And there were a couple of deputies
standing next to him.
1063
01:08:20,346 --> 01:08:21,472
And then they left.
1064
01:08:22,765 --> 01:08:23,724
[door closes]
1065
01:08:25,101 --> 01:08:26,811
And it's just me and him now in the room.
1066
01:08:29,230 --> 01:08:30,606
And we start talking.
1067
01:08:30,689 --> 01:08:34,443
Actually, I should rephrase that.
He started talking and he didn't stop.
1068
01:08:34,985 --> 01:08:37,863
He thought maybe that
somehow I could help him.
1069
01:08:37,947 --> 01:08:39,657
I could do something
his lawyers couldn't do.
1070
01:08:39,740 --> 01:08:41,951
Tell his story
and somehow that would free him.
1071
01:08:42,868 --> 01:08:45,454
[Floyd] As you go, you're gonna
learn a lot about me.
1072
01:08:45,538 --> 01:08:47,164
I don't care what you write.
1073
01:08:47,248 --> 01:08:50,292
I'll help you tell the truth.
1074
01:08:51,418 --> 01:08:53,587
This is the actual
where I went in the home,
1075
01:08:53,671 --> 01:08:55,172
where my mother abandoned me.
1076
01:08:55,673 --> 01:08:59,009
[Matt] So Franklin Floyd was born in 1943.
1077
01:08:59,885 --> 01:09:01,971
His father died.
He had brothers and sisters.
1078
01:09:02,054 --> 01:09:06,267
Mother couldn't take care of him, sent him
to the Georgia Children's Baptist Home.
1079
01:09:07,017 --> 01:09:09,645
And, you know,
he had a troubled life there.
1080
01:09:09,728 --> 01:09:11,230
[Floyd] The most torturous place…
1081
01:09:11,772 --> 01:09:13,941
Like that old lady, she'd scald my hands.
1082
01:09:14,024 --> 01:09:15,985
And then she pushed my head in the closet.
1083
01:09:16,610 --> 01:09:19,530
They was beating my feet. I couldn't walk.
They swelled up.
1084
01:09:20,281 --> 01:09:23,617
I did see how he was created.
1085
01:09:23,701 --> 01:09:25,369
I did see how the mold was made.
1086
01:09:26,370 --> 01:09:29,248
[Floyd] Boys raped me, beat me,
1087
01:09:29,331 --> 01:09:31,625
made me be their slave and all that.
1088
01:09:32,418 --> 01:09:33,711
When they bathed me
1089
01:09:34,461 --> 01:09:35,462
with certain boys,
1090
01:09:35,546 --> 01:09:37,798
they'd take two fingers and shove it up.
1091
01:09:37,882 --> 01:09:40,134
And they'd get away with it
because I'm small.
1092
01:09:41,886 --> 01:09:45,472
By the time he was 18,
he had real… he had mental issues.
1093
01:09:46,348 --> 01:09:49,351
[Floyd] When I ran away, I joined
the army, drifted around the country,
1094
01:09:50,060 --> 01:09:53,564
and had to steal everywhere I went.
1095
01:09:53,647 --> 01:09:56,483
And then I got accused of a crime,
and then went to prison,
1096
01:09:56,567 --> 01:09:57,651
was abused
1097
01:09:58,194 --> 01:10:01,530
I sure am convicted
of molestation, rape, kidnap.
1098
01:10:01,614 --> 01:10:04,450
And they had no proof of that.
You know that, don't you?
1099
01:10:04,533 --> 01:10:06,827
Any time there was an actual
specific crime, he'd deny it.
1100
01:10:06,911 --> 01:10:10,706
[Floyd] They don't have no proof,
witness or something that says…
1101
01:10:10,789 --> 01:10:13,334
they saw me taking pictures
of somebody with spread legs.
1102
01:10:13,417 --> 01:10:15,169
Don't you get what I'm saying?
1103
01:10:15,252 --> 01:10:18,547
I would ask him about Sharon
and he didn't wanna touch that.
1104
01:10:18,631 --> 01:10:20,841
I'd ask him about Michael,
and he didn't wanna touch that.
1105
01:10:20,925 --> 01:10:22,968
He didn't want to admit to anything.
1106
01:10:24,595 --> 01:10:26,430
I said to him,
"Where did you get Sharon from?"
1107
01:10:26,513 --> 01:10:29,308
He goes, "I didn't get her anywhere.
She just came with me."
1108
01:10:29,391 --> 01:10:30,309
[Floyd] Listen…
1109
01:10:30,392 --> 01:10:31,769
She was a darling.
1110
01:10:32,811 --> 01:10:35,481
And was so smart, and…
1111
01:10:36,148 --> 01:10:39,443
Listen, she loved me no matter what.
1112
01:10:42,863 --> 01:10:46,700
[Matt] He just… He denied everything.
He denied killing Sharon.
1113
01:10:47,618 --> 01:10:50,496
Kidnapping her. He denied killing Michael.
1114
01:10:50,579 --> 01:10:52,873
And he denied killing Cheryl Commesso.
1115
01:10:57,294 --> 01:11:01,548
I didn't learn anything from Floyd
other than he was just clearly psychotic.
1116
01:11:04,468 --> 01:11:08,097
You know, as an investigative journalist,
you try to get down to the truth.
1117
01:11:09,515 --> 01:11:10,975
It was really frustrating,
1118
01:11:11,475 --> 01:11:14,770
by the end of the book, not to…
not to have found out who she was.
1119
01:11:16,522 --> 01:11:18,315
At that point in time,
1120
01:11:18,399 --> 01:11:20,317
you know, we just… the book was done.
1121
01:11:20,859 --> 01:11:22,653
And published.
1122
01:11:22,736 --> 01:11:24,697
[rock music playing]
1123
01:11:27,866 --> 01:11:31,578
Matt Birkbeck interviewed the man
now known as Franklin Floyd in prison.
1124
01:11:31,662 --> 01:11:33,580
Floyd not only kidnapped Sharon
as a little girl,
1125
01:11:33,664 --> 01:11:35,416
he's serving time on death row.
1126
01:11:35,499 --> 01:11:38,460
[newsreader] Matt Birkbeck wrote the book
A Beautiful Child,
1127
01:11:38,544 --> 01:11:40,587
which recounts how, against all odds,
1128
01:11:40,671 --> 01:11:43,340
the girl known as Sharon
blossomed in school.
1129
01:11:43,424 --> 01:11:46,135
[dial-up internet connecting]
1130
01:11:49,763 --> 01:11:51,307
[mouse clicking]
1131
01:11:51,390 --> 01:11:52,766
[computer chimes]
1132
01:11:52,850 --> 01:11:54,435
[Matt] When the book came out,
1133
01:11:54,518 --> 01:11:58,731
it captured the attention
of a couple of websites,
1134
01:11:59,231 --> 01:12:01,150
the Doe Network and Websleuths.
1135
01:12:01,233 --> 01:12:03,277
These are like amateur detectives.
1136
01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:05,904
And then you saw this organic growth.
1137
01:12:05,988 --> 01:12:08,282
You could see different threads.
They were talking about it.
1138
01:12:08,365 --> 01:12:11,243
Who is Sharon Marshall? Could she
be this girl that went missing in Utah?
1139
01:12:11,327 --> 01:12:14,079
Could she be this girl
that went missing in Toronto?
1140
01:12:14,163 --> 01:12:16,165
And it just kept building
and building and building.
1141
01:12:16,248 --> 01:12:17,249
[chiming]
1142
01:12:17,333 --> 01:12:19,543
Over the months, I got more emails.
1143
01:12:19,626 --> 01:12:23,005
People in the US,
people in Canada, people overseas.
1144
01:12:23,088 --> 01:12:25,132
Within six months to a year,
1145
01:12:25,215 --> 01:12:29,011
we had people around the world
trying to find, who is this girl.
1146
01:12:30,346 --> 01:12:33,432
A lot of people were frustrated.
It was like, "Matt, come on!"
1147
01:12:33,515 --> 01:12:36,393
"You know, I'm reading this
and was like, we thought you got it,"
1148
01:12:36,477 --> 01:12:38,270
And I didn't get it.
1149
01:12:38,354 --> 01:12:41,732
And I just… You know, I would answer.
I would answer all these emails.
1150
01:12:41,815 --> 01:12:44,777
I would just say,
"Hey, you know, I did this with the hope
1151
01:12:44,860 --> 01:12:47,905
that we're gonna… you know,
we could find her identity."
1152
01:12:51,158 --> 01:12:54,411
We got a couple of
really good leads actually out of it,
1153
01:12:54,953 --> 01:12:56,747
but we really didn't have any way
to test them.
1154
01:12:56,830 --> 01:12:59,917
But then in 2005,
almost a year after the book came out,
1155
01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:01,126
we got a break.
1156
01:13:01,210 --> 01:13:02,920
I got an anonymous email.
1157
01:13:04,004 --> 01:13:05,464
And it said,
1158
01:13:05,547 --> 01:13:08,967
Would the DNA of
Sharon's daughter help you?
1159
01:13:10,386 --> 01:13:12,388
[hopeful music playing]
1160
01:13:13,347 --> 01:13:14,848
[Megan] I am Megan,
1161
01:13:15,641 --> 01:13:18,102
and I am Sharon's birth daughter.
1162
01:13:19,395 --> 01:13:21,897
I always knew that I was adopted,
1163
01:13:21,980 --> 01:13:26,527
but never felt weird
until I've discovered Matt's book.
1164
01:13:26,610 --> 01:13:30,030
Then it was a lot more
than just being adopted.
1165
01:13:31,782 --> 01:13:33,575
The more I learned,
1166
01:13:33,659 --> 01:13:37,538
the angrier and sadder
I got about everything.
1167
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:42,251
I mean, that's kind of… kind of been
a progression of emotions since then.
1168
01:13:42,334 --> 01:13:45,796
Everything of this…
since learning about it and…
1169
01:13:45,879 --> 01:13:48,632
has been more anger and more sadness,
1170
01:13:49,550 --> 01:13:52,386
and confusion of how I'm supposed to feel.
1171
01:13:52,469 --> 01:13:55,556
I don't know what my feelings are.
I know I'm mad… [laughs]
1172
01:13:55,639 --> 01:13:58,725
…but I don't know
at what specifically, or why.
1173
01:13:58,809 --> 01:14:02,062
Like, I'm still trying to figure…
figure it all out and process it.
1174
01:14:02,146 --> 01:14:03,564
[somber music playing]
1175
01:14:04,690 --> 01:14:07,985
I learned a lot that I don't like
to think about… about her life.
1176
01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:13,991
No girl should have to go through that.
1177
01:14:15,242 --> 01:14:18,203
From a stranger, much less somebody
that's supposed to be your father.
1178
01:14:18,287 --> 01:14:21,165
Or father figure
or whatever the hell he was. Um…
1179
01:14:22,124 --> 01:14:24,751
Yeah. That's… That's the stuff
I don't like to think about.
1180
01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:35,596
I was a junior in high school
when my aunt discovered Matt's book
1181
01:14:36,346 --> 01:14:37,764
and told my mom about it.
1182
01:14:37,848 --> 01:14:41,727
Um, I remember we were driving home
from The Snowball Stand,
1183
01:14:42,352 --> 01:14:45,314
when my mom told me
that there was more to the story
1184
01:14:45,397 --> 01:14:47,858
than just my birth mother
was killed in a car accident.
1185
01:14:47,941 --> 01:14:49,443
[film whirring]
1186
01:14:49,526 --> 01:14:51,195
[birds chirping]
1187
01:14:52,029 --> 01:14:54,406
[woman] A couple had walked
into an attorney's office
1188
01:14:54,490 --> 01:14:56,700
and they said they couldn't afford
another child.
1189
01:14:56,783 --> 01:14:58,619
"Can you find it someone to adopt?"
1190
01:14:58,702 --> 01:15:02,706
and we walked in and we saw
Clarence and Tonya sitting at the table.
1191
01:15:05,292 --> 01:15:08,545
He just wanted this over with.
He wanted it done. He wanted money.
1192
01:15:09,254 --> 01:15:11,840
He controlled
the whole conversation with her.
1193
01:15:12,674 --> 01:15:14,384
So yeah, I was a little leery.
1194
01:15:14,468 --> 01:15:17,304
But I just feel like God kept telling me,
"This is it."
1195
01:15:17,387 --> 01:15:19,556
[uneasy music playing]
1196
01:15:21,141 --> 01:15:22,893
Six weeks later, Megan was born.
1197
01:15:26,230 --> 01:15:27,814
So we got to the hospital,
1198
01:15:28,732 --> 01:15:30,442
and she'd already delivered.
1199
01:15:36,907 --> 01:15:37,908
She was in the bed
1200
01:15:37,991 --> 01:15:40,452
and I went in there privately,
just her and I.
1201
01:15:43,247 --> 01:15:47,084
And I said, "Did you want to see her?"
She says, "No, I can't."
1202
01:15:48,877 --> 01:15:50,379
And I think back on this day.
1203
01:15:50,462 --> 01:15:52,839
Like why couldn't she
have told me more that day?
1204
01:15:52,923 --> 01:15:55,133
Why couldn't she have said, "I need help."
1205
01:15:55,217 --> 01:15:58,470
Why, when we were alone,
we had the opportunity,
1206
01:15:58,554 --> 01:16:00,013
did you not say,
1207
01:16:01,473 --> 01:16:02,432
"Help me."
1208
01:16:02,975 --> 01:16:06,770
Nobody knows about that. Because it was
just her and I in that room.
1209
01:16:06,853 --> 01:16:10,148
Because the minute Floyd came in,
everything stopped.
1210
01:16:10,232 --> 01:16:11,942
The whole conversation stopped.
1211
01:16:17,823 --> 01:16:19,074
I used to, um…
1212
01:16:19,700 --> 01:16:21,326
I sometimes still do.
1213
01:16:21,410 --> 01:16:25,372
I'll pull up pictures
on the internet of me as a baby,
1214
01:16:25,455 --> 01:16:29,042
and pictures of Michael and
pictures of Sharon and compare them all.
1215
01:16:29,126 --> 01:16:33,839
And just see, um, the cheeks
and the nose for sure came from her.
1216
01:16:33,922 --> 01:16:36,008
And my natural hair color
is the same as hers.
1217
01:16:36,091 --> 01:16:38,802
So, there was… yeah.
I definitely see myself in her.
1218
01:16:38,885 --> 01:16:41,096
[cheerful music playing]
1219
01:16:44,558 --> 01:16:47,144
Growing up you want
to know who you look like.
1220
01:16:47,227 --> 01:16:49,229
What you're supposed to look like. Um…
1221
01:16:50,647 --> 01:16:51,690
Family history.
1222
01:16:51,773 --> 01:16:55,611
And then you go
into your teenage years as a girl.
1223
01:16:55,694 --> 01:16:58,572
Um, I just want to know where I came from.
1224
01:17:02,284 --> 01:17:07,414
In 2010 or 11, I decided to get my DNA.
1225
01:17:07,497 --> 01:17:08,915
Um, it was
1226
01:17:09,625 --> 01:17:13,086
so we could hopefully
find any other family at the time.
1227
01:17:13,629 --> 01:17:15,881
It was exciting. Um…
1228
01:17:15,964 --> 01:17:18,467
There was a potential of finding people.
1229
01:17:19,885 --> 01:17:22,262
[Matt] Sharon had been
pregnant three times.
1230
01:17:22,346 --> 01:17:24,681
Once in high school,
the baby was supposed to be adopted.
1231
01:17:24,765 --> 01:17:25,766
Then it was Michael,
1232
01:17:25,849 --> 01:17:29,102
and here's this third one who was
given up for adoption in New Orleans.
1233
01:17:29,186 --> 01:17:30,437
And that's Megan.
1234
01:17:31,021 --> 01:17:34,358
Having that DNA
and knowing it was a positive match
1235
01:17:34,441 --> 01:17:38,445
meant that it'd just open up
this entire world of possibility.
1236
01:17:38,528 --> 01:17:42,741
And then that's when the National Center
for Missing and Exploited Children
1237
01:17:42,824 --> 01:17:44,034
came to the picture.
1238
01:17:44,117 --> 01:17:46,119
[pensive music playing]
1239
01:17:53,627 --> 01:17:57,130
In 2011, I inherited
a very small case file
1240
01:17:57,214 --> 01:17:59,466
about this girl named Sharon Marshall.
1241
01:18:00,592 --> 01:18:03,053
And I didn't have a lot to go on.
1242
01:18:04,304 --> 01:18:05,931
You know, after I read the book,
1243
01:18:06,014 --> 01:18:08,558
you know, with my little file again,
I had nowhere to turn to.
1244
01:18:08,642 --> 01:18:10,268
I didn't have a law enforcement agency
1245
01:18:10,352 --> 01:18:13,980
but Joe Fitzpatrick was
clearly a big player in all of this.
1246
01:18:14,064 --> 01:18:17,442
He told me about
how the case was inactive with the FBI,
1247
01:18:17,526 --> 01:18:20,570
and that there was never really
a case open on Sharon Marshall.
1248
01:18:20,654 --> 01:18:23,156
He was just able to work
that investigation
1249
01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:25,742
in conjunction with
the abduction of Michael Hughes.
1250
01:18:25,826 --> 01:18:29,871
When Joe stepped up to the plate
and said that he was going to help me, um,
1251
01:18:29,955 --> 01:18:32,082
you know, I… I was… I was ecstatic.
1252
01:18:34,459 --> 01:18:35,669
[Joe] When I received the call
1253
01:18:35,752 --> 01:18:38,463
from the National Center
for Missing and Exploited Children
1254
01:18:38,547 --> 01:18:42,384
I got excited about the fact that
I could get back into this case.
1255
01:18:45,053 --> 01:18:46,555
This was unfinished business.
1256
01:18:46,638 --> 01:18:50,100
This was something
I had made a great deal of progress on,
1257
01:18:50,183 --> 01:18:54,020
but never had a chance to
tie up the loose ends because I retired.
1258
01:18:56,398 --> 01:18:58,608
It gave me just a little hope.
1259
01:19:07,492 --> 01:19:10,620
But we needed… we needed
another shot with Franklin Floyd.
1260
01:19:10,704 --> 01:19:13,290
He was sitting on death row.
He clearly had all the answers.
1261
01:19:13,373 --> 01:19:16,042
So we needed… we needed
another interview with him.
1262
01:19:19,921 --> 01:19:22,716
[man] I got a call from
the National Center for Missing Children,
1263
01:19:22,799 --> 01:19:24,760
from an Ashley Rodriguez.
1264
01:19:24,843 --> 01:19:29,723
I started digging it on the file
and really trying to study who Floyd is.
1265
01:19:29,806 --> 01:19:33,977
He's… He's my target and
I want to know everything I can about him.
1266
01:19:34,060 --> 01:19:35,395
[both sighing]
1267
01:19:37,355 --> 01:19:40,400
I told him, "He's gonna lie to you.
He's gonna lie to you something awful."
1268
01:19:41,026 --> 01:19:43,487
"If you get a truth out of him,
you're gonna be lucky."
1269
01:19:44,070 --> 01:19:45,614
I was not optimistic at all.
1270
01:19:46,448 --> 01:19:48,909
To be honest,
it was kind of like our last resort.
1271
01:19:50,952 --> 01:19:54,664
So the FBI deployed to Florida
to interview Franklin Floyd.
1272
01:19:57,876 --> 01:20:00,003
[man] I had three questions
I wanted answered.
1273
01:20:00,086 --> 01:20:02,172
One was, "Who is Sharon Marshall?"
1274
01:20:03,048 --> 01:20:04,758
"What happened to Michael?"
1275
01:20:04,841 --> 01:20:08,053
And, "Were you responsible
for the death of Sharon?"
1276
01:20:09,137 --> 01:20:11,932
Then I zeroed in
on the first one of who was she.
1277
01:20:12,015 --> 01:20:13,850
Because that's an easy question to answer.
1278
01:20:13,934 --> 01:20:17,312
He may not want to answer,
but it's… he's not admitting to a murder.
1279
01:20:18,647 --> 01:20:22,025
And he would not talk about it.
1280
01:20:27,739 --> 01:20:30,700
He… He just started shutting down,
and he started ranting.
1281
01:20:31,368 --> 01:20:34,329
We didn't even introduce ourselves
as FBI agents before he starts on a rant.
1282
01:20:34,412 --> 01:20:35,914
He thought we were his attorneys.
1283
01:20:35,997 --> 01:20:37,082
We had him seated.
1284
01:20:37,165 --> 01:20:40,877
We were standing while he was doing
this rant for good 45 minutes.
1285
01:20:40,961 --> 01:20:43,338
And I finally said,
"We're not your attorneys."
1286
01:20:44,089 --> 01:20:46,216
And he says, "Well, who the fuck are you?"
1287
01:20:46,842 --> 01:20:48,552
And I said, "We are FBI agents."
1288
01:20:49,427 --> 01:20:52,806
And he… he cocks his head back
and goes, "What do you want?"
1289
01:20:52,889 --> 01:20:56,142
"Well, I'm reopening
the Michael Hughes investigation."
1290
01:20:56,226 --> 01:20:58,478
He goes,
"I'd appreciate it if you'd close it."
1291
01:21:00,230 --> 01:21:01,731
I said, "Well, I'm not gonna do that."
1292
01:21:01,815 --> 01:21:04,609
I said, "You wanted him to be
your… your new Sharon."
1293
01:21:05,193 --> 01:21:07,362
"Sharon's out of the picture,
this is your new Sharon.
1294
01:21:07,445 --> 01:21:09,906
Michael's… Michael's the one
that's gonna replace her."
1295
01:21:09,990 --> 01:21:12,951
And I kept talking to him,
and then he starts crying.
1296
01:21:13,034 --> 01:21:16,788
He was emotional
and that's… that's an opportunity to me.
1297
01:21:16,872 --> 01:21:20,876
And Scott kind of slapped the table
enough to get his attention.
1298
01:21:20,959 --> 01:21:24,588
"How did you kill him, Floyd?"
And his… his crocodile tears are flowing.
1299
01:21:24,671 --> 01:21:27,299
And I raise my voice,
"How did you kill him?"
1300
01:21:27,841 --> 01:21:29,843
He looks at me and says,
"Don't you do that."
1301
01:21:29,926 --> 01:21:32,846
And I finally
hit my fist down on the table,
1302
01:21:33,597 --> 01:21:35,432
"How did you kill him, Floyd?"
1303
01:21:35,515 --> 01:21:37,183
Waterworks turn off.
1304
01:21:37,267 --> 01:21:40,687
"I shot him twice in the back of the head
to make it real quick."
1305
01:21:41,563 --> 01:21:43,565
[tense music playing]
1306
01:21:45,275 --> 01:21:47,986
None of your damn business where he's at.
1307
01:21:48,069 --> 01:21:49,529
[reporter] For more than 20 years
1308
01:21:49,613 --> 01:21:52,240
no one knew what happened
to the little boy,
1309
01:21:52,324 --> 01:21:55,160
but now the FBI believes
they have answers.
1310
01:21:57,329 --> 01:22:01,207
Tears and sadness
from a family who abruptly lost a child.
1311
01:22:01,291 --> 01:22:05,253
And, Father, please tell him hi,
give him a hug, and then a kiss.
1312
01:22:05,754 --> 01:22:07,672
And we'll see him one day.
1313
01:22:10,425 --> 01:22:11,343
It hurts
1314
01:22:11,927 --> 01:22:14,012
to, uh, lose a child.
1315
01:22:15,013 --> 01:22:17,515
-He was almost our child.
-[Merle] Mm-hmm.
1316
01:22:17,599 --> 01:22:21,102
Uh, the adoption papers
were almost completed.
1317
01:22:21,186 --> 01:22:24,856
Uh, and he was kidnapped
before we could complete them.
1318
01:22:24,940 --> 01:22:28,193
All the kids counted him as a brother.
1319
01:22:28,276 --> 01:22:31,988
Uh, so everybody counted him
as one of ours.
1320
01:22:33,198 --> 01:22:34,157
Uh…
1321
01:22:35,158 --> 01:22:35,992
Mmm.
1322
01:22:42,749 --> 01:22:46,252
The FBI says the suspect
in a cold case more than 20 years old
1323
01:22:46,336 --> 01:22:47,879
has confessed to murder.
1324
01:22:47,963 --> 01:22:51,591
Floyd says he buried the boy
near the Oklahoma Texas border.
1325
01:22:52,550 --> 01:22:54,260
We stayed out there for two full days.
1326
01:22:55,095 --> 01:22:57,806
Digging for two days,
sifting for two days.
1327
01:22:57,889 --> 01:22:59,766
And, uh, not a thing.
1328
01:23:01,643 --> 01:23:04,813
You know, we… we gave it a 110 percent.
1329
01:23:05,563 --> 01:23:07,148
And just didn't find anything.
1330
01:23:11,653 --> 01:23:14,781
But I still wanted to know
who Sharon Marshall was.
1331
01:23:15,365 --> 01:23:17,325
And he bought in.
1332
01:23:17,409 --> 01:23:20,412
Partly because Floyd
loved to talk about himself.
1333
01:23:20,495 --> 01:23:23,289
It was funny. He was jumping,
he was telling a lot of stories.
1334
01:23:23,373 --> 01:23:27,585
And then all of a sudden,
he starts talking about how, um…
1335
01:23:28,294 --> 01:23:31,923
How good looking he was,
and he's wearing a bus driver outfit
1336
01:23:32,007 --> 01:23:35,176
in… in Cherryville, North Carolina, and…
1337
01:23:35,927 --> 01:23:38,680
You know, he was the best bus driver
in the world.
1338
01:23:39,305 --> 01:23:44,019
And he tells us
that he meets a girl, Sandy.
1339
01:23:44,102 --> 01:23:46,855
She had just lost
her three kids to the state.
1340
01:23:46,938 --> 01:23:51,693
And Scott asked probably
one of the most brilliant questions.
1341
01:23:51,776 --> 01:23:54,112
He says, "What was your name at the time?"
1342
01:23:55,113 --> 01:23:58,366
Uh, Brandon Cleo Williams
was the name he gave us.
1343
01:23:58,908 --> 01:24:00,910
[suspenseful music playing]
1344
01:24:03,580 --> 01:24:06,416
And that was something
we had never heard before.
1345
01:24:06,499 --> 01:24:10,253
And when… when he gave that name,
it gave us something.
1346
01:24:10,336 --> 01:24:13,548
And not only did he give us that name,
he walked us even further
1347
01:24:13,631 --> 01:24:16,843
and gives us the…the person that he met,
1348
01:24:16,926 --> 01:24:18,386
how they got married.
1349
01:24:19,345 --> 01:24:20,764
He gave us the date.
1350
01:24:20,847 --> 01:24:23,516
He was able to give us
the daughters' names
1351
01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:25,435
and even where the daughters were born.
1352
01:24:25,518 --> 01:24:26,936
So I said, "Who's the oldest?"
1353
01:24:27,020 --> 01:24:29,856
He goes, "Well, that's the one
you're here asking about."
1354
01:24:32,192 --> 01:24:34,652
"Where was she born?" "Livonia, Michigan."
1355
01:24:34,736 --> 01:24:37,781
"How do you know this?"
"I've seen the birth certificate."
1356
01:24:37,864 --> 01:24:41,493
He goes, "That's the girl you're looking.
That's the girl you're here asking about."
1357
01:24:42,744 --> 01:24:44,162
I… I asked him,
1358
01:24:44,245 --> 01:24:46,247
"What… What was the oldest girl's name?"
1359
01:24:47,082 --> 01:24:48,750
And he, "Well, it was Suzanne Sevakis."
1360
01:24:51,086 --> 01:24:52,879
[nostalgic music playing]
1361
01:24:58,301 --> 01:24:59,219
[baby cooing]
1362
01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:04,432
[baby laughing]
1363
01:25:13,775 --> 01:25:15,151
[music fades]
1364
01:25:15,235 --> 01:25:21,533
They told me what her identity was,
I sat there and it was just sort of, uh…
1365
01:25:23,701 --> 01:25:25,787
Oh, I wasn't in a trance. I was just…
1366
01:25:26,663 --> 01:25:29,833
just so delighted.
1367
01:25:29,916 --> 01:25:32,335
You know, I almost cried… [laughs]
1368
01:25:32,418 --> 01:25:34,420
…when I told that to him.
1369
01:25:36,548 --> 01:25:37,715
Oh shoot!
1370
01:25:39,300 --> 01:25:41,010
He goes, "We know her identity."
1371
01:25:41,094 --> 01:25:44,305
And he tells me
her name's Suzanne Sevakis.
1372
01:25:46,516 --> 01:25:47,517
I was like,
1373
01:25:48,852 --> 01:25:50,019
"Holy shit!"
1374
01:25:52,272 --> 01:25:55,233
I don't think relief is the right word
but that's kind of what I felt.
1375
01:25:55,316 --> 01:25:58,736
It was just like, it's over.
Like we now know who she is.
1376
01:26:02,365 --> 01:26:05,326
[Scott] The next day,
we get the birth certificate back.
1377
01:26:05,827 --> 01:26:08,413
And that birth certificate has
her parents' names on it.
1378
01:26:08,496 --> 01:26:10,957
Sandra Brandenburg and Clifford Sevakis.
1379
01:26:11,875 --> 01:26:14,252
Oh, by the way, they're both still alive.
1380
01:26:15,086 --> 01:26:17,088
[suspenseful music playing]
1381
01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:27,807
[Sandra] The FBI showed up on the door.
1382
01:26:28,808 --> 01:26:32,103
And then they showed me Susie's picture,
and I said, "That's my daughter."
1383
01:26:32,187 --> 01:26:33,897
"Do you know where she is?"
1384
01:26:36,482 --> 01:26:38,484
[gentle music playing]
1385
01:26:39,235 --> 01:26:40,737
She was very smart.
1386
01:26:41,696 --> 01:26:42,947
Very silly.
1387
01:26:44,908 --> 01:26:46,534
And very quick-witted.
1388
01:26:49,329 --> 01:26:52,832
I was 18 when I got pregnant
and I was 19 when she was born.
1389
01:26:55,043 --> 01:26:56,920
I was 17 when I started dating.
1390
01:26:58,087 --> 01:27:00,381
Cliff and I were in high school together.
1391
01:27:01,424 --> 01:27:03,885
[Cliff] She was about
two years younger than me.
1392
01:27:04,719 --> 01:27:07,555
But she was, uh, smart and funny,
1393
01:27:08,348 --> 01:27:09,849
and I was so smitten.
1394
01:27:10,767 --> 01:27:13,228
We were an item
all the way through high school.
1395
01:27:14,771 --> 01:27:17,899
[Sandra] We got married
right at the end of high school.
1396
01:27:19,317 --> 01:27:22,153
I got pregnant
a few months after we got married.
1397
01:27:22,779 --> 01:27:24,197
I was excited.
1398
01:27:25,740 --> 01:27:27,992
I was happy.
1399
01:27:28,785 --> 01:27:31,496
And I… I couldn't wait
for the baby to come.
1400
01:27:33,331 --> 01:27:36,584
He was in Vietnam when she was born.
1401
01:27:37,168 --> 01:27:38,503
It was hard.
1402
01:27:38,586 --> 01:27:41,339
[Cliff] I had an R&R for a week,
1403
01:27:41,422 --> 01:27:43,675
and that's when
I saw Suzanne for the first time.
1404
01:27:43,758 --> 01:27:45,260
She was six months old.
1405
01:27:46,094 --> 01:27:48,346
It was a beautiful little cherub.
1406
01:27:49,555 --> 01:27:50,640
I was proud.
1407
01:27:51,307 --> 01:27:53,768
Your heart grows bigger
when you have a child.
1408
01:27:55,395 --> 01:27:57,522
But, uh, when I went to Vietnam,
1409
01:27:58,064 --> 01:28:01,776
you leave the rest of the world behind
and that's your whole world.
1410
01:28:02,902 --> 01:28:08,366
I was different when I got back
and, uh, she was seeing another guy.
1411
01:28:08,950 --> 01:28:11,911
And that's when Sandy told me
she wanted to divorce.
1412
01:28:13,496 --> 01:28:15,790
[Sandra] I had started seeing another man,
1413
01:28:16,332 --> 01:28:18,626
and I got pregnant with Allison and Amy.
1414
01:28:19,752 --> 01:28:21,337
But we got divorced.
1415
01:28:22,380 --> 01:28:26,718
And I moved the girls and I
to a trailer in a mobile home park.
1416
01:28:28,094 --> 01:28:31,180
The mobile home park was like on a hill.
1417
01:28:31,264 --> 01:28:36,269
You know, the tornado hit out of the blue,
I mean, and tipped my trailer sideways.
1418
01:28:41,607 --> 01:28:46,321
After the tornado, I had,
I guess now they would call it PTSD.
1419
01:28:47,113 --> 01:28:48,614
I can remember,
1420
01:28:50,450 --> 01:28:54,829
at one point, sitting in the corner,
in the living room, on the floor.
1421
01:28:56,331 --> 01:28:58,875
And… And the girls saying,
"Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!"
1422
01:28:58,958 --> 01:29:00,209
and I couldn't move.
1423
01:29:02,670 --> 01:29:06,799
I went to Social Services because
I thought that's what you did to get help.
1424
01:29:07,759 --> 01:29:09,677
They… They took the children.
1425
01:29:09,761 --> 01:29:11,929
I remember telling her and crying,
1426
01:29:12,013 --> 01:29:14,849
"It's not safe.
I can't take care of them."
1427
01:29:14,932 --> 01:29:17,560
The lady in the front
of the Social Services office, she said,
1428
01:29:17,643 --> 01:29:19,771
"Honey, go to church. You'll feel better."
1429
01:29:21,773 --> 01:29:26,402
Department of Social Services
called me up on the phone and said, uh.
1430
01:29:26,486 --> 01:29:29,781
"We want to adopt
all three girls out to one family."
1431
01:29:29,864 --> 01:29:33,034
"They're attached to each other
and we don't want to break up the set."
1432
01:29:34,327 --> 01:29:39,123
They gave me a choice, either adopt
all three or give up all three.
1433
01:29:42,126 --> 01:29:44,170
It was pretty rough on me.
1434
01:29:44,253 --> 01:29:46,172
I spent a weekend
1435
01:29:48,257 --> 01:29:51,511
drinking too much
and thinking about it too much.
1436
01:29:52,053 --> 01:29:55,056
And, uh, at the time,
I was living with my parents,
1437
01:29:55,139 --> 01:29:56,933
I was unemployed.
1438
01:29:57,016 --> 01:30:00,520
I was, uh, 23 years old, I think.
1439
01:30:01,187 --> 01:30:05,441
And I just didn't think I was going to be
a good parent, at that point.
1440
01:30:05,525 --> 01:30:08,945
I was still kind of messed up
from Vietnam.
1441
01:30:10,154 --> 01:30:13,408
[bell tolling]
1442
01:30:14,367 --> 01:30:16,536
[Sandra] When I went to that church,
I know I was crying,
1443
01:30:16,619 --> 01:30:19,497
'cause I was crying all the time,
and I couldn't stop crying.
1444
01:30:19,997 --> 01:30:21,332
And that's where I met him.
1445
01:30:23,209 --> 01:30:25,294
He just came and sat down,
1446
01:30:25,378 --> 01:30:29,632
and he just started talking to me
in… in a calm voice.
1447
01:30:30,133 --> 01:30:31,551
You know, "What's wrong?"
1448
01:30:32,135 --> 01:30:34,095
"God sent me here to help you."
1449
01:30:35,012 --> 01:30:37,265
He said, "We'll go get your children."
1450
01:30:38,599 --> 01:30:41,727
"We'll get married, and I'll take care
of you and the children,
1451
01:30:41,811 --> 01:30:43,604
and everything will be all right."
1452
01:30:45,606 --> 01:30:49,569
After we were together,
he would do things that were scary things.
1453
01:30:52,155 --> 01:30:56,075
Once I realized the situation I was in
with him, I didn't know what to do.
1454
01:30:57,577 --> 01:31:01,080
And he… he had a knife
that he carried all the time.
1455
01:31:01,664 --> 01:31:04,959
and he would reach down
to his side where the knife was,
1456
01:31:05,042 --> 01:31:07,712
and he'd say, "Do you think
you're going to leave me?"
1457
01:31:09,088 --> 01:31:10,339
That's not happening.
1458
01:31:15,052 --> 01:31:18,639
One time I needed
to buy the girls' diapers.
1459
01:31:18,723 --> 01:31:21,184
I had written a bad check at 7-Eleven.
1460
01:31:21,934 --> 01:31:23,895
So I got 30 days in jail.
1461
01:31:27,732 --> 01:31:29,859
And that's when he took my children.
1462
01:31:31,777 --> 01:31:34,322
I went to the police station immediately
1463
01:31:34,864 --> 01:31:37,450
and told the police
he had taken my children.
1464
01:31:38,326 --> 01:31:40,786
The police said,
"Are you legally married to him?"
1465
01:31:40,870 --> 01:31:41,829
And I said, "Yes."
1466
01:31:41,913 --> 01:31:45,917
And the police said, "That's a civil thing
you'll have to take care of yourself."
1467
01:31:47,585 --> 01:31:50,338
And I just kept getting louder
and louder and louder,
1468
01:31:50,421 --> 01:31:52,757
and they escorted me
out of the police station.
1469
01:31:55,676 --> 01:31:57,678
At some point,
and I don't know when exactly,
1470
01:31:57,762 --> 01:32:01,766
he had taken Allison and Amy
and dropped them off at the orphanage,
1471
01:32:01,849 --> 01:32:03,392
and took Susie and left.
1472
01:32:03,476 --> 01:32:05,478
[disturbing music playing]
1473
01:32:09,065 --> 01:32:10,942
You know, you can't go back and say,
1474
01:32:11,526 --> 01:32:12,568
"If I didn't…"
1475
01:32:13,069 --> 01:32:14,070
[sniffling]
1476
01:32:15,279 --> 01:32:19,534
"If I had found some way to get help."
1477
01:32:20,451 --> 01:32:23,829
"To get away from the whole situation,
then it never would've happened."
1478
01:32:25,331 --> 01:32:28,918
And I was supposed to be her mother
and protect her from that monster.
1479
01:32:29,752 --> 01:32:30,711
And I didn't.
1480
01:32:33,256 --> 01:32:35,967
I'm actually very angry at Sharon's mom.
1481
01:32:36,842 --> 01:32:39,387
I don't believe for one second that,
1482
01:32:39,470 --> 01:32:43,432
because this was back in the day,
that she couldn't find her child.
1483
01:32:43,516 --> 01:32:46,102
I was taken in 1976.
1484
01:32:46,644 --> 01:32:51,649
And for almost five years,
my mom contacted everyone.
1485
01:32:52,149 --> 01:32:53,234
Her Senator,
1486
01:32:53,859 --> 01:32:55,903
the Mayor, she went on TV.
1487
01:32:56,445 --> 01:32:58,990
She did everything she could.
1488
01:33:00,116 --> 01:33:02,702
And she wasn't an affluent person,
1489
01:33:02,785 --> 01:33:06,539
but she spent
all of the money she could looking for me.
1490
01:33:06,622 --> 01:33:08,874
My mother did everything,
1491
01:33:08,958 --> 01:33:11,127
and I just want to know why.
1492
01:33:12,420 --> 01:33:14,880
Why didn't she try harder?
1493
01:33:16,632 --> 01:33:19,802
I'll be honest.
I did reach out to her grandmother.
1494
01:33:22,221 --> 01:33:23,264
That didn't go well.
1495
01:33:23,889 --> 01:33:26,434
It's… It's that, "I don't care" attitude.
1496
01:33:26,517 --> 01:33:30,271
When you reach out to someone
and they… they have no interest,
1497
01:33:31,272 --> 01:33:32,940
that, to me… mm-mm.
1498
01:33:34,150 --> 01:33:35,067
You don't care?
1499
01:33:35,776 --> 01:33:38,362
You don't want to know?
What kind of person are you?
1500
01:33:38,446 --> 01:33:40,615
I… I just have a problem with that.
1501
01:33:40,698 --> 01:33:42,700
[wind whooshing]
1502
01:33:46,662 --> 01:33:50,291
[Matt] In 2003, when I was in Tulsa,
and I went to visit the cemetery,
1503
01:33:50,374 --> 01:33:53,544
I thought, you know, "Wouldn't it be cool
1504
01:33:53,628 --> 01:33:56,339
to come back here one day
and replace this headstone?"
1505
01:33:56,422 --> 01:33:59,216
It just had one name in it, Tonya.
And that bothered me.
1506
01:34:00,009 --> 01:34:02,845
So after learning her identity,
1507
01:34:02,928 --> 01:34:04,847
we decided, you know, I spoke with Megan.
1508
01:34:04,930 --> 01:34:08,100
And I said,
"Hey, you know, uh, let's do this."
1509
01:34:09,226 --> 01:34:14,607
Matt wanted my input on what
should be written on the headstone.
1510
01:34:15,358 --> 01:34:17,860
And I was like, "Holy crap.
That's a lot of responsibility."
1511
01:34:18,778 --> 01:34:22,782
She touched a lot of people in her life,
and I wanted to make sure that
1512
01:34:22,865 --> 01:34:26,077
it showed that she was
everything to everybody.
1513
01:34:27,370 --> 01:34:28,913
[bell tolling]
1514
01:34:31,999 --> 01:34:34,001
[minister] Father, I thank you
for this opportunity.
1515
01:34:34,085 --> 01:34:37,380
And I pray that you'd bring the comfort,
the strength, the heart
1516
01:34:37,463 --> 01:34:38,964
to the lives of those here.
1517
01:34:39,048 --> 01:34:41,759
Not only here today,
but wherever they might be.
1518
01:34:43,928 --> 01:34:45,930
[somber music playing]
1519
01:34:49,475 --> 01:34:50,601
There she is.
1520
01:34:51,977 --> 01:34:53,062
There she is.
1521
01:34:55,147 --> 01:34:58,567
[Matt] She was just 20 years old
when she died in 1990.
1522
01:34:59,860 --> 01:35:04,365
And it wasn't until June 2017
that we could change her tombstone.
1523
01:35:04,448 --> 01:35:07,076
And finally, put her real name there.
1524
01:35:09,620 --> 01:35:13,165
[Megan] She was the definition of a friend
to everyone.
1525
01:35:13,749 --> 01:35:16,711
The sound voice
and the… the support system for people,
1526
01:35:16,794 --> 01:35:21,340
which is absolutely insane
because she had none of that at home.
1527
01:35:21,424 --> 01:35:24,009
And she did it all with such poise.
1528
01:35:24,093 --> 01:35:26,095
[somber music continues]
1529
01:35:31,642 --> 01:35:35,187
[Lynn] She finally had
the memorial service that she deserved.
1530
01:35:36,313 --> 01:35:41,193
That put a semicolon, for me, on there.
1531
01:35:41,777 --> 01:35:43,654
And, finally, she's at rest.
1532
01:35:45,239 --> 01:35:47,116
But she's still alive in my heart.
1533
01:35:49,452 --> 01:35:53,372
And when I go, maybe that's when
the period is. [chuckles]
1534
01:35:55,958 --> 01:35:58,461
[Jenny] It was, um, beautiful.
1535
01:35:58,544 --> 01:36:01,297
It was… It was wonderful
to find out who she was.
1536
01:36:02,131 --> 01:36:04,550
Um, I remember just,
1537
01:36:06,093 --> 01:36:08,053
"Girl, I got your back," you know?
1538
01:36:10,222 --> 01:36:14,143
[Cliff] One of the things that got me most
was that she never knew who she was.
1539
01:36:16,604 --> 01:36:20,941
Knowing the people that were
part of her life really helped me out.
1540
01:36:22,193 --> 01:36:25,112
'Cause they don't have
such positive memories of her.
1541
01:36:25,613 --> 01:36:30,075
You get the feeling that,
at times, she was, uh,
1542
01:36:30,701 --> 01:36:32,578
making the most of the life she had.
1543
01:36:36,582 --> 01:36:39,502
I was excited… excited that…
1544
01:36:39,585 --> 01:36:41,295
[inhales deeply, clears throat]
1545
01:36:41,378 --> 01:36:44,632
…we put her name
on a tombstone and it's her.
1546
01:36:48,135 --> 01:36:51,180
[Joe] It was important
to all of us, you know, it was…
1547
01:36:51,263 --> 01:36:53,766
This was who she really was.
This is really her dad.
1548
01:36:53,849 --> 01:36:55,684
This is their daughter, you know?
1549
01:36:56,477 --> 01:36:58,103
Here's where she is,
here's where she lies,
1550
01:36:58,187 --> 01:36:59,980
and here's what her true name is.
1551
01:37:06,529 --> 01:37:07,947
Sheriff, just thank you.
1552
01:37:09,031 --> 01:37:12,660
I got so many new relationships
and more family than I needed.
1553
01:37:12,743 --> 01:37:14,328
[all laugh]
1554
01:37:14,411 --> 01:37:18,249
And I hope I can be half the mom
that she was or wanted to be.
1555
01:37:19,834 --> 01:37:24,296
Becoming a parent gave me
even more respect for my birth mother
1556
01:37:24,380 --> 01:37:27,633
because she gave up two children,
1557
01:37:27,716 --> 01:37:28,926
if not more,
1558
01:37:29,009 --> 01:37:32,304
knowing that it was better for the kids.
1559
01:37:34,974 --> 01:37:38,185
My son is named Michael.
He's named after my brother.
1560
01:37:38,811 --> 01:37:42,940
Michael didn't get to live out his name
and I wanted that name to keep going.
1561
01:37:45,025 --> 01:37:49,613
What I can do is, I can't talk to Suzanne,
but I can talk to Megan.
1562
01:37:50,155 --> 01:37:52,157
[solemn music playing]
1563
01:37:53,826 --> 01:37:56,996
And that will… that will do.
1564
01:38:01,750 --> 01:38:03,419
[Megan] So I'm trying to figure out me,
1565
01:38:03,502 --> 01:38:07,089
but I know that this story
is going to help somebody.
1566
01:38:07,590 --> 01:38:12,344
I just got to figure out all the pieces
and how it shaped me,
1567
01:38:12,428 --> 01:38:14,597
And then I know
I'm gonna be able to share this.
1568
01:38:19,977 --> 01:38:22,563
[Heather] I just know
that she had a chance.
1569
01:38:23,939 --> 01:38:26,108
She would have been one of those persons
1570
01:38:26,191 --> 01:38:29,904
that would have been able
to overcome what happened to her.
1571
01:38:31,071 --> 01:38:33,741
If she had just gotten away from him,
1572
01:38:34,366 --> 01:38:37,369
she would have been an amazing survivor.
1573
01:38:39,538 --> 01:38:41,540
She had so much potential.
1574
01:38:43,584 --> 01:38:46,045
She had something to offer the world.
1575
01:38:46,837 --> 01:38:49,423
She really had a gift, and…
1576
01:38:52,426 --> 01:38:54,553
that's how I'll always remember her.
1577
01:38:56,138 --> 01:38:58,140
[solemn music continues]
1578
01:39:19,078 --> 01:39:21,080
[gentle music playing]