He tortured, abused, photographed... then MURDERED

Floyd was on the run for 17 years

SICK Franklin Floyd is every parent’s worse nightmare, a repulsive child-kidnapper with a taste for incest and paedophilia.

Yet he was allowed to roam free for almost two decades, leaving four innocent victims either murdered or officially still classified as ‘missing’.

Floyd is a modern-day bogeyman to give you sleepless nights – and one who thoroughly deserves his place on Death Row...

ACCORDING to Franklin Floyd, he did his victim Sharon Marshall ‘a favour’.

She was the person he’d called his wife, a woman he’d married in 1989 when she was in her early 20s and who had given birth to a beautiful baby boy called Michael just a year earlier. But all was not what it seemed. Because Sharon wasn’t Floyd’s partner. In fact, she wasn’t even ‘Sharon’.

Her real name was Suzanne Maree Sevakis and she had been abducted by Floyd as a four-year-old girl from her native North Carolina before being raised by her vile kidnapper as his own. To poor Sharon, Floyd was a father, husband and abuser all rolled into one.

She’d suffered sexual assaults at his hands from being a small girl – attacks captured for posterity by Floyd through a series of 40 sickening photographs.

Sharon’s misery was finally ended in April 1990 when Floyd mowed her down in his truck in Oklahoma, leaving her for dead in the road.

She breathed her last in hospital five days later having succumbed to her extensive injuries, leaving two-year-old son Michael motherless.

Oklahoma prosecutor Lisa Hammond later said: “Without a doubt, Franklin Floyd is one of the most evil people I’ve ever met in my life.”

Born in 1943, Floyd was broken from the start. His father, Billy, died when he was just a year old and he was placed in the Georgia Baptist Children’s home in Hapeville, Georgia, along with his siblings.

By 1960, aged 17, he was already in trouble with the law. His first offence saw him exchange gunfire with cops while trying to rob a shop in California and he was banged up in the Preston Youth facility until 1962.

Months after his release, he was back in Georgia. Spotting a four-year-old girl in a bowling alley, 19-yearold Floyd abducted her and raped her.

He was convicted of child molestation and jailed for 20 years.

Despite two failed escape attempts, he was paroled on January 19, 1972.

Just over a week later, he attempted to kidnap another young woman from a shopping centre.

Amazingly, Floyd was allowed to post bail and, while awaiting trial, he simply vanished, giving police the runaround for the next 17 years.

What we now know is that, by 1974, Floyd was living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and married to divorcee Sandra Chipman, a mother of three daughters and a son from a previous relationship.

Suzanne Maree Sevakis was one of those daughters.

When Sandra was jailed for writing bogus cheques late in 1974, she returned from prison to find not just Floyd gone, but also her children.

A frantic search began. Two of the girls were

FAMILY FAKER: Floyd raised Suzanne as his own daughter – then later married her tracked down, having been dumped with social services.

But there was no sign of Suzanne or her brother.

The boy, who has not been named, has never been found. He is presumed to have been killed by Floyd.

Floyd took four-yearold Suzanne to Oklahoma City, where he adopted a new alias – Trenton Davis – and enrolled Suzanne in school as his daughter, Sharon Davis.

Somehow, Sharon flourished, blossoming into a confident young woman and breezing through her exams.

Yet Sharon’s pal, Jennifer Tanner, told how Floyd hated his ‘daughter’ having any friends.

She said: “I called their house once and he was irate that I had their home number.

“He was screaming at me. I just thought her dad was strict.

“Another time, Sharon called me into her bedroom and showed her lingerie that she said her father had bought for her.

“It was like he was obsessed with her or something, always taking photographs and talking about how beautiful she was.”

Growing rebellious, Sharon got a boyfriend and fell pregnant, running away to Alabama to be with him.

But, sure enough,