AMERICA’S MOST MONSTERS OF DEATH ROW SADISTIC KILLER
Floyd tracked them down. He abducted Sharon once more and took her to New Orleans, where they eventually wed.
Having given birth to Michael, Sharon started working as a stripper at a club to support him.
There, she befriended fellow exotic dancer
VICTIMS: ‘Sharon’ and son Michael were killed by Floyd
Cheryl Ann Commesso. But when Cheryl, 18, tipped off authorities that Sharon was wrongly claiming benefits, the fall-out ended in bloodshed.
Witnesses describe Floyd having a violent argument with Cheryl outside the club. He was even seen punching her in the face.
By April 1989, Cheryl had disappeared. Her body wasn’t found until 1995 when skeletal remains were uncovered in a shallow grave by the side of a dirty motorway.
She’d been tortured, beaten and shot twice in the head.
Later that same year, a lurid cache of photos was discovered stashed in a truck that was once owned by Floyd.
They not only showed Sharon being abused, but also Cheryl in various states of undress as she was slowly bludgeoned half to death.
As prosecutor Bob Schock would later tell a courtroom: “Floyd toyed with her.
“He tortured her, taking great delight in her misery as he continually degraded her, burned her and beat her nearly to death.
“Then, finally, he ended her life with two shots from a .22 rifle to the back of the head.”
The carnage wasn’t over. By April 1990, Sharon was also dead, while Michael – Floyd’s ‘son’ – had been handed over to state care.
While Floyd was a prime suspect in the investigation into Sharon’s death, there was no hard evidence that he was the one driving the vehicle that had knocked her over and killed her.
And so he was free to drift in and out of jail for the next four years.
While inside, Floyd befriended young inmate Allen Dowdy and hinted about his dark past.
Dowdy remembers: “Floyd said he ran his wife down in his car while she was walking on the side of a highway.
“He told me something about burying a body and putting lye on top of it to help it decompose. He didn’t say where it was or who it was.”
By this point, Floyd had racked up three murder victims – Cheryl, Sharon and Sharon’s infant brother.
And there was one more, gut-wrenching victim.
By 1994 Floyd decided he wanted custody of Michael, so he made a plea to the state to return him from care.
While Michael was plagued by nightmares and developmentally slow, he was making great progress in the care of a loving foster family.
When Floyd’s appeal was flatly denied, he took matters into his own hands.
GRISLY END: Cheryl Ann Commesso was beaten and shot in the head
He turned up at Michael’s school and marched straight into the staff room.
He told the principal, James Davis: “I think I’d better tell you I’ve got a gun in my pocket, and I’d better show it to you.
“I’m ready to die – and if you don’t help me, you won’t live.”
Floyd swiped Michael from class, then took him and the principal into a waiting truck.
Davis was handcuffed to a tree in a forest and left to die, while Floyd and Michael drove away.
Davis escaped – but Michael was never seen again.
It was only in April of this year that Floyd finally came clean. He had shot the boy dead the day he had kidnapped him.
FBI Special Agent Scott Lobb vividly remembers the moment Floyd confessed.
“He didn’t show any remorse,” said the agent.
In 2002, Florida Circuit Judge Nancy Moate Ley sentenced Floyd to death for the murder of Cheryl Ann Commesso and the kidnapping of Suzanne Maree Sevakis and her son, Michael.
Floyd, ever the monster, simply grunted before telling her, ‘I don’t need your mercy. I hope you sleep good...’