I believe this is the most recent timeline:
Timeline
June 17th, 1943 *** Franklin Delano Floyd is born in Barnsville, Georgia. His father is Thomas H. Floyd, his mother Della Floyd. Siblings Dorothy, Billy, Shirley , and sister Tommye
June 1944/ Floyd's father dies.
January 21, 1946/ Floyd children placed in Georgia Baptist Children's home in Hapeville Georgia by their mother.
June 11, 1959/Franklin runs away from children's home. Turned away by relatives in Bessimer AB and Gainesville, GA. Goes to sister's house in N or S Carolina then runs away when he gets spanked by his brother in law. A domestic relations judge takes him in for 4 or 5 months. He then goes to Indianapolis, IN to find his mother. Stays there for 2 weeks. His mother disappears from his life.
July 11, 1959/ Franklin enlists in the U.S. Army under a fictitious age. Serves in Missouri and Oklahoma.
December 1959/ Franklin is kicked out of the army because he is too young and forged his papers.
February 19, 1960 Franklin breaks into a Sears store in Inglewood, CA. He exchanges fire with police on top of the roof of the store and is subsequently shot in the back by officer Jack O. MacGregor shortly after 4 a.m. He was sent to Centinela hospital and then transferred to the General Hospital prison ward. He is later convicted of his crimes and sentenced to the Preston Youth Facility in CA.
August 1961 (the DAY of release is unknown)/Franklin is released from Preston and does not follow parole guidelines. Later, he tells his parole agent that he went on a camping trip with fellow parolee James Marvin to either Alaska or Canada. Apparently he disappeared for a period of time. (
No proof has been found that his whereabouts were ever confirmed)
Note:
8/13/61 Anne Marie Burr, 8 of Tacoma WA is abducted from her home and has never been found.
8/18/61 Karen Lynn Tompkins, 11, of Torrance (L.A. County), CA was abducted while walking home from a summer school class. She has not been found. Both physical descriptions are similar to Sharon Marshall.
We need to find the DAY of his release from Preston to determine if he should be considered a suspect in these cases.
November 1, 1961/ Franklin is taken into custody for parole violation and is returned into the Preston Youth Facility.
January 1962/ Franklin is released from the Preston Youth facility.
May 1962 / Franklin returns to Hapeville, Georgia and lives near the Georgia Baptist Children's Home. He is jailed for obtaining a license under false pretenses.
May 20 1962 / Franklin abducts a 4-year-old girl from a Hapeville,Georgia bowling alley and rapes her.
July 31, 1962/ Franklin is convicted of "child molestation" and is sentenced to 20 years.He was incarcerated at Reidsville Prison in Atlanta, Georgia.
November 1, 1962/ Franklin was hospitalized at Milledgeville State Hospital for psychiatric testing.
March 14th, 1963/ Franklin escapes from Milledgeville Hospital, stole a car in Milledgeville, and bought a pellet pistol.
March 15, 1963/ Franklin robbed The Citizens and Southern bank of $6,810.28 in Macon, Georgia. He is arrested the same day.He is held in Atlanta from April 4th to June 28th, 1963.
March 26, 1963/ Franklin confesses to the bank robbery, but says he did it to get money to appeal his child molestation conviction.
4/4/63-6/28/63 served time in the US Penitentiary Atlanta, GA
July 12, 1963/ Franklin pleaded guilty to the bank robbery in Macon.
Franklin was sentenced to 15 years in Chillicothe Federal reformatory in Chillicothe, Ohio for bank robbery.He serves a sentence there from July 24, 1963- October 26, 1963.
September 27, 1963/ Franklin attempts to escape from Chillicothe by hotwiring a prison fire-truck and smashing through a fence. He is apprehended and transferred to Lewisburg, PA.He serves a sentence there from October 26, 1963- June 5, 1964.
June 1964/ Franklin is transferred to Springfield Missouri Medical Hospital of Federal Prisoners for evaluation. He is there from June 5th, 1964 to February 6, 1965.
February 1965/ Franklin is transferred to Federal prison in Marion, Illinois. He recieves his G.E.D.He is at Marion from February 6, 1965 to February 15, 1968.
February 1968/Franklin is Transferred to Reidsville prison in Georgia to finish molestation sentence/ Meets David Dial. He is there from Febuary 15, 1968 until he is remanded over to Federal Prison in Atlanta.
November 1971/ Franklin is transferred to Federal Prison in Atlanta, Georgia for the escape attempt in Chillicothe. This is the birthplace of The Church Of The New Song.
November 1972/ Franklin is released to a halfway house.
January 27th, 1973/Franklin attempts to kidnap a young woman in Atlanta, Georgia. His court appearance is scheduled for June 11, 1973.
February 2, 1973/ Franklin is taken into custody for attack on woman in Atlanta, Georgia. Franklin calls David Dial and he posts 3,000 dollar bail.
Late February, 1973/ Floyd vanishes. It is later learned that he is staying with David Dial and had began working at Avis Car Rentals at the Atlanta Airport.
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1973-1975 / Franklin is possibly in Utah, possibly in and around the Chicago area, possibly in Freedom, Village Illinois.
1973-1975/ Franklin obtains a little girl (who is now known as Sharon Marshall) from somewhere. Nobody to this day knows when he got her, where he got her, or from whom.
http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/8uftx.html
1975/ Franklin begins to work in the Oklahoma school system under the alias Trenton Davis and later in August 1975 enrolls Sharon as his daughter "Suzanne Davis."
1978 Trenton and Suzanne flee Oklahoma under allegations of child molestation by the babysitter. She told police Franklin was molesting his daughter.
1978/ Franklin and Sharon are in Arizona where she is enrolled in a school called Sevilla or Sevalia.
1979-1981/ The pair are in Louisville Kentucky
????/Sharon is enrolled in Northside High School
May 1983/ Sharon is enrolled in Baldwin High School
September 1983/ Sharon is enrolled in Riverdale High School
November 1983/ Sharon is enrolled in Forrest Park High School in Georgia
Sunday, July 15, 1984/ Sharon meets Jennifer Fisher at a summer leadership workshop in Rome, Georgia.
1986/ Sharon graduates high school
1986/Sharon and Franklin move to Phoenix Arizona.
March 21, 1988 Michael Anthony Hughes, Sharon's son is born
http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/1061dmok.html
1988/ Franklin and Sharon are living in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area of Florida. Sharon works at a club called The Mons Venus where she meets Cheryl Commesso.
April 1989/ First week of April 1989/ Franklin murders Cheryl Commesso and dumps her body along I-275
1989/ A warrant is placed on Franklin for insurance fraud, he is accused of drilling holes in the bottom of his boat to collect insurance money.
April 15, 1989/ Cheryl Commesso's corvette is found at the airport and impounded.
May 1989/ Floyd and Sharon leave Tampa. He tells a neighbor they are going on vacation and will return on June 15.
June 15, 1989 Franklin and Sharon marry in New Orleans, under assumed aliases- Clarence Hughes and Tonya Dawn Tadlock
June 16, 1989 / Floyd's trailor is set on fire in Tampa/A man is seen running from the trailer but is never identified. Floyd calls neighbor and asks her to burn his mail. She refuses to.
1989-1990/ Sharon is working at a club called Passions in Tulsa Oklahoma.
April 25 1990/ Sharon is struck from behind by a vehicle, she is in the hospital for 5 days and then dies from her injuries. Injuries are said to be inconsistent with an auto accident. After Sharon's death, Floyd turns Michael over to the state and he is placed in foster care.
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1990/ Franklin is incarcerated at El Reno Prison for the kidnapping of Atlanta woman in 1973. Asks Rebecca Barr to marry him.
1991 / Convicted in Oklahoma on a federal charge of possession of a firearm after former conviction of a felony.
March 30, 1993/ Released from Federal Corrections Facility at El Reno after 33 months. Living in halfway house.
July 4th, 1994/ Attacks Carrie Box at Northwest Oklahoma City apartment complex where he is working as a maintenance man.
August 19, 1994/ Arrested for attack on Carrie Box. Is released on bond.
Septmber 12, 1994/ Kidnaps Principal James Davis and Sharon's son Michael from a Choctaw, Oklahoma elementary school. ties principal to a tree and leaves with Michael. Nobody to this day knows the whereabouts of Michael Hughes.
UNKNOWN DATE/ Commits carjacking in Atlanta and is charged with Five weapons possession charges, 2 counts of kidnapping and larceny of an automobile before he is ever even apprehended.
September 21- September 29th, 1994/ Franklin Floyd is a patient at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.
October 22, 1994/ Principal James Davis' truck is recovered in Love Field, Dallas, Texas at the Wonderbread Factory employee parking.
November 10, 1994/ Franklin is arrested at a Kentucky car dealership where he has been working for 2 days for the kidnapping charges.
March 29 1995/ A body (bones) found along I-275, later it is learned this is Cheryl Commesso.
March 1995/ Pictures are found concealed above the gas tank of Davis' truck that depict children (including Sharon in pornographic and sexually suggestive poses, also found are pictures of a severely beaten Cheryl comesso, some colored in with blood red to add to their eery "death effect."
September 27, 2002/ Franklin is convicted of Cheryl Comesso's murder.
2002- Present/ Franklin appealing murder conviction.
Case Information:
Trial Summary:
11/12/97 Indicted on one count of First-Degree Murder
09/27/02 Jury returned a guilty verdict on the sole count of the indictment
10/01/02 Jury recommended death by a vote of 12-0
11/22/02 Sentenced to Death
Appeal Summary:
Florida Supreme Court Direct Appeal
FSC # 03-35
913 So.2d 564
01/09/03 Direct Appeal filed
10/12/05 FSC affirmed conviction and sentence
11/10/05 Mandate issued
Circuit Court 3.851 Motion
CC# 97-20160
(Pending)
06/05/06 Motion filed
U.S. District Court, Middle District Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus
USDC# 06-1065
(Pending)
06/06/06 Petition filed
* Floyd's petition was denied.
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