OK OK - Sharon Marshall, 20, multiple aliases, OKC, 1990 - ID'd as Suzanne Sevakis - #5

[Donamena]

These people that Dial & "Floyd" are a part of don't have many blondes. In fact, I've never seen any. They range from olive-complexions to dark, 95% have straight hair. Amongst the ones I've interviewed, they deny African ancestry & maintain they're Native American (Lumbee, PeeDee or Cherah) ' Portugee' or Spanish.

Amongst themselves, they joke about being unattractive. I'm not going there. After meeting over 100 of them in the Deep South, I might just agree with that.

 

[Donamena]

hypothetically, not sleuthing or anything, but what if a certain person in Anderson, SC was born and raised in Tennessee....then it is totally possible that Suzanne would have a cousin in Tennessee, which cold be validating the story given to Matt and the FBI. Nobody has come out and said that story did not pan out.

They went westward after the Revolutionary War, through Kentucky & Tennessee, with some of the core groups, such as Dial, etc., going south after the Louisiana Purchase. There were always remnants of the bands all over the south. Sometimes I think they're the successors of the Dixie Mafia. Many are always on the fringe of society, prone to violence.

 

[sloane7777]

There is much more to all of this and i think the missing brother might be out there somewhere too and I maintain I am so dang freaked out by all of this

 

[Donamena]

There is much more to all of this and i think the missing brother might be out there somewhere too and I maintain I am so dang freaked out by all of this

Me too Sloane...there's a book in this, a much more involved one. Any of you who lean in that direction, start with the history first, then take it through 20th century till now.

 

[Donamena]

I know I'm here late in the fray but I must say:

This case is going from Yay!!!!! To OK!!! To Huh????? To W T F?!?!?!?!

 

[lgrahamtx]

From what I can devine, the family, at least not all of it, is not from North Carolina. Given the time frame of Sharon going missing, I think it is very possible Sharon's father was posted at one of the miitary bases during the Vietnam War and that is why Sharon's family was in North Carolina at that time. Many military families fall apart when the soldier goes overseas...just saying. That could be how Sharon's family ended up split up, and a mother far away from home with small children who was easy prey for someone like Floyd.

 

[georgiagirl]

I am shocked how slow this thread is considering the news! lol Now I am dying to know who the dark haired woman in the photo Floyd had was.... Was that really her mother or??

 

[Linda9681]

Someone said it was another dancer in Florida that worked with Suzanne who has a mile long rap sheet

 

[sloane7777]

Someone said it was another dancer in Florida that worked with Suzanne who has a mile long rap sheet

that is correct, IntriguedamI has info, she dosnt seem to be much of a factor now.

 

[~Lyric~]

WOW.. that is all I can say, is just WOW..

Just last week, or the week before, I saw a show about this, and they were talking to Floyd. I'm pretty sure it was something like dateline that they show that are a few years old. Then I saw this thread today and seeing resolved.

I have seen some posts about how can anyone not know of this case. I didn't until I saw the show. I remember them ( LE ) asking him about the little boy and him not answering, that he was keeping that to himself. Geeze.

Thank Goodness, her family knows....

I'll have to get the book, I suppose when it gets updated.

Just WOW!

 

[Donamena]

WOW.. that is all I can say, is just WOW..

Just last week, or the week before, I saw a show about this, and they were talking to Floyd. I'm pretty sure it was something like dateline that they show that are a few years old. Then I saw this thread today and seeing resolved.

I have seen some posts about how can anyone not know of this case. I didn't until I saw the show. I remember them ( LE ) asking him about the little boy and him not answering, that he was keeping that to himself. Geeze.

Thank Goodness, her family knows....

I'll have to get the book, I suppose when it gets updated.

Just WOW!

I'm leaning towards the W T F onion.

 

[Cubby]

For those of you who have wondered how Suzanne's family could have missed her in their searching, keep in mind Suzanne's mom knew Floyd under a fictitious name. She and her family would have been searching for whatever name she believed was Floyd's and came up against dead ends, over and over.

You can't find someone if you do not know their real name. It's very simple to me. She was decieved by the man she married and LE at the time refused to file a missing report. I'm sure she never imagined Floyd was the monster he is, and I am sure she likely thought her daughter remembered her and might look for her when she became of age.

Again, you can't find someone when you don't know what name they are using.

I am keeping Suzanne's family in my prayers. This is going to be a tough road for them now that they have learned what became of their daughter, sister, granddaughter......

 

[thefragile7393]

For those of you who have wondered how Suzanne's family could have missed her in their searching, keep in mind Suzanne's mom knew Floyd under a fictitious name. She and her family would have been searching for whatever name she believed was Floyd's and came up against dead ends, over and over.

You can't find someone if you do not know their real name. It's very simple to me. She was decieved by the man she married and LE at the time refused to file a missing report. I'm sure she never imagined Floyd was the monster he is, and I am sure she likely thought her daughter remembered her and might look for her when she became of age.

Again, you can't find someone when you don't know what name they are using.

I am keeping Suzanne's family in my prayers. This is going to be a tough road for them now that they have learned what became of their daughter, sister, granddaughter......

That's exactly it. If she searched for them under the last known names its no wonder she never found them.

 

[badhorsie]

Mods, any chance of a WS header for this story? I can't believe it hasn't got more attention. Please ignore if it is to respect her family

 

[Backwoods]

Mods, any chance of a WS header for this story? I can't believe it hasn't got more attention. Please ignore if it is to respect her family

I definitely second that motion!

Also, most of you are probably aware but some may not be: Suzanne/"Sharon" also has a thread in the Unidentified forum (though now with an "Identified" tag, it is, at the moment, still in the Unidentified section) that is going pretty strong, too, right now.

 

[amber1]

Did they ever find Suzanne's brother Floyd also took? Here's to hoping they can recover Michael and lay him to rest with his mother. I'm so happy she has her name back <3 Suzanne.

 

[Backwoods]

I am shocked how slow this thread is considering the news! lol Now I am dying to know who the dark haired woman in the photo Floyd had was.... Was that really her mother or??

Someone said it was another dancer in Florida that worked with Suzanne who has a mile long rap sheet

What's confusing me on this is whether the picture that "Sharon's" Atlanta-area friend Jennifer saw in Sharon's home -- Sharon told her it was a picture of her mother -- and the picture of the "unidentified woman" (who, it seems, was later identified, apparently as a dancer) are the same picture.

It would seem to me NOT -- if the dancer was one with whom Sharon worked in Florida (since Jennifer's viewing of the picture in the home preceded the move to Florida -- it was during the girls' high school days). I'm thinking the "unidentified woman" picture may have been found with the pictures of Sharon that were located stowed away inside some part of a truck.

All this about the picture of the "mother" is from my memory from A Beautiful Child, which I read pretty recently. I think Jennifer did say the picture was somewhat blurry but that the woman had dark hair and full lips and that Jennifer told Sharon her mother was beautiful. Sharon commented something to the effect that she thought about her a lot. Just really wondering if maybe they truly DID have a picture of her mother...?

 

[Backwoods]

My apologies for beating my drum here. In the ethnic group of "Brass Ankles/Melungeon/Redbones there were/are families who have a distinct reputation for going around the law.

Is there any possibility that any of you would be willing to do a thread in Jury where it cannot be read on the Internet? The mods, rightly so, monitor these threads so that the innocent are protected. I've been off the reservation before & gotten soundly & correctly trounced for it.

Very little of ALL of this is making sense now. In the circles that Floyd (I just don't believe that's his real name & would love confirmation) & Dial find themselves, lawlessness is the norm. One rarely finds blond/blue-eyed children in this circle of people. Those of you who can sleuth, & I can't, I'm just an ethno-historian, should look for pre-existing Germanic or Eastern European communities in the Carolinas. The Germans were there in the 1700s. There must be criminal & coroners' records for those who want to write a more detailed work. I do not mean to be obtuse, but I have promises I have made, & when I say I know this or that about these communities, believe me I do. I would be more than happy to discuss this either in Jury as a thread or as a pm, even though Bessie says this is rude, the equivalent of whispering in a crowded room, but that's all I can do here. Sloane, help me here.

bbm: Donamena, I kind of understand where you are looking with some of this, with the Dial surname, etc. But what is puzzling me is why you think Franklin Delano Floyd is an alias...? I think (well, I THOUGHT ...now you have me wondering and needing to check back, LOL) that Floyd's family -- his mother's and father's names, his brothers and sisters, the children of the family ending up in the Georgia Baptist Children's Home, etc. -- was pretty well documented? Floyd was only two years old, IIRC, when he went to the home ... seems unlikely anyone would have changed the documentation of his name and history, I'd think...?

I believe the family (the Floyds) was from around Barnesville, GA -- not terribly far from me. Just going on memory, though -- as I said, things I need to go back and check.

 

[Backwoods]

I apologize for back-to-back posts -- I have not had much time to post since the news about SUZANNE'S real identity broke, but I sure have been following along with great interest. Wow.

I first learned of "Sharon Marshall" on WS and read in her threads from time to time when I could. As others have said, I really feared her identity would never be discovered. Just a few months ago -- probably around the time the FBI was getting in contact with her mother, actually -- the book swap club I belong to finally came through with a copy of Matt Birkbeck's A Beautiful Child for me; I had had it wishlisted for a while. I read it quickly and have kept it out on my "reading table" to look back at from time to time as I pondered this strange, sad story. "Sharon" has really been on my mind these past few months, so I was very excited to hear the news. I cannot imagine, even, what a momentous development this is for those of you who have pondered Sharon's case deeply for YEARS. And her family...wow.

I have a feeling there is probably much more to this story that we don't know -- not sure how much we will ever know. I don't have a real feeling about in which direction the "much more" lies...maybe in many directions. I do hope we will learn at least some more details. As someone else said: So many questions...

One thing I keep wondering about -- just have not seen it answered anywhere, though it may have been -- is what happened to the child with whom Sharon was pregnant during her last months of high school. I know that in Birkbeck's book, her Atlanta-area friend Jennifer is quoted as relating that Sharon wrote her a letter detailing that baby's (a boy, I believe?) birth and subsequent adoption by a family. But I think it was not long after that Sharon came to visit Jennifer and her family and basically begged to be allowed to live with them. I keep wondering if maybe she might have learned that her baby met some different fate...? I hope not, hope he was indeed adopted to a family who loved and cared for him. If he was, I wonder if it has just proven impossible to trace (in other words, does the FBI, etc., KNOW where he went...?) or if the family just prefers no mention publicly.

Just...a lot of questions...

 

[IntriguedAmI]

So...there was never a missing persons report filed for Suzanne Maree Sevakis either....just saying. So I guess we can add a few thousand more to the missing persons books - those who's cases the cops didn't take seriously, ala Rhonda Renee Moore.