Mystery! The 'Girl in the Picture' star Franklin Delano Floyd: Here's all you need to know

A 1990 hit-and-run death of a 20-year-old woman named Tonya Hughes is the subject of the documentary directed by Skye Borgman, who led the 2021 Hulu documentary Dead Asleep. From there, this tale unfolds in a truly disturbing way: Tonya Hughes was exposed to be Sharon Marshall, and the man who proclaimed to be Tonya's husband—Franklin Delano Floyd, then hiding by the name Clarence Hughes—in fact, raised Tonya as his own offspring. When Tonya died in a hit-and-run case, she left behind a baby son called Michael Hughes. He was not Franklin Delano Floyd's biological son, but that didn't stop the convicted criminal from kidnapping Michael from his kindergarten classroom in 1994.

It took two months for Floyd to be arrested, but Michael could not be found. According to Floyd, even though authorities believed he passes away, he was still alive. When the FBI investigated the kidnapping, they found evidence that Floyd had murdered Cheryl Ann Comesso in 1989. His death sentence in Florida was due in 2002 after he was found guilty of murder. According to their investigation, Floyd also abducted "Tonya Hughes," taken between 1973 and August 1975.

How did Michael Anthony Hughes disappear?

On the day he was kidnapped from kindergarten by Franklin Delano Floyd, Michael Anthony Hughes was killed. As reported by both Girl in the Picture and the official FBI website, FBI agents were able to get Floyd to confess to being on death row in 2013. While driving Michael Hughes from Oklahoma City to Dallas, Floyd told agents he shot the child.

But where is Franklin Delano Floyd? Does Franklin Delano Floyd still exist?
Yes, he is still alive. According to the Florida Department of Corrections website, Franklin Delano Floyd has been imprisoned for over a decade at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, where the death penalty is legal. He was sentenced to death in 2002 after being convicted of first-degree murder in Florida. According to FBI agent Lobb, Floyd is more likely to die of natural causes in prison before being executed because the state still has not sentenced him to death. His age is 79.