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Franklin Delano Floyd was born in Barnesville, Georgia, according to Fresh Edits. He was the child of the rural South, tough and hard-bitten by the Great Depression. His father died of organ failure due to alcoholism when Franklin was an infant, and his childhood never really improved past that point. Bullied and neglected, the young Floyd turned to violent crime, getting himself seriously wounded in a police shootout at the age of 16. The next few decades he spent in and out of jail for robbery, kidnapping, sexual assault, and other violent offenses.
Court documents (via FindLaw) reveal that in 1973, while on the lam, Floyd began a relationship with one Linda Williams. She already had a daughter, Sharon, born Suzanne Marie Sevakis (per the FBI); he raised her under a series of assumed names. In 1988, the young Sharon had a brief relationship of her own that would lead to her giving birth to a boy, named Michael. The next year, in Louisiana, the criminal and his adopted daughter would get married under false names.
