Too late to edit my post #40 but I see that the last post here was actually in January 2015. I was having problems scrolling this thread yesterday, and for some recent the most recent post I could see was post #26. I'm glad to see that Michael is still in people's thoughts.
OK OK - Michael Hughes, 6, Choctaw, 12 Sept 1994
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Two decades after the murder of 6-year-old Michael Hughes, the FBI’s Evidence Response Team and anthropologists from the University of Oklahoma searched an area near the Oklahoma-Texas border where Franklin Delano Floyd said he had dumped the boy’s body after shooting him twice in the back of the head
WOW HE TALKED! I still believe he kidnapped Billy Tillery so he was not spotted with just one boy , I had a feeling he was left there, they are looking right by where Billy was found RIGHT THERE!!!!!
WOW HE TALKED! I still believe he kidnapped Billy Tillery so he was not spotted with just one boy , I had a feeling he was left there, they are looking right by where Billy was found RIGHT THERE!!!!!
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the FBI brief makes no mention of Suzanne's baby brother. maybe if they keep talking to him he will fess up.
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Cold Case Solved: Man confesses to killing missing Oklahoma boy more than 20 years ago
http://kfor.com/2016/04/12/cold-cas...-missing-oklahoma-boy-more-than-20-years-ago/
http://kfor.com/2016/04/12/cold-cas...-missing-oklahoma-boy-more-than-20-years-ago/
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Now tell us what you did with Suzanne's brother!
EDIT: Turns out her brother isn't missing...
EDIT: Turns out her brother isn't missing...
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this by far was the biggest story i had ever read with so many plot twists! I felt so bad for that woman and the live she had with that horrible man!!! This just goes to show, stop trusting men that you dont know to take care of your children!
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wait
he was given to woman at hospital by SC right? that was confirmed correct?
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In this case, it seems both of them were horrible too bad Bio dad of Suzanne trusted the Mom to take care of her , I'm sure he regrets it, I feel bad for him but mostly for Suzanne she had no one .
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and even sadder at least Michael had Suzanne for a while 
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Michael Anthony Hughes
Demographics Physical Description
Missing Age: 6 Years Hair Color: Brown
Current Age: 33 Years Eye Color: Brown
Sex: Male Scar/mark: Scar on forehead
Height: 3' 10" (46 Inches) Other distinctive physical characteristic: Two crooked bottom teeth
Weight: 45 lbs Accessories: Carrying red and blue Aladdin backpack
Race / Ethnicity: White / Caucasian Clothing: Blue T-shirt with red sleeves, red and blue shorts
Date of Last Contact: September 12, 1994 Footwear: Black high top sneakers
NamUs Case Created: April 15, 2010
Location: Choctaw, Oklahoma
County: Oklahoma County
Circumstances of Disappearance: Michael was abducted at gunpoint from his school by a man who has since been taken into police custody. The child's whereabouts are still unknown. Michael has a scar on his forehead and has two new crooked bottom teeth. He was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt with red sleeves, red and blue shorts and black high-top sneakers.
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April 12, 2016
For 20 years, the brazen kidnapper told the same lies about the fate of the 6-year-old boy he had abducted from a Choctaw elementary school.
Franklin Delano Floyd would insist Michael Anthony Hughes was alive, that he had put the boy somewhere safe after leaving the school principal handcuffed to a tree Sept. 12, 1994. Floyd would defend what he did, saying Michael is his son despite what a blood test showed.
"He is placed where his dad deems to be in his best interest," he said in a statement after being sentenced in 1995 to 52 years in federal prison for the kidnapping. "It's none of your business where he is, nor do I care how much any of you in Oklahoma miss him or love him."
But from death row in Florida, in September 2014, Floyd admitted to two FBI agents from Oklahoma what had been suspected all along. Floyd said he had killed Michael the same day of the abduction, after it became clear his plan to raise the boy while being a fugitive from the law wasn't going to work — this time.
"I'd been asking him, 'How'd you kill him? How'd you kill him? How'd you kill him?' " FBI Special Agent Scott Lobb told The Oklahoman. "And he finally just turned and looked at me and said, matter of factly, 'I shot him twice in the back of the head to make it real quick.' ... He didn't show any remorse."
Floyd told the two agents, Lobb and Nate Furr, that he shot and buried Michael at the last Oklahoma exit before the Texas border on Interstate 35. A two-day search of the area in March 2015 year found no evidence.
"We had to break through that facade, that wall, and get him to where he confessed to what he did with the boy," Lobb said. "He was (saying) the same thing ... 'Michael was married to a government attorney living in the Kansas City area. Michael was safe in a foreign country.' There were a couple of other stories that were just far-fetched."
Floyd in April 1990 had left Michael in state custody after his wife, the boy's mother, died in a hit-and-run incident in Oklahoma City. The boy was then 2. Floyd then was a federal fugitive, on the run for 17 years for breaking parole. He had been in prison for bank robbery.
At the time of the kidnapping, Michael was 6 and had been living with the same foster parents for almost four years. Floyd had been back in and out of federal prison and was seeking to regain custody of Michael. Floyd claimed the boy's foster parents were abusive.
Floyd was facing an uphill struggle in his effort to get Michael again. A blood test had shown he was not Michael's biological father. Also, he was facing an assault and battery charge that could send him to state prison.
"What he said was, 'It just got to a boiling point.' No one was listening to him. He was frustrated. So he kidnapped him," Lobb said.
What Floyd had not counted on was that he and Michael had grown apart.
"All of a sudden this guy shows up in Michael's life," Lobb said. "He's been out of his life since 1990, with the exception of a couple of prison visits that had been mandated by the court until they found out he wasn't the father. Michael wants nothing to do with him. He's got a secure home. He's happy. He's got stability in his life."
The agent said Michael got out of control on the drive toward Texas and Floyd couldn't handle it. Floyd then decided to kill the boy. "He knew it couldn't be what he wanted it to be," the agent said. "He knew his life wouldn't be the same because Michael didn't love him anymore, didn't want to be with him."
A month after the kidnapping, the principal's stolen pickup truck was found in Dallas. Two months after the kidnapping, Floyd was located — alone — in Kentucky.
Looking at overhead photos and maps, Floyd in January 2015 was able to point out an area where he said the shooting happened. The FBI's Evidence Response Team and anthropologists from the University of Oklahoma sifted dirt in the 2,000-square-foot area for 16 hours.
They had not expected to find any remains because wild hogs that roam the woods there would have eaten even the boy's bones. They had hoped to find bullet casings, a belt buckle or eyelets from Michael's sneakers, but didn't.
Closure has finally come
For Michael's foster parents, Ernest and Merle Bean, the confession has brought the devout Baptists closure —at last. Both are 64.
The FBI agents visited with them last July at their home in Choctaw about the boy they had planned to adopt.
Merle Bean sent The Oklahoman a letter in March thanking the agents for their work and thanking all those across the United States who had prayed for them. "Rest assured that Michael is at peace and safe in the arms of Jesus," she wrote. "We will see him again."
In an interview last week, Ernest Bean said of the FBI disclosure: "It was just like I thought. ... This whole time, I figured that Michael was dead, that he killed him early on. I figured that right from the start. ... My view was: I would rather him be dead than living somewhere in torment, suffering, wanting to come home ... being a prisoner. I'd rather him be in the arms of Jesus."
Merle Bean said, "It just feels good. Just to know."
She said she always was more uncertain about what had happened to Michael than her husband was. She described herself as kind of twisting this way and that. So when the FBI agents came out to talk to them, it was a relief, she said.
"We knew he wasn't being hurt," she said. "And, like I said in the letter, when he took his last breath here on this earth, he was in the arms of Jesus his very next breath. And so that gave us peace."
On death row
Floyd, now 72, is on death row in Florida for fatally shooting an exotic dancer, Cheryl Commesso, in 1989. He was convicted in 2002, after a landscaping worker found her skull in 1995 along a Florida interstate. The evidence against him in that case included photos of the dancer — beaten. Floyd had hidden the photos on top of the gas tank of the pickup truck that he had stolen from the Oklahoma elementary school principal. A body shop owner in Kansas found the photos in 1995.
Commesso and Michael's mother had been co-workers at the strip club in Florida.
Another revelation
Floyd also admitted to the two FBI agents from Oklahoma the true identity of Michael's mother. In an interview in May 2014, he disclosed she was Suzanne Marie Sevakis — the oldest of three daughters of a woman he married in North Carolina in 1974 shortly after becoming a fugitive.
He revealed that he took off with Suzanne in 1975 after her mother was jailed in Dallas on a minor offense. They moved first to Oklahoma City. He said he dropped the other girls at a children's home. The FBI confirmed his account through marriage records and DNA samples.
Suzanne turned 6 in 1975. She was known as Suzanne Davis in Oklahoma City.
Suzanne was known as Sharon Marshall in high school in Georgia. She and Floyd married in New Orleans in June 1989. She then called herself Tonya Tadlock — the name of a girl who died of pneumonia in Alabama years ago. Floyd at the time went by the name Clarence Hughes.
At the time of her death, she was known as Tonya Hughes and was a stripper at Passions, a club in Tulsa. She was 20. Floyd was a suspect in her hit-and-run death in Oklahoma City but was never charged.
Floyd refused to talk to the FBI agents about her death.
"That's the one thing Floyd won't talk about," Lobb said.
After 20 years of lies, kidnapper admits killing Oklahoma boy
Michael Anthony Hughes was 6 years old when he was abducted from school in Choctaw in 1994. Franklin Delano Floyd, who thought he was the boy's father, told FBI agents from death row in Florida that …
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For 20 years, the brazen kidnapper told the same lies about the fate of the 6-year-old boy he had abducted from a Choctaw elementary school.
Franklin Delano Floyd would insist Michael Anthony Hughes was alive, that he had put the boy somewhere safe after leaving the school principal handcuffed to a tree Sept. 12, 1994. Floyd would defend what he did, saying Michael is his son despite what a blood test showed.
"He is placed where his dad deems to be in his best interest," he said in a statement after being sentenced in 1995 to 52 years in federal prison for the kidnapping. "It's none of your business where he is, nor do I care how much any of you in Oklahoma miss him or love him."
But from death row in Florida, in September 2014, Floyd admitted to two FBI agents from Oklahoma what had been suspected all along. Floyd said he had killed Michael the same day of the abduction, after it became clear his plan to raise the boy while being a fugitive from the law wasn't going to work — this time.
"I'd been asking him, 'How'd you kill him? How'd you kill him? How'd you kill him?' " FBI Special Agent Scott Lobb told The Oklahoman. "And he finally just turned and looked at me and said, matter of factly, 'I shot him twice in the back of the head to make it real quick.' ... He didn't show any remorse."
Floyd told the two agents, Lobb and Nate Furr, that he shot and buried Michael at the last Oklahoma exit before the Texas border on Interstate 35. A two-day search of the area in March 2015 year found no evidence.
"We had to break through that facade, that wall, and get him to where he confessed to what he did with the boy," Lobb said. "He was (saying) the same thing ... 'Michael was married to a government attorney living in the Kansas City area. Michael was safe in a foreign country.' There were a couple of other stories that were just far-fetched."
Floyd in April 1990 had left Michael in state custody after his wife, the boy's mother, died in a hit-and-run incident in Oklahoma City. The boy was then 2. Floyd then was a federal fugitive, on the run for 17 years for breaking parole. He had been in prison for bank robbery.
At the time of the kidnapping, Michael was 6 and had been living with the same foster parents for almost four years. Floyd had been back in and out of federal prison and was seeking to regain custody of Michael. Floyd claimed the boy's foster parents were abusive.
Floyd was facing an uphill struggle in his effort to get Michael again. A blood test had shown he was not Michael's biological father. Also, he was facing an assault and battery charge that could send him to state prison.
"What he said was, 'It just got to a boiling point.' No one was listening to him. He was frustrated. So he kidnapped him," Lobb said.
What Floyd had not counted on was that he and Michael had grown apart.
"All of a sudden this guy shows up in Michael's life," Lobb said. "He's been out of his life since 1990, with the exception of a couple of prison visits that had been mandated by the court until they found out he wasn't the father. Michael wants nothing to do with him. He's got a secure home. He's happy. He's got stability in his life."
The agent said Michael got out of control on the drive toward Texas and Floyd couldn't handle it. Floyd then decided to kill the boy. "He knew it couldn't be what he wanted it to be," the agent said. "He knew his life wouldn't be the same because Michael didn't love him anymore, didn't want to be with him."
A month after the kidnapping, the principal's stolen pickup truck was found in Dallas. Two months after the kidnapping, Floyd was located — alone — in Kentucky.
Looking at overhead photos and maps, Floyd in January 2015 was able to point out an area where he said the shooting happened. The FBI's Evidence Response Team and anthropologists from the University of Oklahoma sifted dirt in the 2,000-square-foot area for 16 hours.
They had not expected to find any remains because wild hogs that roam the woods there would have eaten even the boy's bones. They had hoped to find bullet casings, a belt buckle or eyelets from Michael's sneakers, but didn't.
Closure has finally come
For Michael's foster parents, Ernest and Merle Bean, the confession has brought the devout Baptists closure —at last. Both are 64.
The FBI agents visited with them last July at their home in Choctaw about the boy they had planned to adopt.
Merle Bean sent The Oklahoman a letter in March thanking the agents for their work and thanking all those across the United States who had prayed for them. "Rest assured that Michael is at peace and safe in the arms of Jesus," she wrote. "We will see him again."
In an interview last week, Ernest Bean said of the FBI disclosure: "It was just like I thought. ... This whole time, I figured that Michael was dead, that he killed him early on. I figured that right from the start. ... My view was: I would rather him be dead than living somewhere in torment, suffering, wanting to come home ... being a prisoner. I'd rather him be in the arms of Jesus."
Merle Bean said, "It just feels good. Just to know."
She said she always was more uncertain about what had happened to Michael than her husband was. She described herself as kind of twisting this way and that. So when the FBI agents came out to talk to them, it was a relief, she said.
"We knew he wasn't being hurt," she said. "And, like I said in the letter, when he took his last breath here on this earth, he was in the arms of Jesus his very next breath. And so that gave us peace."
On death row
Floyd, now 72, is on death row in Florida for fatally shooting an exotic dancer, Cheryl Commesso, in 1989. He was convicted in 2002, after a landscaping worker found her skull in 1995 along a Florida interstate. The evidence against him in that case included photos of the dancer — beaten. Floyd had hidden the photos on top of the gas tank of the pickup truck that he had stolen from the Oklahoma elementary school principal. A body shop owner in Kansas found the photos in 1995.
Commesso and Michael's mother had been co-workers at the strip club in Florida.
Another revelation
Floyd also admitted to the two FBI agents from Oklahoma the true identity of Michael's mother. In an interview in May 2014, he disclosed she was Suzanne Marie Sevakis — the oldest of three daughters of a woman he married in North Carolina in 1974 shortly after becoming a fugitive.
He revealed that he took off with Suzanne in 1975 after her mother was jailed in Dallas on a minor offense. They moved first to Oklahoma City. He said he dropped the other girls at a children's home. The FBI confirmed his account through marriage records and DNA samples.
Suzanne turned 6 in 1975. She was known as Suzanne Davis in Oklahoma City.
Suzanne was known as Sharon Marshall in high school in Georgia. She and Floyd married in New Orleans in June 1989. She then called herself Tonya Tadlock — the name of a girl who died of pneumonia in Alabama years ago. Floyd at the time went by the name Clarence Hughes.
At the time of her death, she was known as Tonya Hughes and was a stripper at Passions, a club in Tulsa. She was 20. Floyd was a suspect in her hit-and-run death in Oklahoma City but was never charged.
Floyd refused to talk to the FBI agents about her death.
"That's the one thing Floyd won't talk about," Lobb said.
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The Michael that Floyd claimed he killed is NOT Suzananne brother, it is Suzannes SON. Michael was Suzanne/Sharon's SON. I believe I have know for years where he was buried, you can see me there in the Sharon Marshall thread out on searches that FLOYD sent me on.
Suzanne's brother, PHILIP, has been found.
He said he was born, raised and still lived in North Carolina. His father had died in early March 2019 and his mother, Mary, took him aside to show him some documents. His real name, she told him, was Philip Brandenburg.
Mary explained that years earlier she had met Sandi Brandenburg. They had lived in the same county in North Carolina and had been in the hospital together. Mary had just lost another pregnancy and was distraught, while Sandra, who couldn’t care for the three daughters she already had, was pregnant again with a fourth child. Several weeks had passed when Sandi suddenly showed up at Mary's door with a baby boy in her arms. She explained that she was leaving town with her new husband and three daughters (she regained custody) but she couldn’t take care of an infant. Mary recalls seeing Floyd lurking in the distance watching as Sandi gave Philip to her and left town, never to be seen again.
Mary changed his name to Steven and she raised him with her husband as their own. Steve said he’s had a good life, and still does, but it was turned upside down after his father died. He said he needed to know for sure if he was, in fact, Sandi’s biological son.
It would take nearly a year but in February 2020 Steve called me to say the DNA result was in: He was indeed Sandi’s son, and Suzanne’s little brother. See link for more
Suzanne's brother, PHILIP, has been found.
He said he was born, raised and still lived in North Carolina. His father had died in early March 2019 and his mother, Mary, took him aside to show him some documents. His real name, she told him, was Philip Brandenburg.
Mary explained that years earlier she had met Sandi Brandenburg. They had lived in the same county in North Carolina and had been in the hospital together. Mary had just lost another pregnancy and was distraught, while Sandra, who couldn’t care for the three daughters she already had, was pregnant again with a fourth child. Several weeks had passed when Sandi suddenly showed up at Mary's door with a baby boy in her arms. She explained that she was leaving town with her new husband and three daughters (she regained custody) but she couldn’t take care of an infant. Mary recalls seeing Floyd lurking in the distance watching as Sandi gave Philip to her and left town, never to be seen again.
Mary changed his name to Steven and she raised him with her husband as their own. Steve said he’s had a good life, and still does, but it was turned upside down after his father died. He said he needed to know for sure if he was, in fact, Sandi’s biological son.
It would take nearly a year but in February 2020 Steve called me to say the DNA result was in: He was indeed Sandi’s son, and Suzanne’s little brother. See link for more
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