A Beautiful Child (ISBN 978-0425204405) is the best selling non-fiction book by author Matt Birkbeck, published by Berkley/Penguin in 2004 and in paperback in 2005. It tells the story of a young woman known by many names, including Sharon Marshall, who was kidnapped as a toddler and raised by a convicted felon, Franklin Delano Floyd. The book was also published in several foreign countries, including Denmark, Germany and Poland.
A Beautiful Child spurred numerous websites dedicated to finding Sharon's true identity.[1] Through suggestions from those sites along with reader suggestions from around the world, Birkbeck, in partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, conducted DNA testing on relatives of several girls who went missing in the early 1970s.[2] World-wide interest in the book kept the Sharon Marshall story alive and led to the discovery by Birkbeck of her biological daughter, who had been placed for adoption in 1989. Sharon's DNA was believed to have been degraded, but testing comparisons to her daughter provided a positive match and her DNA was placed into CODIS, the FBI's database.
The continued interest in the book led the NCMEC to reopen its investigation in 2011. The NCMEC then recruited the FBI in Oklahoma City and two agents, using the book and other resources as their guides, interviewed Franklin Floyd in prison in Florida, where he provided Sharon's true identity.[3][4][5]
In July 2014, the DNA testing positively identified Sharon as Suzanne Sevakis, the daughter of a woman Floyd briefly married in the mid-1970s. Floyd kidnapped Suzanne and her siblings when their mother was incarcerated for 30 days. Suzanne's son, Michael, after being kidnapped from his elementary school by Floyd in 1994, has never been located, but Floyd admitted during the FBI interviews that he killed him shortly after the kidnapping.[6]
^"OK - OK - Sharon Marshall, 20, multiple aliases, OKC, 1990 - ID'd as Suzanne Sevakis - #4". 6 May 2009.
^"OK - OK - Sharon Marshall, 20, multiple aliases, OKC, 1990 - ID'd as Suzanne Sevakis - #5". 7 December 2010.
^Birkbeck, Matt (2005). A Beautiful Child: A True Story of Hope, Horror, and an Enduring Human Spirit. Penguin. ISBN 9780425204405. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
^"A Beautiful Child By Matt Birkbeck". karisable.com. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
^"Who Was Tonya Hughes Tadlock? Sharon Marshall? Suzanne Davis?". truecrimezine.com. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
^Birkbeck, Matt. "FINALLY". mattbirkbeck.com. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
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