There are several macabre shows on television nowadays detailing infamous and not so infamous cases, pertaining to missing persons, murders, suicides, robberies, fraud, extortion and organised crime. And occasionally an interesting, and by interesting I mean unfathomable case comes to light, which intrigues our dark side and riles our imagination. We call this entertainment. And I myself am guilty of watching such shows, to find out how they caught the bad guy! Unfortunately, when we turn off the television, the people featured in these cases are still missing, still dead and for a lot of them still without justice!

Here are some of the cases that had a profound effect on me! See if you can help? Do you know any of these people or what became of them?


Sharon Marshall (aka, Suzanne Davis and Tonya Dawn Tadlock)who was kidnapped between Jun 1973 - Aug 1975 at the approximate age of 4-6, by paedophile Franklin Delano Floyd and raised as his daughter. This young woman was given a scholarship to Georgia Tech to study Aerospace Design and had an above average IQ. She was eventually forced by Floyd to marry him, and to have plastic surgery/work as an exotic dancer. Floyd murdered a fried of Sharon's, another dancer Cheryl Anne Commesso, when she threatened to report him to the authorities for abusing Sharon's young son Michael Anthony Hughes (born 1988), who was not Floyd's biological child! Sharon, was hit by a car one night in April 1990 in mysterious circumstances and having survived the crash later died in hospital after a late night visit from Floyd. Michael was eventually put into care, and was overcoming his developmental difficulties, when Floyd kidnapped him and his principal at gun point in 1994, leaving the principal tied to a tree in a wooded area. Michael was never seen again. Floyd is currently on death row for the 1989 murder of Cheryl Anne Commesso. The case is detailed in Matt Birbecks book a Beautiful Child. Despite the extensive efforts of law enforcement agencies, Matt Birbeck and many private individuals, the real identity of the girl and woman known as Sharon Marshall, has never been discovered, and the fate of her son has also never been discovered. DO YOU KNOW WHO SHE IS OR WHERE HER SON IS? PLEASE FOLLOW THE LINKS BELOW TO SEE THEIR PICTURES.

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/8ufok.html

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1061dmok.html


Another bizarre case is that of Gordon Collins, who after a boating accident during a storm off of the coast of Santa Rosalia in 1991 with two Friends and his girlfriend, during which his girlfriend and male friend died, the body of the friends girlfriend never being found, was sighted in numerous locations around Mexico and even arrested for stealing food, but later released. When sighted Gordon, known as Gordy, was half naked wearing just shorts and stated that he was waiting for Friends whom he had gone on a fishing trip with. He was disorientated, probably suffering from some form of Amnesia and drifting from place to place lived on the kindness of strangers, but he was still alive! In three months Gordon was spotted 50 times in 7 different locations and then disappeared and has not been seen or heard from since. Have you seen Gordon? Do you know where he is?

Pictures of Gordon and a more detailed case history can be found from the link below.

http://www.unsolved.com/missing.html



Tami Lynn Leppert a young aspiring actress, capable of winning roles in films such as Spring Break and Scar Face, disappeared from the face of the earth, in 1983 aged 18, after months of displaying seemingly irrational behaviour, stating that she'd seen something she wasn't supposed to at a Hollywood style party in Florida, which she'd attended unchaperoned and that someone was out to kill her. Although she refused to say who. Tammy, a beauty queen who won 280 beauty contests by the age of 16, was last seen in Cocoa Beach Florida, exiting the car of a mail acquaintance after a disagreement between the two, wearing no shoes and not i possession of any money. Tammy's mother died not knowing what had happened to her daughter, and her sister is still searching for her! Do you know what happened to Tammy or why she was apparently frightened for her life?

To find Tammy's case please visit http://www.unsolved.com/missing.html



Cindy James, a Nurse, from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, was found dead in mysterious circumstances, on 8th Jun 1989, drugged and strangled, her hands and feet tied behind her back, in the garden of an abandoned house, after having been missing for several days. This was the tragic culmination of 7 years of hell for the nurse who was stalked by an unknown assailant(s). Threatening phone calls and notes becoming the norm, she was even physically attacked and almost killed several times, as well as her home being set alight while she was sleeping upstairs. Cindy reported 100 separate incidences of harassment to police during the 7 years before her death. Yet no real explanation for the harassment or her death ever materialised, police choosing to believe that the 44 year old, drugged, strangled and tied herself up in what turned out to be a successful suicide attempt. But is there someone out there who holds the key to what really happened to Cindy? There is no way this was a suicide! It's far too elaborate. Who murdered Cindy James and why?

The link to her sister's website relating to her death is;

http://www.melaniehack.com/