Account
Apr 15, 2010
Jan 26, 2021
Michael
Hughes
36
6
46 inches
45 lbs
White / Caucasian
Male
In the small town of Choctaw, Oklahoma, the morning of September 12, 1994, began like any other for six-year-old Michael Anthony Hughes. He was a first-grader at Indian Meridian Elementary School, a place of learning and safety. That sense of security was shattered when a man named Franklin Delano Floyd, claiming to be Michael's father, entered the school. Floyd, armed with a gun, confronted the school principal, James Davis, and forced him to take him to Michael's classroom. In a terrifying turn of events, both Michael and Principal Davis were abducted at gunpoint and forced into the principal's pickup truck. Floyd drove them to a secluded wooded area where he tied the principal to a tree and fled with the young boy. Michael was last seen wearing a blue t-shirt with red sleeves, red and blue shorts, and black high-top sneakers, carrying a red and blue Aladdin backpack. He had a scar on his forehead and two new, crooked bottom teeth. The disappearance of Michael Hughes unraveled a complex and disturbing story that spanned decades and involved multiple identities. The man who abducted him, Franklin Delano Floyd, was a convicted felon with a long history of criminal behavior. It was discovered that the woman Floyd claimed was Michael's mother, who had died in a suspicious hit-and-run accident in 1990, was not his biological daughter as he had claimed. Her real name was Suzanne Marie Sevakis, and she herself had been kidnapped by Floyd as a young child and raised under various aliases. After Suzanne's death, Michael was placed in foster care, where he had been for nearly four years and was in the process of being adopted by his foster parents, who said he had made great progress in their care. A paternity test had already confirmed that Floyd was not Michael's biological father. Floyd was arrested two months after the abduction in Louisville, Kentucky, but Michael was not with him and has never been seen again. For years, Franklin Delano Floyd gave conflicting stories about Michael's whereabouts, at times insisting the boy was alive and safe while refusing to disclose his location. However, in 2014, while on death row for the 1989 murder of another woman, Floyd confessed to FBI agents that he had killed Michael on the same day he kidnapped him. He stated that he shot the six-year-old twice in the back of the head because the boy was being unruly during their drive. Floyd claimed to have buried Michael's body near the last interstate exit in Oklahoma before the Texas border. Despite extensive searches of the area, Michael's remains have never been found. Franklin Delano Floyd died in prison in January 2023, taking any final secrets about Michael's exact location with him. The case of Michael Hughes is a tragic story of a young boy taken from a life that was just beginning to find stability and happiness, his disappearance exposing a web of deceit and horrific crimes that preceded his own abduction.
Sep 12, 1994
Choctaw
Oklahoma
Oklahoma County
Unknown
26641
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Oklahoma County
73134
Scott Lobb
Special Agent
3301 West Memorial Road Oklahoma City, OK 73134-7098, Oklahoma
4052907770
Federal
Law Enforcement
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Oklahoma City
Brown
Brown
Brown
06/20/2026
