Jaycee Dugard and Sharon Marshall: A life held captive (video) part 1

This is part one in the series that focuses on the similarities between Jaycee Dugard and Sharon Marshall, as well as those of their captors, Phillip Garrido and Franklin Delano Floyd. For background information, please read the previous articles.

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Franklin Delano Floyd was born in Barnsville, Georgia. A year after he was born, his father died. Before long, Franklin and his four siblings (three sisters and one brother) were placed in a children’s' home. Franklin Floyd enlisted in the United States Army, lying about his age and served in Missouri and Oklahoma. After the Army discovered his forgery, he was discharged. After staying briefly with his sister, Franklin Floyd was arrested on February 19, 1960 after exchanging gunfire with police during a robbery. He was shot in the back by an officer and sentenced. After spending one year in prison, he violated his parole and was rearrested. In November 1961, Franklin Floyd was sentenced to the Prison Youth Facility where he remained until January 1962. After his release, he went to stay with his sister, he was 19 years old. Four months after Franklin Floyd’s release, on May 20, 1962, he abducted a 4 year old little girl from a bowling alley and raped her. He was sentenced to 20 years in the Reidsville Prison in Atlanta, Georgia on July 31, 1962. On March 14, 1963, Franklin Floyd escaped while undergoing psychiatric testing at the Milledgeville State hospital.

Similar to Franklin Floyd’s sexual perversions and deviations, Phillip Garrido was arrested in 1972 and charged with sexually assaulting or the rape of a 14 year old girl. However, that case did not go to trial after the victim refused to testify. According to Phillip Garrido’s father, Phillip was a good boy until he suffered a motorcycle accident. Later, Garrido and his father stated that Phillip Garrido’s frequent use of drugs, such as LSD contributed to his sexual perversions. In 1973, within a year after the alleged rape of the 14 year old girl, Phillip Garrido married a woman named Christine Murphy. Since Phillip Garrido’s arrest, Christine Murphy has spoken publicly regarding her marriage. She recounted an incident with Inside Edition where Phillip Garrido tried to gouge her eyes out.

Christine Murphy also described Phillip Garrido as a monster, and that he continually hit her. Phillip Garrido was an aspiring musician with no valid income. Murphy recounts that he continually smoked marijuana and dropped LSD. He had sexual perversions and wanted his wife to engage in group sex, which she refused. It wasn’t until Phillip Garrido was arrested for the rape of the 14 year old girl that Christine Murphy found a way to escape.

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Photo 1- In this file photo taken Thursday Aug. 27, 2009 and provided by the El Dorado County Sheriff's office shows Phillip Garrido. In the days before his arrest, cracks showed in the elaborate facade authorities say Phillip Garrido built to conceal the girl he kidnapped, raped and imprisoned and those cracks were of Garrido's own making. The registered sex offender and parolee hand-delivered to the FBI's San Francisco office on Aug. 24 a screed declaring that the voices he heard came from God. The next day, he took the two daughters he had with his alleged kidnap victim to the University of California, Berkeley, where he blurted out to already suspicious campus police officers that he was a convicted rapist. (AP Photo/El Dorado County Sheriffs, File)

Photo 2- Franklin Floyd, Florida death row photo