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The horrifying true story behind disturbing Netflix series The Girl in the Picture
READ MORE: What really happened to Sharon Marshall? Mystery death of Netflix's Girl in the PictureSharon never knew who she really was - and her identity remained a mystery until years after her death in 1990.Now a new Netflix documentary examines the case.Floyd had already spent time in prison for kidnapping and child molestation and was on the run from police when he met Sharon’s mother Sandra Brandenburg in 1974.They married after dating for a month but when Sandra was jailed for 30 days for writing bad cheques, pervert Floyd saw his opportunity, snatched five-year-old Sharon and fled.They then travelled around the US, posing as father and daughter - a photo from the time shows the young girl looking sad as she perches on his knee.By the time she was a teenager, the pair were living in Forest Park, Georgia, and against the odds Sharon was thriving.She blossomed in school, dreamed of becoming an aerospace engineer and even won a scholarship to college to study the subject.But her dark secret always lay just below the surface.In the Netflix true crime special, friend Jenny Fisher recalls going to her house for a sleepover and breaks down as she tells how Floyd raped Sharon at gunpoint while she was in the room.By 1988, Sharon and Floyd had ended up in Tampa, Florida, where Floyd forced her to work at a strip club.Heather Lane who danced with her at the Mons Venus club, recalls being horrified when she caught Sharon offering sex services for £41.Sharon said her dad had told her to do it and even provided her with condoms.In 1988 she gave birth to son Michael.At the same time, Sharon became friends with another dancer - Cheryl Ann Commesso, who would hang out with Sharon and Floyd.Cheryl told Heather how Floyd had tried
