OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - An Oklahoma kidnapping case is taking the world by storm after it was brought back to the spotlight by Netflix.
In 1990, Oklahoma City police began searching for the driver of a car that hit and killed 22-year-old Tonya Dawn Hughes.
She was found by a bystander on the side of a service road and was rushed to a nearby hospital. However, she died of her injuries.
After her death, secrets and lies are revealed that question everything the investigators thought they knew.
A new Netflix documentary details the bizarre twists of the case that gripped Oklahomans for years.
Investigators take viewers down the rabbit hole as they search for the true identity of Tonya Hughes and investigate the kidnapping of her 6-year-old son Michael.
The kidnapping made headlines statewide after a man walked into an elementary school in Choctaw, about 20 miles from Oklahoma City, with a gun and kidnapped the boy and the school principal.
The director was eventually found tied to a tree, but Michael was nowhere to be found.
Authorities eventually determined that the suspect in the case was Tonya's husband, Clarence Hughes.
As information and tips poured into the FBI, they quickly realized that Clarence Hughes was not who they thought he was.
It turns out that Clarence Hughes was an alias for Franklin Delano Floyd, a thug. They also found out that Hughes was not Tonya's husband, but her father.
Investigators kept looking for Hughes, but something wasn't right. Based on Tonya's age and Floyd's criminal past, they realized there was no way he could be her biological father, as he was in prison at the time of her birth.
The revelation sent them on a journey that lasted more than ten years; to determine Tonya's real identity.
FBI investigators realized that Floyd had kidnapped her when she was a child and that her real name was Suzanne Marie Sevakis.
Floyd was arrested and convicted of kidnapping and first degree murder of one of Sevakis' friends. He was sentenced to death.
Although he was suspected of Sevakis' death, he was never charged. He was convicted of kidnapping Michael and later admitted to shooting and killing the boy. His body has never been found.
Floyd is currently on Florida death row. His execution date has not been determined.
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