Weird Land : The True Story of Kidnapper Franklin Floyd

Franklin Delano Floyd's life was a long series of strange and tragic occurrences, beginning with the death of his father when Floyd was just a year old. Floyd grew up in an orphanage and turned to a life of crime at a young age, earning himself a lengthy criminal record over his lifetime. By the age of 20, in the year 1963, he was imprisoned for the kidnapping and rape of a 4 year old girl. He escaped from prison, robbed a bank, and then served a ten year prison term.