A Beautiful Child

"A Beautiful Child" was published in America in 2004 and in paperback in 2005. It tells the story of a young woman known by many names, including Sharon Marshall, who was kidnapped as a toddler and raised by a convicted felon, Franklin Delano Floyd.Written by author Matt Birkbeck, "A Beautiful Child" spurred numerous web sites dedicated to finding Sharon's true identity.Fact|date=July 2008 Through suggestions from those sites, Birkbeck, in partnership with the National Association for Missing & Exploited Children, have conducted DNA testing on relatives of several girls who went missing in the early 1970s. To date, no matches have been found and Sharon's identity remains a mystery.