The Girl in the Picture

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I just watched this documentary on Netflix. It was called "The Girl in the Picture" and was about an abused girl. It begins with two young men coming upon a young woman alongside the highway. They called an ambulance for her. It was determined at first that it may have been a hit and run. The woman was 20, had been badly beaten, and had a bad head injury. The doctor didn't think her injuries looked like those you would see in an automobile accident and some looked like older wounds. She ended up dying. She had been working at a strip place. Coworkers there that had befriended her called the police and told them about her weird older husband and how abusive he was to her. They felt there had been foul play. Authorities, FBI agents, and friends of hers kept researching her past. It came out that she was someone entirely different than the Tanya/Sharon person they had known her as. And, the man she had been with had not been her husband then, he had been her dad. She had a son, Michael, who had just disappeared. From the mid-90s to the mid-2000s they continue to research and try to find out the truth about who this woman had been. They had been able to charge the husband/father(used alias of Warren Marshal and Clarence Hughes) with the kidnapping of the woman's son from a school at gunpoint. He was doing 52 years in prison. The authorities would visit him every few years to try to get him to tell them who Tanya/Sharon really was and where her son, Michael was. He wouldn't talk until the last time they visited. As well as telling the agents that he had shot the boy twice in the back of the head he also told them he had gone into a church and found a woman there in a vulnerable state. He told her that he would take care of her and her three children. He did for a time until she got arrested for a bad check she had written. He took the kids. He dropped two of them off at an orphanage and the one, Tanya/Sharon as she was known in different areas, he took and then disappeared. This poor young girl had lived with this man first as his daughter and then when the police were coming down on him, she became his wife. She had three children--two had been adopted, one was Micheal. This is such a sad story. This poor young girl was taken away from her mother and made to work in strip joints and do this psychopath's bidding or she was beaten from the time she was about 4 or 5 until she was 20. At the end of the doc, they were able to find out her true identity and put her real name on the tombstone and they held a memorial for her.