Netflix’s Girl in the Picture (2022) remains one of the platform’s most haunting and unforgettable true-crime documentaries — a 101-minute deep dive into one of America’s most disturbing unsolved cases that continues to grip audiences with its layers of deception, tragedy, and lingering questions. Directed by Skye Borgman and executive produced by Oscar-winner Davis Guggenheim, the film has quietly maintained a strong presence on Netflix’s true-crime charts, with fans still rewatching it and posting fresh reactions in 2025, calling it “the most unsettling thing they’ve ever seen on the service.”

The story begins with a shocking discovery: in 1990, a young woman’s body was found dumped on the side of an Oklahoma highway, wrapped in a blanket. She had been beaten, strangled, and left with no identification. Police nicknamed her “Tonya Hughes” based on forged documents, but her real identity remained a mystery for years. The film traces how investigators, journalists, and eventually a determined cold-case team uncovered that the victim was actually Sharon Marshall — a woman whose entire life had been built on lies created by her captor and abuser, Franklin Delano Floyd.

The documentary’s power lies in its methodical unraveling of Floyd’s decades-long reign of terror. Floyd — a convicted child molester and career criminal — abducted Sharon as a young girl (originally named Suzanne Davis), raised her as his “daughter,” sexually abused her, forced her into marriage under the fake name Tonya Hughes, and later murdered her after she tried to escape with their son Michael. Even more horrifying: after Sharon’s death, Floyd abducted Michael (then 6 years old), renamed him Brandon Williams, and kept him hidden for years. The boy was eventually found living under Floyd’s control — but the trail of destruction didn’t end there.