For 20 years, the brazen kidnapper told the same lies about the fate of the 6-year-old boy he had abducted from a Choctaw elementary school.

Franklin Delano Floyd would insist Michael Anthony Hughes was alive, that he had put the boy somewhere safe after leaving the school principal handcuffed to a tree Sept. 12, 1994. Floyd would defend what he did, saying Michael is his son despite what a blood test showed.

"He is placed where his dad deems to be in his best interest," he said in a statement after being sentenced in 1995 to 52 years in federal prison for the kidnapping. "It's none of your business where he is, nor do I care how much any of you in Oklahoma miss him or love him."

But from death row in Florida, in September 2014, Floyd admitted to two FBI agents from Oklahoma what had been suspected all along. Floyd said he had killed Michael the same day of the abduction, after it became clear his plan to raise the boy while being a fugitive from the law wasn't going to work — this time.