Not all monsters are myths.

This is Michigan Monsters.

A true crime Gothic.

Hey there. Welcome to Michigan, where the lakes are salt-free, the monsters are human, and the moms are unhinged,

apparently. I'm Jen Carpenter, and today we're going to be talking about how Michigan could never

have its own mom-talk show, because they'd have to film it in a damn prison. Tell me if you guys have

noticed this or if it's just me and the way that I am like hyper aware of true crime cases

involving Michigan, but there has been a startling trend recently of Netflix documentaries based on bat-shit crazy moms from Michigan.

We talked about one such documentary a couple seasons ago, Girl in the Picture, about the

Suzanne Savacus case. Quick recap on that, as it was quite a while ago now, but in 1990, a young mother was the victim of a fatal hit and run.

The only suspect was her much older husband. When authorities began to investigate, they found that the man, Franklin Delano Floyd, was actually Suzanne's dad, her stepfather, to be exact.

He was married to Suzanne's mother, Sandra Brandenburg, for a short time in the 70s.

Sandra was from Michigan.

She lived in the Livonia area.

That's where she had her kids.

But then she kind of took off

across the country with her children when her relationship with their father fell apart. When Suzanne,

her eldest daughter was six, her mother went to jail for 30 days for writing a bad check. And when she returned home, her house was empty.

Her new husband and all four of her children were gone.

The three youngest were later found in the care of adoption agencies, but the eldest daughter, Suzanne, was just gone.

Her stepfather had taken her across the country, he raised her as eldest daughter, Suzanne, was just gone. Her stepfather had taken her across the country.

He raised her as his daughter.

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