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Sharon Marshall: The Girl in the Picture

A true-crime documentary narrative

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CHAPTER ONE THE GIRL EVERYONE KNEW In Forest Park, Georgia, Sharon Marshall was the kind of student teachers remembered. She was intelligent. Ambitious. And, according to people who knew her, unusually determined. She graduated from Forest Park High School in 1986. She was involved in ROTC. She was academically gifted. And she had something that could have changed the direction of her entire life: a scholarship opportunity to study aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech. For a young woman who had spent much of her life under the control of someone else, college could have been an escape. A new city. New people. A career. A life that belonged to her. But there was a problem. Sharon was pregnant. And the man she believed was her father