Franklin Accardo was a former member of an infamous racketeering group imprisoned for twenty years at Blackgate known as the "Blüdhaven Six" and one of six victims to Professor Pyg's unethical experiments to eliminate physical imperfections.
History[]
Franklin Accardo had frequently been in jail since he was young, namely for drug charges. He was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis, a rare and debilitating condition, resulting in a left knee bone deformity. He joined the infamous racketeering group known as the Blüdhaven six, having the burn mark on his upper left arm to prove it. Eventually, he was caught, and sentenced to twenty years at Blackgate alongside the rest of his group. He was eventually released early due to a debilitating heart condition that necessitated a pace-maker to be implanted. He later moved to Little Rock, Arkansas.
Some time later, the Circus of the Strange travelled to Little Rock, Arkansas. Franklin Accardo was abducted and taken back to Gotham City to be experimented on by the group's leader, Professor Pyg. However, Franklin's physical defects were such that even Pyg couldn't fix them. Pyg killed him by overdose on pain-killers, then doused his fingers in acid to remove fingerprints. Franklin's DNA had been corrupted by the Dollatron experiments. Accardo was then hung at the top of a building on Bleake Island. The word "Failure" written to the side of the building and opera music playing nearby.
Batman later found his corpse while conducting an investigation on the bodies. Because he couldn't directly ID the victim either by DNA analysis or by fingerprints, Batman instead used several clues in various parts of his body to come up with a match to any people who were declared missing.