From the Joplin Globe:
Colleen Spears weeps Monday as she sits in the front yard at her Stella home while waiting for word about her missing 9-year-old daughter, Rowan Ford. Foul play is suspected, and the FBI is involved in the case.
Posted on 11/07/2007 11:31:44 AM PST by Luke Skyfreeper
Mom left in early evening to go work at Wal-Mart.
The stepfather, David Spears, went out cruising around with a couple of buddies around 1045 pm, was dropped off about midnight.
So around 1 a.m., he calls his mother and asks for her to come over so he can borrow her car, he wants to go somewhere. He then leaves in his mom's car around 1:30 am and gets back around 7 am.
Mom gets home around 9 am, finds her daughter isn't there to greet her as usual. Wakes up the stepdad, he says she may have half-awakened him and said something about going over to a friend's house.
Ping. Thought this might be of interest to you.
Bogus story from him..........
I often phone my mother up at 1 a.m. and ask if she would come over so I can borrow her car for a while, and then spend a few hours driving around in the middle of the night. It's quieter and more peaceful then.
I'm sure he probably wanted to do some shopping and stuff in the nearby big city of Neosho. At 10,000 population, I hear it's a happenin' place between the hours of 130 and 7 am.
His story tinks to high heaven...
I’m sure he’s just a bit confused. He’s a heavy sleeper.
That probably also explains his forgetting to mention to the police the part about being gone from 130 to 700.
Since he borrowed his mom’s car, she apparently stayed in the house until he returned at 7? And didn’t look in on the girl?
Yeah, right.
So....why did he need to borrow Mom’s car in the middle of the night?
Maybe to remove “something” from the house?
A bunch of really strange people, this lot. I fear the worst for the little girl.
She’s dead, Jim.
From the Joplin Globe:
Colleen Spears weeps Monday as she sits in the front yard at her Stella home while waiting for word about her missing 9-year-old daughter, Rowan Ford. Foul play is suspected, and the FBI is involved in the case.
A drunken stepfather + two drinking buddies + one very beautiful 9-year-old girl.
Foul play? No kidding!
Actually, I guess it was this article. Sorry, I read several different articles on this case...
I suspect the dad.
Just give me 5 minutes and I don’t need a water board.
These kind of stories just enrage me.
Why? Because they already had a vehicle. Why involve anybody else unless you absolutely had to?
Also, around 5-1/2 hours seems about the right amount of time to me for a single guy to dispose of evidence. If you had 2 or 3 guys, it would go a lot quicker.
Anyway, I kept hearing about this little girl on the radio, and thought I would look for info online. The more I read, the more I felt like this is a case that most likely isn’t going to have any happy ending.
She looks a lot like I imagined her...
I'm betting he borrowed that car to dispose of the body.
Probably not, unfortunately. But who could blame the kid if she DID just decide to up and leave this sorry excuse for a home?
Not only that, but it was 1 1/2 hours after he was dropped off back home. Plenty of time to do the deed and clean up as best as possible.
Notice that the mother gave him the keys then went into the house. Where was the body? Was she still there when he came back at 7? Supposedly, then she took her car home. She noticed nothing wrong during that time? Strange.
What if the girl wasn’t already killed by then? Where was she? How did he get her in the car? (This, of course, presumes the step-father’s guilt.) There are a lot of unanswered questions.
Remember Danielle Van Dam????
This story reads exactly like hers.
Wonder if they will find a convenient ‘neighbor’ to blame this on???
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