Sorry to not have been in contact after all your pings. I’ve been away from the PC since early Friday. Just now catching up on the thread.
What a sad ending. The comfort, though, is that Rowan is now finally resting with someone who really loves her. Beyond that, what can anyone say? McCoMo, I’m also saddened to hear of the loss of your son. Tragedy can befall us each in different ways. May God give you and your wife strength in your life.
Too many threads yet need to be clarified before we know the whole truth to this tragedy. Who are the other people of ‘interest’? What was the real timeline of events? What was the exact purpose of Spears getting his mom’s Suburban (beyond the obvious speculation)? Was his mom complicit or duped? Who was the real instigator? Upthread posts noted remarks made by Colleen Spears, indicating a real animosity toward her husband over this; somewhat before it was announced that he’d been arrested for Rowan’s murder. I still wonder what accounts for these early hateful utterances; what did she learn, and when? Perhaps some of this has been answered but overlooked by my while going through the thread.
In any event, I want to thank you both, as well as everyone else who contributed to this thread. It’s been a marvelous job of fact-finding, discussion and insight. You’re all to be commended for a job well done. It’s just sad it had to be for such a inhuman event.
You are right, there are a lot of loose ends yet to be tied up.
“I still wonder what accounts for these early hateful utterances; what did she learn, and when?”
Well, my take on this is that, even if she did not think he had anything directly to do with it, she had plenty of reason to write him off. I would not want to get in bed at night with a spouse who, thru pure negligence, was responsible for leaving my child alone with the result of her being abducted. That alone would seem to me to be enough to generate such animosity.
One loose thread is this other friend who was supposed to be out with them that night. Some mention has been made of a Billy Jack Mahurin. I do not know if this was the third guy with them that night... and if he was brought in for questioning, even if uninvolved, then that might explain the rumors about him in Neosho. Or it may be that he was simply someone they were looking at early on since, as I understand it, he has a bit of a shady past, and happens to live near there. It may simply be a coincidence that is unfortunate for him. Something like this happens, and everyone with a record near there is naturally going to be looked at. So, as far as he is concerned, there is no evidence of his involvement that I am aware of, yet. But we may wanna keep our eyes on that.