Sweetliberty,
I HAVE your age on the stepdad, and a good deal more.
Full name: DAVID W SPEARS
AGE: If the court records are correct (and they appear to be, as the same date shows up in zabasearch), SPEARS TURNS 25 NEXT WEEK.
Born in 1982.
So the mom, who’s probably between 40 and 45, married a guy about the same age as her oldest child.
Really bad judgment on her part. But hindsight, as they say, is 20/20.
He previously lived in Rocky Comfort, MO, another little town just about 5 miles from Stella. (source: zabasearch)
Someone from Rocky Comfort posted in this thread the following:
I think you should put David Spears at the top of the list. He drinks heavily. So of course he sleeps heavy. I pray that the little girl is found safe. IF my daugter or son was missing I would of reported him or her missing immediately.
So it sounds as if someone from the same town as Spears has personal knowledge that he’s a heavy drinker. This is also confirmed by his February DWI (see below).
Spears has a child by someone else (a NICCOLE SMITH), as a Missouri court case resulted in a judgment for “child support ordered in the amount of $209.00 per month beginning 01-15-05 on behalf of the minor child.”
He also has a DWI from February of this year, and was court-ordered to pay about $4,500 to the hospital in Neosho in 2003. (I’m wondering whether this might have been childbirth expenses?)
Source: name search on David Spears at the following URL
http://www.courts.mo.gov/casenet/cases/searchCases.do?searchType=name
Note: The above info is confirmed to be the SAME David Spears who is Rowan’s “stepfather,” as the address is given in each court record, and in each case it matches the Stella, Missouri address 100%.
79 posted on 11/07/2007 4:13:30 PM CST by Luke Skyfreeper
I absolutely believe he knows what happened. That being said, where did you come up with the mother’s approximate age?
You got the right guy. I have met him a couple times. He may be directly involved in her disappearance, but as I said in another post, he may not be giving a good accounting of his whereabouts because he was may have been doing a dope run with his druggie buddies. We have a bad meth problem around here.. and he is part of that crowd around here.
We cannot assume that simply because he looks suspicious, that he is the perp. If focus is too tight on him, we may miss what is really happening... and the clock may still be ticking.
Yes, saw all that info Luke posted on the other thread. Looks of good background checking there.