Missing Mo. girl found dead (update on Rowan)

AP ^ | 11/09/2007 | Marcus Kabel

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

OZARK, Mo. (AP) — A 9-year-old southwest Missouri girl missing for a week was found dead Friday in a sinkhole in eastern McDonald County, a law enforcement official said.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Poor baby, so sad.

[Fishtalk]

From My Blog:

http://patfish.blogspot.com/2007/11/true-crime-dog-shoots-man-man-saves-dog.html

[txzman]

Prayers for her and her family.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

What does that have to do with Rowan?

Are you just trying to get hits?

[EEDUDE]

“Rowan was reported missing Saturday after her mother, Colleen Spears, returned home from a night shift at a Wal-Mart in a nearby town and couldn’t find her daughter. Rowan’s stepfather, David Spears, told investigators he last saw the girl asleep in her room around 10:45 p.m. Friday before he left her alone and went out with friends.”

It might not have made any difference, but who in the hell leaves a nine year old girl alone to go out with friends?

9 years old is just too young to leave alone!

Prayers for this family!

[freekitty]

I am so sorry.

[rockabyebaby]

If you bothered to look at the blog, you would find a story about Rowan down near the bottom of the page.

[Hildy]

stepfather.

[dadgum]

From the source cited:

“Spears also later told authorities that he called his mother sometime after 1 a.m. Saturday and asked to use her vehicle, Copeland has said. She took it to him about half an hour later, then stayed at his house while her son left in her vehicle for about 5 1/2 hours, Copeland has said.

Copeland also has said that Spears has not been able to explain what he did in those 5 1/2 hours.”

[Fishtalk]

You know....I’ve been a member of FreeRepublic since 2001.

I reguarly post on this forum and am a most valued commenter.

I am conservative to a fault and handy with the words.

For you to accuse me of posting a link to just get hits....obviously you did NOT scroll down.

So okay, I posted the post linked on Thursday...yesterday, and at the time Rowan was just missing.

Here’s another thought, and hey, HuntsvilleTxVeteran you should just skip what with being unable to read and everything.....but this poor little girl’s death was virtually ignored by the media. Well at the time it was her disappearance. Nonetheless I’d argue my Blog post provided valuable information and background to the circumstances around Rowan’s disappearance.

But one humble blogger picked it right up...didn’t she?

Do not respond this fella who so insulted me. I do not post to unfair and very mean people. There are few of them on Freerepublic but hey, they’re out there.

[Leg Olam]

“Spears also later told authorities that he called his mother sometime after 1 a.m. Saturday and asked to use her vehicle, Copeland has said. She took it to him about half an hour later, then stayed at his house while her son left in her vehicle for about 5 1/2 hours, Copeland has said.

Copeland also has said that Spears has not been able to explain what he did in those 5 1/ hours.”

Sounds fishy.

[Gummi Bear]

I am so sorry to hear this. I have been thinking a lot about this little girl since I heard the story.

[Fishtalk]

Thank you so much. I really was going to copy my HTML code and post that bit right on this Freep post just to avoid having to send folks to scroll through all my stuff. I quickly threw up that link just to specifically provide this background that you quote. I think it’s damn significant.

I wasn’t trying to get hits, I was trying to be a very nice, thoughtful Freeper.

[NonValueAdded]

Waaaaaaaaaaaaay fishy. Prime suspect fishy.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I looked at your blog about dogs and scrolled through it and saw nothing on Rowan!

[Fishtalk]

The Death of Another Innocent? From Neoshodailynews.com:

The Newton County Sheriff's Department is searching for a missing 9-year-old Stella girl. On Sunday, Newton County Sheriff Ken Copeland said Rowan Ford, 9, of 777 Grove Street in Stella, was reported missing at 6:50 p.m. Saturday by her parents. The girl was last seen at her home at 10:45 p.m. Friday.

She's nine years old and around 8:30 pm on the evening of Friday, 11/2/07, she was last seen alive by her mother before she left for her job at Walmart. This little girl has a stepfather, who was with her when his wife left for work. Of course no believable alibi can be established for this fine fellow. He claimed that he and a few friends went out around 10:45. He said he checked on before he left but didn't look in on her when he returned home. The following morning Rowan's mother returned home and noticed that her daughter didn't come running to greet her. What's really weird here, this fine stepfather phoned up his mother at 1 in the morning and told her he needed her car. She drove over to his house and waited in his house while her terrific son drove somewhere for almost 5 1/2 hours. Well sure mothers bring automobiles to their sons in the middle of the night and sit at their house for the rest of the night while he is out, somewhere, doing something. Here's my question...did this fine stepgrandmother check in on Rowan what with her having so much time at her son’s house and everything?

[Fishtalk]

Sheesh.

[JerseyDvl]

I fear she was never left alone and she knew who did this.
All the necessary clues are in the article.

[spectre]

This is tragic. So the stepfather dumped her body in a sink hole?

We need to know if he confessed, or what?

sw

[Hildy]

There are so many yahoos on FR. Just ignore them....