looks like one of these scumbags is finally going to court.

You go red neck Mom, I couldn’t have said it better…

GM of 10, do you realize you’re responding to a post left almost a year ago? I doubt that person is here and reading this thread any more, though I suppose it’s possible.

We’re still here a year later,..:)
This is the story that brought me to DD also. I’m here most every day though I don’t often comment. Will be watching this case closely as it is local for me.

Okay, I’ll sub to get the updates so Ruby won’t be talking to herself, lol.

Bless you, Castille. It’s lonely talking to myself all the time — I’d welcome some company.

This story makes me sick. Everytime I see her face or hear her name my heart aches. I hope they find justice for her soon and put these too assholes to death.

Updated: Sep 3, 2008 12:45 PM

Christopher Collings, a suspect in the death of Rowan Ford will now to go trial in Phelps County, Missouri on a change of venue.

Collings and David Spears, Rowan’s stepfather, are charged with first degree murder, forcible rape, and statutory rape.

They’re accused of raping and strangling Rowan Ford last November at Collings’ home. Rowan’s body was found in a cave in McDonald County a week after she was reported missing.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in this case.

Spears — Ford’s stepfather — was granted a change of venue and will now be tried in Pulaski County.

You go red neck Mom, I couldn’t have said it better…

GM of 10, do you realize you’re responding to a post left almost a year ago? I doubt that person is here and reading this thread any more, though I suppose it’s possible.

ok first of all may I say that this is one of the most heidous cases i have read about I am a red neck mom and grandma from missouri and I agree with all of you That the step grandma knew about it and was covering up for her fat swine sucking pig of a son what mother gets out of bed at 1:30 am to take her supposdley drunk son her car and sets at his house for 5 1/2 hours til he returns and doese’nt at least peek in on the child she is supposed to be sitting with acting like she did’nt know the child wasn’t there bull spit!!!! she knew I will just say this much in all honesty years ago I had made a terrible mistake and married a guy who I had known all of my life one day I was sick and had went to lie down my then 8 year old daughter came and got in bed with me she was shaking all over i ask her what was wrong and she told me her step dad had stood over her while she was sleeping on the living room floor and had ejaculated on her well this was the first time someting like this had ever happened because my daughter was taught to always tell me everything so without hesitation i cleaned her up while my ex husband sat in the recliner asleep I took her to the neighbours house and returned home needless to say he was awoken by me jabing him in the gut with his own 30/30 it was’nt loaded but he did’nt know that he confessed everything to me right then and there and had wet himself and begged for mercy for me not to kill him my friend by this time had called the police and he was aresseted he actually told the cops he wanted to press attempted murder charges on me the cop looked at him and said well i wont aresst you and you can go back in the house with your wife if thats what you want ha ha he volunteered to go to jail . So yes I know what its like to have your child hurt my daughter is now 27 years old and has had to undergo alot of therpy in her life but she is at least still with me and for that everyday I thank god . Now for what i feel should be done to all of those involved in rowan fords case the death penalty is to damn good for them after all why should they die a peaceful death of going quitly to sleep and never waking up by a needle hell thats just a shot the should be put into prision and once a day be brutally raped by other in mates while having to stare at a huge photo of rowan after the rape they need to be strangled with a cord until the pass out only to have it repeated over agian and agian until the die of old age now thats red neck justice !!!!! otherwise for the rest of their natural born lives the should have to face the horror that little girl faced I would just bet that if every one of the preverts out there was sentanced to a punishment like this there would be alot less of this crap happining.

You go red neck Mom, I couldn’t have said it better…

December court date set for Rowan Ford’s stepfather

The next court date for David Wesley Spears, 25, who is accused of the brutal rape and murder of his nine-year-old stepdaughter Rowan Ford of Stella, is set for Dec. 3 in Pulaski County Circuit Court, according to documents filed today.

A date for Spears’ trial will be set that day, the record indicates.

The other defendant in the case, Chris Collings, 34, Wheaton, a friend of Spears’, is being tried in Phelps County.

http://rturner229.blogspot.com/2008/09/december-court-date-set-for-rowan-fords.html

It’s almost a year later, and just seeing Rowan’s face still makes me tear up. I admit that I’ve even had a few nightmares about this case, which doesn’t usually happen to me. No child should ever have to endure what Rowan endured. I was secretly kind of glad when the comments died down, as I thought I’d be able to stop worrying over this one, but….no such luck. I’m afraid I’ll carry beautiful little Rowan Ford – and the brutality of her death – with me for the rest of my life.

I came here to let you all know that Chris Collings’ change of venue motion was granted on Sept 3rd. Here’s the story:

Judge moves Collings’ murder case from Cassville to Rolla
by KY3 News
Published: Sep 3, 2008 at 3:58 PM CDT
Story Updated: Sep 3, 2008 at 4:21 PM CDT
By Gene Hartley

CASSVILLE, Mo. — A judge agreed Wednesday to move the murder trial of Christopher Collings to Phelps County Circuit Court in Rolla. Collings faces a possible death penalty if he is convicted of first-degree murder for the strangulation death of the 9-year-old stepdaughter of his friend, David Spears.

Collings’ attorneys asked last January for the case to be moved to another county because of extensive publicity last November about the disappearance of Rowan Ford, who lived in Stella in Newton County. Searchers found Rowan’s body in a cave in McDonald County about a week after her disappearance. Investigators believe Collings and Spears raped and murdered Rowan at Collings’ home in Barry County.

In July, Circuit Judge Robert Wiley moved Spears’ trial to Pulaski County Circuit Court in Waynesville. The men will be tried separately because they may each want to implicate the other in their own defense.

Both Rolla and Waynesville are in the KY3 area, and potential jurors could have watched coverage of the search for Rowan and the arrests of the two men. Wiley feels, however, that the counties are far enough away from the crime scene that impartial juries can be seated.

Both men are represented by state public defenders. It likely will take a year or more for both cases to go to trial because of judges’ schedules, courtroom space and the amount of time that prosecutors and defense attorneys need to prepare for death penalty cases.

http://www.ky3.com/news/local/27826944.html