The Murder of Rowan Ford… One Year Later
November 3, 2008 by impqueen
UPDATE 12/05/08 – Both Chris Collings and David Spears were in court this week.On Wednesday, Collings’ trial in Phelps County was set for MarchMarch reviews
2010.On December 11, Collings will have a hair sample collected for DNA analysis whether he likes it or not (the defense objected, but the motion was sustained.) Collings’ first pretrial conference is set for July 24, 2009. Also Wednesday, David Spears was in court in Pulaski County.His trial has been set for July, 2010, and a similar motion was filed asking for hair samples.Both men remain in jail without bond pending trial.
Rowan Damia Ford ~ April 11, 1998 – NovemberNovember reviews 3, 2007
Stella, MO - One year ago today, on November 3, 2007, nine-year-old Rowan Damia Ford was brutally raped and murdered by her mother’s best friend, Chris Collings, and her stepfather, David Wesley Spears.One year ago today, Rowan was dumped in a sinkhole and left to rot while her mother looked for her and her stepfather said she’d gone over to a friend’s house.One year ago today, Rowan’s life ended – but her story had just begun.
When a child dies, people use words like “angel” and “legacy”.When a child goes missing, people suddenly have a clarity of memory they never had before. In Rowan’s case, she was reported missing just before 7:00 p.m. on SaturdaySaturday reviews evening, November 3 – by which time she’d been dead over twelve hours.
Rowan had taken to sleeping in the back of her mother’s car some time before.Colleen Spears worked the overnight shift at Wal-Mart, and Rowan, the youngest of Colleen’s children and the only one still living at home, was uncomfortable in the house with her stepfather David Spears, 25.
Rowan had recurrent cases of head and body lice that resulted in a referral to family services, where no signs of abuse were found and Colleen was basically told to get the problem taken care of.Rowan had lice when her body was found.But teachers remembered Rowan as a model student, a perfect angel, a sweet child who loved Hannah Montana and her new bike, which she rode around town for hours on end.
And church members at the Baptist church where Rowan attended SundaySunday reviews school alone noted that the little girl was often at the doors hours early.She found ways to volunteer, helping with the Angel Food program at church, passing out groceries for hours there.Until Rowan went missing, nobody apparently wondered why a little girl, disheveled and unkempt, would spend so much time on her own away from home.
Now we know.
While 44-year-old Colleen Spears worked overnights to support her much younger, unemployed, morbidly obese spouse, David Spears and Chris Collings were likely sexually abusing the child.
The details of the murder are graphic and horrifying, so I’ll just hit the highlights – Morbid covered the case as it happened here, here and here. On the night of November 2 and into the morning of November 3, Chris Collings went to the Spears home and took little Rowan from her bed.He took her to a trailer on property in Barry County which was owned by his father, Poncho Collings. There, Chris Collings proceeded to rape Rowan.Chris Collings is 6 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs around 250 pounds.
Shortly after the rape began, David Spears showed up and rather than saving his stepdaughter from the brutal assault, the 400-pound man dropped his drawers and joined in the rape.By the time they were finished, Rowan was bleeding to death.The men responded by strangling the child with a cord used to tie up goats in the yard, and sometime in the early hours of November 3, Rowan was dead.
David Spears went home and called his mother Myrna Spears to come to the house, telling her he had errands to run.He borrowed her truck, and left. Myrna Spears apparently never looked in on the ostensibly-sleeping Rowan during the five or six hours she was at the home.(Yeah, I call shenanigans too.I still think Spears told his mama he was in trouble and she covered his ass.) During those hours, Rowan’s body was dumped in the McDonald County sinkhole, ten miles away.
At first, David Spears claimed that Rowan had awakened him early Saturday morning and told him she was going to a friend’s house.Colleen Spears saw no reason to disbelieve her husband and waited several hours before even looking for the child.When there was still no sign of Rowan by 6:45 p.m., Colleen called the Newton County sheriff’s office and reported Rowan missing.
From the beginning, Colleen was cooperative.David Spears was not.Ken Copeland, the Newton County sheriff, is a soft spoken, kind man who works with children at his church – but he’s not a stupid guy.Copeland described Spears as “less than helpful” on more than one occasion, and people close to the sheriff said that Ken knew David Spears was involved on day one of the investigation.
A week later, McDonald County Sheriff’s Deputy Jake Boles was helping with the search when he remembered about a sinkhole where he used to play. Boles and another deputy stopped by on the way to work the next morning. Using a rope, and flashlight, and a buddy to hold the rope, Boles lowered himself into the sinkhole and saw the mostly nude, bloodied body of Rowan Ford.
Chris Collings and David Spears were arrested, and each charged with first-degree murder, forcible rape and first-degree statutory sodomy.They’ve been held without bond since their arrests.Colleen Spears obtained a divorce within weeks of Rowan’s death and has since changed her name.
Chris Collings, L, and David Spears, R at arraignment
It’s been a year, and now Rowan’s murder case is finally getting underway.Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for both men, who have each claimed responsibility for killing Rowan.Yep, you heard right – each man has told investigators that he is the one who strangled the child.Lest you think that makes no sense, picture this:a decent defense attorney will argue that the other man has claimed responsibility and that his own client is innocent and was just trying to protect his friend. Scary, huh?
Because there is physical evidence implicating both men in Rowan’s rape, it’s likely that they will each do time for that.But a murder conviction for either POS defendant is by no means a sure thing. Today, Chris Collings will be in court for a pre-trial hearing in Phelps County, Missouri on a change of venue from Barry County, where the actual murder occurred.On December 3, David Spears will have a hearing in Pulaski County, also on a change of venue. After that, I expect that jury selection and trials will soon follow.
November 9 is the day Rowan was found.
For our part, the Dreamin’ Demon hit an accidental growth curve with Morbid’s coverage of Rowan’s disappearance.I found D’D myself a year ago, looking for coverage on the missing little girl.Rowan’s sister Janice was an active participant in the case discussion here, and the Demon suddenly found itself on the news and in the middle of a true-crime-blog niche – something Morbid hadn’t anticipated.But everybody wanted to know what had happened to Rowan – and the national news wasn’t covering her.
Of all the cases we’ve covered, Rowan’s is the one closest to my heart.Her case is why I’m here, why Hippiepoet’s here, why a number of our members are here. Now, a year after her death, it’s time to make sure that all our members remember a little girl who will forever be nine years old.
Rest in peace, Rowan. I hope that justice won’t be delayed too long.
8:59 am on November 3rd, 2008
this is just awful. RIP lil Rowan.
9:13 am on November 3rd, 2008
I was really hoping to hear that a guard “accidentally” opened up that fat fuck’s cell and got distracted while a couple of beefy felons slipped in and made the perv squeal like a goddamn pig.
Squeal, you fuck.
That girl never had a chance thanks to her moron mother. She lived a shit life and died a shit death and her mom and mom’s dick and and mom’s dick’s friend are still kicking it on this planet. If there was a “heavenly father” I tell him to suck it ’cause he was looking the other way when this shit happened.
9:29 am on November 3rd, 2008
Ditto on the skinnier fuck. I wouldn’t want to leave him out. Maybe he will accidentally fall on something hard….like a shiv……or a dick.
9:42 am on November 3rd, 2008
It’s been a year and hearing this story and the details still makes me feel the exact same way I did the first time I heard them.
I feel sick to my stomach, there is a huge lump in my throat, and I want to puke. Add to that the rage and the disbelief that there are people walking this earth that are capable of such evil, and it makes me envy the those who are blissfully unaware that things like this happen.
Rowan suffered greatly. I hope these monsters are haunted by dreams of her every single night for the rest of their lives. Horrible dreams that make them end their own pathetic lives with some ripped up bedsheets or a shiv to the throat. I would gladly drive all the way to missouri for the chance to spit on their dead bodies.
9:43 am on November 3rd, 2008
Thanks for updating this tragic story. RIP Rowan, just dayum…
9:56 am on November 3rd, 2008
I have her heard her name mentioned on this site before, but i havent searched it yet. i read it now and i could only imagine how scared this poor baby was. she couldnt cry for help to anyone who would care to hear. I am new to this site, and the story that brought me here was catherine martinez. but i pray every day for these children featured here, the ones who made it out alive to have some love in their heart to move on, and not turn out the same way when they get older. u know we hear those storys that people use to say they were abused them selves and thats why they turn out like monsters. anyhow. RIP Rowan , and may you sleep w/the angels.
i have a 8 year old daughter myself and i just couldnt imagine losing her. i am 23 and i have more sense than most these pathetic “moms” in these headlines to NOT TRUST NO ONE!! W/UR PRECIOUS INNOCENT CHILDREN . if mothers would learn this life would be so much better for these kids.
10:11 am on November 3rd, 2008
Out of all the cases we have ever covered on this site, this is the one for me. The one that got my stomach tied up a bit from pure shock and absolute hatred towards these two individuals. I am NOT a God-fearing man, but even if I were, I would have NO issues helping ensure these two men experienced long, torturous deaths…a feeling I usually never express about any of the accused on this site.
The thought of that little girl, in the middle of the night, being gang-banged in a filthy trailer by the most grotesque versions of Laurel and Hardy one could possibly imagine, while those goddamn goats bleated outside…even now, as I type this, I just get angry.
Anyway, thanks for the update Imp.
10:32 am on November 3rd, 2008
Maybe it was slightly inappropriate, but I laughed when I read about the Laurel and Hardy description. That girl should have been spending time watching reruns of those bumbling idiots on Nick-at-nite instead of trying to fend off her real-life monsters.
How easy would it be to simply take both of the perps and walk them to the back of the jail and shoot them in the head? It would be efficient. Screw the trial….there’s sufficient evidence and it only makes sense to remove any potential danger to society. There’s no need to moralize or philosophize about it. Someone has proven to be a danger to the life of others. BAM! No prison, no jail, no jail mail to admirers or groupies, no appeals and waiting years on death row at the taxpayers expense, or worse yet no death penalty at all. No Catholics or hippies decrying the inhumane treatment of someone who just raped and murdered a child. No one holding their hand and and supporting their delusion that GOD forgave them, so why can’t you? No last meal or words or comfort. Just a straight and simple elimination.
State supported death penalty is not only just, but rational.
Pheh! What a way to start out the morning.
11:02 am on November 3rd, 2008
Damn it, Imp. I hate crying in the morning.
Like you, I found DD while looking for information on Rowan, and never left. I knew it wasn’t going to turn out well, but I could not tear myself away until she was found. And then the revelations began, and it just got worse and worse.
And like Morbid, this is *the* story for me. I don’t think it’s just because it’s the story that brought me here. Something about the vulnerability of this little girl. About how despite a truly crappy set of life circumstances, she was cheerful and happy and always eager to help. About the ultimate betrayal by people she was supposed to be able to trust. About the sheer violence of the act itself. Something about all of it makes little Rowan’s story the be-all and end-all for me: Rowan Ford is why I am on Dreamin’ Demon, and why I stay.
Rowan will be with me for the rest of my life, of that there is no doubt.
Rest in peace, Rowan. I’m sorry you knew such pain. You will not be forgotten.
11:03 am on November 3rd, 2008
RIP Rowan. Still as heartbreaking as it was a year ago
11:03 am on November 3rd, 2008
my only problem with a bullet to the back of the head for those two pieces of shit would be that it’s too easy. they are just sickening, evil, twisted, wastes of space (a *lot* of space).
rest in peace, little rowan.
11:06 am on November 3rd, 2008
Thanks for the update. I have been a faithful reader here since the Rowan Ford case. My feelings about this case are the same as Morbid’s.
Rowan you are remembered by many and loved.
11:32 am on November 3rd, 2008
I remember this story unraveling all too well. When I first saw the picture of little Rowan, for a moment I thought she was the daughter of a friend of mine…uncanny resemblance, same age.
Admittedly, there are stories that feel closer to my heart than others. Some for the age of the child, how their death occurred or something telling in the manner of what their life was before death.
Little Rowan story is similar to many cases you can find and read on the net. So many children are brutally murdered in a vicious, sadistic manner by those closets in their lives.
So what makes little Rowan Ford special?
There was only one Rowan Damia Ford. She can’t be replaced no matter how her mothers cries beg for her little girl to be back in her arms.
There are parts to this story that sound too familiar…a bit too uncomfortable for me to read…some of us I’m sure will say, oh, yes, that could have been me too, only if. The difference is we are alive today. Most with families and children to love. Rowan will never know so many wonderful things in life that awaited her. Instead she was forced into a nightmare so horrific most readers cannot bear to read the details. Rowan lived those terrible and heinous details until her last breath.
I do believe there are troubled souls after death and Rowan’s would seem to qualify. I pray for you Rowan and that you are at peace sweet child.
Your last moments of your life brought moments of terror that broke our hearst but know that your sweet face and name will forever be cherished.
Rest in peace Rowan Damia Ford…I know you are with the angels.
11:35 am on November 3rd, 2008
I’m just sad today for Rowan. And sadder that there are other Rowans out there that we never hear about. If this site has one purpose, it’s to shine a light on filth like Chris Collings and David Spears.
Child abusers, babyrapers, murderers: we will expose you. We will show off your evil, your slime, your disgusting acts for the world to see. We will shame you. We will laugh at what pathetic losers you are. And we will make sure that anyone who plugs your name into a search engine will see what you did until the end of time or the internet.
And we’ll do it for Rowan, and for every child like her. Fair warning, bastards.
11:48 am on November 3rd, 2008
These two could never squeal enough. Hannibal Lecter couldn’t inflict the pain these two deserve.
RIP Rowan
11:50 am on November 3rd, 2008
I heart you Imp. <3
RIP Rowan.
Rot in hell Collings and Spears.
12:14 pm on November 3rd, 2008
I can’t believe it’s been a year…I remember hearing about this like it was yesterday. Such a sad, tragic story for this little girl. I’m sure she had a heart of gold. RIP little Rowan, we are all thinking of you.
12:16 pm on November 3rd, 2008
This brought me to tears all over again. I cant believe it’s already been a year.
RIP dear sweet Rowan.
12:34 pm on November 3rd, 2008
Imp – what an amazing tribute to a wonderful little girl who left us under the most tragic of circumstances. You did a great job outlining a horrible story to those of us that, believe it or not, are unfamiliar with Rowan.
I know that she has peace now; no pain. And I’m so sorry for her awful death.
Thank you Imp. For this tribute to her life.
12:35 pm on November 3rd, 2008
Thank you for the update….I hope these two disgusting pigs get raped in prison and see how it feels.
RIP Rowan, we will never forget you.
1:05 pm on November 3rd, 2008
This was just an outline? Not sure I can read the actual stories then, because this had me shaking with anger and tears in my eyes. I am still shaking.
There isn’t a death horrible enough for those two. They can’t understand a nine years olds perception of terror and pain. I pray that they suffer the closest to it they can though. Sodomy with objects far, far too large for starters. Sick motherfuckers!
I hope the prosecutor can somehow make it so it won’t make a difference who actually killed her since BOTH were present at the time she died… and the rape certainly could have killed her if she was bleeding to death (oh, that just turns my stomach!)
R.I.P. Rowan… if there is such a thing as reincarnation, may you come back to a life 10,000 times better than the one you were stripped from.
2:22 pm on November 3rd, 2008
I could rant about Rowan’s murder but I think we all feel the same way here. I’m sure it’s still fresh in all of our minds.
I hope that both of their confessions to the actual strangulation of Rowan doesn’t fuck up the death penalty for both of them……
2:28 pm on November 3rd, 2008
RIP Rowan.
These assholes will get theirs…one way or another.
2:40 pm on November 3rd, 2008
Christopher Leroy Collings is set to appear before Phelps County Judge Mary W. Sheffield in about twenty minutes. I expect she’ll set the trial date at that time – I’ll update as soon as I hear something.
2:47 pm on November 3rd, 2008
Thank you for the write up and God Bless you little Rowan YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN, May you be with the angels now
For little Rowan’s family deepest sympathy to you all
I will say prayers for all of you as well.
LET THOSE TWO M>>>F>>>> ROT IN HELL AND DIE REAL SOON!
4:23 pm on November 3rd, 2008
This story makes me fucking sick. The thought that this precious child had to spend her last moments being victimized by those two fuckers is sickening. The brutality is overwhelming to me. I just can’t wrap my head around it. Thank God she is at peace now and won’t have to relive those final moments for the rest of her life. I’m so sad for her mother. I just can’t imagine the guilt she must feel. UGH!
Rest in peace Rowan.
4:34 pm on November 3rd, 2008
Rowan is the case that brought me to DD, also. Such a heartbreaking ordeal for that sweet baby.
I’ll be following the trial right along with y’all and praying that they both die the most slow and painful deaths immaginable.
4:59 pm on November 3rd, 2008
I am here because of Rowan.
My belief in mankind was shaken horribly. I will never be the same, nor look at strangers without wondering what evil lurks. I can vividly recall her ’stepfathers’ blubbering interview, and Colleens words ’she’s just a little girl……..’ I have never cried for a stranger as I have for Rowan.
Thank you Imp for the update and for once again front paging Rowan, and mostly for the vow to shine a headlight on all mother fuckers that would and do harm the innocents.
5:25 pm on November 3rd, 2008
I’m at a loss for words here. Really.
Rest in peace Rowan.
5:37 pm on November 3rd, 2008
This is the first that I have read about this case. All cases of child abuse, molestation, neglect etc ., affect us. This one however really breaks my heart. The conditions under which this little girl lived , ie: reoccuring lice, was enough to bring tears to my eyes. Then to read how she did her best to avoid being home with that fat, greasy, useless lump of lard broke my heart. Poor little baby ( to me they are all babies) never stood a chance.
The death penalty for both of them seems fair enough. If one hadn’t strangled her , she may have died just from the brutual acts they committed on her , if left unattended, making them both responsible for her death.
I question the stepfather’s mothers motives as well. Not once did she check to make sure that Rowan was okay or even there. She was there only to cover her son’s big beefy ass.
I am sorry Rowan that everyone seemed to have failed you. No child should ever have to endure the things you did .
Rest in Peace Rowan
6:07 pm on November 3rd, 2008
well theres still hope of a guard leaving a cell open and believe me it may take yrs but it will happen and until then let them live in fear every day and every minute,i cried as read these pages about her and what happened to her,this story didnt reach here and morbid i feel same as you do they deserve long torurous deaths and i hope they get them
7:30 pm on November 3rd, 2008
I’ll say a prayer for you Rowan. I can’t imagine how much you suffered in your short life. To the two men who tortured and killed this poor child: TICK TOCK The Devil will claim you soon enough.
9:11 pm on November 3rd, 2008
I have read the articles about Rowan. I am disgusted and saddened by what she went through. My heart goes out to all of you at D’D who worried while she was missing, and then went through the stages of grieving after her death. I know you loved her as one of your own, and continue to hope the worst fate possible upon her abusers. If only D’Ders could be on each and every jury…
9:29 pm on November 3rd, 2008
This is the case that brought me here from mydeathspace.com. Hard to believe it’s been a year. I’m glad Coleen had the decency to divorce that worthless piece of shit. Pity she didn’t do it in time to save her daughter.
11:42 pm on November 3rd, 2008
It was well after the crime itself, but Rowan Ford is what brought me to dreamin demon too. I was thinking of her over the summer and googled her to check for updates to her case and here is where I ended up. She seems to stick with me, in part because Rowan is my daughter’s middle name. Her murder is just as tragic now as it was a year ago. I’d like to see these men dead too.
12:35 am on November 4th, 2008
Rowan was the reason I came to this site. At that time ,I had hoped for a happy outcome, but of course that didn’t happen.
A year later, this case still breaks my heart. I still blame the mom for this, for not protecting her kid. I hate her for it. But a lot of my hate is reserved for these 2 POS. I really hope they have them in the general population. Or maybe they will meet the same fate that Jeffery Dahmer did when he went to jail. We can only hope.
RIP Rowan
1:17 am on November 4th, 2008
Wow, I am amazed so many of us found this site looking for Rowan info/updates.
Rowan RIP sweet darling!!!
2:07 am on November 4th, 2008
I live in the town this trial is going on in. I can tell you the jury in Phelps county will see that this pond scum gets what is coming to him and also Judge Mary Sheffield is a hard ass and will take no mercy on him. I hope these bastards rot in the special hell I believe Is in store for people who do these things to children, I can’t imagaine even as a grown woman being raped by these two fuckers but a little frail 9 year old girl words can’t describe what they deserve.
2:21 am on November 4th, 2008
It’s anniversary week for me as well. It was the missing Rowan that brought me to DD as well.
I am still amazed
A. how Alisha Dean’s case recieved more views – That case does not even come close to comparing to Rowan and Caylee’s supporters.
B. what intriged that police office to stop by and go down and look in that sinkhole… It is a blessing that Rowan was found… now if we can get so lucky to find Caylee… I do hope the children are frolicking in heaven with the butterflies and doves.
R I P Rowan
6:19 am on November 4th, 2008
Wonder, I have been checking out this case and trying to piece it togeather in a time line. There might be 2 reasons for looking in the Fox’s hole and one involves Deputy Jake Boles being an acomplance to this crime and already knowing about the body being there. He lived about a half-mile from the property and played in the cave as a child. Jake has his own Jury trial starting on 12/9/2008 for two counts of second-degree statutory sodomy. David also admitted he shared Rowan with other men so Jake could be one of them. But thats just a running guess I have.
Based upon news storys David began talking to a man named Mark Bridges who is the Newton County Coroner, on the day Rowan dissapeared ( nov 3 ) implying that because Mark used to be the sheriff, maybe he could help find Rowan. Not being born yesterday, Mark incouraged David to keep calling with possible idea’s about Rowan. On the 8th the day before Jake Boles found Rowan, Mark talked David into taking a drive around the county for possible places a body could be hidden. The first place David brings him was the sink hole locally known as Fox’s hole. Its a manhole-cover-sized gap in the forest floor drops straight down into a deep cave chamber. Both men looked in the sink hole and Mark becomes suspicions about items they both see and they talk about it. Not having any rope they move on to other places. But after looking into the cave, Bridges said he contacted agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigations. The FBI, in turn, contacted the McDonald County Sheriff’s Department. So that might be how Jake found out about it and since he new it well he went there first thing before work the next day with another deputy named Mike Hall. He brought ropes and flashlights and with Mikes help repeled into the cave and found Rowan.
9:06 am on November 4th, 2008
I am afraid that when the trial starts we will find that Rowans life and death were more painful and tragic than we could imagine. I too suspect Deputy Boles was involved somehow with Rowans abuse. I would not be surprised if Spears or Collins start to squeal during their trials to get a lesser sentence. Even if they were the only two who were there that night I am sure they know the names of other men who may have abused her. It’s just a feeling I have always had with this case.
9:41 am on November 4th, 2008
Im no rocket scientist BUT,it does NOT seem that strange of an idea that…YES,BOTH douche bags DID strangle her…Strangulation is NOT restricted to 1-1 contact in the least,and definitely NOT to those who “take turns”…They KNOW they raped her,they KNOW they tossed her in a sink hole…they KNOW she was strangled…I do NOT see the problem in a double death penalty extravaganza for the both of’em!!!…But,on the bright side,if they DO “live” there lives out in jail…there gunna be some SOOORE boyz!!!…
10:15 am on November 4th, 2008
Re: the Jake Boles angle – as far as I know, he is not a suspect in Rowan’s murder, although rumors abound. But I covered him here: http://www.dreamindemon.com/2008/02/12/deputy-jake-boles-has-minor-problems/
Jake Boles is due in court on November 25 for a motion hearing and again on December 9 for trial in his statutory sodomy case.
10:24 am on November 4th, 2008
Christopher Collings’ murder trial has been set for March 2010.
I mentioned in a comment about Rowan long ago that I believed the defense would try to move the trial as far out as possible in order to prepare their case and to give potential jurors time to forget this crime. It appears I was right.
What the defense doesn’t seem to realize is that anyone who ever heard of Rowan will never forget.
3:25 pm on November 4th, 2008
This whole case is disgusting. I hope all three vile POSs rot in hell. And for sweet Rowan, RIP. She was an adorable little girl who deserved so much better…
4:03 pm on November 4th, 2008
yeah, anyone have the scoop on Rowan’s mom? she doesn’t think it’s odd her kid sleeps in the car? the fact that this girl didn’t feel comfortable enough to come to her own mother and say, “i’m being abused” speaks volumes to me.
these predators can tell when a child is not valued. mom really dropped the ball here big time, surprised State didn’t drop a charge on her as well.
4:18 pm on November 4th, 2008
I was reading the original story of these 2 being arrested, etc. and went to a link about another postponement. I happened to scroll down to comments and found this. How, after ALL of this, can someone possibly still support this monster and believe he is innocent?? I mean, she had to have left this just a few days ago!
Thursday, Oct 23 at 5:42 AM amber hall wrote …
i know these two men personaly. collings is a freak and deserves to die but david was a dear friend of mine and can not beleave that hes had anything to do with this. he been arould everyones children and is great to them, hes also helped me out so many time with no questions asked and asked nothing in return. hes always been a kind warm hearted man. i will never understand how such a great guy can be accused of such a horrable thing.
(taken from http://www.ky3.com/news/local/19108389.html)
Someone plllleeeaaasssseee find this girl/woman and educate her about what a “confession” is! Then, if she has children… well.. maybe she shouldn’t. (just my opinion)
5:35 pm on November 4th, 2008
OH MY GOD!
http://www.ky3.com/home/video/33803884.html
Judge sets murder suspect’s trial for 2010
ROLLA, Mo. — A man charged for the death of a 9-year-old girl from Newton County will wait a year and a half to stand trial. Chris Collings faces charges of first-degree murder, sodomy and rape for the death of Rowan Ford of Stella.
Collings’ court appearance Monday came on the the first anniversary of the girl’s disappearance. His trial, which was moved from Cassville to here to try to ensure a fair outcome, is scheduled to begin in March 2010.
Ford’s stepfather, David Spears, is also charged for the murder. Spears’ case was moved from Cassville to Waynesville.
That is TOO long! So much for “speedy trial.” Farce.
5:39 pm on November 4th, 2008
Sorry Imp… somehow I missed your comment.
Think I need to go back to sleep.
Still — that really sucks! 3 years after a crime, the accused should be dead – not just getting their trial started! This has got to be agonizing for the family.
5:55 pm on November 4th, 2008
2010!! That’s fucking outrageous! If they are hoping people will forget, they are sadly mistaken. Noone that has heard about this case, will ever forget this poor little girl and what she went through.
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