Murder of Rowan Ford

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On November 3, 2007, in Stella, Missouri, United States, nine-year-old Rowan Damia Ford (April 11, 1998 – November 3, 2007) went missing from her house while she was sleeping in her bedroom. Six days after her disappearance, Ford's body was found in a sinkhole in McDonald County, Missouri, and forensic reports showed that Ford was raped and strangled to death. Two suspects, Christopher Leroy Collings—a family friend of Ford—and David Wesley Spears, Ford's stepfather, were arrested and charged with raping and murdering Ford. Collings was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death in 2012 while Spears was sentenced to 11 years in prison for endangering the welfare of a child and covering up the crime. Collings was executed by lethal injection on December 3, 2024, at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center.

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