I'm wondering why the mother waited so long to actively search for Rowan. She returned home at 9, and her daughter was missing. She waited 7-8 hours? to begin looking for a 9-year-old? If none of her friends had heard from her, I would've been organizing people and driving around by noon at the latest.
"I came in around 10 minutes to 9 a.m. Saturday and went to the bathroom," said Colleen. "A lot of times she (Rowan) will open the door (to see me), when I would pull up, sometimes she would wait until I was out of the bathroom."
Not seeing her daughter, Colleen went into her bedroom to check on her. She was not there.
"I then woke him (David Spears, Colleen's husband and Rowan's stepfather) up, because he was sleeping on the couch, and asked him if she went to someone's house," Colleen said.
Colleen started calling Rowan's friends around 10 a.m.
Colleen said Rowan likes to ride her bike, but the bike was still at the house.
Not finding her daughter, Colleen started searching around 4:30 or 5 p.m. Saturday.