Some of the links about this case are now no longer useable. I don't see this article posted here anywhere. Hope it stays available. It's from November 1, 2010.
fran
http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-stella-mo-girl-murdered-three-110110,0,5072834.column
Stella, MO girl murdered three years ago this week
She loved Hannah Montana, anything purple, and riding her bicycle.
More than anything she loved being with her classmates and teachers at Triway Elementary School in Stella.
Wednesday, November 3, marks the third anniversary of the death of that fourth grader, Rowan Ford, and the time of reckoning for her murderers is still not even on our radar.
Earlier this month, one of the two men accused of raping and strangling the nine-year-old, Chris Collings of Wheaton, turned his head in a Phelps County courtroom, as his videotaped confession was played in an effort to have it declared inadmissible. Two tapes were played, with Collings admitting to the rape and murder on the first tape and saying he acted alone in the second.
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In one of my posts last year, I offered these thoughts on the Rowan Ford murder:
Rowan Ford was robbed over and over during her young life. She was deprived of her normal childhood, her innocence, and eventually, her life.
Meanwhile, the hourglass of justice continues to turn at a glacial pace, as the years pass since Rowan Ford, forever nine, was taken from us.
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