David Spears, who initially confessed to the murder of 9-year-old Rowan Ford, a fourth grader at Triway Elementary School in Stella, before he was eventually pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, launched the fundraiser over the weekend with the headline "Help My Family Rebuild After Unjust Job Loss."
KSNF/KODE News Director Bobbie Pottorff, who broke the story that Spears had a $42,000 a year taxpayer-funded job with the Missouri State Public Defender's Office, posted a story about the Go Fund Me page earlier this evening.
Pottorff's reporting led Rep. Lane Roberts, R-Joplin, to demand that Spears be fired and members of the House Budget Committee threatened to withhold the Public Defender's Office budget unless Spears was fired.
As of this writing, Spears, who set a goal of $5,500, has raised $4,300, with $3,000 of that total coming from one anonymous donor.
This is his pitch:
My name is David Spears. I am a husband and father, and I’m reaching out for help after losing my job with the Missouri State Public Defender’s Office under circumstances beyond my control. For nearly eight years, I worked hard to build a stable life for my family, earning the trust of my supervisors and colleagues, even with my past.Everything changed in late 2024, when political pressure—led by Missouri State Representative Lane Roberts, who stated false facts about my past—and public attention led to my termination, when the Missouri State Public Defenders Office was told by legislators that they would not be allowed to present a budget proposal for the new fiscal year until I was terminated, despite my strong work record and support from those who knew me best.
Since losing my job, I have burned through my retirement savings and sold what we could, including my son’s classic car. I’ve applied to over 100 jobs and started a cleaning business, but the media’s attention to my past has made it nearly impossible to find steady work. My wife’s income is the only thing keeping a roof over our heads, and with bills piling up, we are dangerously close to losing our stability.
We are asking for support to help us keep up with our mortgage and basic living expenses, catch up on overdue bills, and give us time to rebuild and find stable income. If possible, we hope to relocate to a state where we feel safer and less likely to be targeted for my past. I know my history raises questions, but I’ve taken responsibility and worked hard to rebuild. If you’re able to help by donating or sharing, my family and I are deeply grateful for your support.
29 comments:
He is such a dumb ass he is a criminal and the stuff he did poor Rowan makes me wish karma on him. Move we dont want you in Missouri. I pray wherever he lives he cant find a job.
He should have died lying next to Chris Collings. He rolled on Collings to get himself a lighter sentence. He confessed to killing her. He was there watching and taking his turn at the rape and murder. Spears doesn’t deserve the air he breathes.
I agree with you totally. I will be damned if I would give him one red cent because of the rape and murder that his is responsible for. He made his choices and he made his bed. Now it’s time for him to lis in it and suffer the consequences. Some things a person can be forgiven for. Rape and murder are not eligible to excuse!!!
It would appear that those who have provided funds toward his GoFund Me (scam) are educated to some degree. I’m pondering; is that what feeds the term “educated idiots?”
I can't believe we are rewarding murders with money... what about the mother and family of the Lil girl who will never grow up and have a life and family of her own.. so we are supposed to give you money because you can't make a living because of the murder hanging over your head.. we're supposed to forget about that.. no I think not.. Roland will live on through the people who still feel the pain in our hearts of her lose... 💔
This man help kill and hide his 4th grade stepdaughters body. He is despicable and should not be breathing our air.
This is such an injustice to Rowan Ford. Her murderer is above ground and thanks to Leftist Liberal Democrats - who allowed him to get away with this and then get a job, paid for by Missouri taxpayers - I have no sympathy or use for this low-life bastard - who should have died along with his accomplice. To those that donated to him, you are no better than he is - a child rapist and killer - may you all be sent to HELL!
How does he even have a wife and children? Is he doing what he did to rowan to them? How could a woman marry a man that done that to a child? Poor rowan didn't get the chance to live a life. Never will she get the chance to have a job, a husband and children. And here he is out here in the world wanting people to feel sorry for him. He didn't feel sorry when he was allowing his best friend to rape her and kill her!! And why wasn't her mother doing anything to help her? She had to known something wasn't right? I always know when something is wrong with my children
Does GoFundMe have a way to report people? Because I'm going to go look at that and see if there's any way to get that taken down. Maybe if enough people go there and raise heck we can get it removed
I would pee on the man if he was on fire. He deserves to suffer. Does he have a new wife or is Rowan's mom still with him?
He does not deserve anyone's help or money. He is a murder. He needs to rot in HELL
He does not deserve any help what so ever. Where was his help for poor ROWAN FORD.NO WHERE.
This is absolutely sickening that people would donate money to someone involved in the rape and murder of his 9 year old step daughter! Rowan didn't deserve that and David should be rotting in hell with Chris Collings. He confessed then rolled over on collings for a lighter sentence. He never should have had that job in the first place and thank you Missouri for demanding he was fired! There were no false allegations against him. I hope he rots in hell!
This is what deluded Trumpist thinking looks like.
I bet he even got a stimulus check while in jail, I’m just finding this actually happened to prisoners today WTF.
1:54PM, It was the deluded leftist liberal Democrats that gave him a job on the taxpayers back in the first place, as this is what Dems do, always using other people's hard-earned money, if I was you, I would just walk away from this conversation and go hide under any rock you can find quickly your comments are not welcome, go hide now.
323 The PPPP! Another pathetic, racist and ignorant statement made by an insignificant magat loser. Let's start a Go Fund Me for the purpose of getting the The PPPP psychiatric help.
Trumpers say this kind of stuff without being willing to admit that they would rather elect a piece of garbage like this to office than vote anything other than a straight Republican ticket.
5:14 the DDDD! Delusional Disgraceful Dumb Democrat. Has opened its mouth again….
529...Pathetic,PLAGIARIZING, Pontificating Putridness. The PPPP strikes again! Thanks PPPP!....Where do I send my GFM for The PPPP psych intervention?
I seriously can't believe people are donating to him our house caught fire and we lost everything we own and I set up a GoFundMe because I'm on disability and he's draws his retirement we don't even get 1500 hundred dollars a month between us and we didn't get not even one donation to the GoFundMe I set up and we're still struggling with no food can't get any help we are living in a camper in our backyard with no water generator or anything and can't get help but a pedadifile who raped his own step daughter with one of his buddies then murdered her has raised that much money that's a bunch of bs if you ask me.
If he was still in prison he would be living for free and would not need to fund raise.
How is this pedo/murder allowed to be around children?
1:54PM, 5:14PM, 6:24PM, more from the leftist liberal Demoncrats, who gave this heinous person, David Spears, a JOB - now they do not want to own up to it, because of the fallout they are receiving. Yet, what would you expect from a party that doesn't understand that there are only 2-sexes and wants to force girls to share bathroom and locker rooms with boys and then compete against them - how DELUSIONAL AND DUMB IS THIS PARTY.
It took Republicans to right this WRONG - and take away his Job, paid for by the hardworking Taxpayers of Missouri - THIS IS THE FACTS - TRY AND DISPUTE IT - PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!
Here are the details regarding his hiring and the surrounding controversy:
Initial Hire (2016): Spears was hired as a clerk typist in the St. Louis County office in June 2016, shortly after his release from prison, by Stephen Reynolds, a district defender. Reynolds was married to Sharon Turlington, who had served as Spears' trial attorney. Bunch of Democrats!
Subsequent Hire (2020): He was hired again in April 2020 to work at the West Plains Public Defender's Office, where he worked as an administrative assistant. Again, More Democrats!
Political Reaction: The hiring was widely criticized by Republican leaders in the Missouri House in 2025 after it was revealed he had been convicted of felonies related to the 2007 murder of his stepdaughter. Thank God that Republicans - Stood up and did the RIGHT THING AGAIN!
Termination: Following outrage from Republican lawmakers and threats to hold up the agency’s budget, Spears was terminated by the Missouri State Public Defender's office on February 24, 2025. This is the Power of Right over Wrong - When the Democrats - was once again shown what they are made of - CRAP!!!!!!!!!!
It is the hole in the wall gang, 5:14PM and 6:24PM, looney tune delusional democrats, that would hire pedophiles, rapists, and murderers, this clearly shows in their angry and violent protests and trying to kill police, and state and federal agents trying to protect the people of the united states against illegal aliens, who commit murders, deal drugs, and traffic in adults and children, but demoncrats think that those sick and perverted actions are all right while having taxpayers pay for them. Just look at their last bunch of clowns, autopen sleepy joe biden and I cannot complete a sentence kamala harris, who can spend over $1.5 billion dollars to give to all of hollyweird friends and ice cream socials, while not being able to pay her own staff, then wants the democratic party to pay them their last payroll check and severance pay. Dems are just class acts, as long as it is someone else like taxpayers or donors paying for their free rides.
Keep banging those gums DDDD! Someone might listen to to your rant…
Blah,blah,Blah, did you say something 858? Just more deplorable disenfranchised mutterings from 858 who hasn't gotten up off of mommas lazyboy or changed the channel in years from faux news propaganda.
The DDDD! Just can’t keep the diarrhea from coming out of the mouth. I think I will add another D to your name for the diarrhea you are now officially the DDDDD!
557, "The PPPP" demonstrated by its ridiculously heinous authoritarian beliefs in a "white nationalist" society, goes even more psychotic with a clear diagnosis of "DDDD derangement syndrome". Dearest PPPP, please take your DDDD infatuated malignancy for help. Your obsession with DDDD only proves just how thoroughly and deeply "DDDD's" live rent free in your mind. DDDD's aren't interested in your maniacal pontificating. DDDD'S won't be reading any of the 9 paragraphs (658, 639) of stinking garbage it wrote in another manic episode (19 minutes apart).....mercy.
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