Collings, a father of two now-grown daughters, was convicted of killing Rowan Ford on Nov. 3, 2007, in the small southwest ...

A Missouri man is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday evening for sexually assaulting and strangling a 9-year-old girl whose ...

With the impending execution of convicted child-killer Christopher Collings, the spotlight shifts to his co-defendant, Rowan ...

Nine-year-old Rowan Ford's hair was usually matted, sometimes crawling with lice. She lived in a ramshackle home and sometimes showed up to school without socks in the frigid Missouri winter.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. The state of Missouri executed Christopher Collings, 49, on Tuesday, for ...

Colleen questions Rowan’s stepfather, David Spears, about where her daughter might be. Spears’ response is that Rowan stayed ...

The sexual assault and murder of Rowan Ford in 2007 rocked the southwestern town of Stella, Missouri. On Tuesday, the man ...

Christopher Leroy Collings was convicted of the 2007 rape and murder of 9-year-old Rowan Ford in Stella, Missouri. Collings' lawyers have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Missouri Supreme ...

Christopher Leroy Collings was executed by lethal injection in Missouri for the 2007 rape and murder of 9-year-old Rowan Ford. Collings expressed remorse in his final statement, apologizing for ...

9-year-old Rowan Ford, watched him die, along with other witnesses in the death chamber at the Potosi Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri. Collings, himself a father of two now-grown ...