Rowan Ford was a star student whose smile and work ethic won the hearts of her teachers. She loved riding her purple bicycle ...

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

Christopher Collings, 49, was declared dead nine minutes after he was injected with a single dose of pentobarbital ...

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

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

Christopher Collings, a Missouri death row inmate who sexually assaulted and killed a 9-year-old girl, was executed as ...

The man convicted of sexually assaulting and strangling 9-year-old Rowan Ford from southwest Missouri will be put to death ...

A Missouri man is facing scheduled execution Tuesday evening for the sexual assault and killing of a 9-year-old girl whose ...

The state of Missouri executed Christopher Collings, 49, on Tuesday, for the 2007 sexual assault and killing of 9-year-old ...

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.