Amber Alert for missing Missouri girl is now over

The sumbitch was an employee at k-8 public school.

Hope he gets it dry everyday of his sad pathetic life.



[quote]Springfield Public Schools confirmed that Wood was an employee. In addition to his work as a teachers aide assigned to In-School Suspension, he is a coach at Pleasant View Elementary and Middle School.[/quote]

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I'm fricking enraged by this! Something as awful as this seems sort of distant until you have children of your own...and then it becomes all too real.

Scares the crap out of me.

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I'm fricking enraged by this! Something as awful as this seems sort of distant until you have children of your own...and then it becomes all too real.

Scares the crap out of me.

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Throw in the fact that it happened in Springfield.

My wife is always trying to go to bed at night without locking up the house because she says we live in a "safe" neighborhood. I say frick that and lock everything up while arming our security system on instant and setting the motion detectors before I turn off the lights. People are crazy these days and there is no longer such a thing as a nice neighborhood.

Bullshitting and trolling aside, Springfield is a pretty damn safe and great city and I've lived in awesome places like San Diego and Morehead City, NC.

This isn't a Springfield problem. This is a psycho problem that could occur anywhere at any time. It happens in the smallest of towns as well as the largest of cities.

My heart breaks for this girl's family. I can't imagine what she experienced. Her family will be haunted forever.

And, on top of that, this act of evil has tarnished a wonderful city's reputation and violated the community's innocence.

This man should die slowly and experience the most extreme pain imaginable.

Cool just wondering not to take away from the OP, just very similar paths, lived in North County SD, live in Harrison now, up in Springfield a lot and moving to Richlands NC in May.

I just want to know why the Sprinfield PD was so damn stupid in this situation. You pull up to the guys house at night, he has a roll of duct tape, and you wait till the next morning for a search warrant to go inside? Hell no, you bust his door down that moment and search for the girl. What if he killed her post police encounter that night?

Not saying that I agree with you on that beebe, I dont know the laws but mabey somthing like that would hinder the investigation/conviction? No one will ever know when this dude actually killed her and that is the sad part of this even happening.

Say the police officer did bust in, he could be risking his life as well. (Not saying thats not his job, but think of the situation at hand.) Also if he did get in and it was after he did it, I believe they found her in a container (Tote, Rubermaid Container etc.)

There are alot of questions that do make the situation seem more sad, such as when the first sight of this happening a 911/call to the police was made. Why did it take 3 hours to issue an amber alert? I have heard that the community are asking these questions. At the same time, I think they are very lucky for the information that lead to the arrest of this individual because if not this guy would still be free.

Very sad this happend with this young girl walking from a friends house and only walking back 2 blocks to her residence. I dont know all of this information but do live in Harrison and all of our news and reporting outlets are from Springfield (KSPR and KY3 News). Prayers to the community of Springfield MO and family of this victim!

This article also makes it sound like Wood was taken from the scene immediately after police saw him with the duct tape, which was their first visit to this house:

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When detectives arrived at Craig Wood’s home, at 1538 E. Stanford, Springfield, he drove up in a vehicle matching the description of the suspect truck, with the same license plate that witnesses had remembered, the statement says.

When Wood stepped out of the truck, he had a roll of duct tape in his hands, which he threw in the bed of the truck, police say.

Wood agreed to go to police headquarters for an interview. At first he told detectives he went straight home after work at Pleasant View Middle School, where he was a paraprofessional and a coach, but then said he drove around for a while.

He denied having any contact with Owens. The probable cause statement does not note if Wood continued to talk. Police Chief Paul Williams indicated earlier Wednesday that Wood was not cooperating with the investigation.

When Wood was taken in for questioning, officers did a safety sweep of his home, Williams said.

“When the officers got to the basement steps, they could smell a strong odor of bleach. The odor continued as they entered the basement. The officers informed me the basement floor was wet. They also said they saw bottles of bleach in the basement,” the probable cause statement said.

The probable cause statement does not note whether they saw the body at that time.

A search warrant was obtained at 1:28 this morning. When authorities searched the basement, they say they found Owens in the storage tote.

At the time the probable cause statement was written, technicians were still processing the scene.

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It sounds like he took her to his house, killed her, left the house and got duct tape, then returned to his house. When he arrived, police were already there. They saw him with the duct tape, he agreed to go in for questioning, and the police did a sweep around the house and smelled bleach and saw that the basement floor was wet. They obtained a search warrant and went into the house, and that's when they found her body.

And by "next morning" they mean 1:28 am, so basically the same night.