Those on the ground confirmed the girl's identity. They showed up eight minutes after that and started searching.Īt 4:59 p.m., deputies in Air One, the Sheriff's Office's helicopter, joined the search party.Īt 5:35 p.m., one of those deputies in the air saw a body lying behind the abandoned house. Her mother, Barbara Spear, reported her daughter missing at 4:05 p.m.Įight minutes later, deputies were dispatched to the Spear home. The full chronology of that afternoon has Spear getting off her bus at 3:15 p.m. "It's just unbelievable to me that could happen in that location so fast (to) a child who's not involved in any activities that would put her in danger." "This child got off the bus at 3:15 (p.m.) and at 5:30 (p.m.) we find her," said Volusia County Sheriff's Detective Steve White, the agency's lead cold case detective. Her body was found on a concrete slab behind a burned-out house about 200 yards from her home and about a half-mile from her stop at the corner of Deerfoot and South Spring Garden Avenue. Laralee Spear, 15-year-old DeLand High School freshman, was shot to death moments after getting off her school bus. Violence appeared at Deerfoot and no one knows who brought it there. Twenty-five years ago, an abduction and a series of gunshots radically changed the complexion of that tucked-away location near DeLand. The rural, narrow dirt road leads to a lakeside park where wildlife roam. Deerfoot Road had been insulated from violence before April 26, 1994.
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