Aaron Spencer's Murder Charge Dismissed — His Detective Fired Two Days Later

A judge signed a nineteen-page order calling the lead detective's conduct "intentional" and finding "the appearance of a coverup." Two days later, the Lonoke County Sheriff's Office fired Detective Robbie McCain. They cited "policy violations." The judge's order already told the public everything the sheriff's office wouldn't say.

Aaron Spencer shot and killed sixty-seven-year-old Michael Fosler after finding him with Spencer's thirteen-year-old daughter. Fosler had been charged with 43 felonies involving the girl and was out on bond with a no-contact order. Spencer has maintained he was protecting his child. The murder charge is dismissed.

Judge Ralph Wilson Jr. documented every step of how McCain handled the one piece of evidence that could have settled the case. The dashcam in Fosler's truck was the only potential neutral record of what happened that night. McCain pulled it off the windshield without photographing it. Removed the SD card and viewed it on his personal computer — violating protocol that electronic evidence goes untouched to the AG's forensics unit. Stored the camera in an untaped envelope in his office for over a year. Never logged it. Never documented it.

The SD card vanished. When the AG's special agent opened the package, the card wasn't there. Twelve other SD cards were found across Fosler's property. None was the dashcam card. No copy was ever made. No record of what was on it exists. Wilson found a "reasonable possibility" the detective didn't see what he testified he saw.

Wilson didn't use the word negligence. He used intentional. Bad faith. Due process violation under federal and state constitutional law. He flagged a one-month gap in the chain of custody the state called clerical error. Wilson wasn't buying it.

Sheriff John Staley — the thirteen-year incumbent Spencer defeated in the Republican primary — fired McCain the day after the dismissal. The prosecutor who pushed the case is retiring. The order Wilson left in the public record documents every violation, every date, and every failure with a specificity that reads like a roadmap for a federal investigation nobody has opened yet.

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