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Chilling New Details Revealed About Murdered Mom of 4 Who Went Missing After Giving Birth to Twins

NewsPublished Jul 18, 2019
By Kaitlin Stanford
Side-by-side photos of Savannah Spurlock before her deathWTQV/Inside Edition via YouTube

It took six long months of tireless investigation before police finally discovered what happened to 22-year-old Savannah Spurlock, the mom of four from Kentucky who went missing on January 4 after a night out with friends. But on July 10, they finally had their answer, when an anonymous tip of a "foul odor" in a Kentucky yard led them to her shallow grave. Now, less than a week after her discovery -- and the subsequent arrest of the man she was last seen with -- new details are continuing to emerge about her final hours, as well as her fatal end.

According to WTVQ, the new details were revealed on Monday, when 23-year-old David Sparks appeared before a judge.

Police say Sparks met Spurlock for the first time on the night of her disappearance, at a bar in Lexington, Kentucky, aptly named The Other Bar. Although Savannah had arrived that night with friends, she was last seen leaving the bar without them, as she followed Sparks and two other men out.

That wasn't the last friends and family heard from her, though. Around 3 a.m., Savannah's mother, Ellen Spurlock, who lived with Savannah at the time, received a FaceTime call from her daughter.

"There were 1-2 people in the back seat who were hollering and talking over each other,” Ellen told Dateline in January. "She said: 'I will be home later this morning. I promise.' And when she said she promised something, she always did it."

But by the morning, there was no sign of her daughter.

Last week, police found the missing mom's body bound and naked in a 19-inch-deep grave -- in a yard belonging to Sparks' parents.

Back in February, an official told ABC News that they knew the three men took Spurlock to a home in Garrard County, Kentucky, but not "when, how she left, or what happened to her after that." They even searched the property where Spurlock was later found but never discovered a body. In April, blood was found in a closet in Sparks’ home that matched Spurlock’s DNA, but police still didn't have enough evidence to make an arrest.

Now, investigators are starting to get a better sense of what likely transpired in those early morning hours.

Spurlock's naked body was wrapped in several black plastic trash bags, and her feet were bound with tape.

The mother of four -- who had a 2- and a 4-year-old at home and had given birth to twin boys just one month before her death -- was also found in what a detective described as an "unnatural position," with her body "folded over in half" and a rug behind her back.

That rug acted as an additional tip, the detective testified Monday: It was taken from Sparks' own bedroom. In fact, a text exchange between Sparks and his sister later revealed that he asked where it was purchased. Soon after, he was spotted on Walmart surveillance footage buying that very same rug.

Cops had been eying Sparks for months, and they considered him their prime suspect. But the anonymous tip finally cracked the case wide open.

According to the detective who testified, Sparks originally told police that Spurlock came back to his home but that she fell asleep shortly after arriving. He claimed to remember her waking him up later to ask where she was, and that he gave her the address but fell back to sleep.

When he awoke the next morning, Sparks claimed, she was gone, and he had no idea where she'd gone. After the discovery of her body, his story reportedly fell apart at the seams.

Sparks is being held without bail on charges of tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse. Murder charges have not yet been filed.

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