The body of missing Kentucky mother of four, Savannah Spurlock was found naked, bound, bundled into trash bags and buried in a shallow grave behind property belonging to the parents of the man now charged in connection to her disappearance.
David Sparks, 23, appeared in Garrard District Court this morning for a preliminary hearing at which these and other disturbing new details emerged.
Savannah, 23, was last seen on the night of January 4, leaving a bar in Lexington, Kentucky with three men – one of whom was Sparks.


Sparks arrived in court, small, lean shackled and handcuffed. He took his seat without making eye contact with Savannah’s father, Cecil, 54, his fiancée, Cheryl Lynn Wright, or the young mother’s friends who sat by his side.
Cecil Spurlock had arrived clutching a photograph of himself with his daughter.
Kentucky State Police Detective Tyler Chamings described the ‘clandestine grave’ in which Savannah was found on July 10.
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It was, he said, at its deepest point approximately 19 inches deep and the black plastic in which her naked body was wrapped could be seen at points without disturbing the ground.
She had been placed ‘in multiple black trash bags, was unclothed and her feet were bound with tape.’ He described her as being in an ‘unnatural orientation’ in that her ‘head and feet were in the same position. She had been folded in half.’
A grey rectangular accent rug was found buried along with her.

It said, ‘Hey where did you get that rug? I’m going to get another one.’
Later that day, the detective stated, Sparks went to Wal-Mart in Richmond and purchased an identical rug to the one found buried beside Savannah.
Spark’s home in Lancaster, the last place where Savannah was seen alive, was searched on January 10 and the officer said that he had observed a grey rectangular rug in his bedroom, between his bed and a closet.
A subsequent search conducted on April 2 revealed a blood stain on the inside of that closet door, the stain was invisible to the naked eye but showed following the use of a luminol based agent.


When interviewed by detectives back in January, Sparks had told them that he and the other men had gone back to his house with Savannah.
They left but he and Savannah remained. He claimed that she went to sleep in his bedroom while he slept on the couch.
When he woke mid-morning he said that she asked him where she was apparently so she could arrange transport home.
He claimed to have fallen asleep and that, when he woke again around noon, she had gone. He said she was uninjured when she did.
But today, detective Chamings revealed that Sparks had visited his parents’ home twice on the night of the 4th and in the early hours of the 5th of January.

According to Det. Chamings the evening after Savannah was last seen alive at his then home, Sparks spent two hours at his parents’ property. He then left and returned in the early hours of the following morning.

Police found the human remains buried on the property just before midnight on Wednesday. Thursday they identified the remains as belonging to missing mother-of-four Savannah Spurlock 

 

Savannah Spurlock vanished after leaving this Lexington bar with three men on Jan 4.  It was her first time going out in months because she gave birth to twins in December. She’d gone with a friend, but her friend left her at the bar after the pair had a fight because Savannah wanted to stay out longer

The discovery of the remains came just days after the six month mark in the investigation.
Over the course of the investigation, police refused to publicly identify the three men last seen with Spurlock or reveal much of the details of the case.
They had previously searched the property in February and seized a car parked outside in the early days of the investigation.
Savannah Spurlock gave birth to twins in December and also has two older sons aged two and four.