Judge dismisses criminal charges against Aaron Spencer, the dad who killed predator
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In a 19-page order entered just before 3 p.m. on Thursday, Judge Ralph Wilson Jr. dismissed the criminal charges against Aaron Spencer, the Lonoke County father charged with murder in 2024 after killing the man accused of molesting Spencer’s teen daughter.
The dismissal was due to Lonoke County Sheriff’s deputies mishandling of evidence, which the court said was crucial to Spencer’s ability to prove that he was justified in shooting Michael Fosler in October 2024. The court said failure to preserve the evidence — a memory card from a dash camera in Fosler’s truck — violated Spencer’s right to due process and amounted to conduct “so egregious that it warrants dismissal.”
This dismissal is just the latest twist in a case that has been anything but normal from the outset.