OZARK COUNTY, Mo.– Ozark County Sheriff Darrin Reed confirms Robert Peat Jr., 31, was arrested Wednesday afternoon and is being held in the Ozark County Jail, along with wife Rebecca Ruu… ...

Investigators used dental records and other evidence to confirm the identity. Search documents list Rebecca Ruud, Savannah's biological mother, and Robert Peat Jr., her boyfriend, as suspects.

Judge Calvin Holden heard closing arguments Thursday afternoon in the trial of Rebecca Ruud. She faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of her daughter Savannah Leckie, 16, in 2017.

Rebecca Ruud reported late last month that Savannah Leckie had gone missing from their home in Theodosia, a village of about 250 people near Missouri’s southern border with Arkansas.

On the afternoon of July 18, Missouri mother Rebecca Ruud, 39, called the local fire department to ask for their help to extinguish a blaze on her secluded 32-hectare farm in the south of the ...