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What Was on the SD Card Lonoke County Lost in the Aaron Spencer Case?
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- Jun 10, 2026
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Summary
A dashcam was mounted on the windshield of Michael Fosler's truck — dual cameras, recording forward and inside the cab. It was the only device that could have objectively captured the final encounter between Aaron Spencer and the man facing forty-three criminal counts involving Spencer's thirteen-year-old daughter. What the prosecution called murder, the defense called a father protecting his child. The dashcam could have settled it. And the SD card with that footage is gone. Judge Ralph Wilson Jr. spent nineteen pages documenting exactly how that happened. Detective Robbie McCain pulled the card from the camera, viewed it on his personal computer in his office — violating his own department's protocol — and then placed it in an untaped envelope in his office cabinet. Not the evidence room. He didn't photograph the camera's position, didn't log the card, didn't document what he claimed he saw. The department's standard practice, confirmed by multiple officers, is to send all electronic evidence to the AG's forensics unit untouched. This was the only dashcam they'd ever seized. And it's the one they handled differently from everything else. The camera wasn't entered into evidence for over a year. The AG's office never received the SD card. The judge found the detective's conduct was "intentional," that it established "a pattern of policy and procedure violations," and that it gave "the appearance of a coverup." He also found a "reasonable possibility" that the detective didn't see what he testified he saw on that card — because nothing he claimed was ever documented or preserved. Two days after Wilson signed that order, the sheriff's office fired the detective. The prosecutor is retiring. Nobody has explained what was actually on that card, why the department's own prot…