David Spears

‘I thought, what the hell you think you’re doing, dude, you know… you know I… I am going to kill you because you were trying to do whatever you could with me.  And I shot him through the… through the door and then he was kind of… went back and I went right through to the driver’s side and shot him again, and he fell back.  And, that’s all I remember on that one’

David Spears was the second victim of Aileen Wuornos.  Spears’s body, similarly to Mallory, was located in a secluded area with the fatal injuries caused by the discharge of a .22-calibre pistol.  In regards to physical appearance there was also a likeness to Richard Mallory and both men were middle aged.  David Spears in one source of reference is described as being ‘practical, predictable, honest and hard working’ which does not fit the description of the type of man that Wuornos would later go on to state in the trial into the crime.  It does not seem possible to imagine that David Spears, who was still ensuring that his ex-wife was financially secure, would be capable of viciously attacking a woman as Wuornos claimed.