The Oklahoma woman whose remains were dumped in a trash can was a doting mother who was steadfast in her Christian faith, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Spring Weems, 47, was killed at her gorgeous $340,000 home in Edmond, near Oklahoma City, on Wednesday afternoon.
Her adoptive teenage son was booked into a juvenile detention center on a first-degree murder complaint in connection with her death, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) told the Daily Mail. Charges have not yet been filed.
Police were called to her quiet street in the Cascata Falls neighborhood after a fight involving a weapon broke out between her two teenagers, believed to be Weems’s adoptive children.
As officers broke up the fight, one youngster told officers the other killed his mother and placed her body outside in the poly cart bin used for trash collection, the Daily Mail understands.
Sheriff’s deputies searched the home and found Weems’s body. She had suffered injuries that were ‘suspicious in nature’ and ‘consistent with homicide.’
Weems lived alone with the two teenagers at her home and is understood to be their sole guardian. She was seemingly very involved in her children’s lives.
She boasted about their accomplishments on social media and would frequent their high school wrestling matches, her public Facebook posts revealed.
The family are also believed to have been parishioners at the non-denominational evangelical Life Church.
Weems publicly shared her faith in God on social media.
Just ten days ago, she wrote a review calling out a Christian food pantry for alleged poor treatment of a homeless person.
Describing the incident as ‘absolutely heartbreaking to witness as a Christian’, she told the shop: ‘You will answer to Our Father God in the end of ur life for not only the homeless you shunned & refused to help, but for EVERY SOUL that your actions turned away from Christ bc this was the “example” you left. I’ll pray for you.’
In July 2020, amid a summer of nationwide protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd, Weems penned a Facebook post highlighting God’s goodness.
‘If we all look outside right now God is showing everyone up this 4th!’ she posted, accompanied by a video of a lightning storm.
‘Maybe, just maybe HE is saying children of mine… STOP! Stop your fighting, each and every one of you ARE MY children, red, brown, yellow, black or white EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU ARE PRECIOUS IN MY SIGHT!!!’
Weems shared that as a parent, she taught her children not to fight and to love each other.
‘Our FATHER wants the same for us, so tomorrow let’s reflect on UNITY, as we are ALL brothers and sisters under the same Creator, & HE wants HIS children to live in harmony TOGETHER!’ she added.
Her family seemingly followed her journey in Christianity, with at least one son having been involved with Life Church’s youth ministry program Switch.
In April 2023, she shared how her son had gone to the church’s Color Wars games. The worship-focused event involves teams of youths competing in messy games using powdered or liquid paint.
Weems, sharing a photo of her paint-covered child, wrote: ‘They may come home dirty but they leave with a message of Faith, Community, Accountability, Camaraderie, Leadership & Moral Compass in their/our difficult teen years.’
The Daily Mail has approached Life Church for comment.
Authorities have not released the name or age of the suspected murderer, but did confirm he lived in the home with Weems.
But Logan County Undersheriff Troy Dykes previously told the Daily Mail earlier Thursday that the teenagers involved in the fight were aged 16 and 17.
Dykes noted the investigation is still in the preliminary stages and remains ongoing.
OSBI spokesman Hunter McKee told the Mail that authorities are working with the state to find a safe home for Weems’s other child.
Weems is the sole owner of the $340,000 home where she was killed, according to county property records obtained by the Mail.
Her murder has shocked the small Cascata Falls neighborhood, where locals claim violence is not a common occurrence.
‘It is tragic because it involves our youth,’ one neighbor told KFOR. ‘This is a great neighborhood. Kids are always running around, riding their bikes down the street, and golf carts down the street.’
Weems’s remains have been transported to the medical examiner’s office for an autopsy to be carried out.
