This installment names Jennifer and Jessika Rowland, two living individuals whose public records and documented proximity place them within the investigative scope of this case. Jennifer and Jessika Rowland are NOT suspects in the disappearance or homicide of Amanda Ward-Romine, and there is no evidence connecting either of them to it. Everything described here about their backgrounds is drawn from public court, arrest, and registry records and is intended solely to document a verified history that sits on the periphery of Amanda’s world. A criminal record is not evidence of involvement in this case, and an association is a starting point for investigation, not proof of anything. Anyone not convicted of a specific crime is presumed innocent. See our full Disclaimer.
In the interest of factual accuracy about the Amanda Ward-Romine investigation, we need to be precise about the status of Jennifer and Jessika (also recorded as Jessica) Rowland. They are not suspects. There is no proof of their involvement in Amanda’s disappearance. Investigative research often requires examining the people within a victim’s geographic and social periphery, and that is all this installment does: it documents the Rowland sisters’ verified history and the ways their world overlapped with Amanda’s.
That overlap is real, and it is a matter of record. Both sisters danced at the “Harem” strip club in Dayton, Ohio. Both moved in the same orbit as Amanda Ward-Romine. Both were connected to Daniel “Danny” Romine — the man Amanda would marry. The sisters shared that world with the same cast of violent offenders, narcotics distributors, and transient figures that runs through every installment of this case.
And one fact stands out from Jessika Rowland’s record with almost mathematical strangeness. For twenty-five consecutive years — beginning in 2001, when she was nineteen — she has been arrested, often in a new state each time. Ohio, Kentucky, Texas, Florida, Illinois, New York. A quarter-century of arrests, a trail of outstanding warrants. And in all that time, the doors of a state penitentiary have never once closed behind her.
Contrast that with the woman who shared her neon-lit orbit. Amanda Ward-Romine was swallowed whole by the same system — five years for a fifth-degree drug-trafficking felony, the kind of low-level charge that Jessika has beaten, dodged, or outrun for two and a half decades. Jennifer Rowland went to prison too; she and Amanda were incarcerated at the same time. Jessika never has.
That is not an accusation. It is a documented pattern, and this installment lays out the record behind it.
The sisters and the Harem
The timeline is anchored by the “Harem” strip club in Dayton, Ohio. Jessika Rowland graduated Kenton Ridge High School in 2000 and began dancing at the Harem in 2001, taking a break in 2003 around the birth of her first child. On February 14, 2006 — a Valentine’s Day wedding — she married a roofer named Jason Erin Iddings. She returned to the club, and continued dancing there until roughly 2012, when she moved from the stage to online adult work.
It was on that same stage that Jessika danced alongside Amanda Ward — not yet Amanda Romine — from 2003 until Amanda’s own departure for prison. And it was inside those same walls that both women came to know Daniel Romine, the wealthy patron the dancers called the “Fat Man,” who paid in cash or narcotics and whom Amanda eventually married.
The Harem became something of a family workplace. Jessika’s sister, Jennifer Rowland of Springfield, began dancing there in 2003 and remained until a police sting operation ended her tenure. On September 29, 2017, eleven people were indicted on multiple charges following a raid on the club; Jennifer Rowland was among those named in the coverage (WDTN, “11 people indicted on multiple charges from strip club raid,” Thea Emroll, September 29, 2017).
Danny Romine's connection to Jessika is likewise documented. He bailed her out of the Clark County Jail on July 22, 2010, after an OVI arrest; she tended bar at his tavern, Whitey's; and by her own arrest records she moved through his supply of cocaine and heroin. There is a photograph of Jessika with Danny inside the house at 937 Avondale Avenue — the same Avondale address that recurs throughout this case.
None of that makes either sister a party to what happened to Amanda. It establishes only that their world and Amanda’s were, for years, the same world.
Jessika Rowland: background
Dates of birth on record: April 23, 1981; October 21, 1983; and March 30, 1987 are all recorded for Jessika Louise Rowland across various filings. The primary date of birth is October 21, 1983, in Roanoke, Virginia. Her birth certificate records the first-name spelling as “Jessika.”
Family: born to Bruce Edward Rowland and Donna Marie Martin. Her and Jennifer’s grandmother was Lorena M. Rowland of Roanoke, Virginia.
Education: attended Kenton Ridge High School, roughly 1996–2000.
Work: dancer at the Harem in Dayton, roughly 2001–2012; later online adult work and, per the records below, periods of solicitation.
The multiple dates of birth are not a rhetorical flourish — they appear on the face of the records, and they matter later, because interstate systems key on identity.
The record: twenty-five years, five phases
What follows is Jessika Rowland’s documented arrest and court history, grouped as Beth compiled it. Every entry is a matter of public record — arrests, citations, filings, convictions — and case numbers are given where the record supplies them. An arrest is not a conviction; a charge is an allegation. Convictions are noted as such.
Phase I — Early adulthood and Florida traffic inception (1999–2005)
February 26, 1999 — Springfield, OH: first appearance in the judicial record, a civil filing (Case 99CV00076, Jessika Rowland et al. v. Cheng T. Pan MD et al.), Clark County Common Pleas. Establishes the family’s residential anchor at 1819 Biscayne Drive, Springfield.
October 30, 2001 — Nassau County, FL: misdemeanor Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (Case 01001315MMAXYX). State entered nolle prosequi (prosecution declined) August 19, 2002.
January 4, 2002 — Nassau County, FL: cited as an unrestrained front-seat passenger over 18 (Case 02000376TRAXYX).
May 5, 2002 — Nassau County, FL: open-container violation / consumption of alcohol by a driver.
May 14, 2002 — Fernandina Beach, FL: stopped by Florida Highway Patrol; cited for improper display of vehicle registration (Case 16-2002-TR-103599). Provides an alternative date of birth (April 23, 1981) and a Fernandina Beach address.
March 15–19, 2003 — Nassau County, FL: multiple traffic citations within 96 hours — careless driving, seatbelt, no proof of insurance, registration, a second open-container (Cases 03002465–03002473TRAXYX), filed March 19, 2003.
January 17, 2004 — Springfield, OH: stopped by Ohio Highway Patrol; seatbelt charge (Case 400708/1); found guilty by waiver February 4, 2004.
Phase II — Domestic change, violent fracturing, narcotic cultivation (2006–2010)
February 3, 2006 — Clark County, OH: marriage application with Jason Erin Iddings; occupation listed “Server/Dancer.” Marriage solemnized February 14, 2006.
May 25, 2007 — Springfield, OH: police document a conflict on 1064 Warder Street; Rowland is assaulted by an associate, Amanda Young, on leaving a tavern.
September 16, 2007 — Springfield, OH: jailed after a domestic dispute with Iddings at 2579 Tecumseh Avenue; charged with Endangering Children (M1) and Reckless Operation (M1) (Case 07 201641). Dismissed December 6, 2007.
October 14, 2007 — Springfield, OH: disturbance at the same address; during the investigation Rowland acts as a confidential informant, exposing a marijuana grow operation; a search warrant yields cultivation materials in the basement.
September 24, 2008 — Springfield, OH: arrested at 551 E. Northern Avenue, Apt. 2; a marijuana plant is found on a kitchen windowsill; charged with Illegal Drug Manufacture/Cultivation (M4).
April 17, 2009 / May 24, 2009 — Springfield, OH: traffic citations and an improper-passing conviction (Cases 904849, 906532).
August 12, 2009 — Moorefield, OH: criminal trespass in a park after hours (M4).
March 19, 2010 — Springfield, OH: driving without a license and marked-lanes convictions (Case 1002570).
July 22, 2010 — Springfield, OH: arrested after weaving on East Main Street; fails field sobriety, registers a 0.131 BAC; states she is a bartender at Whitey’s Tavern; released from custody directly to Daniel “Danny” Romine. Convicted of OVI (M1) (Case 1008035).
August 29–30, 2010 — Springfield, OH: social-media records place her at a local lake and inside Whitey’s Tavern with Amanda Ward-Romine and Daniel Romine.
Phase III — Opiate escalation, theft, prostitution, Kentucky extradition (2011–2017)
March 31, 2011 — Springfield, OH: high-risk felony stop at Greenlawn Arbors (745 Villa Road) after surveillance tracked a stolen 2007 Ford Fusion; arrested with an associate, Nathan Roberts; six syringes, a burnt tablespoon, and liquid heroin recovered. Admits daily heroin use. Charged with Receiving Stolen Property (F4) and Possession of Drug Abuse Instruments (M2).
December 3–29, 2011 — Springfield, OH: implicated in a felony vehicle theft; a borrowed 2010 Dodge Charger found stripped and abandoned; charged with Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle (Case 11CRB05213).
December 1, 2012 — Campbell County, Newport, KY: public intoxication and paraphernalia (Case 12-M-03164).
April 17, 2013 — Riverside, OH: anti-vice detail; charged with Soliciting (M3), Possessing Criminal Tools (M1), and paraphernalia (M4).
July 11, 2013 — Hart County, Horse Cave, KY: charged with 1st-degree possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), marijuana possession, and a probation violation.
July 24, 2013 — Montgomery County, OH: indicted for Possession of Cocaine (F5) under five grams (Case 2013 CR 02330); arrest December 30, 2013.
June 26, 2014 — Hart County, KY / Fort Worth, TX: a multi-state felony extradition — Hart County takes her from Tarrant County Corrections in Fort Worth back to Kentucky (Case 14-CR-00055); charged with 2nd-degree burglary, 1st-degree criminal mischief, theft, and meth/marijuana possession. Her listed co-defendant is Daniel Jordan Steenbergen, a registered sex offender.
August 22, 2014 — Clark County, OH: State of Ohio tax judgment lien (Case 14SJ1278), $1,836.56.
September 2, 2014 — Clark County, OH: Jason Iddings files for divorce; summons directed to a Jacksonville, Florida address. Decree executed December 15, 2014, designating Iddings the residential parent.
March 24, 2015 — Clark County, OH: police report over a custody conflict with a relative.
October 21, 2015 — Montgomery County, OH: convicted of Possession of Cocaine (<5 grams), the result of the 2013 indictment; sentenced to five years’ probation and a six-month license suspension.
Phase IV — Florida transition, in-jail smuggling, maternal violence (2018–2021)
February 7, 2018 — Clearwater, FL: arrested as a transient on an out-of-county fugitive warrant from Brevard County (failure to appear).
July 9, 2018 — Jacksonville, FL: felony narcotics stop; co-defendants caught with crack cocaine and a loaded revolver; two crack pipes recovered from Rowland; charged with paraphernalia.
January 22, 2019 — Jacksonville, FL: vehicle stop; powder cocaine and a concealed pipe recovered; charged with felony possession and paraphernalia.
January 24, 2019 — Jacksonville, FL: inside the John E. Goode Pre-Trial Detention Facility, charged with a suite of felonies after allegedly smuggling crack cocaine into the facility; charges include Smuggling Contraband into a Detention Facility (F3), Sale of Cocaine (F2), Possession of Cocaine (F3), and Illegal Distribution (M1).
February 14, 2020 — New Carlisle, OH: domestic dispute; charged with Domestic Violence (M1) and Assault (M1) (Case 20CRB00519).
February 16, 2020 — Jacksonville, FL: vehicle stop; cocaine and paraphernalia; charged with felony possession.
June 3, 2020 — Jacksonville, FL: stop in which she swallows a bindle and requires emergency Narcan; charged with Tampering with Evidence (F3), possession (F3), and paraphernalia.
July 20, 2020 — New Carlisle, OH: arrested after another domestic assault; found in an altered state; charged with Domestic Violence (M1) and Assault (M1).
August 16, 2021 — Nassau County, FL: convicted of resisting an officer without violence.
December 16, 2021 — Jacksonville Beach, FL: convicted of misdemeanor paraphernalia possession.
December 30, 2021 — Nassau County, FL: felony carrying-a-concealed-firearm charge (Case 21CF000980AXYX), later dropped February 11, 2022.
Phase V — Advanced forgery, trespass, leaving the scene (2022–2026)
February 25, 2022 — Jacksonville Beach, FL: passenger in a car with a stolen plate; marijuana found on her person; her purse holds blank checks, carbon paper, and a counterfeit check for $1,450.65 targeting a healthcare business; charged with Counterfeiting Bank Bills (F3), Forgery (F3), and marijuana possession (M1).
September–November 2022 — Clark County, OH: a succession of failure-to-appear bench warrants and jail bookings in New Carlisle.
April 5, 2023 — Nassau County, FL: convicted on two felonies — Burglary of a Conveyance (F3) and Grand Theft (F3) (Case 23CF000291); final adjudication October 19, 2023.
August 11, 2023 — Nassau County, FL: driving on a suspended license; adjudicated guilty November 29, 2023.
October 20, 2023 — Clark County, OH: Child Support Enforcement files contempt charges, directed to a Jacksonville address.
November 14, 2023 — New Carlisle, OH: arrested for criminal trespass and a protection-order violation at a relative’s residence (Case 23CRB02803).
January 25 – February 2, 2024 — Jacksonville, FL: contact and arrest at a vacant home; paraphernalia recovered; charged with trespass (M1) and paraphernalia (M1).
August 1, 2025 — Nassau County, FL: leaving the scene of a collision involving property damage (Case 25CT000853); adjudicated guilty October 22, 2025.
February 19, 2026 — Clark County, OH: the Ohio Domestic Relations Court issues a termination order in a long-running child-support matter, assessing outstanding court costs to Rowland.
Read as a whole, the record shows a person arrested across at least six states over twenty-five years — for theft, narcotics, forgery, solicitation, domestic violence — who has repeatedly required formal extradition and left outstanding warrants behind her, and who has never served a state prison term. Whatever that pattern means, it is the documented fact from which the next installment’s questions begin.
In the next installment: the investigative hypotheses — the deaths and disappearances that share the edges of this timeline, and the questions the record raises but cannot answer. That installment is clearly labeled as theory and speculation, not fact. Subscribe to read the full case file at unsolvedohio.com.