Springfield Three Haunt Missouri's Cold Case Files Decades Later

Suzie Streeter, Stacy McCall, and Sherrill Levitt disappeared.They disappeared from Springfield, MO.They vanished in the early hours of June 7, 1992. McCall and Streeter were seen around 2 am that morning. Levitt was not seen or heard from after 11:15 pm the night before.

On June 6, McCall and Streeter went to a graduation party after getting their diplomas.They graduated from Kickapoo High School.They went back to Levitt's house for sleep. That was the last person anyone heard from them.

When Streeter and McCall's friend arrived the next morning, no one was home, and the door was unlocked. There were no signs of forced entry.The entry showed no forced entry.Only a shattered porch light appeared amiss. There was no struggle. The only odd thing was the agitated state of Cinnamon, the Levitt family dog.

No one abducted the women by force. Those who entered claimed everything was fine and no property was missing. The women's purses were intact, holding their personal items, but they were also strangely placed together on the stairs.The women's purses were placed together on the stairs.The House Showed No Signs Of A Struggle appears in the list Springfield Three Haunt Missouri's Cold Case Files Decades Later.

The Springfield Police Department focused on Robert Craig Cox.Robert Craig Cox.Cox seemed the most likely person behind the Springfield Three's disappearance. Police caught him while he was serving time in a Texas prison. He had previously been convicted for killing a 19-year-old girl in 1978 and faced the death penalty, but the ruling was eventually overturned.The conviction against Cox was overturned.The main suspect was a Texas inmate who claimed he knew what happened.

In 1992, Cox lived in the Springfield area.His Army Ranger skills would have made subduing three women easy. He also worked at the same auto dealership as Stacy McCall's father. Cox first claimed he was with his girlfriend during the disappearances, but this later proved false.He could easily subdue three women without matching training. He worked at the same auto dealership as Stacy McCall's father. Cox initially said he was with his girlfriend during the disappearances, but that claim later proved untrue.

Cox claims knowledge of the women's deaths and burial site. He never shared the details. Sgt. Todd King noted Cox remains a person of interest for the Springfield Three case, but no concrete proof emerged.

Stacy's mother, Janis McCall, waited for the women at Sherrill Levitt's home with friends and family.The house received three phone calls.Mrs. McCall, who answered the first two calls, said the calls contained "lewd sexual content."

McCall did not share details about the calls in her interview with Crime Watch Daily.McCall withheld details about the calls in her interview with Crime Watch Daily.McCall was clearly frightened by what she heard. No one knows if the calls related to the Springfield Three's disappearance, but any evidence from the calls is gone.

A third call came after the initial 'lewd' calls. McCall let the answering machine ring. Someone left a voicemail, but someone deleted the message before police could hear it.

Police found dead ends when investigating. They found no evidence of kidnapping, no foul play, and no theft by anyone who took the trio. The women simply vanished without a note. Retired Springfield Police Capt.Tony Glenn said:

The only odd thing about this house was three women missing. You felt something was missing, something had to be gone. But nothing was. Just them.

Friends arrived. They did not think Levitt and the other two girls went far. Their cars remained in the driveway. All parked normally, though Janis McCall (Stacy's mother) said Levitt parking in the driveway was strange becauseshe always pulled into the carport.

Acquaintances think the cars stayed in the driveway because someone was already waiting for Levitt in the carport when she first got home. That has never been confirmed. All three sets ofcar keyswere still inside the house.

Friends found the empty house and missing belongings. Janis McCall suggested they should have called police right away. At that time, the situation seemed minor. They thought their friends were out and would return. Time showed the women were not coming back.

Janis McCall toldCrime Watch Dailyshe did not call the police until the evening. The police likely did not find out about the disappearance until about 12 hours after it happened. Cops arrived at the scene. They realized something was wrong. They found no evidence or sign of a struggle. Thus, they could not start an investigation.

A waitress at George’s Steakhouse, where Levitt frequented, gave a strange tip. On June 24, more than two weeks after the event, the waitress saidthe waitress claimedthe three women were at the diner between 1 and 3 am that night.

She stated that when Levitt and the two girls arrived, Suzie seemed "giddy," but she might have just been drunk. The waitress had no info on where they went after leaving the diner.

When Janis McCall and the girls' friends reached Sherrill Levitt's house, they began cleaning. They saw a glass casing broken on the porch security light. They swept it upand threw the glass in the trash.

The clean-up went past sweeping glass. Friends and family fixed a broken window. They cleaned nearly every surface, washed dishes, and emptied ashtrays. No possible evidence was left behind.

This situation put the local police in a tough spot. Darrell Moore, the former chief assistant prosecutor in Springfield, explained to...Crime Watch DailyHe noted the friends and family left no hair, blood, or DNA in the house.Another officer simply said"There's nothing we could do."

Local freelance reporter Kathee Baird thinks the Springfield Three died from someone who lived in Springfield then. She believes she knows where the three women are buried:the bodies were beneath a hospital parking structureThis structure was put in place after their disappearance. However, she has not gotten local authorities to help her.

Baird claims a technician used sonar to find three anomalies under the structure. These anomalies match the size and shape of three bodies. The Springfield police never followed this lead, stating that if therewerethree bodies under the garage, they would have surfaced during the excavation before the structure's foundation was laid.

When police began looking into the Springfield Three's disappearance, they examined every stone they could.They took every tip they received.If the tips seemed real, they investigated until the leads dried up. Unfortunately, the many tips did not bring them closer to finding a kidnapper or any clues to where the women ended up.

The Springfield Police Department focused on a few suspects but made no arrests. Initially, they thought Suzie Streeter's ex-boyfriend was involved. Before she vanished, she was set tothey testify against her exin a grave-robbing case; the authorities never pinned anything on him.

As of 2017the Springfield PD said information was still coming in small leads.

Police looked at everyone near the families as suspects. This included Bartt Streeter, Levitt's son and Suzie's brother, who was 27 then. They cleared him as a suspect back then, but he broke the law in 2019 when he allegedly tried to kidnap a teenage girl in Smyrna, TN.

Streeter wasarrested on February 28for public intoxication, disorderly conduct, and attempted false imprisonment. The Smyrna Police Department said Streeter was outside the VIP Nail Spa, where he tried to pick up a 15-year-old girl he claimed was his granddaughter. The nail technicians did not accept his story, but after realizing no one knew who this man was, the owner locked the salon. The girl's mother was outside the nail salon andhe called the police.

In 1997, five years after investigating the Springfield Three's disappearance, Sherrill Levitt and Suzanne Streeter were...they were declared legally deceased.Their family and the police agreed this was the best action. They had no proof the missing women lived.

Missouri state law allows a legal death declaration after five years, provided the family agrees. Only one family followed this path. Janis and Stu McCall did not agree to declare their daughter dead.As of 2017,they still have not. The family keeps searching for Stacy, hoping she is still alive.