30 Years since the Springfield Three’s Disappearance
On June 7, 1992, Springfield, Missouri was transformed and altered forever with the disappearance of three women randomly in the early hours of the day. Thirty years later, there have been no leads or change in the case, and their lives and safety are still known to the public.
The day before this pivotal event, Stacy McCall (18) and Suzanne “Suzie” Streeter (19) got a chance to celebrate a great achievement: graduating from Kickapoo High School. Like a lot of high school graduates, they looked forward to enjoying themselves and having fun at parties and excursions after such an event, and according to Yahoo! News they did the same that very night, along with planning on going to a water park with another friend the next day.
On the early morning of the 7th, they were meant to sleep over at their friend Janelle Kirby’s house, but due to overcrowding they instead chose to go home to Suzie’s house around 2 in the morning. At Suzie’s house, her mother Sherril Levitt (47) was home, and all three women appeared to get ready and go to bed like normal, unknown of the mystery that would develop in the coming hours.
According to The Sun, Janelle came to the home the next day with her boyfriend and Stacy’s mother, Janis, to check on the two girls who had not come to the water park that day. At the house, they found all three of the cars that belonged to the women, along with their clothes and purses filled with money and personal items within the home: but the women were nowhere to be seen. As for the house itself, aside from the front porch light being broken and the main door being unlocked, everything was untouched and looked as it should.
In 2007, a ground-penetrating radar was used at the Cox Hospital parking lot, a place under construction at the time of the disappearance and was suspected as a possible place for the bodies to be hidden, and three anomalies were found there. These anomalies were described as looking like graves. Despite this possibly offering an end to the search for the Springfield Three, local officials are against digging them up to examine according to Yahoo! News.
More layers exist in the case, like strange, sexual messages being left on the home’s phone from an unknown male to possible suspects with connections to both girls, and even theories of involvement in satanism. Numerous organizations have worked to try and find them, including the FBI, and yet with over 5,000 tips from the public, nothing is really known about their fate at the time being, and after this length of time, it is hard to believe we will ever know.
