Mother talks about 25 years with no answers in Stacy McCall's disappearance
By reporter Paula Morehouse and videographer Justin Haase, KY3
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Posted: Wed 10:31 PM, Jun 07, 2017 | Updated: Wed 11:53 PM, Jun
07, 2017
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - A quarter of a century is still not enough
time to heal wounds when there are no answers.
"All I want to know is where they are. If you sold them to
someone, let me know. If you have disposed of them in some horrendous manner,
please let me know," pleaded Janis McCall.
The unknown has tortured McCall since her daughter, Stacy McCall, graduated
from Kickapoo High School. After a few parties that night, Stacy and her
friend, Suzie Streeter, went to Suzie's house to sleep over. It would be the
last time anyone reported seeing them or Sherrill (SP) Levitt, Suzie's mom.
"I expected her home that night, the next day, maybe a couple of
days afterward," McCall said in an interview on Tuesday. "Never in my
wildest imagination did I ever think that it would be 25 years later and I
would be saying Stacy still missing."
Though her daughter has been gone longer than the time McCall had with
her, McCall's memories are crisp and comforting. Stacy, she said, was
hilarious.
McCall recalled a period when her daughter was expanding her
vocabulary.
"She'd say, 'much to my chagrin.'" Janis corrected her
pronunciation of the word to which Stacy replied " 'Chagrin, what is that
mom?' And I'd have to tell her it was chagrin. And she'd say, 'Do you think
that's why everybody was looking at me funny today?' We'd have these talks over
the dinner table, and we'd be hysterical," McCall said.
McCall holds onto those cherished moments from a time when she never
imagined she wouldn't see her daughter on her 19th birthday, or the subsequent
ones. The only new vision of Stacy arose when the family had to guess what she
would look like to make age progression pictures for missing posters.
"You have to dream what she looks like now because I have no
idea," McCall said. "I still go up to people that I can't see the
front of them, if they have real long hair. I want to go to the front of them
and see who they are."
Her 25-year quest to find Stacy has come up empty, and the three
women's disappearance under suspicious circumstances remains a mystery.
McCall, though, vows never to give up believing her daughter could
still come home.
"Until I know a hundred percent that Stacy is deceased I will
never declare her dead," she said. "They're going to have to find
some remains somewhere before I call her legally dead. It's not for any reason
other than if I do and she's not dead, think of how mad she'd be when she gets
back."
McCall said she still talks about her daughter publicly because she
hopes that what she has to say will one day prompt someone who knows something
to step forward.
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