Public Invited to Observance for Three Missing Women Tonight
The three vanished on this date,
25 years ago
By: Brennon Gurley
Posted: Jun 07, 2017 05:17 AM CDT | Updated: Jun 07, 2017 07:21 AM CDT
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Today marks 25 years since three women vanished
from a home in Springfield. Tonight, the community will come together to
remember the lives of Stacy McCall, Suzanne Streeter, and her mother, Sherrill
Levitt.
The Victim's Memorial Garden in Phelps Grove Park in Springfield Is a
somber place where families can pause and remember those lost to violence.
Hailey Owens is remembered here, as are the area victims of 9-11.
But tonight, the community will celebrate the lives of three women
whose final story is still unwritten.
"She had $50 in cash and she had her swimming suit and she had her
little bitty makeup thing that was just a little makeup pouch and I said,
aren't you going to take a towel and she said, 'No, I'll just use one of
theirs. I don't want to get mine dirty,'" remembers Janis McCall, whose
daughter, Stacy, vanished on June 7, 1992.
Janis says June 7, 1992 changed her and the community forever.
"She headed off and we said our goodbyes and kissed good bye."
It's then that two high school graduates and a mother would disappear
without a trace, only to leave investigators and family members looking for
answers.
"Had no idea that, that would be the last time we would see our
daughter," McCall says.
Janis McCall can't believe the case is at the 25-year mark.
"Would love to know where she was. I'd love to bring her back and be
able to have a service for them."
She still holds up hope that she gets the answers to her daughter’s
disappearance. "I have no idea where they went, who took them, you
know I would love it. Absolutely love it. If they called me. If one of them
call me."
McCall and Sherrill Levitt's sister, Deb Schwartz, say few understand
their nightmare. "But, you know what. That doesn't matter because I
know that God's got this. He's the one that I put my faith in and I know that
he's not going to let harm come to her anymore."
"The most important thing is that this person is caught and
punished. And that this person doesn't do this ever again to anybody,"
Schwartz says.
Neither woman believes their loved ones are still alive. "When
you're dealing with no answers it seems like the worst thing," Schwartz
says. But no one knows exactly what happened.
"If you know something say something absolutely that would be my
biggest hope for this."
The families have never given up hope the three will be found.
"Hopefully people are watching or looking at this will say you
know, that they have someone they love," says Schwartz.
"Whoever it is. Wife, mother, sister and put themselves in the place
of losing them like this and come forward."
Everyone is invited to join and share in celebrating the lives of the
three missing women at the Victims Memorial Garden, starting at 7:30 p.m.
You're asked to bring a battery-operated candle for the observance.
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