tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57301908122071841742024-03-03T19:26:09.119-05:00Streeter Family Blogg<center><strong>An attempt to assemble public information on the abduction of <big>Sherrill Levitt</big>, <big>Suzanne Streeter</big> and <big>Stacy McCall</big>.</strong></center>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09319963049355408313noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730190812207184174.post-50353751026011798162022-11-01T03:16:00.001-04:002022-11-01T03:16:04.278-04:00Happy Birthday Sherrill. You are loved and missed.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09319963049355408313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730190812207184174.post-40275402386156279502022-03-09T04:40:00.000-05:002022-03-09T04:40:04.748-05:00Happy Birthday Suzie. You are loved and missed. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09319963049355408313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730190812207184174.post-57478295017984515472021-11-01T13:34:00.001-04:002021-11-01T13:34:34.324-04:00Happy Birthday Sherrill. You are loved & missed.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09319963049355408313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730190812207184174.post-9206222311505310822021-03-09T16:46:00.000-05:002021-03-09T16:46:12.013-05:00Happy Birthday Suzie! Love & miss you. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09319963049355408313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730190812207184174.post-41072588581731791742020-11-01T06:28:00.001-05:002020-11-01T06:28:01.405-05:00Happy Birthday Sherrill. You are loved and missed. Streeter Family Blogghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829111943781715121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730190812207184174.post-59014202389770262632020-03-09T00:16:00.000-04:002020-03-09T00:16:24.759-04:00Happy Birthday Suzie! Love and miss you. Deehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01139882996264694391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730190812207184174.post-42549812534562688092019-11-01T21:18:00.002-04:002019-11-01T21:18:02.890-04:00Happy Birthday Sherrill. You are loved and missed. Streeter Family Blogghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829111943781715121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730190812207184174.post-55653952769969627522019-03-20T22:13:00.002-04:002019-03-20T22:13:37.695-04:00Streeter Family Statement - 3.20.19<br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">In 1992, two women
were stolen from our lives. We have struggled for over 26 years with the
public's perception of what happened to them and how to mourn them in our
personal lives. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">
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Recently, it has been publicized that Bartt Streeter, son of Sherrill and
brother of Suzie, was arrested on unrelated charges. Bartt has had a long
history with alcohol abuse and has spoken publicly on this matter in the past.
It is evident in the video that he, at no time, tried to forcibly remove anyone
from the establishment. The charges were exaggerated, as is plainly evident in
the video. <br />
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Bartt's Interaction: Just inside the door of the establishment, was with
an adult. He shook this adult's hand and spoke only with the adult. Once
finished with the conversation, Bartt stood, pointed, and asked the person if
that was their granddaughter. Bartt's Lyft was arriving, and he left the
establishment on his own and unaccompanied. <br />
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It is unsure how the story got so corrupted when it was told to the media and
police, or why the media ignored the obvious video evidence in its reporting.
The impact of this misreporting is felt by the Streeter family and extended
family members as we continue to mourn for our family and hope for answers. <br />
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We are still experiencing pain. Our family members are still missing, along
with Stacy McCall. We still want and need answers. Please remember them
and help in any way you can in finding them by reporting any information that
may be helpful to the Springfield Police Department. <br />
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Bartt Streeter, as always, continues to be contactable to the Springfield
Police Department.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Streeter Family</span></div>
Streeter Family Blogghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829111943781715121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730190812207184174.post-55272073182545857292019-03-09T20:46:00.001-05:002019-03-09T20:46:46.294-05:00Happy Birthday Suzie. You are loved and missed. Streeter Family Blogghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829111943781715121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730190812207184174.post-34564897370895695492018-03-09T16:49:00.001-05:002018-03-09T16:49:02.926-05:00Happy Birthday Suzie. You are loved and missed. Streeter Family Blogghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829111943781715121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730190812207184174.post-63034678737401491912017-11-01T21:57:00.001-04:002017-11-01T21:57:04.466-04:00Happy Birthday Sherrill.Streeter Family Blogghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829111943781715121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730190812207184174.post-3682405282575892502017-06-28T18:12:00.000-04:002017-06-28T18:12:22.110-04:00KSFG: Celebration of Life - June 7, 2017 | 1 of 1
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">Link: <a href="http://www.ksgf.com/news/local-news/celebration-of-life-for-women-who-went-missing-25-years-ago" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://www.ksgf.com/news/local-news/celebration-of-life-for-women-who-went-missing-25-years-ago</span></a>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Celebration of Life for Women
Who Went Missing 25 Years Ago</span></b></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: calibri;">By: Macy Marie </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">11:53 PM, Jun 7, 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">Three women went missing in Springfield 25 years ago today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">Instead of a memorial, friends and family held a celebration of life at
Phelps Grove Park in Springfield. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">It started at 7:30.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: calibri;">People told fun stories about Sherrill Levitt, Suzie Streeter, and
Stacy McCall. </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: calibri;">"We went camping for spring break our senior year and it was
cold... lots of good memories," one friend recalled. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">After people told stories, candles were lit and four lanterns were let
go for the women. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">One lantern for each and the last was for all of them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">Stacy's mother, Janis McCall, had many stories about the group. She
says this was not a memorial. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">"Thank all of you for coming out here for the celebration of the
lives of three women," she said to the crowd. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">"We can't say they're gone," Stacy's father, Stuart McCall,
said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">"This is my last candle light vigil. This is all I can handle...25
years," said Janis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Link: <span style="color: #0563c1;"><a href="http://www.ky3.com/content/news/Recalling-the-good-times-Friends-family-of-3-missing-women-celebrate-lives-not-forgotten-427143933.html" target="_blank">http://www.ky3.com/content/news/Recalling-the-good-times-Friends-family-of-3-missing-women-celebrate-lives-not-forgotten-427143933.html</a></span>
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Recalling the good times:
Friends, family of 3 missing women celebrate lives not forgotten</h4>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Gathering celebrates lives of three missing women</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">By Reporter Mike Landis and Photojournalist Lance Green | </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Posted: Wed 11:04 PM, Jun 07, 2017 | Updated: Wed 11:06 PM,
Jun 07, 2017 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Springfield, Mo It was a quarter century ago three women went missing
from a home in Springfield. On Tuesday, the community gathered to remember the
women and hope for closure once and for all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The event was called a celebration of life and was a chance to remember
a different time before the families' hearts were so tragically shattered, and
the city lost part of its innocence. Those at the gathering took part in a
candlelight vigil and a release of Japanese lanterns in honor of the three.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Suzanne and Stacy graduated from Kickapoo High School the night before
the three disappeared without a trace. Sherrill is Suzanne's mother. Officers
found all their personal belongings at home and no obvious sign of foul play.
Springfield Police have investigated thousands of leads over the years, but no
breaks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Link: <a href="http://www.ky3.com/content/news/Mother-talks-about-25-years-with-no-answers-in-Stacy-McCalls-disappearance--427139941.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://www.ky3.com/content/news/Mother-talks-about-25-years-with-no-answers-in-Stacy-McCalls-disappearance--427139941.html</span></a>
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Mother talks about 25 years with
no answers in Stacy McCall's disappearance </h4>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">By reporter Paula Morehouse and videographer Justin Haase, KY3
News | </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Posted: Wed 10:31 PM, Jun 07, 2017 | Updated: Wed 11:53 PM, Jun
07, 2017 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - A quarter of a century is still not enough
time to heal wounds when there are no answers.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">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 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(SP)</b> Levitt, Suzie's mom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"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." </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">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. </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCall recalled a period when her daughter was expanding her
vocabulary. </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">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. </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"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."</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Her 25-year quest to find Stacy has come up empty, and the three
women's disappearance under suspicious circumstances remains a mystery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCall, though, vows never to give up believing her daughter could
still come home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"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."</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">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.</span></div>
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Mom of 1 of 3 missing women from
Springfield won't give up hope</h4>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Springfield's 25-year mystery: 3 missing women</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">By reporter Paula Morehouse and videographer Justin Haase, KY3
News | </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Posted: Wed 1:25 PM, Jun 07, 2017 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - It was a crime that shook Springfield to its
core and made national headlines. June 7 marks 25 years since Sherrill <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(SP)</b> Levitt, Suzie Streeter and Stacy
McCall vanished without a trace from a home in central Springfield. </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Their disappearance still haunts those closest to the investigation.
The most visible relative of the three women, Stacy McCall's mother, says
she'll never give up on finding her daughter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The three women vanished into the night but Sherrill <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(SP)</b> Levitt, her daughter Suzie
Streeter, and her friend Stacy McCall, never left our lives. Fresh flowers adorn
a bench built in their honor in Phelps Grove Park and their images, frozen from
1992, still hang in a few storefronts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"There's no way I can picture her other then as she went out the
door at 18,” said Janis McCall, Stacy’s mother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCall has never given up hope. Since the beginning, she's worked
tirelessly, telling anyone and everyone about the three missing women. </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The day that changed so many lives started with a celebration:
Graduation Day for Stacy and Suzie. After a few parties, the two friends went
to Suzie's house. That was the last time anyone reports seeing them and Levitt.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The mystery has fueled thousands of leads, theories, and rumors over
the years. </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In 2007, after speculation that the women were buried under a Cox South
Hospital parking garage, a local writer hired a consulting engineer who used
ground penetrating radar to scan the garage. The man running it said his
machine picked up three distinct objects. McCall, though, isn't convinced.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"And it came about from a psychic and I told him at the time that
was complete craziness,” she said on Tuesday.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Springfield police looked into the theory and also find it is not
credible. They never requested that the parking garage concrete be destroyed to
search under it.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Amid all the craziness, a number of paths led to people who might be
involved. Police had questioned convict Robert Craig Cox, who was known to be
in Springfield at the time of the disappearance. In 1996, KY3 News reporter
Dennis Graves interviewed Cox in a Texas prison. </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I know that they are dead. I'll say that. And I know that,” Cox
said in the interview.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"That's not a theory?" Graves asked</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“I just know that they are dead. That's not my theory. I just know
that. There's no doubt about that,” Cox said.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Cox refused to talk anymore.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">No signs of the women have ever been found, no one was arrested, and no
one was charged.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Never in my wildest imagination did I ever think that it would be
25 years later and I would be saying, ‘Stacy is still missing,’” she said.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The public is invited to a celebration of the women's lives on
Wednesday at the Victim's Memorial Garden in Phelps Grove Park. It starts at
7:30 p.m.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Link: <a href="http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/continuing-the-investigation25-years-later/734842551" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/continuing-the-investigation25-years-later/734842551</span></a></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div>
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Continuing the Investigation 25 Years Later</h4>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">By: Jenifer Abreu<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Posted: Jun 07, 2017 10:56 PM CDT | Updated: Jun 07, 2017 11:00 PM CDT</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- June 7, 2017, marks 25 years of unanswered
questions empty theories and a mystery hanging over the City of Springfield.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Three women went missing and no evidence of what happened to them was
left behind. But a quarter of a century later police are still investigating.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">For 25 years, thousands of tips have come in and many theories
considered, but police say there's simply not enough evidence that makes any of
those theories a viable one. At this point, it would take that one person with
that one piece of information to come forward.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"It's real, it happened in Springfield, Missouri," said David
Asher, a retired detective who worked on the case years ago.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Three women, Sherrill Levitt, her daughter Suzie Streeter, and Suzie's
friend Stacy McCall simply vanished from a Springfield home.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"It is a mystery," said Sgt. Todd King, with the Springfield
Police Department. "Nobody knows what really happened."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">What's likely become the city's most perplexing case began on June 7,
1992. And since then, it's like the same story has been told. And even 25
years later, it's still under investigation.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sgt. King says they still receive two or three tips a month.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I think what it tells you is that the community cares about the
case," he said. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">And every time the phone rings...</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"You're always hopeful that that's the tip that's going to push you
in the right direction or lead you down the right trail," said King. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">He's currently working on the case and says it's always been an active
investigation.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Most of the time it's reviewing all of the old information and
the old things that the other detectives that have come before them have
done," he said.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In hopes that with more technology and a fresh set of eyes some new
lead will come up.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"What you do is you have detectives that go back and you look at
those tips and see what was done on it before," said King. "And with
the new twist, they look into that angle on it. Or they may go back and re-interview
old witnesses to see if they remember things from back then and things that
they failed to talk to the officers about."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Some are doing their part to make sure the community doesn't forget. A
missing person's poster with the women's photo has been taped to the door at
Coyote Adobe Bar and Cafe for as long as they've been missing.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"It's there and it's been there every day since 1992," said
David Bauer. "Through these reports in these milestones years, we hear 20
years, we hear 15, 10 and 25. People look at it and they comment about
it. Not so much anymore, a lot of people don't know and don't understand
because it was so long ago, many lives, I mean my cook wasn't even born
yet."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A case that now, a quarter of a century old is touching across
generations. And throughout the years... many theories have come across
detectives' desks.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Anybody that truly wants that one theory over the other to be the
case, they can make it fit," said Sgt. King. "The reality is when you
start to look into putting evidence with the theories and matching things up to
make a person as a viable suspect as people think, we just don't have that
right now."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Investigators who worked on this case say they are honored to have been
trusted with a case that shook and still haunts a community.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"For me personally, I was proud to be able to work on that
case," said Captain Greg Higdon, with the Springfield Police Department.
"I was humbled that they wanted me to take a look at it and kind of see
from a different angle, a different set of eyes."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The memories of the three women are still very real among their
families, the police department and the entire community.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Everyone may have their own theories of what happened, but one thing
they all have in common is there's still hope that someday, what could be
described as the perfect crime, will be solved.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I'm hopeful and very optimistic, that this case will be solved at
some point," said Sgt. King.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Somebody out there hopefully says 'you know, it's time. I've
gotta let this go'," said Bauer. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"It's time for us to have some results," said Janis McCall,
Stacy's mother.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"If you know anything, or if you think you know anything, call the
Springfield Police Department," said Asher. "If you've done it
in the past, and nobody is contacted you, do it again, and again. Because one
of you, someone, knows something. And we can't, no police department can
succeed without your involvement."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Janis McCall believes there will never really be closure but she, like
so many others, still hold on to hope that someone, someday, will speak
up. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I don't have to know who it is, I just want the answers of where
the three missing women are. That's all," she said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Link: <a href="http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/public-invited-to-observance-for-three-missing-women-tonight/734082384" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/public-invited-to-observance-for-three-missing-women-tonight/734082384</span></a>
</span></div>
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<h4 style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
Public Invited to Observance for
Three Missing Women Tonight</h4>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The three vanished on this date,
25 years ago</span></b></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">By: Brennon Gurley<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Posted: Jun 07, 2017 05:17 AM CDT | Updated: Jun 07, 2017 07:21 AM CDT</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">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. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">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.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But tonight, the community will celebrate the lives of three women
whose final story is still unwritten.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"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. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Janis says June 7, 1992 changed her and the community forever.
"She headed off and we said our goodbyes and kissed good bye."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">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. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Had no idea that, that would be the last time we would see our
daughter," McCall says.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">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." </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">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."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">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."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"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. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">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. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"<b><i>If you know something say something absolutely that would be my
biggest hope for this</i></b>."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The families have never given up hope the three will be found.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"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."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Link: <a href="http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/a-quarter-century-of-questions-escaping-a-digital-fingerprint/730022136" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/a-quarter-century-of-questions-escaping-a-digital-fingerprint/730022136</span></a>
</span></div>
<br />
<h4 style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
A Quarter Century of Questions:
Escaping A Digital Fingerprint</h4>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">By: Daniel Shedd<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Posted: Jun 06, 2017 09:10 PM CDT | Updated: Jun 06, 2017 09:49 PM CDT</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">3 Missing Women Stories</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A Quarter Century of Questions...</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A Quarter Century of Questions: The...</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">SPRINGFIELD, Mo -- It's been 10 years since the first iPhone came out. That
was in 2007.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Facebook and Myspace came on the scene around three years before that,
in 2004.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It's hard to believe, but you would have to venture 12 more years in
times past to get a glimpse of technology in 1992.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Tracking crimes was much different back then. They didn't have what
detectives now call a 'Digital Fingerprint'.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“They left the party at Battlefield, somewhere around 2 a.m., and their
vehicle was found around 12 p.m. at the Delmar address,” said David
Millsap. “We would have been able to get an idea of their route just
based on their cell phone.”</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Current Laclede County Sherriff, David Millsap, started with the
Springfield Police Department a year and a half after that fateful day in
1992. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“I really, truly believe that it’s the case that haunts the Springfield
Police Department,” said Millsap.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">He led a comprehensive review of the case, including over 25,000
documents just three years ago. The conclusion, is one that still runs cold.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“This is one of those tragic tales where the case just hasn’t been
solved, and you hope for the best because the family certainly deserves that,”
said Millsap.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Millsap is not one to make excuses as to why the case wasn’t solved,
although he cited numerous holes he saw within the investigation. Of course,
hindsight is 20/20.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">He said that it’s often a fallacy that a big task force can get the job
done. While sometimes successful, this sometimes opens the door to a botched
crime scene.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">There’s too many hands to stir the pot.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">He also sited technological restrictions. They didn’t have cell phones
or social media, like Facebook. The technological age was just an infant.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Which begs the question, how would have this case been different if it
would have happened today?</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“If the event happened today, the first thing investigators would start
looking for are those digital footprints,” explained David Millsap.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We’ve all heard privacy concerns in recent years. Things like IP
addresses and cell phone towers. They’re traceable by detectives, but Dr.
Shannon McMurtrey with Drury University explains that it’s accessible to
everyone.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“If you post on social media, take a picture and share that on the
internet, or do anything involved with an IP address, we can deduce where
you’ve been,” said Dr. Shannon McMurtrey.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">He pointed out a quick search on a free website, www.socialbearing.com.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">With a few clicks of the mouse, here’s a view of all the twitter
activity within downtown Springfield over the last 3 days.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Each of those triangles represent a different tweet, and can be
filtered down to individual users.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“When you ask people if they care about privacy, they will tell you
that they really are not, especially younger generations. They really don’t
care," said Dr. McMurtrey.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"It’s only when you start to show them how much of their privacy
that they are giving up, without realizing it, that they start to care."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It's an advantage they didn’t have back in 1992.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“Back then you couldn’t even track local telephone calls,” said
Millsap. “You had to have a trap on the phone. Someone could make that call
locally, but there was no way to trace that call.”</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In today’s day and age, it’s nearly impossible to escape a digital
fingerprint.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Have you ever walked out of work, only for your phone to say it will
take 20 minutes to drive home?</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Or maybe you were downtown, and your phone beeps, reminding you how to
get to your parked car.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">That’s because our smart phones have been following us: Tracking every
step we have taken in our journey together.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It’s not some rogue software that was downloaded in the background, or
a new fancy app that you need to uninstall. It comes standard on most devices.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">And the best part?</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Most of us accept those terms when we turn on our phones for the first
time.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“It really drove the way we handled major cases, and the way we thought
about things," said Sheriff Millsap.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I can remember many times with a missing persons case, and
thinking that back I needed to do things right, right from the beginning."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"The ending starts with the beginning of the case. The things we
do at the beginning of case often determine how the case will turn out,” said
Millsap.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Your Digital Fingerprint (iPhone Users)</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">For iPhone users, there is a simple way to find out where your iPhone
has been following you. This will be available if you accepted and enabled
'location services' when you first received the phone. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">1. Click on Settings</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">2. Scroll down to Privacy</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">3. Click on Location Services</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">4. Scroll down to the bottom and tap on System Services</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">5. Scroll down to the bottom of the first section of services (just
above 'Product Improvement'), and find Frequent Locations</span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">If enabled (green), you will be able to click into your history of
recent locations, (i.e 'Springfield, Missouri' or 'Branson, Missouri') and then
on individual addresses that you have visited. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Each 'location' will tell you when you visited, how many times you
visited, and for how long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Link: <a href="http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/a-quarter-century-of-questions-families-of-3-missing-women-try-to-cope/732652022" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/a-quarter-century-of-questions-families-of-3-missing-women-try-to-cope/732652022</span></a>
</span></div>
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A Quarter Century of Questions:
Families Of 3 Missing Women Try To Cope</h4>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">By: Melanie Chapman<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Posted: Jun 05, 2017 10:32 PM CDT | Updated: Jun 05, 2017 10:32 PM CDT</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Springfield, Mo. -- They vanished without a trace - Stacy McCall, Suzie
Streeter and Sherrill Levitt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Through the years there were many leads, some appeared strong but
investigators say they never turned up any credible evidence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"We were on a roller coaster that would go up and down and up and
down and that roller coaster would say, we think we have them," said Janis
McCall, Stacy's mother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Twenty-five years later there is no sign of the women and no known suspect.
For the families of the missing women, coping with the disappearance over the
years has changed them. Janis and her husband, Stuart, have grandchildren
today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"We became even more protective of our family. I still don't want
my daughters going shopping, even if it’s at the mall or Walmart or wherever by
themselves," Janis said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">From the beginning, Janis stayed in constant contact with
investigators, posted fliers, received phone calls at her home some hateful,
others seemingly helpful. Sherrill's <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(SP.)</b>
sister and Suzie's aunt, Deb Schwartz, lives in Arizona. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"It was hard for us, it was very hard for us because we weren't
there and we felt like gosh, we aren't doing like what Janis could do,"
Deb said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Schwartz said she still has a lot of anger. Living with no answers and
no sign of their loved ones has taken its toll on the family. Her mother and
father have since passed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"He was 75 when he died and I think he would have had a much
longer life without that stress. I think it ate at him, being a father and
knowing that in his mind he failed to protect his daughter or to bring it to
any conclusion was very hard. It is very hard for all of us, we can't do
anything," Deb said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Deb and Janis both are aware of the many possibilities as to what may
have happened and who could have done it. Both come back to one man as a likely
suspect: Robert Craig Cox. He was convicted of killing a woman in Florida but
was released on a trial technicality. He was in Springfield at the time of the
disappearance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"He was fully capable of doing it. He had, he actually had worked
with the same place that my husband worked Reliable Chevrolet." Janis
said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Cox would have very well seen Stacy, her sisters and her friends when
they would visit her father at work," Janis said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Cox is probably the most logical choice. There are so many ways
that he fit. and he's pretty much a sociopath from the interviews I've
seen," said Deb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">With all the emotional suffering, the families have endured the past 25
years, it's their faith that has helped guide them through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I take comfort in believing that my dad is with Sherrill and
Suzie and knows what happened now. You know happened and know that they're in
heaven and they're in a happy place and a better place than this world and my
mom's there too," Deb said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Janis said she still struggles with depression at times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I turned this over to God probably three or four weeks after she
disappeared. I said I just can't handle anymore you've got to do it because I
can't and I do think that's a part of it. I do have a good relationship with
God and I know that in his own time, he'll let me know. It might be long after
I've gone and can be a blink of an eye and it’s been 25 years, so maybe he's
only blinked once and may take that second blink," Janis said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The families still hold out hope, someone will do the right thing, and
come forward with solid information on this case. They know it’s highly
unlikely the women are alive - they just want to bring them home.</span></div>
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A Quarter Century of Questions:
Community Can't Forget the 3 Missing Women</h4>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">By: Collin Lingo<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Posted: Jun 04, 2017 10:01 PM CDT | Updated: Jun 04, 2017 10:01 PM CDT</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- As KOLR10 continues its look back into the
disapearance of Springfield's three missing women, we're left asking - who else
is struggling to come to terms with the event 25 years later?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A reporter sought to find those in the Ozarks who have yet to call the
event one of the past, those who take some part of the 25 year old case with
them every day, or in other words, those who refuse to forget. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The faces of Sherrill <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(SP) </b>Levitt,
her daughter Suzie Streeter and Streeter's high school friend Stacy McCall have
been preserved in photographs and videos for the past 25 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Whether it's through a blog dedicated to their return, or an article in
a magazine recounting their disappearance - like this one, recently published
by Kickapoo High School Streeter and McCall's alma mater.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It's clear, these photographs are still penetrating the community's
memory. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Another spot those faces can be found today is at Coyote Adobe's Bar
and Cafe in Springfield.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Years and years and years," David Bauer, Coyote Adobe's
owner, said. "It's hung right there in that spot for 25 years."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Bauer knows the poster hanging in his front window has seen better
days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"We got it laminated," Bauer said. "It's an ugly piece
of paper but it's an ugly deal."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But, taking it down would mean breaking a promise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"It was maybe the second day after it happened," Bauer said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">He made a call a quarter century ago to Stacy McCall's mom, Janis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Janis came by and she dropped off a flyer and she asked me if I'd
hang it in the window. And I said 'I'll leave it up until they come
back,'" Bauer said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As it turns out, Bauer isn't alone. There are still so many people
across the state perplexed by this case. As for why, one former prosecutor says
it's hard not to fixate on a problem with such a frustrating lack of answers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"With no idea of who did it, how it was done, or where they were
taken, I mean, it's totally an exceptional event," Darrell Moore, former
prosecutor, said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">At the time of the women's disappearance, Moore was a chief assistant
prosecutor in Greene County.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Since then it's disturbed, and rightly disturbed people for the
last quarter century," Moore said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">These days, he travels the state as a special prosecutor, finding one
commonality in every place he goes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"When I go to other counties, judges, lawyers, defense lawyers,
prosecutors or even people still ask me, what's the inside scoop and I have to
tell them 'I don't have any kind of scoop," Moore said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">While sheer curiosity and shock play a role here, Moore says another
factor is certainly fear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I think in the back of a lot of people's minds is 'could it
happen to me?'. The randomness of it. I think it scared people then and it
scares people today," Moore said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It's not just the fear related to what happened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Even 25 years later, it's hard. And I don't even know them,"
Bauer said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But also the fear of what could happen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I wouldn't get rid of it. If it saved one girl, coming in here,
seeing that picture and thinking 'I better be safe tonight," Bauer said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">And, maybe worst of all, fear that we'll never see more of these women
than just their photographs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Hopefully it'll be gone," Bauer said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Now you heard there, the bar owner mentioned his contact with Janis McCall
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(SP)</b>, Stacy's mom. Coming up
tomorrow, we'll hear more from Janis McCall <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(SP)</b> about how she has done her best to heal over the past 25
years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">By: Jennifer Kielman<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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A Quarter Century of Questions: Journalists Recall Missing Women Case from 25 Years Ago</h4>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Posted: Jun 03, 2017 09:34 PM CDT | Updated: Jun 03, 2017 09:34 PM CDT</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A Quarter Century of Questions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- It'll be 25 years on Wednesday when three women,
Suzanne Streeter, Stacy McCall and Sherrill Levitt, went missing in
Springfield.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The three went missing from Levitt's home. Even through extensive
investigations and searches, to this day, they are still nowhere to be found.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Most people who lived in the Queen City during that time, remember it
well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">That also holds true for the journalists who covered it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">KOLR10's Assistant Director Lissa Hamblen says, "I think most
journalists who were here, working and have worked throughout the years on this
story, they probably have spent time thinking about it at night, ya know, at
3 o'clock in the morning. And, you're like -- where are they?"</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"That was a Monday Morning. And, I was working at KTTS as a
traffic reporter." KOLR10's Managing Editor Karen Libby said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Lissa Hamblen says, "I worked here (KOLR). I was producing. I must've
been dayside cause the memory that sticks out is the morning meeting."</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">KOLR10's Assignment Editor Bil Tatum says, "I was in the newsroom
at the News Leader."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Karen Libby says, "As I was driving around that morning, I heard
one of the officers say, the porch light is broken out."</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Bil Tatum says, "Something wasn't right. We heard on the scanner
that indicated there was something going on at that location on Delmar."</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I was there shortly after 8 and started getting this information
together. And, I think we went on the air with it at 8:30." Karen Libby
said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Lissa Hamblen says, "Our news director at the time, Steve Snyder,
immediately brought this up as one of our potential stories for that day. And
said, what is going on? I'm hearing something about 3 women who haven't shown
up. They're missing from a house in Springfield and they're just gone."</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Bil Tatum says, "They were gone in such unusual circumstances. You
wouldn't expect, I mean having the mom be one of the people who disappeared was
part of the unusualness about the story. And the girls had just come off
on what was one of the happiest nights of their life probably. They graduated.
They had been partying, been enjoying the evening with their friends. They had
plans for the next day. They were expected to be some place the next day. And,
it just didn't look good. It didn't look good that there was no explanation for
why they would have left behind their purses, their keys, their cigarettes.
Smokers don't do that."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Lissa Hamblen says, "I can't imagine if it's like one person
who took them-- how did they take three people without leaving anything that
connected them?"</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Cars in the driveway. Their belongings. Their clothes. That's
what was really so scary.", Bil Tatum said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Karen Libby says, "And, it just took off from there."</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Bil Tatum says, "In the days that followed, it became a much
bigger story as things kept going on and on. And there was no, nothing to
explain this bizarre, mysterious disappearance."</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Lissa Hamblen says, "The first week or so, you really thought, it
was just going to resolve. It was going to have an ending of some sort. And, it
didn't."</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"It's the craziest story. And, it went on forever.' Karen Libby
said.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Lissa Hamblen says, "Weeks went by. And, eventually years.
And, every <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anniversary</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>since
that time, we do the one year, the five year, the ten year. And it just keeps
going."</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Karen Libby says, "The thing that's just boggling even now is
that, we don't have any answers at all. I mean, they had 24, 25 thousand
documents in the case file."</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Bil Tatum says, "They had so many leads, thousands of leads,
thousands of tips. All those people working on them."</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Karen Libby says, "They had FBI experts. Some very smart people
all over the country examine that case."</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Bil Tatum says, "And we had all the tips about the van, the tips
about every disturbed pile of dirt in Missouri became suspicious to
somebody."</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Karen Libby says, "And, it's gone nowhere. They vanished. How do
three people vanish? And, that's what continues to keep people's attention
on this. Who would ever think I would still be talking about a crime like this,
a case like this, a quarter of a century later. It's just crazy."</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Watching that family agonize and grasp for whatever they can,
just to get some resolution. That's with every story I think. I think, all
of us watch families hurt. And, journalists feel that. We feel their pain and
watching her hurt has not been easy. It has not been easy for anybody. I want
something to end on this so she can breathe. And, her husband can breathe. I
want their family to know something. That would be the ending, regardless of
what it is. Just to know would help.", Lissa Hamblen said.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Karen Libby says, "We all want to know what happened.
Those women have become our women."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Libby, Hamblen, and Tatum are current employees of KOLR10.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">When Karen Libby worked for KTTS 25 years ago, she says, they were the
first to report the incident.</span></div>
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A Quarter Century of
Questions: A Number of False Leads</h4>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">By: Melanie Chapman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Posted: Jun 02, 2017 10:21 PM CDT | Updated: Jun 02, 2017
11:30 PM CDT</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A Quarter Century of Questions...</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- It was a case that shocked the
community, three women go missing nearly 25 years ago.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Dozens of investigators, hundreds of tip calls, even some
from around the world.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This week, we've been reexamining the case of Springfield's
missing women as we lead up to the June 7th "missing date."</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Reporter Melanie Chapman discusses the false leads that made
this crime so confounding. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">What happened to these three missing Springfield women?
Stacy McCall, Suzie Streeter <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(SP)</b>
and Sherrill Levitt. It’s a case that received national attention.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A mystery, that even decades later people are still talking
about.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Former Prosecuting Attorney Darrell Moore says,
"Everybody on this case wanted it resolved."</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Moore was one of dozens of investigators who spent days,
sleepless nights and hundreds of hours trying to solve this case. Today he
still has hope the answer, so many have worked and prayed for, will come.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Through the years there have been various leads but it
got to the point where even today I still get calls from people." Moore
said.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Moore acknowledges, it has been frustrating. There wasn't
one rock they didn't overturn. They had to take every tip seriously. Many
leads, none were solid.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Moore says, "There was a dig up over in Webster Co.
because there was a rumor they had been taken by a certain person. Abused,
chopped up and spread a creek or spread in a cave there were searches over
there."</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Early on, there were tips about a green van. This is a
vehicle that was seen in the area of 1717 East Delmar in Springfield.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Police received a tip from a woman who claims she saw a van,
being driven by who she thought was Suzie Streeter the morning of the
disappearance. Yelling at the driver telling her to get out of there. Police
searched thousands of vans, they posted the model all over the media. Even
painted one green and kept it outside the police department. Tips about the van
and the missing women kept flooding in.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I was appointed special prosecutor in Barry co because
of a lead by the Highway Patrol we had received and there was a dig down there
on a property but at the time it seemed promising. It seemed to fit certain
facts that we thought we knew at the time." Moore said.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">That fateful night, Stacy and Suzie graduated. They went to
numerous parties and Stacy ended up spending the night at Suzie's home. The
next morning Stacy's family went to the house after not hearing from their
daughter. They found the girl's purses and no sign of a struggle. The pet dog
was the only sign of life in the house.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Retired Springfield Police Sergeant David Asher says,
"I just felt like when we were given the case, when we actually got it
late, we didn't start from the very beginning."</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Asher was one of the lead investigators. He worked alongside
Ron Worsham also with Springfield Police.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Worsham says, "Well we looked at her brother cause
there had been some problems there they were I don't know if it was true or
false."</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Worsham is talking about Bartt <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(SP)</b> Streeter, Suzie's Brother. His alibi at the time of the
disappearance apparently checked out. Then there was a tip that the women were
buried under the south parking lot of Cox Hospital. It was under construction
soon after the disappearance. A theory, Moore says with no credible evidence.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">That was bulldozed to prepare the parking garage for the
cement that's at the bottom of the garage. Well part of the debris left out
there is remains of trees and stumps and so we were told the anomalies out
there were not bodies out but were probably debris. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Then there's Robert Craig Cox. A man released from a Florida
prison on a trial technicality. He had been convicted of killing a woman in
Florida but was free and in Springfield at the time the women disappeared.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Moore says, "He stirred up a lot of interest and there
was some concern that he may have been playing people so he could get
transported back here and get out of prison for a bit."</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Dustin Reckla was a former acquaintance of Suzie <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(SP)</b> Streeter. She was about to testify
against him on charges he broke into a mausoleum to steal gold from the
deceased. Police were very interested in Reckla and two accomplices but
hope there quickly faded.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Worsham says, "If you can clear those three people who
were persons of interest, we were kind of left with no suspects"</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">While many of the leads turned up false they still hold out
hope the right tip could be developed even 25 years later.</span></div>
Streeter Family Blogghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829111943781715121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730190812207184174.post-86933819409240128972017-06-15T11:38:00.002-04:002017-06-28T18:06:16.796-04:00Ozarks First KOLR 10 News Article: Detectives - June 1, 2017 | 2 of 9 <span style="font-family: "calibri";">Link: <a href="http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/a-quarter-century-of-questions-detectives-consumed-by-the-3-missing-women/729381818" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/a-quarter-century-of-questions-detectives-consumed-by-the-3-missing-women/729381818</span></a> </span><br />
<h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
A Quarter Century of
Questions: Detectives Consumed by the 3 Missing Women</h4>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">By: Grant Sloan<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Posted: Jun 01, 2017 10:04 PM CDT | Updated: Jun 01, 2017
10:04 PM CDT</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The case of the three missing women not
only captured the attention of community members, it consumed many of the men
and women working the case.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Even 25 years later, some of them still think about the
women daily.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We sat down with men who were on the ground from the
beginning and one officer who picked up the torch ten years into the
investigation.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I wish we had solved that case back then, but I pray
daily that this case is solved before I leave this world. I won't have to get
up to glory to see the girls to see what happened," Retired Sgt. David
Asher with the Springfield Police Department said.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Asher helped lead the investigation into the disappearance
of Sherrill Levitt, her daughter, Suzie Streeter and Streeter's friend, Stacy
McCall <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(SP.)</b>.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Just days into their disappearance, Asher's team was tasked
with finding answers many detectives are still searching for today.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"My team and I worked days and nights and many many
hours. We were overwhelmed, we were confronted with issues we had never been
confronted with before," Asher said.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Some of those challenges are well known.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Among them, one of the most important pieces of any case,
the condition of the crime scene.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In the hours leading up to police being contacted, family
members and friends were inside the home trying to make sense of the situation.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I'm not blaming anybody. A family is concerned is
going to do everything they can do," Asher said.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Anytime you walk into a crime scene, you take
something in. Anytime you leave the crime scene you take something out,"
Ron Worsham said.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Worsham was the assistant police chief in 1992.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">He says early on the department threw everyone and
everything at the case.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In those days DNA evidence wasn't used, but detectives did
use a fumigating technique to pull fingerprints from the home.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"And of course, we had thousands of prints at that
point and time...we didn't have the automatic print system at that time. So
really the only way prints did you any good back then is if you had a suspect
to compare them too," Worsham said.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">There were also thousands of tips that poured in from the
community.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Every tip that came in, you couldn't afford not to
check it out. Because any tip could have been credible," Worsham said.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Investigators went to great, and at times, unconventional
lengths following some of those leads.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A person was called in who claimed to be able to
communicate with the dog that was left behind.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A woman who provided information about a green van seen in
the area was hypnotized.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Investigators managed to track a phone call from the show
America's Most Wanted to a store in Louisiana.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"That person actually fit the description of some of
the information we had that could of been involved in the abduction. That
person was going to call back and never did."</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Going to the public for help may have been a doubled-edged
sword though, as many of those interviewed by police were aware of the latest
information.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"It just gets a lot out there to where detectives might
be hindered in their attempts to solve it or follow up on leads property,"
Greg Higdon of the SPD said.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Springfield Police Captain Higdon brought a fresh set of
eyes to the case in 2001.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"It's very intimidating, I mean there were at that time
5,000 plus leads, going in a variety of different directions," Higdon
said.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Higdon re-interviewed family members and friends and combed
through evidence.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Before his promotion in 2006, he had filed more than 400 new
reports on the case.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"There were some that came in that were good leads,
other leads were maybe not a lot of information: Maybe a sighting or, 'I think
this person did it' or that person, but not much to go on," Higdon said.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I think we did everything we probably could, but you
never know what you might have missed. That's always in the back of your
mind," Worsham said.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Worsham says in later years as sheriff of Webster County he
still followed leads on the missing women.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">And, even in his retirement, as he hears of other missing
persons cases, many of the memories come back.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I think about this case every day, today. Back in June
the 7th, 1992 is when it started," Asher said.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Each investigator has their own theories, only parts of
which they are willing to share.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I firmly believe one of them was being stalked for
sometime before the crime was ever committed," Worsham said.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I personally believe we have talked to that person or
persons responsible," Asher said.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">While the answers are still unknown, the investigators agree
someone out there has the missing pieces.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I will tell ya, that every person on the department
when I was there, I retired in 95, will be thrilled, and everyone involved in
this case since then will be ecstatic, that it would be resolved," Asher
said.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As we continue this in-depth look at the case leading up to
June 7, we will spend time Friday night examining the numerous false leads that
frustrated investigators.</span></div>
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<h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
A Quarter Century of
Questions: The Disappearance of the 3 Missing Women</h4>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">By: David Oliver<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Link: <a href="http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/a-quarter-century-of-questions-the-disappearance-of-the-3-missing-women/728320221" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/a-quarter-century-of-questions-the-disappearance-of-the-3-missing-women/728320221</span></a>
</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Posted: May 31, 2017 10:07 PM CDT </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Updated: May 31, 2017 10:20 PM CDT</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">SPRINGFIELD,Mo. -- Twenty-five years ago a missing persons
case would unravel in Springfield that remains a mystery, prompting a quarter
century of questions.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It was June 7, 1992, when Stacy McCall, Sherrill Levitt and
Suzie Streeter would vanish without a trace. The three missing women case has
perplexed people for years. It's perhaps Springfield's coldest case.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We're going to revisit many aspects of this story over the
next several nights as we hit the quarter century mark of the women's
disappearance. Up first, a look back at what happened that night through
the memories of a mother.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Stacy this is your mom. Please call me at home.
Bye," says Janis McCall in a 1992 phone message.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Phone messages of concern that would grow into fear on the
night of June 7, 1992. That night 18-year-old Stacy McCall and
19-year-old Suzie Streeter graduated from Kickapoo High School.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"After all the graduation stuff we went out to eat.
And, then Stacy went home with us and she immediately started changing clothes
and I said, wait, you can't change clothes yet, we've got pictures out
back" recalls Janis McCall, Stacy's mother.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Stacy would oblige her mother's photo request, then met up
with Streeter so the two could attend planned parties to celebrate
graduation. After making several stops, the girls returned to Streeter's
home that she shared with her mother, Sherrill Levitt. But from that
night on, Levitt, Streeter and McCall would never be heard from again.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"We had no idea there was a crime scene there, you know
that you don't expect it you're looking for your daughter and trying to find
out what happened" says McCall.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Janis McCall recalls going to Levitt's home 25 years ago and
finding the purses of all three women. There was no sign of a struggle, only a
broken glass bulb over the front porch light. Police believe the three women went
missing sometime between 2:30 a.m. and 8:00 a.m.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I remember when the police department came up and two
officers came in. And I explained what was going on. And I walked them through
the house. So, the officers said we're going to go outside and discuss this and
look around a little bit. And they looked all around the house and kind of down
the street a little bit. And when they came back in they said we're going to
file this as a missing persons case, foul play suspected" says McCall.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Janis McCall immediately began calling radio and tv stations
to spread word about the missing women. She made posters with pleas to help
bring the women home.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I don't remember if it was that day or night that the
crime scene van was pulled in front of Suzie and Sherrill's house and that
yellow tape was put up saying crime scene. And not to enter," says McCall.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">From that day on Janis McCall and her family were in
constant contact with police, tracking down leads and fielding phone calls with
tips that would most often lead nowhere.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"I remember the different calls that they would say
they had seen them. They said they had seen Stacy driving a little red sports
car down Battlefield. Well it wasn't Stacy it was our oldest daughter. I
remember calls that said they were cut up into pieces. I remember one
that said they were fed to the hogs. You know horrifying things for a mom to
hear," says McCall.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCall went on to establish a network called One Missing
Link. It aimed to help other families with a missing loved one. It's not as
active today and she doesn't visit the police station as much anymore either.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But just as she's done all these years, Janis McCall still
holds out hope that one day we might learn the truth about what really happened
to Springfield's three missing women.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"If the police still follow every lead that comes in
and follow it to ends end one of these days we are going to find out because
somebody knows. The only thing my gut can say is that three women are missing.
They disappeared without a trace, I have no idea where they went, who took
them. You know I would absolutely love it if one of them called me" says
McCall. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Janis McCall says at one time all 32 detectives employed by
the Springfield Police Department were in someway dedicated to the case of the
three missing women. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We have several reports coming up over the next several
nights as we mark a quarter century of this cold case. We'll hear from
some of the original investigators, we'll look at false leads over the years,
and we'll hear from journalists about what it was like to cover the case of the
three missing women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">June 07, 2017 7:00 AM</span></div>
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<h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
25 years and no trace
of 3 Missouri women: ‘People aren’t supposed to just disappear’</h4>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Link: <a href="http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article154750499.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article154750499.html</span></a> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 11px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">By Max Londberg | </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">jlondberg@kcstar.com a</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">nd Laura Bauer | </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">lbauer@kcstar.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Springfield </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In the entryway of a southside bar hangs a tattered missing
persons flyer, preserved in its torn and yellowed state by laminate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Back in the summer of 1992, this flyer was one of thousands
that blanketed the Ozarks. They hung in barbershops and grocery stores, gas
stations and rest areas, any place where people could see them. Many were a
bright yellow then with the word “Missing,” and they implored everyone to help
bring home Sherrill Levitt, her daughter Suzie Streeter and friend Stacy
McCall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Today, on what marks a quarter century since the Springfield
women disappeared, this flyer inside Coyote’s Adobe Cafe & Bar is one of
the few that remain, its faded print proof that this southwest Missouri city
hasn’t forgotten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">And Stacy’s mother says she can feel it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“There are still so many people who know about it,” Janis
McCall told The Star. “They come up to me, they talk about them. And it makes
me feel good when I know people are still caring.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It was June 7, 1992, when the three women vanished. The
three haven’t been heard from since that day when friends showed up at Levitt’s
home on East Delmar Street and found a broken porch light. Little else seemed
out of place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">All three of the women’s cars were parked out front. Their
purses and keys were inside the small white home. A smoker, Sherrill, 47, had
left her cigarettes behind. And Stacy, 18, who battled migraines, hadn’t taken
along her medication.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The young women, friends who had graduated from Kickapoo
High School the day before, had already gotten ready for bed. Then they, along
with Levitt, just disappeared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A lack of evidence or any real sign of foul play has
frustrated a long line of detectives who have taken their turn at trying to
solve the mystery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“How do you wrap your head around three people literally
disappearing? With no idea where they went?” said Sgt. Todd King, who started
at the police department in 1994 and remembers as a rookie taking reports from
people who had information they thought would be helpful. “In a lot of cold
cases, you can look back and say this is probably what occurred, you just can’t
prove it. With this case, it’s anything goes. Anything could have happened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“You don’t have anything that says they were abducted, they
were harmed. … It’s this big mystery.”</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">A bench in the Victims
Memorial Garden at Phelps Grove Park is dedicated to the three missing women.
The women’s names and the date of their disappearance are etched in its
surface. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The sergeant now oversees the open investigation, which is
assigned to Detective Scott Hill. Hill works the case and follows up on leads
as they come in. And they still do, about one or two a month. But anymore, many
of them are just rehashes of what came in years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The mystery, too, has worn on the community and residents
who back in the 1990s lived through the anxiety and months of constant
headlines and newscasts about the case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nigel Holderby, now a 44-year-old mother living in Colorado,
was Suzie’s best friend at the time of her disappearance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“We all who love them would love to have answers, would love
to know what happened, would love to have them here with us today,” Holderby
said. “All over this period of time we have wondered every day and every year.
It is mind-blowing to think about, something like that happening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“People aren’t supposed to just disappear.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">That’s how David Bauer feels. He had owned Coyote’s Adobe
Cafe just six months when he promised Janis McCall he wouldn’t take down the
missing poster until her daughter came home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">His own daughter was just 3 years old that summer. And he
couldn’t help but think then what would happen if he had lost her like McCall
had lost Stacy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“She was in such anguish,” Bauer said. “I kind of felt how
she was feeling in her eyes. … It’s burnt into my soul.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Purses left behind </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Stacy’s mother can still see the image of the women’s purses
in her mind. They were at the bottom of the steps leading down to Suzie’s room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So many who lived this case, who have been haunted by it
since, have something about the home or that day that replays in their mind.
For some it’s the busted porch globe or the fact that the two friends had
already gotten ready for bed with their makeup-smeared washcloths in the
hamper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">For McCall, it’s the purses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">They were all lined up: First there was Sherrill’s, then
Suzie’s and Stacy’s was next, sitting on top of Suzie’s overnight bag. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">McCall remembers how things were rolling out of the purses.
And inside Suzie’s room — where the TV was left on — Stacy’s flowered shorts
were folded and put on top of her sandals. Stacy’s jewelry had been tucked
inside the pocket of her shorts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Looking around the house in the night hours of June 7,
McCall and her husband, Stu, knew something wasn’t adding up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The recent graduates weren’t supposed to spend the night
there. They had planned to go to parties that June 6 evening and then, with
others, head to Branson and stay in a hotel. The next morning they’d go to a
water park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">On graduation night, Stacy called her mom at 10:30 and said
she planned to stay with another friend and the group would go to Branson in
the morning. But plans changed again, and Stacy decided to go home with Suzie
and sleep on her new, king-sized waterbed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Suzie led the way to Delmar Street and Stacy followed in her
car.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">When a friend of the two came looking for them the next
afternoon to go to Branson, no one was home. The door was unlocked, and
Cinnamon the family’s Yorkie yapped at the friend’s ankles.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The last known
location of Stacy McCall, Suzie Streeter and Sherrill Levitt is this home on
East Delmar Street. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Initially, no one thought anything bad had happened, they
just wondered where in the world the women had gone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Officers weren’t called to the home until some 10 hours
after friends had discovered the three were gone, King said. By then, a friend
of the girls had swept up the broken glass on the porch as a favor to Levitt.
And nearly a dozen people had been in the home, all walking on carpet and
sitting on chairs and couches. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">All of that hindered police as they began to investigate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">For months, officers searched parks and lakes, woods and
subdivisions. They were told to watch for circling buzzards and to check
foul-smelling trash cans. They followed up when people swore they’d seen the
women at a restaurant or the airport.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“We followed leads, we followed tips — some of them that
were a little extreme,” said Terry Knowles, the Springfield police chief when
the women disappeared. “But we did everything we felt was needed to be done. We
committed untold resources to this case.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But many through the years have criticized Knowles for what
they called his micromanaging of the case. They said he ran the investigation
out of his office rather than allowing his detectives to do their jobs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Knowles, now living out retirement in Kansas, defended his
leadership and the early investigation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“We worked as a unit, as a team at the time,” he said.
“Everyone was committed to this case and we did the best we could.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In the first days, information surfaced about an old Dodge
van. One woman said she saw a young woman driving the van who looked like
Suzie, her face frightened, and heard a man’s voice saying, “Don’t do anything
stupid.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">At one point, police parked a similar van outside
headquarters, asking for help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Today, investigators aren’t sure if the van was actually a
true clue or a distraction that was never part of the case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“I want to say we’re kind of in the same place we were 10
years ago,” King said. “We have those persons of interest, people we can’t rule
out. We’re still looking for those handful of pieces to put in the puzzle that
will help us solve the case. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“It may not be while I’m here, but I do think it will be
solved.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">‘It changes how you view the world’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">After Suzie disappeared, Holderby, then 19, had recurring
nightmares where she frantically searched for her best friend. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The two had met while working at the Town & Country
movie theater in town. Holderby said their bond was immediate, the pair
connecting during their very first shift together in the box office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“You know those people you just meet and it’s like you’ve
known them forever? This is how it was,” she said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">For months after the disappearance, some memory would
surface from their time together, some detail Holderby hadn’t yet shared with
investigators. She’d contact them, desperate to provide the clue that led to
more clues, to a resolution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“As human beings, I feel like we look at all these things
and think, ‘That is the one weird thing, that’s the clue.’ We want to be
helpful and share every little thing,” Holderby said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But clues never materialized. Suzie never returned. Two
years passed, and Holderby had her first child — a daughter that she named
Elizabeth, Suzie’s middle name. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Another two years went by, and Holderby had a second
daughter and named her Suzann, again in memory of her friend. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">She later had a third daughter and raised her children in
Springfield before moving to Colorado nine months ago. The vigilance with which
she parented is because of Suzie, and Stacy, and Sherrill, and how they all
simply vanished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“My kids will probably say I’m crazy overprotective and
overbearing. I never let them have any fun. But when you lose something like
that, it changes how you view the world,” she said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Holderby keeps two photos of Suzie, placed on a bookshelf in
her dining room. One is Suzie’s senior photo, placed in front of another
picture of Holderby’s three children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The other was taken June 6, 1992, hours before the women
disappeared and the last time Holderby saw Suzie and Sherrill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“I took her a (graduation) cake, and her mom took a picture
of us together,” she said.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Suzie Streeter (left)
and Nigel Holderby (right) celebrated Suzie’s graduation with James Cornelison
on June 6, 1972, hours before Suzie disappeared. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Others in the community may be less familiar with the case,
but still it creeps into their minds on occasion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“It kind of looms over,” said Kaitlin Baker, 24, a mother of
two young children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“I wish they would solve it. … You think about it sometimes.
You’re like, ‘Wow, there were three girls — three of them and they still got
taken.’”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">‘They deserve to be remembered’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Before students at Springfield’s Kickapoo High headed into
summer this year, their school’s magazine, KHQ Today, ran a lengthy piece about
those who have simply become known as The Three Missing Women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Student Tony Madden, who wrote the article with Magdelaine
Mueller, grew up knowing about the case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But too many students and teachers, he discovered, didn’t
know what had happened in the summer of 1992. It’s why he wanted to write the
story, which has been shared on social media 2,000 times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“As so many years go by we kind of forget it’s a big deal,”
said Madden, whose journalism adviser graduated with Stacy and Suzie. “I wanted
the students at Kickapoo High School to know we hadn’t forgotten. … I think we
forget that each is a person not just a missing person.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It’s one reason McCall wants people to gather Wednesday
night inside Springfield’s Victims Memorial Garden. She plans to have people
share stories about each of the women and talk about who they were not what
happened to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“They deserve to be remembered,” McCall said. “But let’s
remember the fun things, not the dark and dreary. Let’s not remember how I felt
back then, not remember that I used to get in the shower and cry.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">She plans to share a few stories about her daughter. Maybe
the one where the family went out to eat the night before her graduation and
instead of filling a bowl full of ice cream, she loaded it with gummy bears. Or
maybe the one when she was a toddler and continued to say she was sick so she
could go see the doctor she liked so much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">For years, McCall insisted she had hope that her daughter
would come home. She’d be different, but she’d be home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This year, a quarter century after she last saw her
daughter, she admits that “facing reality has become more prominent.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“It’s been 25 years and I know the chances of finding her
are slim to none,” McCall said. “It’s not good to keep going on, thinking she’s
going to come home every day.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Max Londberg: 816-234-4378, @MaxLondberg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Laura Bauer: 816-234-4944, @kclaurab</span></div>
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