Springfield Three

In the early morning hours of June 7, 1992, three women disappeared from the home of 47-year-old Sherrill Levitt at 1717 East Delmar Street in Springfield, Missouri. Sherrill's 19-year-old daughter, Suzanne 'Suzie' Streeter, and Suzie's friend Stacy McCall (also 19) had attended graduation parties the night before and came to Sherrill's home to sleep. When friends came to the house the next morning, all three women were gone.

The house showed no signs of forced entry or struggle, though the front porch light's glass globe was broken and found on the front steps. All three women's purses, including their identification, money, and keys, were inside the house. Their cars were in the driveway. Sherrill's small dog was inside, frightened but unharmed. The television was on. It appeared the women had left—or been taken—suddenly and without any of their belongings.

The Springfield Police Department and FBI conducted an enormous investigation, interviewing thousands of people and following hundreds of leads. The broken porch light became a key piece of evidence, with some theorizing it was used to lure one of the women outside. A disturbing answering machine message that was accidentally deleted by a friend who used the phone before police arrived may have contained crucial evidence.

Over the years, theories have focused on a grave-robber who was in the area, a van spotted near the house, and various individuals connected to the Springfield criminal underworld. In 2007, the parking garage of a hospital built near the Levitt home was the subject of ground-penetrating radar testing, but nothing was found. Despite being one of the most investigated missing person cases in Missouri history, no bodies have been recovered, no suspects have been charged, and the fate of the Springfield Three remains completely unknown.