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friends and family of 19-year-old Suzanne streer and 18-year-old Stacy McCall say it's not like them to just
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leave and not tell anyone where they're going she calls and lets me know where she's going to be she's never missed
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work she's a very conscientious young woman we're questioning everybody at this time friends relatives anyone that
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has the information anyone that may have seen them last neighbors we've done neighborhood canas we're just checking
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every lead we can at this time the last time anyone saw Susan streer or Stacy McCall was over the weekend at this
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house in Battlefield the girls had gathered here with some friends after graduating from kapoo high school on
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Saturday they left here early Sunday morning uh they said they were going to the other girls house and they were
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going to be spending the night there and they called me in the morning so we could go to White
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waterer and I called they never called me in the morning so I called them and I called and I called and called and I got
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no answer so I went over there and they weren't there this is Suzanne streeter's
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mom Cheryl love it she's also missing last scene at her daughter's graduation ceremony at Hammond Student Center on
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Saturday she lived in this house on East delmare in Springfield that's where police found the three missing women's
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cars authorities say there was no sign of a struggle in fact the front door was unlocked the TV was on their clothes
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were were still there their purses and personal items untouched her jewelry and things were left in her purse her makeup
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is there an 18-year-old girl that's very proud about the way she looks wears her
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makeup and looks nice and she doesn't go out just wearing a t-shirt or in her pants Springfield police have notified
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law enforcement agencies in the surrounding area and in neighboring states hoping someone will have an idea
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of what happened to these three women over the weekend in Springfield Missouri I'm mty schisler for NBC
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[Music] News June 6th 1992 in Springfield Missouri we have Stacy McCall and Suzanne streer had just graduated high
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school and they were going around to some different graduation parties at their friends houses now now they were
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they had a school event which was going to be one of those sober type lockin graduation parties they decided they
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didn't want to go to this they were planning much bigger things they were out with with a bunch of their friends
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and one of their friends was Janelle Kirby now the girls were planning to go to a hotel and stay the night that night
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M they were planning a big day the next morning the idea was that they would stay the night at the hotel which was
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right by the White Waters water park and Silver Dollar City which is an amusement
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park so they wanted to stay there and join with what what sounds to be like friends or many people from their school
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at the water park or the amusement park the next day for whatever reason this plan falls through and now they're going
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to go to plan B which they're going to stay at Janelle Kirby's house so back to Janelle's right but the girls Stacy and
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Suzanne they don't end up staying the night there either no it it sounds like Janelle already had a full house with
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several out of town relatives staying at her home home yeah it seems like they were planning on St staying at Janelle's
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house but because a family member kind of just dropped by unexpectedly M their house was packed and they would had to
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sleep on the floor and so they kind of thought well we don't want to sleep on the floor let's go over to my mother's
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house so they decide to go to Susie's streeters house and now Susie lives with her mother Cheryl levette Cheryl is
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divorced from su's father I I don't know the date of the divorce but it sounds like it might have been somewhat recent
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to 1992 because Cheryl had just recently purchased the home that they were living
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in and the two had been living there only a short time right so Stacy and Susie leave Janelle's place around 2
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a.m. they were last seen on Battlefield Road around 2:30 a.m. but it is believed
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that the two arrived safely at su's and Cheryl's home this is on East delmare Street now earlier that night Cheryl was
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last heard from around 11 or 11:30 p.m. mm she had stayed at home that night and
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we know she was we she was safe because she had spoken to a friend on the phone and the call had lasted or ended until
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about 11: 11:30 that night the next morning people are going to start trying to make contacts with people because
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they have that big day at the water park kind of a celebration for graduating high school yeah so around 8:00 a.m.
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friends of Stacy and Susie they start calling Susie's house um they were still planning even though they didn't go to
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the hotel they're still planning on going to the water park going to Silver Dollar City with lots of friends well
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these friends started calling around 8:00 a.m. to play the trip but or to meet up and make their way to the water
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park together right well much to everyone's surprise there's no answer at Susie's home and all the friends all
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their phone calls go unanswered and some of these friends are waiting around on Susie and Stacy before they will leave
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for the water park one of the girls that was calling was Janelle remember Janelle
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well she she said she had called several times and even left two messages on the
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answering machine so after the phone calls now I I got to believe that the friends probably were just thinking that
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the girls had overslept we know they got in very late that night yeah so Janelle
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Kirby and her boyfriend Mike decide to go over to su's so they can hurry up and get everybody together and leave for the
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big gathering at the water park again this is 1992 so it's it's way different than it is today uh you would this would
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be more common that people would stop by your house randomly it might be a Friday
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night you might never get a phone call from somebody you would they would just swing
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by the house to see what you're doing yeah and some of the younger people might not get this but you know you
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didn't back then you didn't have a cell phone strapped to you 24/7 so sometimes you would make plans with people and
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even if you didn't hear from them you would just follow through with those plans anyway assuming that they would be
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where they said they would be and and if if they weren't and you didn't hear from
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somebody you just had to kind of carry on and hope that you bumped into them right I mean I carried two cell phones
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and three beepers but that's cuz I'm Gangsta so Janelle and Mike they arrived just after 9 a.m. when the two arrived
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they first noticed that three cars are parked out in front of the house each of the girls Stacy and Susie they had their
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own car and Cheryl's car was there as well Janelle and Mike approached the front door to the house and they noticed
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that the porch light is broken this is the first time that they've actually been to the house even though they were
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really good friends but that's because the mom just purchased the house mhm and I'll describe this broken porch light
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real quickly because I do think that this is important uh they see broken glass on the front doorstep the casing
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to the porch light was broken the the glass globe but the light bulb itself it's not broken uh the two of them grab
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a broom and sweep up the broken glass they knock on the front door a few times there's no answer and they find that the
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door is unlocked now I I kind of brush through that real quickly because there are several accounts of this part of the
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timeline some say that the friends knocked on the door and found it to be unlocked some
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say that the front door was open I include both because this may be a detail that some want to ponder and I
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was trying to decide which one was correct um I guess I could be convinced either way because I find it a little
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strange that the kids would clean up the broken glass while the door is already open you know it seems to me like you
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would kind of yell inside and hey you know what's going on here sty yeah hey people that I'm looking for there's
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broken glass out front um but the the accounts that state that the door was open these are all kind of locals
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reporting this and and you know I have a tendency of of leaning towards what the
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locals report and what we find in the local newspapers there and yeah this was a nice gesture that they claim that
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they're making but this is also back in the day where other people's parents would yell at you yeah I I think back
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then the the attitude was definitely more it takes a village to raise a child than it is nowadays and and you're right
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other parents friends of your your your friends parents seemed almost like your parents at times too they would tell you
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what to do they would correct you they'd BOS you yeah it was kind of their house
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their rules and also if you got in trouble at your buddy's house you normally got in trouble at your house MH
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well I'm getting the vibe here in this story that Janelle might have been pretty close to to suie and therefore
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you remember how it was if you were close with your friend and and visited often and I know this was new home but
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maybe she had some kind of that kind of relationship with Susie's mother as well
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yeah there was definitely a different Dynamic when you had to a single parent home mhm so they enter the home and when
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they get in there they're calling out the girls names and no one apparently is there um once inside they realized that
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the TV is left on and it's not on like a channel that you would watch it's it's just on like the old black white and
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gray screen you know the the the fuzz is what some people would call it mhm uh the dog seems to be upset uh the dog's
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name is cinnamon cinnamon is one of those little Terrier dogs well the dog's upset because of the bad name well
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apparently the dog was upset enough to the point where Janelle said that the dog wanted to be held um they they would
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end up finding the lady's purses all three of them along with their cigarettes I guess two of them were
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smokers uh and they find the lady's jewelry and makeup at the house as well um so it appears that the the home is
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empty the dog is upset the door may have been open or not there's broken glass on
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the front porch and it appears that not only are the women not there but all their personal belongings that you would
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expect to accompany these women remained at the house with their vehicles as well
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right but you don't see any blood and you don't see any like other than the broken glass on that dome light look for
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all Janelle knew they were just running to the hardware store to get a new you know glass GL for the the lamp out front
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and then they're going to be back in a little bit there was no sign of breaking and entering right so no sign of a
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struggle right right and Janelle would later tell the police that they actually assumed that the girls had just simply
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continued on with their plans of going to the water park uh they also stated that they that the beds appeared to have
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been slept in um you know I don't know if that means that somebody actually slept there some people don't I don't
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make my bed every single day you should um don't tell my mother but like we said
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before the time of cell phones you just carried on with your plans and assumed people would be where they said they
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would be so Mike and Janelle decide that they're going to leave the home and they're going to continue on with their
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plans make their way to the water park uh but just as they are walking out the front door the phone rings and Janelle
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answers the phone and she hears a male voice and the man is saying gross sexual stuff to her uh Janelle is disgusted by
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the caller and she hangs up the phone as soon as she hangs up the phone the phone
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begins to ring again and Janelle picks up the phone and again it's the same guy and he's he's kind of just picking up
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right where he left off and again it's with the sex stuff uh Janelle and Mike were convinced the calls were probably
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pranks uh Janelle hangs up the phone and the two of them they leave and they continue with their planned day of going
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to the water Park in the amusement park was a guy that called Frank Rizzo that's
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r i z zo O next we have Stacy McCall's mother Janice uh she had been waiting to hear from Stacy most of the day oh
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Janice she assumed Stacy was at Janelle's house uh unaware of the changing plans a relative of Janice's
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she informs her let's take a little bit of a back step because when they were going to stay at the hotel the night
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before mhm a lot of the parents weren't too on this no and I I can't imagine that they would be that they you know
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our daughters just graduating high school and they're going to stay by themselves in a hotel room unsupervised
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who know who knows what's going to go there probably going to be a lot of boys there lots of drinking so when those
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plans changed they were kind of happy that they didn't stay there yeah relieved but now that but she's kind of
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confused on okay well why did they not stay at Janelle's house why are they staying here so then she start cuz you
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know in the back of her head she's thinking well what boy's house did they actually stay at what boy house or did
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they end up going to the hotel anyway right um yeah and and you can imagine that's that's parents' job you know when
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when your kid changes plans and it's a big deal I think to go and stay at somebody else's house without informing
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your mother or father of where you're going and and it can be you know could be dangerous dangerous and it makes
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makes the parents worry uh but a relative of Janice's she tells them that the girls did not uh stay at Janelle's
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that they actually departed Janelle's home uh quite late in the night and that they stayed at su's instead now remember
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we had said that Cheryl and Susie had recently moved into the home so Janice had to track down the address of this
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new home and she did this using the local phone book Janice goes to the home once she's acquired the address this
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would be almost 12 hours after Janelle and Mike had been there Janice sees basically the same scene you know she
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arrives the the door is unlocked M uh the TV is on all the purses makeup jewelry they're all there uh and Janice
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you know she's at this point she's overly Con well I shouldn't say overly concerned she's very concerned about
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where her daughter could be it's been almost a full day since she's heard from her and so she decides to play the
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messages so you know remember the answering machine had the little blinking red light and that light would
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that so much fun that thing would call your name though and and for those that that don't remember the brink the
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blinking red light this is how important that answering machine was people you you might have plans for the evening
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between work and and in those plans you would make a point to drive by your house just to hit that button to see who
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had called for you during the day while you were gone and I understand that like
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nobody calls each other anymore but back in the day it was a big deal to get your
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answering machine and set it up and create your answering machine message Mage yeah it was a it was a big deal
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yeah and you get home from work and you see that blinking red light and you're like okay uh is this going to be a bill
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collector or is this like a friend that says hey let's go to get some wings and beer tonight well many moons ago when we
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shared a apartment uh we would save all cuz it was your answering machine but we'd save all the messages that we
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thought were funny M so we had like this compilation tape and so we' just get really drunk some nights and just listen
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to it over and over well and we had a couple friends that that when they would sit at home and have a few beers you
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know if they found themselves by themselves that night they they would call other people's phones and leave
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long messages and and we had um one friend The Geek and we won't use his real name but uh we've never used his
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real name he's been the geek since I don't know that that some of the friends even know his real name but he used to
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leave the best messages and a lot of times it would just be he would call your home and then he would put his
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phone up to like the speaker on and he would just play some song and you would you you would listen to a 5minute
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song hoping that there was some kind of message at some point after about five or six of these things you realize that
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it's just the geek leaving a a full length song for your enjoyment rather than any information for you at all so
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this red light was just kind of staring at her tempting her and uh Janice became
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nosy Nancy yeah and that that was my thought in the beginning my first initial reaction was wow this is kind of
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you know that's personal breaking the line of privacy there uh listening to the messages but on at the same time
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this is her 18-year-old daughter she's not heard from her she's been told by other people that she was staying at
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this home her car's out front you know and as well as the other women's cars are out front as well she said she had a
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strange feeling about the whole the whole scene and she decided that you know maybe it was a crossing the line of
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privacy there but she took on her motherly job there I'm saying motherly job and played the messages mhm uh when
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she did though um she played the messages and accidentally erased them um rather than saving them right uh which
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this is terrible because good job Janice she she recalls that there were several
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messages on there um some of them were from friends that were calling you know to try to make plans for that day uh but
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one of the message was messages was also from a mail caller and unidentified mail
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caller and he's he's doing the sex stuff on the phone um during this message and
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she said it it creeped her out yeah and you'd think this is just such an odd thing to hear on an answering machine
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mhm well she she unintentionally erased the messages um she's freaked out at this point and Janice using the landline
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phone at the residence calls the police department and reported all three women missing um that night
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you know she she can't rest at this point uh that night using photos just taken the day before at the graduation
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right Janice started making missing persons Flyers uh the following day police asked Janice if she could track
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down dental records for her daughter just in case they found something so you know doesn't sound like they're very
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optimistic at this point right no uh but that's a scary request when you when you're already frightened and worried
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and then it gets even more real when the police ask for the dental records of your kid and you're celebrating
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something that is so big or so Monumental in a young kid's life I mean the biggest thing that probably happens
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to you in high school is when you actually graduate well and you're not only graduating from school but you're
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also kind of graduating into adulthood as well at the same time now I want to be clear here though she called Janice
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calls the police reports them missing uh this would be late Sunday night um the police do not arrive that night to to
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look through the house or you know take note of anything going on and it's not until I believe the following day that
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later on Monday that they end up going to the house now the police they're they're not certain but they believe
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that as many as maybe 10 people had been in or around the house uh before they had got there to to kind of make their
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observations right so this is kind of tampering the the the crime scene yeah and and it's a strange crime scene isn't
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it I mean there's it's almost like they it's almost like they just disappeared with whatever they were wearing at the
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time you know um Stacy's mother says that that some of Stacy's clothes were were still at the house um yeah it seems
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like all of her clothes were at the house except for uh t-shirt and panties were underwear and so then there was
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also like where uh in the bathroom there was where they would take off their makeup so there was like now that could
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have been from two nights before but let's just assume that like maybe they found evidence in the trash so it seemed
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like they made it there mhm they were um you know changing and getting ready to go to sleep for their big day at the
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park the next day and then even the mother which would normally you know would have her smokes in the family room
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she was an avid smoker and she would smoke in the family room and then when it was time to go to bed she'd take her
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cigarettes and go to her room and her cigarettes were in her room so it seemed like all three ladies were turning in
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for the night and there was some evidence of that so then what happened after that yeah the the the people there
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said that the beds appeared to have been slept in maybe maybe all three of them were in their beds at some point in the
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night when when somebody came into the house right so basically we have this window pretty much between 2:00 and 8:00
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mhm that of what's going on yeah and and the the other thing too is with with the
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TV the TV's on which is a strange thing and it's on a channel that nobody would watch you know it's not like it's not
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like late at night remember when the channel would just shut you know you would have things for viewing and then
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at like 2: in the morning it would just go to that fuzzy screen for a couple of hours and then it would pick up where it
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left off that's other thing like any of the young listeners are going to go what
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no that seriously there was this time this is showing us we should have never covered this case this showing how old
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we are well we were we were younger than uh just to throw that out there we were
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younger than Stacy and Susie but we were old enough to remember all this stuff yeah but there was this time where it
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was like the the evening news and then maybe a couple shows and then about 10:00 11:00 the the St station would
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just go blank yeah you know and some of the more popular channels might might last till 2: in the morning but there
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would be like an hour or two where it was nothing it was just a fuzz and but but when when the people that go into
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the house find this TV on it's at a time where there should be programming on so
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it's almost like it was turned to a channel remember you'd have a TV that might have 20 some channels on it but
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you would only actually have things to watch on seven or eight of those channels right um it was depressing time
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so it was almost like it was turned to a channel that had nothing on it ever and
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the other thing too is that I've heard that it was stated that that Stacy's clothes not only were they there but
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they appeared to have been like folded up neatly like like you you kind of would just before going to bed and you
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kind of place them on the floor or on top of a dresser and they're there for you the next day cuz you're staying at a
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friends and you're just going to throw on the the clothes again um and the other strange thing that that we've seen
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here too is that it was stated that all three of the women's purses were all found in the same room like sitting next
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to one another kind of lined up together which you wouldn't expect to see a little strange yeah you wouldn't expect
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to see the girls keeping the purses in the mother's room or the mother in the girl's room but I think the big key
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piece of evidence is that there's you know there's evidence that there's clothes left behind so that possibly
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some of the girls weren't wearing fully clothed so they wouldn't leave on their own and why would you leave on the your
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own all the cars are there all your purses are there then you got the cigarettes there not saying that she
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couldn't have another pack of cigarettes but I think all those things are telling
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that these girls just dis dis they didn't disappear I think anytime there's a mer missing person case you have to
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kind of go through that laundry list of well do we think they committed suicide no you there's no evidence of that that
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would seem kind of strange that all you know logically my brain is going there's
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three people they didn't just go out into the field and decide to commit suicide we never found any bodies or
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they didn't just they didn't just hop in a car and decide to leave town together
00:28:20
either right because why would they do that when they're and leave your purses behind and your identification and all
00:28:26
that stuff doesn't make a lot of logical sense so everything is kind of gearing towards Foul Play Now the thing here is
00:28:34
I I have read several accounts that Cheryl was a uh very hard worker um and very good at her job as well and I
00:28:42
believe that the police may have found a decent amount of money in Cheryl's purse
00:28:48
cash money in her purse right um I have heard that it was several hundreds of dollars so we don't see the we don't see
00:28:56
the house being ransacked and then furthermore somebody didn't even take the time to look through the purses to
00:29:03
snatch the cash money out possibly not a robbery no not not like a home invasion
00:29:08
robbery situation this is more of a I'm going to go into the home and abduct these people mhm let's get more into
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[Music] all right welcome back to True Crime gay Ridge uh cheers mates we're covering the
00:31:47
Springfield 3 it's a case that I've actually heard of a lot but mainly because listeners have said hey you guys
00:31:53
need to cover this case mhm well a few days days go by after The Disappearance of the three women and at first there
00:32:01
are no leads there's nothing pointing towards answers to the whereabouts of Cheryl Susie and Stacy until the
00:32:08
Springfield police received an interesting tip uh this is a young waitress working at a place called
00:32:14
George's breakfast mhm uh this is a favorite restaurant of Cheryl and su's this waitress claimed to have seen
00:32:22
the three missing women the night of their disappearance and she states that she saw them between the hours of 1: and
00:32:29
3:00 a.m. the police start checking into this information and were able to find some of the other customers that would
00:32:36
have been at the restaurant during these hours MH uh to try to you know either help this this story this information or
00:32:45
to kind of dismiss it and sadly the waitress's statement could not be corroborated and was officially
00:32:52
considered uncredible um some of those other people didn't claim to have seen them at that time and this really makes
00:32:59
a lot of sense to me right because we we have Susie and Stacy they were said to have left janel's at 2 a.m. and they
00:33:06
were spotted driving around 2:30 a.m. this is not leaving a lot of time for the three of them to have been at the
00:33:14
restaurant between the hours of 1: and 3:00 a.m. and anytime a person goes missing and in this case it seems like
00:33:20
there's probably Foul Play We have to take a look at the families yes with with no answers to work on the police
00:33:28
started digging into the backgrounds of the three women they were able to shake loose some interesting tidbits that
00:33:34
could be beneficial to their case uh one such possible lead was Bart streer the son of Cheryl levette and the older
00:33:43
brother by 9 years of Suzie mhm looking into his past they were able to discover
00:33:49
problems between Bart and his mother at one point several years before 1992 Bart
00:33:56
he was eventually kicked out of the house uh he seemed like he had a drinking problem yes he he had a
00:34:02
frequent drinking problem Bart would often drink to excess almost daily mhm Bart was out on his own you know Liv the
00:34:11
rumor was he was going to start a true crime podcast in a garage where he drinks beer um Bart was out living on
00:34:18
his own for almost 10 years um and he he ended up back in Springfield Missouri uh
00:34:25
this would be in the fall of 1991 because of a rough breakup and a falling out with his
00:34:30
girlfriend once back in town Bart tried to reconnect with his mother and his sister at some point his sister suszie
00:34:39
moves in with him uh but that didn't last too long you know it's it's it's a difficult thing to adjust to being
00:34:46
single again and apparently Bart had plenty of heartache and this kind of resurrected his alcohol issues well also
00:34:54
she's just a senior in high school mhm and so and this was maybe a little more common early 9s but but not super common
00:35:04
well I wouldn't expect it to be super common and I actually found it a little weird at first when I when I found out
00:35:10
that oh she lived with her brother but but then I got to thinking about the situation she was 19 when she
00:35:16
disappeared so she could have potentially been living with Bart when she was already legally an adult right
00:35:22
so she didn't really need her parents to make the decision for her yeah and and we we we know that Cheryl and her
00:35:30
recently had moved into that home and we know that Cheryl went through a divorce
00:35:35
so once I started thinking about all of that information I started not so strange yeah not strange because we
00:35:40
don't know what the living arrangements would have been beforehand you know if if Cheryl was living with a friend or
00:35:46
living with her parents or or it was a you know a crowded home that that Su Susie was living in maybe she saw an
00:35:52
opportunity like you know and you know at that age too if you're 18 and your brother brother's in his you know he's 9
00:35:58
years older so he's in his late 20s you think oh not it'd be cool to live with my brother you know plus he he knows
00:36:05
where the booze is I can be friends with the guy you know what I mean and I can see a little bit what it's like to live
00:36:10
as as an adult and feel like an adult plus can you imagine being a senior in high school and you you don't live with
00:36:17
your parents you know like you'd be the cool kid right so I I don't know what the intentions were but it once I
00:36:23
started thinking about the the arrangements it might not have been that strange I was in jazz band there's
00:36:29
there's no help for me to be the cool kid no chance you couldn't go live with the older brother and throw parties at
00:36:34
the place huh right and again so they end up having a falling out and she goes back to living with the mother yeah it
00:36:40
sounds like that it almost got to a physical altercation between the brother and sister um you know and those those
00:36:48
situations don't always work out especially when you have a time gap of like nine years apart and Bart's been
00:36:54
away for almost 10 years at this point uh he was Bart was considered a suspect early on in this investigation right and
00:37:03
it but he was pretty quickly ruled out um he claims that he was at his own home that night and that he had drank too
00:37:13
much and passed out and that was basically his his Alibi doesn't sound like a solid super solid Alibi to me
00:37:20
yeah but I think it was uh cooperated with um NE neighbors yeah which which makes a lot of sense because the police
00:37:28
basically say well he was he was a suspect early on once we found out the you know what was going on in their
00:37:33
relationship but he was quickly you know taken off the list of of suspects um and
00:37:40
I think you're right and and you can actually there are interviews with Bart to this day and you can you can tell
00:37:46
he's heartbroken by this whole situation he's very willing to talk to any documentary I think this was on
00:37:51
disappeared maybe okay um maybe a 48 hour special but he's always involved and you can really tell like you know he
00:37:59
he has a a hatred to whoever he might might think did this so I don't know I I I think he was a guy that maybe had a
00:38:09
little bit of a problem with the hooch early on but doesn't seem like he struggles with that now well and and a
00:38:16
guy in his 20s drinking too much is not too hard to believe and on top of that the other thing that I saw Captain is
00:38:23
you know not only a hatred for whoever destroyed his family but the I almost feel like he's got a little bit of guilt
00:38:31
like like he's got some guilt that he's been carrying around because his sister did live with him for a while and maybe
00:38:37
he he thinks that had I just not been you know had I been able to keep it together and keep her living with me
00:38:44
maybe this wouldn't have happened at all or at the very least it wouldn't have happened to my sister well and a lot of
00:38:50
times when you're in your late teens or or 20s you you do have little fallouts with your parents and so he had you know
00:38:57
kind of a tough relationship with his mom and his sister and I think you know he probably thought well look some of
00:39:03
that stuff you're going to grow out of you know I I I couldn't tell you the last I mean it's not that my parents
00:39:08
don't annoy the [ __ ] out of me they do but uh I couldn't tell you the last time
00:39:12
I've had a big argument with them MH well things get a little more interesting here because you know the
00:39:20
the police are still investigating the backgrounds of the three women and that's when they find another lead and
00:39:26
that lead is Susie's ex-boyfriend this is Dustin recka now he and his friends Michael clay and Joseph rle uh they're
00:39:36
all considered suspects because when Susie and Dustin were dating Dustin and Michael got into some trouble and they
00:39:44
they were charged with vandalizing a maoam uh I I apologize I misspoke Joseph was with them as well the the three were
00:39:52
charged with felony in institutional vandalism the three broke into a maum at the
00:39:59
Springfield's Maple Park Cemetery on February 21st 1992 and they were accused of stealing a
00:40:08
skull and some bones now police said that Dustin sold 26 g of gold teeth fillings that he had took from the skull
00:40:17
that they they stole out of the the cemetery right uh he sold this gold to a Springfield pawn shop for $30
00:40:27
now the the pawn shop owner maybe there should be a rule with pawn shops like if
00:40:31
somebody comes in with gold teeth you just uh you're not allowed to buy those right know like I don't know where you
00:40:38
got those or at least ask them to smile so you can verify that they have all of their teeth and now you need to be
00:40:44
concerned that but open up your mouth cupcake I want to see but we got to give credit where credit is due my friend
00:40:51
because the the pawn shop owner he purchased these teeth for $30 and then he called the police and said guess what
00:40:59
this guy Dustin showed up with some gold teeth you might want to might want to check him out only out 30 bucks if it
00:41:05
doesn't turn into something exactly well what ended up happening was uh Suzanne streer ended up giving a statement to
00:41:11
the officers investigating the vandalism she gave the statement on March 5th 1992
00:41:17
and in the statement uh she really basically just pointed to the three boys being guilty and of course this ended
00:41:25
their relationship right later there were multiple later there were multiple reports about
00:41:32
Michael clay remember he's one of the friends of Dustin saying that this was after the women had disappeared he's
00:41:39
saying I wish all three of the women were dead um and you know so this immediately throws them under the bus
00:41:48
they're already Under Suspicion uh and the other thing too here is they do have an alibi for the night that Cheryl suie
00:41:54
and Stacy disappeared it has never been confirmed however right uh Dustin and Michael and Joseph said that that
00:42:02
evening they claimed to have been at a rock concert that night but other than the word of the three boys the police
00:42:09
are unsure right you're creating your own Alibi by saying well I was with him and he was with me and we're at this
00:42:17
rock concert where there's potentially thousands of people so who you know yeah yes potentially could have been seen by
00:42:24
thousands of people but who recognizes anybody that's a stranger to them at a concert right and if they were at a
00:42:29
concert it was probably like a New Kids on the Block concert yeah oh so basically the police they have no
00:42:38
evidence pointing toward the boys being guilty of The Disappearance wasn't there
00:42:43
some other stuff though too with the skulls up in the in the trees well see I didn't give a lot of weight to that and
00:42:50
I'll tell you why um you're well let's explain what it is you're exactly right there was there was rumors that the boys
00:42:57
were into uh some kind of Satanism and um and mind you this is 92 so this is around the whole uh satanic
00:43:07
Panic time oh it's it's in the height of the satanic panic in my opinion and um so this is one year before West Memphis
00:43:16
Yeah and the thing here is you know they claim to have been at a rock concert so
00:43:20
you know a lot of times you know when we look at somebody like Jason Baldwin okay
00:43:25
he's walking around you know from West Memphis 3 he's walking around daily with Metallica shirts on and we all know what
00:43:31
those old Metallica shirts look like they're skulls and bones and had a picture of Bobby Brown right on it and
00:43:37
snakes and things like that and and maybe older people or people that just don't know better would would point at
00:43:43
the kid and go oh look at the look at the kid in the black shirt with the skulls all the time he's he's a Satanist
00:43:49
and I think that that's maybe what we see here with these three boys now I would I would worry a little more
00:43:56
because of the break into the cemetery that's a that's a very strange thing um and I know boys will be boys and they
00:44:04
and they do some dumb things along the way especially in the teenage years but I don't I don't well I shouldn't say I
00:44:12
don't think I should say I know I would not be comfortable breaking into a cemetery and then handling the remains
00:44:19
of of somebody right cuz let's just be clear about this for a second right they're not digging up bodies they're
00:44:27
not digging up a casket which you know would be a little more effort what they're they're kind of lazy grave
00:44:32
robbers but they're breaking into a place that holds a bunch of caskets and a bunch of bodies and then they can get
00:44:39
into these uh compartments that hold the bodies they pull it out mhm you got to pull it out then you got to open up the
00:44:45
casket so now you're dealing with the the the odor of the dead body yeah right you got to deal with the these human
00:44:54
remains mhm and then you have to put your you got to put your hand in the mouth of a dead body and you have to
00:45:03
pull that tooth out yeah and it's not like you know which skull has gold teeth so how many you you might at after after
00:45:14
holding it and viewing it and deciding okay I'm taking this one um but no what I'm saying is you're saying when you're
00:45:20
reaching in to to pull out the no what I'm saying yeah when you're pulling that body out with that casket you don't know
00:45:28
you don't have X-ray vision so you actually have to open the casket open up the dead person's mouth MH and see okay
00:45:36
I look in okay there's a gold tooth now I got to pull that out but if there's no
00:45:40
gold teeth then we got to shut that casket MH maybe still jewelry while you're there but you got to shut that
00:45:47
casket and then when you come back then you got to do the whole process again and what if you get somebody that only
00:45:52
has one gold tooth so then you got to do that shut the casket start the process again it's one thing it's one thing
00:46:00
to if you had to do it right right you don't have to do this so I think look to me I'm not saying satanic Panic I'm not
00:46:10
saying that at all because you know you can listen to Metallica all day long okay and be and be a great person I
00:46:17
listen I still listen to Metallica um not saying I'm a great person though um but what I'm saying is for somebody to
00:46:25
have the capability of doing that to me that puts them in the possibility or the
00:46:31
realm of possibly being able to be malicious towards somebody because it's a disrespectful thing to the dead person
00:46:40
MH so I'm just saying that I think that that this is something that should not be overlooked you're exactly you're
00:46:46
you're exactly right it does go beyond the point of satanic panic and it does it does Point toward somebody being
00:46:53
comfortable handling remains um it it it sounds somebody that's comfortable of commit committing a crime yeah and it
00:47:01
sounds to me like the intention might not so much have been for the gold teeth that maybe they were going there to take
00:47:09
a skull or bones or for whatever reason well they ended up hanging like some of the skulls like in a tree or something
00:47:16
and and I think you're exactly right though it it it's either it either takes a person capable of things that others
00:47:23
wouldn't be capable of or it takes a certain kind of stupid to go out and commit this this vandalism well most
00:47:30
criminals are stupid stupid well and The Alibi itself is not that great right I mean they're they're vouching for each
00:47:37
other they're at a rock concert and the thing is here you know I'd like a little
00:47:42
more information on this because if that rock concert's in Springfield Missouri well these girls disappeared between
00:47:50
2:30 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. you could have conceivably went to the Rock concert and still carried out this crime or abducted
00:47:58
these these women well you probably could have went to a rock concert within a 2 three mile radius because you know
00:48:05
let's just assume that some of these concerts would be over by 11: 12:00 at night a lot of things shut down a lot
00:48:11
earlier you know it wasn't like we didn't have all night Taco Bell people it was rough there was no fourth meal
00:48:17
back then you were you had third meal and then you went to bed right you skip you skip fourth meal and go to jail I
00:48:25
laid in my bed in the middle of the night dreaming of fourth me okay so anyways um it's Taco Tuesday
00:48:35
in the garage it's Taco Tuesday um so regardless of the of The Alibi being weak it doesn't even matter if they were
00:48:42
at a rock concert and and it could have been one that was the next town over you
00:48:47
you could have been at the Rock concert and still conceivably pulled out this crime you know abducted these three
00:48:53
women you there was time to do so so not only is their Alibi really weak but their motive is strong I mean all three
00:49:00
individuals are going to be charged with this this felony with the felony yes right and then we have three people that
00:49:07
went missing what's easy you know it's a lot easier to control three people if there's three people and one thing that
00:49:14
the streer family still has a question about today is you know there there are people that have wondered well was was
00:49:20
Susie supposed to you know testify against these guys in court um you know we we got the one guy that says I I wish
00:49:28
they were all dead um so they look very guilty they have a motive uh the thing here is you know as far as these guys
00:49:38
are concerned um it doesn't really go anywhere because they have no evidence we're talking about a a crime scene
00:49:46
where there's no evidence on top of that police willingly admit that probably up
00:49:51
to 10 people trampled through that crime scene before they got there right uh and
00:49:57
unless you have and I witnessed seeing these boys with with these victims or pulling them from the house there's
00:50:04
really nothing to go on here now I will say one thing in the in the defense of of these three guys they did seem to
00:50:11
work and cooperate with the police quite a bit they they willingly sat down for interviews told them what they may or
00:50:18
may not know um and those interviews didn't really go anywhere now again though there there are people that still
00:50:25
consider them suspects and some of those people are the Springfield Missouri police yeah I kind of wonder what these
00:50:31
three individuals were are up to today and and I wondered the same thing especially after finding out that
00:50:37
they're still considered suspects in this case uh as far there I ran into some issues because I did try to I went
00:50:44
down that rabbit hole and Joseph rle first of all his last name's the same as a glass manufacture so good luck I I
00:50:51
found nothing but uh people trying to sell me wine glasses um did he buy any I fully stopped up uh Michael clay has an
00:50:59
extremely common name uh I came up with like a 100 Michael Clays in living in the Missouri area and the other problem
00:51:08
with all this too is that we don't have pictures of these suspects so even if you found uh a person to compare the the
00:51:15
names you would know if it the same right to compare the pictures you don't have a picture to compare it to now
00:51:20
Dustin Rea he has an interesting last name it's not a common last name and I did find somebody that's still living in
00:51:28
the Springfield Missouri area still living in the same town uh and he matches up as far as as uh age goes so
00:51:35
it's in my opinion it's the same guy prob yeah most likely I have and I don't feel bad saying that or or any question
00:51:42
about saying that because it doesn't appear that he's done anything questionable since then you know he made
00:51:48
this this error or mistake as a as a kid and he's paid his debt to society apparently he's still living there and
00:51:55
he's a family man now he's if if that carries any weight I don't know but he's not moved or fled the area I wonder if
00:52:02
he's sitting in his garage right now listen hey give us a call give us a call uh no but we'll let you tell your side
00:52:09
of the story but again some of that too is like yeah maybe you're creating an alibi maybe there is a motive but also
00:52:17
at the end of the day it's it's like well it could be boys being boys right as far as I know that's I know that's a
00:52:25
cop out but it it should just be teenagers early 20 some year old just being young and and dumb yes and the
00:52:33
thing that makes them interesting though is that it's it's got to be fairly difficult to abduct three people
00:52:41
especially if you're by yourself it I mean it would certainly we can agree that it would certainly help if the
00:52:46
numbers were even three versus three right but it's a lot you know but three versus three no gun one guy with a gun
00:52:54
I'd say that's pretty even Even Steven he says um another tip comes in this one didn't come in until about 9 or 10 days
00:53:02
after The Disappearance of the women uh but this report is about a situation that took place around 6:30 a.m. June
00:53:10
7th uh 1992 so this is just hours after the last time the three women were last seen a woman was sitting on her front
00:53:18
porch and she says that she saw a greenish Dodge van uh she believed the van to been from the mid 60s to the
00:53:27
early 1970s those are also known as shagen wagons she she also said that the van
00:53:33
seemed extremely out of place to her it was you know this is an old woman that sat on her front porch often and it was
00:53:40
a vehicle that she did not recognize she didn't identify this as a vehicle owned
00:53:45
by any of the neighbors or any of the other people that lived on her block uh furthermore the thing here is too where
00:53:53
Cheryl levette lived you could get to the freeway very quickly from where she lived and this person that lived on on a
00:54:02
block you know a couple she lived in in an area that if you were leaving levette's home and trying to make your
00:54:09
way to the freeway if you were if if a victim was driving and tried to pull in and try to
00:54:16
delay something this might be an obvious spot to kind of turn into if that if that makes any sense mhm this van also
00:54:22
was reported multiple different colors you know some people said cuz there was other reports of people seeing a van
00:54:29
yeah and it came out like well maybe it wasn't green maybe it was brown maybe well and we'll get to that you know but
00:54:35
but the kind of reminds me of uh uh this Shaggy you know was the Scooby mobile or
00:54:41
yeah and it kind of looks like a Volkswagen van in a in a way as well kind of like they're kind of copying
00:54:46
that style that that'll be on the website so you can check that out the reason why this stood out to her was it
00:54:52
was not just a van that she didn't recognize but she furthermore she noticed a young woman in the driver's
00:54:58
seat that appeared to be you know freaking out a bit and blonde hair right yes and the witness claimed hearing an
00:55:06
unidentified male voice speaking to the driver saying something to the effect of
00:55:11
back out slowly you know he must have realized that they're they're not going toward the freeway and don't do anything
00:55:18
stupid so she claims to have heard this now the delay for her reporting this was
00:55:23
just simply that she was unaware that there was anything going on uh it was when she finally heard about the missing
00:55:31
women that's when this witness made the call and told the authorities the the woman driver you know in and about the
00:55:38
van now when she was shown pictures of the three women she says that the driver in her opinion was definitely Suzanne
00:55:47
streer right so this is the blonde kind of crimped hair I think it's what it's called this kind of bleach blonde
00:55:54
crimped hair hair now this would be the girlfriend of one of the three boys you're exactly the ex and so Dustin's
00:56:01
ex-girlfriend just throwing this out there just thinking out loud well that would make more sense because you'd put
00:56:08
her up front if if they were if they were the suspects yeah and the thing here is too you know what the police
00:56:16
probably start looking at at this point is because they believed this tip to be very credible mhm the thing here is then
00:56:26
you have to start wondering well do either any of these three boys have access to a vehicle that matches that
00:56:32
description right and if you can prove that they don't then you know like I said they're still suspects but but
00:56:39
maybe they come off the radar a little bit and now rather than looking at these three boys you've got a vehicle to go
00:56:45
look for because the woman states she gives a great description of the vehicle however no description of the man who
00:56:51
she heard talking to this driver right because there but there's no windows on the side of this van no so it's like you
00:56:59
know it's it's very I mean I wouldn't even call it a creeper van cuz I mean it's kind of stylish a little more too
00:57:06
stylish it's more stylish than the creeper Vans it's like uh half creeper van but what I'm saying is the the
00:57:13
driver seat was probably one of those bucket seats it wasn't a bench seat where if if you were my Victim right and
00:57:21
you're sitting in the in the front in the driver's seat m i could be crouched down behind you with a with a gun or
00:57:27
some kind of weapon to you without being seen at all by you know by anybody looking on well my ears are your victim
00:57:35
every week the thing here is the the police did think this was a credible eyewitness so what they did was they
00:57:41
purchase a van that would be similar year similar model to what they were looking for right they get the witness
00:57:49
the eyewitness to sign off on the color that the van was supposed to be and they
00:57:53
painted it that color they parked this thing out in front of the police department with a sign on it that says
00:57:59
you know if You' seen any van that looks like this one you need to give us a call
00:58:03
and tell us who owns it or where you've seen it or you know have you seen women in the van right or maybe have you seen
00:58:08
this van just go with me on this weird thought right okay maybe you've seen this van out of New Kids on the Block
00:58:14
concert oh okay right no no I'm not trying to make a joke but seriously okay what concert would were these guys at
00:58:21
that's a good question so if you say they're at this concert over here at this venue did anybody at that concert
00:58:28
report a stolen van right see what I'm saying a stolen van or did you see a van there that looked like this because just
00:58:36
because these three guys committed this vandalism this act of vandalism doesn't mean that the the they're the only three
00:58:43
suspects they could have had a friend or someone that they knew that went along with them on on this you know to to go
00:58:51
break into this house or or abduct I'm just going off on the fact that if these guys are still suspects right you I mean
00:58:57
like you know may maybe somebody had a van stolen from the concert that they claimed that they are at or that they
00:59:04
were at and then afterwards they're like you know maybe a little high maybe a little drunk and they're like let's
00:59:09
let's teach that girl a lesson well this move by the police to get the van paint
00:59:14
it the color post the number uh this this ends up being a good thing for the police it it creates a bit of traction
00:59:21
in the case and they it starts picking back up now paper Boy comes forward and he states that he was doing his
00:59:28
deliveries and during that time he described seeing a similar type van uh but he says that the van he saw was
00:59:35
brown in color now he also states that he saw the van when it was dark outside and could not be 100% certain of the
00:59:43
actual color of the van that he had seen as the captain had said over time a lot more tips come in regarding this van
00:59:53
uh in in the color of the van changes several times uh from these different tipsters or eyewitnesses yeah a police
01:00:01
one of the police officers said at some point the van was every color yeah it it
01:00:05
was a rainbow of colors and and the thing is you and I talked about this one time uh when when you have these when
01:00:12
you have these kind of tip lines that come out and say you know we're looking for a green van of this year to this
01:00:19
year you know keep your eyes out open and if you see anything let us know and it's amazing how people come out of the
01:00:26
woodwork and they start noticing those vans all of a sudden where those vans have always been there they've always
01:00:32
been in your neighborhood you know somebody that drives that van now all of a sudden you're driving on the freeway
01:00:37
and you see a thousand of them on your way home one evening well and when I was a banker I mean one of the things that
01:00:41
we had to constantly do training on was we'd watch videos of you know burglaries
01:00:48
not you know bank robberies okay and uh and then they just ask you you know they
01:00:53
turn off the tape and go right down on everything you know all neat that's NE and you'd practice that you know but it
01:00:59
was surprising how bad some people were at first so so you you know a guy comes in he's got a mask on or doesn't or he
01:01:07
has a hat on or whatever and you have to write down what what color jeans he's wearing and what shirt uh how many guys
01:01:12
there are you know anything you can observe you write that down and then what do they do they take your answers
01:01:17
and show you the the footage again and then you're like oh got that wrong got that wrong got that wrong and what a lot
01:01:23
of people do and because it's because of the type of test it is a lot of people start trying to you know scan the whole
01:01:30
room for everything oh where where here's what happens if somebody robs your bank you've been at your bank for
01:01:38
for a long time so you know your surroundings okay it's really about focusing on that individual but still it
01:01:45
was amazing to me I mean I was actually surprisingly pretty good at it it was amazing to me how many people that I
01:01:51
worked with where it's like they kept on saying he's wearing a red hat and he's not even wearing a hat there's no hat at
01:01:57
all so and then I also think some of this stuff too it's like with that lady saying that she saw a girl in a van the
01:02:05
green van maybe she did maybe she didn't some people hear about something going on in their city and they just want so
01:02:14
badly to be involved right right and and sometimes the mind creates images that we think that we saw but we never saw
01:02:22
you know maybe she saw Le van and then after she saw pictures of the women she go what is she taking like a bunch of
01:02:28
mushrooms I don't know I'm just saying it was nine or 10 days after the fact some day sometimes N9 or 10 days after a
01:02:34
crime you go into the field and you eat a bunch of mushrooms and you start seeing green
01:02:41
fans that's not what normally happens so we have some Persons of Interest to discuss here and I say that because
01:02:48
they're not necessarily suspects uh but some Persons of Interest we mentioned the three young men Dustin Michael and
01:02:55
Joseph these are suspects in my mind and in the eyes of the police but we have some interesting monsters here to talk
01:03:03
about uh first let's start with Stephen Eugene Garrison now Garrison had told police he works his way into this case
01:03:10
because he told police a friend of his had confessed to killing the three women and confessed this to him during a
01:03:18
drunken party uh he told police information unknown to the public that led investigators to serve three search
01:03:26
warrants at two sites in Western Webster County he said that they would find the
01:03:32
three women's bodies and clues about their abduction and their deaths he also said that a moss green van believed used
01:03:41
to take the women would be found about 12 miles away from where they would find the bodies of the of the young women
01:03:48
yeah I mean this this seems like something they have to kind of jump on right away yeah so so the property that
01:03:54
was searched this is where it gets even a little more weird um the property that
01:03:59
was searched was the same site where in 1990 law enforcement searched for two missing people these are not related to
01:04:06
this case right uh the property owner was Francis Rob senior and he ended up ping guilty to two counts of second
01:04:13
deegree murder in a case that authorities say at the time was believed to have been a drug deal gone very badly
01:04:21
now Steven Garrison was believed enough that a gag order concerning the search was issued by a judge law enforcement
01:04:29
said certain aspects of the information we received fit with other private aspects of the Springfield 3 case right
01:04:38
right this was a statement given by the Springfield police captain and you see this type of move here is is pretty rare
01:04:46
to have a gag order on a search like this uh law enforcement acknowledged that the gag order existed but but
01:04:54
simply said you know we can't tell you anything about it until the order is lifted so we we basically what that's
01:05:00
saying is they issued this gag order because they don't want to talk about items that were found at that site now
01:05:08
do does that mean that it it it is leads to the Springfield 3 or to this case specifically or did they happen to be
01:05:17
searching yeah they were searching a site where you got a bad dude that that was known to have possibly put people
01:05:22
there before yeah monster so the thing here is you know why why does this seem so important to the
01:05:30
police this was important enough for them to go out there and search the property right well so who is Steph
01:05:35
Garrison that gave them this information Garrison is a terrible guy you know th this is in part why the authorities take
01:05:42
his statements so seriously they know what he is capable of because Steph Garrison was serving 40 years in prison
01:05:50
for kidnapping raping and terrorizing a female spring spr field college student uh which he abducted in the summer of
01:05:58
1993 which would be roughly the same age and roughly around the same time frame as far as like same age and also around
01:06:07
the start of summer yeah yeah it same age same time frame uh same victimology um you know police spent a good amount
01:06:15
of time tracking Garrison's movements um and at at one time and I don't know if this was through a person or persons
01:06:23
that knew Garrison but authorities were looking as far as Colorado for information regarding Steven Garrison I
01:06:30
mean the two girls were walking around town and they're and they're both very they're both attractive uh females and I
01:06:38
think you know why why they're walking around that they could have caught somebody's eye and they followed them
01:06:46
the the lady's home mhm it's very possible could be could be just as simple as that now Garrison Steven
01:06:53
Garrison is quot oted as saying uh they've never let up on me you know when referring to the police's investigation
01:07:00
into connecting him to The Disappearance of the Springfield 3 so you have this you have this terrible guy that's very
01:07:06
capable of having a victim that fits any of the this victimology here and he was
01:07:12
known to be in the area yeah and he comes out with this weird statement of a friend told me when he was drunk that he
01:07:19
did this you know that's just a a strange statement well and it might not be so much of a friend but maybe
01:07:25
somebody that you know you know as far as like sex trafficking and stuff like that they they normally will work with
01:07:31
each other so we have this very odd case three missing women we have Susie age 19
01:07:37
Stacy age 18 they're staying at su's Mother's house Cheryl aged 47 at the time between the hours of 2:30 a.m. and
01:07:45
8:00 a.m. they disappear June 7th 1992 and it's really the the crime scene is the strange thing here all their
01:07:54
belongings left behind it almost looks like either they left the front door unlocked or they willingly let the
01:08:01
abductor or abductors into the house in the middle of the night right no sign of
01:08:05
struggle and then when people come to find them they're getting some weird calls sexual calls and we have a couple
01:08:13
eyewitnesses come forward we have a couple suspects early o early on we have the brother he's kind of out of the
01:08:21
picture now yep we got the three boys that ex-boyfriend they're still kind of in
01:08:26
the picture and then we got some bad ombres in this area yeah and it turns out as the further this investigation
01:08:33
goes and the longer it goes on the more that they're realizing that a lot of really bad men are living in Springfield
01:08:41
Missouri in 1992 yeah we're going to have to get to these monsters in tomorrow's episode thank you Captain we
01:08:48
got so much more to dive into in this very highly requested case of the Springfield 3 and we will do that
01:08:54
tomorrow we will see you all back here in the garage tomorrow and until then be good be kind and don't
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