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>> [music] [music] [music] >> Friends and family of 19-year-old Suzanne Strereer and 18-year-old [music]
Stacy McCall say it's not like them to just leave and not tell anyone. on where they're going.
>> She calls and lets me know where she's going to be. She's never missed work. She's [music]
a very conscientious young woman. >> We're questioning everybody at this time. Friends, [music] relatives, anyone
that has the information, anyone that may have seen him last, neighbors. We done neighborhood canvas. We're just
checking every lead we can at this time. >> The last time anyone saw Susan Strereer
or Stacy [music] McCall was over the weekend at this house in Battlefield. The girls had gathered here with some
friends after graduating from Kikapoo High School on [music] Saturday. They left here early Sunday morning.
>> Uh they said they were going to the other girls' house and they were going to be spending the night there [music]
and they called me in the morning so we could go to Whitewater 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 no answer. So I went over there and they
weren't there. >> This is Suzanne Streeter's mom, Cheryl Lovevet. She's also missing. Last seen
at her daughter's [music] graduation ceremony at Hammond Student Center on Saturday. She lived in this house on
East Delmare in Springfield. That's where police found the three missing women's cars. Authorities say there was
no sign of a struggle. In [music] fact, the front door was unlocked. The TV was on. Their clothes were still there.
Their purses and personal items untouched. >> Her [music] jewelry and things were left
in her purse. Her makeup is there. an 18-year-old girl that's very proud about the way she looks, wears her makeup, and
looks nice, and she doesn't go out just wearing a t-shirt and her underpants. >> Springfield police [music] have notified
law enforcement agencies in the surrounding area and in neighboring states, [music] hoping someone will have
an idea of what happened to these three women over the weekend. In Springfield, Missouri, I'm Marty Schustler for NBC
News. June 6th, 1992 in Springfield, Missouri, we have Stacy McCall and Suzanne Strereer had just graduated high school
and they were going around to some different graduation parties at their friends houses. Now, they were they had
a school event which was going to be one of those sober type lockin graduation parties. They decided they didn't want
to go to this. They were planning much bigger things. They were out with with a bunch of their friends and one of their
friends was Janelle Kirby. Now, the girls were planning to go to a hotel and stay the night that night.
>> Mhm. >> They were planning a big day the next morning. The idea was that they would
stay the night at the hotel, which was right by the White Waters Waterpark and Silver Dollar City, which is an
amusement park. So, they wanted to stay there and join with what what sounds to be like friends or many people from
their school at the water park or the amusement park the next day. For whatever reason, this plan falls through
and now they're going 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 Suzanne, they don't end up staying the night there either. Now, it it sounds like
Janelle already had a full house with several out of town relatives staying at her home. Yeah, it seems like they were
planning on st staying at Janelle's house, but because a family member kind of just dropped by unexpectedly,
>> their house was packed and they would had to 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 house. So, they decide to go to
Susie Strereers's house. And now, Susie lives with her mother, Cheryl Levette. Cheryl is divorced from Suz's father. I
I don't know the date of the divorce, but it sounds like it might have been somewhat recent to 1992 because Cheryl
had just recently purchased the home that they were living in, and the two had been living there only a short time.
>> Right. >> So, Stacy and Susie leave Janelle's place around 2 am. They were last seen
on Battlefield Road around 2:30 a.m. But it is believed that the two arrived safely at Suz's and Cheryl's home. This
is on East Delmare Street. Now, earlier that night, Cheryl was last heard from around 11 or 11:30 p.m.
>> She had stayed at home that night, and 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 about 11:00 11:30 that night. The next
morning, people are going to start trying to make contacts with people because they have that big day at the
water park, kind of a celebration for graduating high school. >> Yeah. So, around 8 am, friends of Stacy
and Suzie's, they start calling Suz's house. Uh, they were still planning, even though they didn't go to the hotel,
they're still planning on going to the water park, going to Silver Dollar City with lots of friends. Well, these
friends started calling around 8:00 a.m. to plan the trip, but or to meet up and
make their way to the water park together, >> right? Well, much to everyone's surprise, there's no answer at Suz's
home. And all the friends, all their phone calls go unanswered. And some of these friends are waiting around on
Susie and Stacy before they will leave for the water park. One of the girls that was calling was Janelle. Remember
Janelle? Well, she she said she had called several times and even left two messages on the answering machine. So,
after the phone calls, now I I got to believe that the friends probably were just thinking that the girls had
overslept. We know they got in very late that night. >> Yeah. >> So Janelle Kirby and her boyfriend Mike
decide to go over to Seuzies so they can hurry up and get everybody together and
leave for the 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 be more common that people would stop by your house randomly. It
might be a Friday night. You might never get a phone call from somebody. You would they would just swing by the house
to see what you're doing. >> Yeah. And some of the younger people might not get this, but you know, you
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 even if you didn't hear from them, you would just follow through with those
plans anyway, assuming that they would be where they said they would be. And and if if they weren't and you didn't
hear from somebody, you just had to kind of carry on and hope that you bumped into them,
>> right? I mean, I carried two cell phones and three beepers, but that's cuz I'm
gangster. So Janelle and Mike, they arrived just after 9:00 a.m. When the two arrived, they first noticed that
three cars are parked out in front of the house. Each of the girls, Stacy and Susie, they had their own car, and
Cheryl's car was there as well. Janelle and Mike, approached the front door to the house, and they noticed that the
porch light is broken. >> This is the first time that they've actually been to the house, even though
they're really good friends, but that's because the mom just purchased the house.
>> Mhm. And I'll describe this broken porch light real quickly because I do think
that this is important. Mhm. >> Uh they see broken glass on the front doorstep. The casing 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 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 door is
unlocked. Now, I I kind of brush through that real quickly because there are several accounts of this part of the
timeline. Some say that the friends knocked on the door and found it to be unlocked. Some say that the front door
was open. I include both because this may be a detail that some want to ponder. And I was trying to decide which
one was correct. Um I guess I could be convinced either way because I find it a little strange that the kids would clean
up the broken glass while the door is already open. You know, it seems to me like you would kind of yell inside and
hey, you know, >> what's going on? Yeah. Hey, [clears throat] people that I'm looking
for, there's broken glass out front. Um, but the the accounts that state that the
door was open, these are all kind of locals reporting this and and you know, I have a tendency of of leaning towards
what the locals report and what we find in the local newspapers there. >> And yeah, this was a nice gesture that
they claim that 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 then the the attitude was definitely more it takes a village to raise a child than it is
nowadays. And and you're right, other parents, friends of your your your friends parents seemed almost like your
parents at times, too. They would tell you what to do. They would correct you. They'd boss you.
>> Yeah. And it was kind of their house, their rules. And also, if you got in trouble at your buddy's house, you
normally got in trouble at your house. H well, I'm getting the vibe here in this
story that Janelle might have been pretty close to to Suzie and therefore you remember how it was if you were
close with your friend and and visited often and I know this was a new home, but maybe she had some kind of that kind
of relationship with Sus's mother as well. >> Yeah, there was definitely a different
dynamic when you had a single parent home. >> Mhm. So, they enter the home and when
they get in there, they're calling out the girl's names and no one apparently is there. Um once inside they realized
that 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 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 name is Cinnamon. Cinnamon is one
of those uh little terrier dogs. >> Well, the dog's upset because of the bad name.
>> Well, apparently the dog was upset enough to the point where Janelle said that the dog wanted to be held. Um they
they would end up finding the lady's purses, all three of them, along with their cigarettes. I guess two of them
were 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 empty. The dog is upset. The door may have been open or not. >> There's broken glass on the front porch.
And it appears that not only are the women not there, but all their personal belongings that you would expect to
accompany these women remained at the house with their vehicles as well, >> 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 all Janelle knew, they were just
running to the hardware store to get a new, you know, glass for the the lamp out front 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 struggle.
>> Right. Right. And Janelle would later tell the police that they actually assumed that the girls had just simply
continued on with their plans of going to the water park. Uh they also stated that they that the beds appeared to have
been slept in. Um you know, I I don't know if that means that somebody actually slept there. Some people don't.
I don't make my bed every single day. >> You should. >> Um don't tell my mother. But like we
said, before the time of cell phones, you just carried on with your plans and assumed people would be where they said
they would be. So Mike and Janelle decide that they're going to leave the home and they're going to continue on
with their plans, make their way to the water park. Uh but just as they are walking out the front door, the phone
rings and Janelle answers the phone and she hears a male voice and the man is saying gross sexual stuff to her. Uh
Janelle is disgusted by the caller and she hangs up the phone. As soon as she hangs up the phone, the phone 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 right
where he left off and again it's with the sex stuff. Uh Janelle and Mike were convinced the calls were probably
pranks. Uh Janelle hangs up the phone and the two of them they leave and they continue with their planned day of going
to the water park and the amusement park. >> Was the guy that called Frank Rizzo?
That's R I Zo. >> Next we have Stacy McCall's mother, Janice. Uh she had been waiting to hear
from Stacy most of the day. >> Oh, Janice. >> She assumed Stacy was at Janelle's house
uh unaware of the changing plans. A relative of Janice's, she informed her. Let's take a little bit of a backst step
because when they were going to stay at the hotel the night before >> Mhm. >> a lot of the parents weren't too keen on
this. >> No. And I I can't imagine that they would be >> that they you know our daughters just
graduating high school and they're going to stay by themselves in a hotel room >> unsupervised. Who's know who knows
what's going to go. >> Probably going to be a lot of boys there. >> Lots of drinking.
>> So when those plans changed they were kind of happy that they didn't stay there.
>> Yeah. Relieved. >> But now that but she's kind of confused on Okay. Well, why did they not stay at
Janelle's house? Why are they staying here? So then she's cuz, you know, in the back of her head, she's thinking,
well, what boy's house did they actually stay at? >> What boy's house or did 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 when
your kid changes plans. And it's a big deal, I think, to go and stay at somebody else's house without informing
your mother or father of where you're going. And and it can be, you know, >> could be dangerous.
>> Dangerous. and it makes makes the parents worry. Uh but a relative of Janice's, she tells them that the girls
did not uh stay at Janelle's, that they actually departed Janelle's home uh quite late in the night and that they
stayed at Suz's instead. Now, remember, we had said that Cheryl and Susie had recently moved into the home. So, Janice
had to track down the address of this new home, and she did this using the local phone book. Janice goes to the
home once she's acquired the address. This would be almost 12 hours after Janelle and Mike had been there. Janice
sees basically the same scene. You know, she arrives, the the door is unlocked. >> Uh the TV is on, all the purses, makeup,
jewelry, they're all there. Uh, and Janice, you know, she's at this point she's overly cons, well, I shouldn't say
overly concerned. She's very concerned about 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 messages. So, you know, remember the answering machine had the little
blinking red light. And that light would that thing >> so much fun. >> That thing would call your name, though.
And and for those that that don't remember the brink the blinking red light, this is how important that
answering machine was. People you you might have plans for the evening between work and and and those plans. You would
make a point to drive by your house just to hit that button to see who had called
for you during the day while you were gone. And I understand that like nobody calls each other anymore, but back in
the day it was a big deal to get your answering machine and set it up and create your answering machine message.
>> Yeah. It was a it was a big deal. >> 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 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 shared our apartment,
uh, we would save all because it was your answering machine, but we'd save all the messages that we thought were
funny. >> So, we had like this compilation tape and so we just get really drunk some
nights and just listen 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 know, if they found themselves by themselves that
night, they they would call other people's phones and leave long messages. and and we had um one friend, the geek.
We won't use his real name, but uh >> we've never used his real name. He's been the geek since
>> I [snorts] don't know that that some of the friends even know his real name, but
he used to leave the best messages and a lot of times it would just be he would call your home and then he would put his
phone up to like the speaker on and he would just play some song and you would you you would listen to a five minute
song hoping that there was some kind of message at some point. After about five or six of these things, you realize that
it's just the geek leaving a a fulllength song for your enjoyment rather than any information for you at
all. >> So, this red light was just kind of staring at her, tempting her. And uh
Janice became nosy Nancy. >> Yeah. And that that was my thought in the beginning. My first initial reaction
was, "Wow, this is kind of, you know, >> that's personal >> breaking the line of privacy there, uh
listening to the messages." But on at the same time, 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 this home. Her car is out
front, you know, and as well as the other women's cars are out front as well. She said she had a strange feeling
about the whole the whole scene and she decided that, you know, maybe it was a crossing the line of privacy there, but
she took on her motherly job there. I'm saying motherly job. and played the messages.
>> Uh when she did though, um she played the messages and accidentally erased them um rather than saving them.
>> Great. >> Uh which this is terrible because >> Good job, Janice. >> She she recalls that there were several
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 one of the message was messages was also from a male caller, an unidentified male caller, and he's he's
doing the sex stuff on the phone, um, during this message, and 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.
>> Mhm. Well, she she unintentionally erased the messages. Um, she's freaked out at this point. and Janice using the
landline phone at the residence calls the police department and reported all three women missing.
>> Um that night, you know, she she can't rest at this point. Uh that night using
photos just taken the day before at the graduation, >> right? >> Janice started making missing person's
flyers. Uh the following day, police asked Janice if she could track down dental records for her daughter just in
case they found something. So, you know, doesn't sound like they're very optimistic at this point, right?
>> Uh but that's a scary request when you when you're already frightened and worried and then it gets even more real
when the police ask for the dental records of your kid >> and you're celebrating something that is
so big or so monumental in a young kid's life. M I mean the biggest thing that probably happens to you in high school
is when you actually graduate. >> Well, and you're not only graduating from school, but you're also kind of
graduating into adulthood as well at the same time. Now, I want to be clear here
though. She called Janice calls the police, reports them missing. Uh this would be late Sunday night.
>> Um the police do not arrive that night to to look through the house or, you know, take note of anything going on.
Mhm. >> And it's not until I believe the following day that later on Monday that
they end up going to the house. Now, the police, they're they're not certain, but
they believe 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 observations. >> Right. So, this is kind of tampering the the the crime scene.
>> Yeah. And and it's a strange crime scene, isn't it? I mean, there's it's almost like they it's almost like they
just disappeared with whatever they were wearing at the 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 like all of her clothes
were at the house except for uh t-shirt and panties or underwear. >> And so then there was also like where uh
in the bathroom there was where they would take off their makeup. So there was like now that could have been from
two nights before, but let's just assume that like maybe they found evidence in the trash. So it seemed 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 park the next day. And then even the mother, which would normally, you know, would have her
smokes in the family room. 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 cigarettes and go to her room and her cigarettes were in her room. So, it seemed like all
three ladies were turning in for the night and there was some evidence of that. So, then what happened after that?
>> Yeah, the the the people there 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 night when when somebody came into the house,
>> right? So, basically, we have this window pretty much between 2:00 and 8:00. >> Mhm.
>> That of what's going on. >> Yeah. And and the the other thing, too, is with with the 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 like late
at night, remember when the channel would just shut, you know, you would have things for viewing and then at like
2:00 in the morning, it would just go to that fuzzy screen for a couple of hours
and then it would pick up where it left off. That's other thing like any of the young listeners, they're going to go,
"What?" No, seriously, there was this time. This is showing us we should have never covered this case. This is showing
how old we are. >> Well, we were we were younger than uh just to throw that out there, we were
younger than Stacy and Susie, but we were old enough to remember all this stuff.
>> Yeah. But there was this time where it was like the the evening news and then
maybe a couple shows and then about 10:00, 11:00 the the st station would just go blank.
>> Yeah. you know, and some of the more popular channels might might last till 2
in the morning, but there would be like an hour or two where it was nothing. It was just fuzz. And but but when when the
people that go into the house find this TV on, it's at a time where there should
be programming on. So, it's almost like it was turned to a channel, remember, you'd have a TV that might have 20ome
channels on it, but you would only actually have things to watch on seven or eight of those channels, right? Um
>> it was depressing time. So, it was almost like it was turned to a channel that had nothing on it ever. And the
other thing, too, is that I've heard that it was stated that that Stacy's clothes, not only were they there, but
they appeared to have been like folded up neatly like like you kind of would just before going to bed and you 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
friend's and you're just going to throw on the the clothes again. Um, and the other strange thing that that
we've seen 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 to one another, kind of lined up together, which you wouldn't expect to see.
>> A little strange. Yeah. >> Yeah. You wouldn't expect to see the girls keeping the purses in the mother's
room or the mother in the girls' room. >> But I think the big key piece of evidence is that there's, you know,
there's evidence that there's clothes left behind. So that possibly some of the girls weren't wearing fully clothed
so they wouldn't leave on their own. And why would you leave on their your own? All the cars are there. All your purses
are there. Then you got the cigarettes there. Not saying that she couldn't have another pack of cigarettes, but I think
all those things are telling that these girls just dis just dis they didn't disappear. And I think anytime there's a
M missing person case, you have to kind of go through that laundry list of well,
>> do we think they committed suicide? No, you there's no evidence of that. That
would seem kind of strange that all, you know, logically my brain is going, there's three people. They didn't just
go out into the field and decide to commit suicide. We never found any bodies >> or they didn't just they didn't just hop
in a car and decide to leave town together either, >> right? Cuz why would they do that when
they're and leave your purses behind and your identification and all that stuff?
Doesn't make a lot of logical sense. So, everything is kind of gearing towards foul play. Now, the thing here is 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 believe
that the police may have found a decent amount of money in Cheryl's purse, 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 the house being ransacked. And then furthermore, somebody didn't even take the time to
look through the purses to snatch the cash money out. >> Possibly not a robbery.
>> No, not not like a home invasion 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 that right
after this quick beer break. All right, welcome back to True Crime Gay Ridge. Uh, cheers, mates. We're
covering the Springfield 3. It's a case that I've actually heard of a lot, but mainly because listeners have said,
"Hey, you guys need to cover this case." >> Well, a few days go by after the disappearance of the three women. And at
first, there are no leads. There's nothing pointing towards answers to the whereabouts of Cheryl, Susie, and Stacy
until the Springfield police received an interesting tip. Uh this is a young waitress working at a place called
George's Breakfast. >> Mhm. Uh, this is a favorite restaurant of Cheryl and Suz's. This waitress
claimed to have seen the three missing women the night of their disappearance, and she states that she saw them between
the hours of 1 and 3:00 a.m. The police start checking into this information and
were able to find some of the other customers that would have been at the restaurant during these hours.
>> Mhm. uh to try to, you know, either help this this story, this information, or to
kind of dismiss it. And sadly, the waitress's statement could not be corroborated and was officially
considered uncredible. Um, some of those other people didn't claim to have seen them at that time. And this really makes
a lot of sense to me, right? Because we we have Susie and Stacy. They were said to have left Janelle's at 2 am and they
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
restaurant between the hours of 1 and 3:00 a.m. >> And anytime a person goes missing and in
this case it seems like there's probably foul play, we have to take a look at the
families. >> Yes. With with no answers to work on, the police started digging into the
backgrounds of the three women. They were able to shake loose some interesting tidbits that could be
beneficial to their case. Uh, one such possible lead was Bart Strereer, the son of Cheryl Levette and the older brother
by 9 years of Suzie. >> Mhm. >> Looking into his past, they were able to discover problems between Bart and his
mother. At one point, several years before 1992, Bart, he was eventually kicked out of the house. Yeah. Uh he
>> seemed like he had a drinking problem. >> Yes. He he had a frequent drinking problem. Bart would often drink to
excess almost daily. >> Bart was out on his own, you know, living. >> Rumor was he was going to start a true
crime podcast >> in a garage where he drinks beer. >> Um Bart was out living on his own for
almost 10 years. Um and he he ended up back in Springfield, Missouri. Uh, this would be in the fall of 1991 because of
a rough breakup and a falling out with his girlfriend. Once back in town, Bart tried to reconnect with his mother and
his sister. At some point, his sister Susie 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 single again. And apparently Bart had plenty of heartache
and this kind of resurrected his alcohol issues. >> Well, also she's just a senior in high
school. >> Mhm. >> And so and this was maybe a little more common early 90s, but but not super
common. >> 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 that oh, she lived with her brother. But but then I got to thinking about the
situation. She was 19 when she disappeared. So she could have potentially been living with Bart once
she was already legally an adult, >> right? So that she didn't really need her parents to make the decision for
her. >> Yeah. And and we we we know that Cheryl and her recently had moved into that
home and we know that Cheryl went through a divorce. So once I started thinking about all of that information,
I started >> Not so strange. Yeah. >> Not strange because we don't know what the living arrangements would have been
beforehand. you know, if if Cheryl was living with a friend or living with her parents or or it was a, you know, a
crowded home that that Si Susie was living in, maybe she saw an opportunity like, you know, and, you know, at that
age, too, if you're 18 and your brother's in his, you know, he's 9 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 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 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 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 started thinking about the r the arrangements, it might not have been
that strange. >> I was in jazz band. There was 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 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 sounds like that it almost got to a physical altercation between the
brother and sister. Um, you know, and those those situations don't always work out, especially when you have a time gap
of like 9 years apart and Bart's [clears throat] been away for almost 10 years at this point.
>> Uh, he was Bart was considered a suspect early on in this investigation, right?
>> And 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 much and passed out and that was basically his his alibi. Doesn't sound
like a solid super solid alibi to me. >> Yeah, but I think it was uh cooperated with um neighbors. Yeah. Which which
makes a lot of sense because the police basically say, "Well, he was he was a suspect early on once we found out the
you know what was going on in their relationship, but he was quickly, you know, taken off the list of of suspects.
>> Um, and I think you're right and and you can actually there are interviews with
Bart to this day and you can you can tell he's heartbroken by this whole situation."
>> He's very willing to talk to any documentary. I think this was on Disappeared maybe.
>> Okay. um maybe a 48 hour special, but he's always involved and he can really tell like, you know, he he has a a
hatred to whoever he might think did this. >> So, I don't know. I I I think he was a
guy that maybe had a little bit of a problem with the hooch early on, but doesn't seem like he struggles with that
now. >> Well, and and a 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, 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 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 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, 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 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, kind
of a tough relationship with his mom and his sister. And I think, you know, he probably thought, well, look, some of
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 don't annoy the [ __ ] out of me. They do.
But, uh, I couldn't tell you the last time I've had a big argument with them. >> Mhm. Well, things get a little more
interesting here because you know the the police are still investigating the backgrounds of the three women and
that's when they find another lead and that lead is Suz's ex-boyfriend. This is Dustin Reckla. Now, he and his friends
Michael Clay and Joseph RLE. Uh they're all considered suspects because when Susie and Dustin were dating, Dustin and
Michael got into some trouble and they they were charged with vandalizing a mausoleum. Uh and I I apologize, I
misspoke. Joseph was with them as well. The the three were charged with felony in institutional vandalism.
>> The three broke into a mausoleum at the Springfield's Maple Park Cemetery on February 21st, 1992.
>> Mhm. and they were accused of stealing a skull and some bones. Now, police said
that Dustin sold 26 g of gold teeth fillings that he had took from the skull that they they stole out of the the
cemetery, >> right? >> Uh he sold this gold to a Springfield pawn shop for $30. Now, the the pawn
shop owner, >> maybe there should be a rule with pawn shops, like if somebody comes in with
gold teeth, >> you just uh you're not allowed to buy those, right? >> You know, like uh I don't know where you
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 concerned that >> open up your mouth, cupcake. I want to see. But we got to give credit where
credit is due, my friend, because the the pawn shop owner, he purchased these teeth for $30 and then he called the
police and said, "Guess what? This guy Dustin showed up with some gold teeth. You might want to might want to check
them out." >> Only out 30 bucks if it doesn't turn into something. >> Exactly. Well, what ended up happening
was uh Suzanne Streer ended up giving a statement to the officers investigating the vandalism. She gave the statement on
March 5th, 1992. And in the statement, uh, she really basically just pointed to the three boys being guilty. And of
course, this ended their relationship, >> right? >> Later, there were multiple later there
were multiple reports about Michael Clay, remember, he's one of the friends of Dustin, saying that this was after
the women had disappeared. He's saying, "I wish all three of the women were dead." Um, and you know, so this
immediately throws them under the bus. They're already under suspicion. Uh, and the other thing too here is they do have
an alibi for the night that Cheryl, Susie, and Stacy disappeared. It has never been confirmed, however. Right.
>> Uh, Dustin and Michael and Joseph said that that evening they claimed to have
been at a rock concert that night, but other than the word of the three boys, the police 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 rock concert >> where there's potentially thousands of
people, so who you know?" Yeah. Yes. Potentially could have been seen by thousands of people, but who recognizes
anybody that's a stranger to them at a concert, >> right? And if they were at a concert, it
was probably like a New Kids on the Block concert. >> Yeah. >> Oh. So, >> so basically the police, they have no
evidence pointing toward the boys being guilty of the disappearance. >> Well, wasn't there 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 I'll tell you why. Um, you >> Well, let's explain what it is. >> You're exactly right. There was there
was rumors that the boys were into uh some kind of Satanism. >> And um >> and mind you, this is '92, so this is
around the whole uh satanic panic time. >> Oh, it's it's in the height of the satanic panic in my opinion.
>> And um >> this is one year before West Memphis. >> Yeah. And the thing here is, you know,
they claim to have been at a rock concert. So, you know, a lot of times, you know, when we look at somebody like
Jason Baldwin, okay, he's walking around, you know, from West Memphis 3, he's walking around daily with Metallica
shirts on. And we all know what those old Metallica shirts look like. They're skulls and bones. And
>> had a picture of Bobby Brown right on it >> and snakes and things like that. And and
maybe older people or people that just don't know better would would point at 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." And I think that that's maybe what we
see here with these three boys. Now, I would I would worry a little more 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 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 don't think I should say
I know. I would not be comfortable breaking into a cemetery and then handling the remains of of somebody,
>> right? Because let's just be clear about this for a second, right? They're not
digging up >> bodies. They're not digging up a casket, which, you know, would be a little more
effort. What they're >> They're kind of lazy grave robbers, >> but they're breaking into a place that
holds a bunch of caskets and a bunch [clears throat] of bodies, and then they can get 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 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 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 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 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 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. You don't have X-ray vision. So, you actually have to open
the casket, open up the dead person's mouth >> and see, okay, I look in. Okay, there's
a gold tooth. Now, I got to pull that out. But if there's no gold teeth, then we got to shut that casket.
>> Maybe steal jewelry while you're there, but you got to shut that casket. And then when you come back, then you got to
do the whole process again. And what if you get somebody that only 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 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 saying that at all because you know you can listen to Metallica all day long. Okay
>> and be and be a great person. I 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 have the capability of doing that, to
me, that puts them in the possibility or the realm of possibly being able to be malicious towards somebody because it's
a disrespectful thing to the dead person. >> Mhm. >> So, I'm just saying that I think that
that this is something that should not be overlooked. >> You're exactly you're you're exactly
right. It does go beyond the point of satanic panic and it does it does point toward somebody being comfortable
handling remains. Um it it sounds >> somebody that's comfortable of commit committing a crime.
>> Yeah. And it sounds to me like the intention might not so much have been for the gold teeth that maybe they were
going there to take a skull or bones or for whatever reason. Well, they ended up
hanging like some of the skulls like in a tree or something. >> And and I think you're exactly right
though. It it it's either it either takes a person capable of things that others wouldn't be capable of or it
takes a certain kind of stupid to go out and commit this this vandalism. >> Well, most criminals are stupid. Stupid.
>> Well, and the alibi itself is not that great, right? I mean, they're they're vouching for each other.
>> They're at a rock concert. And the the thing is here, you know, I'd like a little more information on this because
if that rock concert's in Springfield, Missouri, well, these girls disappeared between 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 these these women. >> Well, you probably could have went to a rock concert within a 2 three mile
radius because, you know, 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 earlier, you know. It wasn't like we didn't have all night Taco Bell people. It was rough.
>> There was no fourth meal back then. You were you had third meal and then you went to bed,
>> right? You skip you skip fourth meal and to jail. >> I often laid in my bed in the middle of
the night dreaming of fourth meal. >> Fourth meal. [laughter] >> Okay. So anyways,
um >> it's taco Tuesday 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 at a rock concert and and it could have been one that was the next town
over, you you could have been at the rock concert and still conceivably pulled out this crime, you know,
abducted these three 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 individuals are going to be charged with this this felony.
>> With a felony. Yes. >> Right. And then we have three people that 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 the Strereer family still has a question about today is, you know, there there are people that have
wondered, well, was was Susie supposed to, you know, testify against these guys in court? Um, you know, we we
[clears throat] got the one guy that says, I I wish they were all dead. >> Um, so they they look very guilty. They
have a motive. Uh the thing here is, you know, as far as these guys are concerned, um it doesn't really go
anywhere because they have no evidence. We're talking about a a crime scene where there's no evidence. On top of
that, police willingly admit that probably up to 10 people >> trampled through that crime scene before
they got there. Uh, and unless you have an eyewitness seeing these boys with with these victims or pulling them from
the house, there's 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 work and cooperate with the police quite a bit. They they willingly sat down for
interviews, told them what they may or may not know. Um, and those interviews didn't really go anywhere. Now again
though, there there are people that still consider them suspects and some of those people are the Springfield,
Missouri police. >> Yeah, I kind of wonder what these three individuals were are up to today
>> and and I wondered the same thing, especially after finding out that they're still considered suspects in
this case. >> Uh, as far I ran into some issues because I did try to I went down that
rabbit hole and Joseph Reedle, first of all, his last name is the same as a glass manufacturer. So, good luck. I I
found nothing but uh people trying to sell me wine glasses. >> Um Michael, >> did he buy any?
>> I fully stocked up. Uh Michael Clay has an extremely common name. Uh I came up
with like a hundred Michael Clays in living in the Missouri area. >> And the other problem 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 names,
>> you wouldn't know if it's the same, >> right? To compare the pictures, you don't have a picture to compare it to.
Now, Dustin Reckla, he has an interesting last name. It's not a common last name. And I did find somebody
that's still living in the Springfield, Missouri area, still living in the same town. Uh, and he matches up as far as as
uh age goes. So, it's in my opinion, it's the same guy. Yeah, most likely. >> I have and I don't feel bad saying that
or or any question about saying that because it doesn't appear that he's done anything questionable since then. you
know, he made 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 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 he's sitting in his garage
right now listening. Hey, give us a call. Give us a call. [laughter] Uh, no. But yeah,
>> well, let's tell your side 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 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 copout,
but it it should just be teenagers, early 20some year old just being young and and dumb.
>> Yes. And and the thing that makes them interesting though is that it's it's got
to be fairly difficult to abduct three people, especially if you're by yourself. I mean, it would certainly we
can agree that it would certainly help if the 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, I'd say that's pretty even. >> Even Stephen, he says, um, another tip comes in, this one didn't come in till
about 9 or 10 days after the disappearance of the women. Uh, but this report is about a situation that took
place around 6:30 a.m. June 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 porch and she says that she saw a greenish Dodge van. Uh she she believed
the van to have been from the mid60s to the early 1970s. >> Those are also known as shacken wagons.
>> She she also said that the van 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 a vehicle that she did not recognize. She didn't identify this as a vehicle owned
by any of the neighbors or any of the other people that lived on her block. Uh, furthermore, the thing here is too
where Cheryl Levette lived, you could get to the freeway very quickly from where she lived. And this person that
lived on on a block, you know, a couple she lived in a in an area that if you were leaving Levette's home and trying
to make your way to the freeway, if you were if if a victim was driving and tried to pull in and try to delay
something, this might be an obvious spot to kind of turn into. If that if that makes any sense.
>> Mhm. This van also was reported multiple different colors. You know, some people
said cuz there was other reports of people seeing a van. Yeah. >> And it came out like, well, maybe it
wasn't green, maybe it was brown, maybe. >> Well, and and and we'll get to that, you
know, but but the >> It kind of reminds me of uh uh the Shaggy, you know, was the Scooby mobile
or >> 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
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
was not just a van that she didn't recognize, but she furthermore she noticed a young woman in the driver's
seat that appeared to be, you know, freaking out a bit and >> blonde hair, right?
>> Yes. And the witness claimed hearing an unidentified male voice speaking to the
driver saying something to the effect of back out slowly. You know, he must have
realized that they're they're not going toward the freeway >> and don't do anything stupid. So, she
claims to have heard this. Now, the delay for her reporting this was just simply that she was unaware that there
was anything going on. Uh, it was when she finally heard about the missing women, that's when this witness made the
call and told the authorities, the the woman driver, you know, and and about the van. Now, when she was shown
pictures of the three women, she says that the driver, in her opinion, was definitely Suzanne Streer.
>> Right. So, this is the blonde kind of crimped hair. I think it's what it's called. This kind of bleach blonde
crimped hair. Now, this would be the girlfriend of one of the three boys. >> You're exactly the ex. And so,
>> Dustin's ex-girlfriend. >> Just throwing this out there, just thinking out loud. Well, that would make
more sense because you'd put her up front >> if if they were if they were the suspects.
>> Yeah. And the thing here is too, you know, what the police probably start looking at at this point is because they
believed this tip to be very credible. >> Mhm. >> The thing here is then you have to start
wondering, well, do either any of these three boys have access to a vehicle that
matches that description, right? >> And if you can prove that they don't, then you know, like I said, they're
still suspects, but but 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 look for because the woman states she gives a great description of the vehicle.
However, no description of the man who she heard talking to this driver, right? Because like there but there's no
windows on the side of this van. >> No. So, it's like, you 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. It's a little more too stylish. It's more stylish than the creeper vans.
It's like a a half creeper van. >> But what I'm saying is the the driver's seat was probably one of those bucket
seats. It wasn't a bench seat where if if you were my victim, right, and you're sitting in the in the front in the
driver's seat. >> I could be crouched down behind you with a with a gun or some kind of weapon to
you without being seen at all by, you know, by anybody looking on. >> Well, my ears are your victim every
week. The thing here is the the police did think this was a credible eyewitness. So what they did was they
purchase a van that would be similar year, similar model to what they were looking for. Right?
>> They get the witness, the eyewitness to sign off on the color that the van was
supposed to be and they painted it that color. They parked this thing out in front of the police department with a
sign on it that says, you know, if you've seen any van that looks like this one, you need to give us a call 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 this van? Just go with me on this weird thought,
right? Okay. >> Maybe you've seen this van at a New Kids on the Block concert. >> Oh, okay.
>> Right. No, no, not trying to make a joke, but seriously. Okay. What concert would were these guys at?
>> That's a good question. So if you say they're at this concert over here at this venue, did anybody at that concert
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 because these three guys committed this vandalism, this act of vandalism,
doesn't mean that the the they're the only three 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 break into this house or or abduct.
>> Well, I'm just I'm just going off on the fact that if these guys are still suspects, right? You know what I mean?
Like, you know, may maybe somebody had a van stolen from the concert that they claimed that they at or that they were
at. And then afterwards, they're like, you know, maybe a little high, maybe a little drunk. And they're like, let's
let's teach that girl a lesson. Well, this move by the police to get the van, paint 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 in the case and they it starts
picking back up. Now, a paper boy comes forward and he states that he was doing his deliveries and during that time he
described seeing a similar type van uh, but he says that the van he saw was 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 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
uh and in the color of the van changes several times uh from these different tipsters or eyewitnesses.
>> Yeah. A police one of the police officers said at some point the van was every color. Yeah, it 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 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 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 woodwork and they start noticing those vans all of a sudden where those vans
have always been there. They've always been in your neighborhood. you know somebody that drives that van. Now all
of a sudden you're driving on the freeway 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 we had to constantly do training on was we'd watch
videos of, you know, burglaries. Not burg, you know, bank robberies. >> Okay. >> And uh and then they just ask you, you
know, they turn off the tape and go write down everything, you know, and that's all neat. That's neat.
>> And you'd practice that, you know, but it 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 has a hat on or whatever. And you have to write down what what color jeans
he's wearing, what shirt, uh how many guys there are, you know, anything you can observe. You write that down and
then what do they do? They take your answers 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 of people do and just
because it's because of the type of test it is, a lot of people start trying to,
you know, scan the whole room for everything. Oh, >> where where here's what happens. If
somebody robs your bank, you've been at your bank for for a long time. So, you know your surroundings.
>> Okay. >> It's really about focusing on that individual. >> But still, it was amazing to me. I mean,
I was actually surprisingly pretty good at it. It was amazing to me how many people that I 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 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 green van. Maybe she did, maybe she didn't. Some people
hear about something going on in their city and they just want so badly to be involved.
>> Right. Right. And and sometimes the mind creates images that we think that we saw
but we never saw. You know, maybe she saw a van and then after she saw pictures of the women, she goes, "What
is she taking?" Like a bunch of mushrooms. >> I don't know. I'm just saying. It was 9
or 10 days after the fact. >> Sometimes 9 or 10 days after a crime, you go into the field and you eat a
bunch of mushrooms, you start seeing green fans. [laughter] That's not what normally happens.
>> So, we have some persons of interest to discuss here. And I say that because they're not necessarily suspects, uh,
but some persons of interest. We mentioned the three young men, Dustin, Michael, and Joseph. These are suspects
in my mind and in the eyes of the police. But we have some interesting monsters here to talk about. Uh first,
let's start with Steven Eugene Garrison. Now, Garrison had told police, he works
his way into this case because he told police a friend of his had confessed to killing the three women and confessed
this to him during a drunken party. Uh he told police information unknown to the public that led investigators to
serve three search warrants at two sites in western Webster County. He said that
they would find the three women's bodies and clues about their abduction and their deaths.
>> He also said that a moss green van believed used to take the women would be found about 12 miles away from where
they would find the bodies of the of the [clears throat] young women. >> Yeah. I mean, this this seems like
something they have to kind of jump on right away. >> Yeah. So, so the property that was
searched, this is where it gets even a little more weird. Um, the property that was searched was the same site where in
1990 law enforcement searched for two missing people. These are not related to this case, right? Uh the property owner
was Francis Rob senior and he ended up pleading guilty to two counts of seconddegree murder and a case that
authorities say at the time was believed to have been a drug deal gone very badly. Now Steven Garrison was believed
enough that a gag order concerning the search was issued by a judge. Law enforcement said certain aspects of the
information we received fit with other private aspects of this Springfield 3 case.
>> Right. Right. >> This was a statement given by the Springfield police captain. And you see
this type of move here is is pretty rare to have a gag order on a search like this. uh law enforcement acknowledged
that the gag order existed but but simply said, you know, we can't tell you anything about it until the order is
lifted. So, we we basically what that's saying is they issued this gag order because they don't want to talk about
items that were found at that site. Now, do does that mean that it it it is leads
to the Springfield 3 or this case specifically or did they happen to be searching
>> case? Yeah, they were searching a site where you got a bad dude that that was
known to have possibly put people there before. >> Yeah. A monster. >> So, the thing here is, you know, why why
does this seem so important to the police? This was important enough for them to go out there and search the
property, right? Well, so who is Steven Garrison that gave them this information? Garrison is a terrible guy.
You know, this is in part why the authorities take his statements so seriously. They know what he is capable
of because Steven Garrison was serving 40 years in prison for kidnapping, raping, and terrorizing a female
Springfield college student. Uh, which he abducted in the summer of 1993, >> which would be roughly the same age and
roughly around the same time frame as far as like same age and also around the start of summer.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Same age, same time frame, uh, same victimology. Um, you know, police spent a good amount 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 that
knew Garrison, but authorities were looking as far as Colorado for information regarding Steven Garrison.
>> I mean, the two girls were walking around town, and they're both very they're both attractive uh females. And
I think, you know, why why they're walking around that they could have caught somebody's eye and they followed
them the the lady's home. >> Mhm. >> It's very possible. >> Could be could be just as simple as
that. Now, Garrison, Steven Garrison is quoted as saying, uh, they've never let up on me, you know, when referring to
the police's investigation into connecting him to the disappearance of the Springfield 3. So you have this you
have this terrible guy that's very capable of having a victim that fits any of these this victimology here
>> and he was 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 did this. You know that's just a a strange statement.
>> Well and it might not be so much of a friend but maybe somebody that you know
you know as far as like sex trafficking and stuff like that. They they normally will work with each other. So, we have
this very odd case. Three missing women. We have Susie, age 19, Stacy, age 18. They're staying at Suz's mother's house.
Cheryl, age 47 at the time. >> Between the hours of 2:30 a.m. and 800 a.m., they disappear at June 7th, 1992.
And it's really the the crime scene is the strange thing here. All their belongings left behind. It almost looks
like either they left the front door unlocked or they willingly let the abductor or abductors into the house in
the middle of the night, >> right? No sign of struggle. And then when people come to find them,
>> they're getting some weird calls, sexual calls. >> And we have a couple eyewitnesses come
forward. We have a couple suspects early on early on. We have the brother. >> He's kind of out of the picture now.
Yep. We got the three boys, the ex-boyfriend, they're still kind of in the picture.
And then we got some bad ombres in this area. >> Yeah. And it turns out as the further
this investigation goes and the longer it goes on, the more that they're realizing that a lot of really bad men
are living in Springfield, Missouri in 1992. >> Yeah, we're going to have to get to
these monsters in tomorrow's episode. >> Thank you, Captain. We got so much more
to dive into in this very highly requested case of the Springfield 3 and we will do that tomorrow. We will see
you all back here in the garage tomorrow. And until then, be good, be kind, and don't litter.
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High school graduation is to be a time of celebration. Thinking of the memories created with friends over the years and an acknowledgement of accomplishments. June, 1992 - Suzanne Streeter and Stacy McCall just finished high school and planned to spend the first few days of summer with friends. They stayed the night at Suzanne's mother's home. Sometime between 2:30am and 8am the three women disappeared. They are suspected to have been kidnapped and murdered. Outside of several possible serial killers living in the area police are left with very few leads. Tonight we examine the very strange disappearance of the women that now are known as the Springfield Three.

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Brief Summary

Three women disappeared in 1992 from Springfield, Missouri, leading to a complex investigation with multiple suspects and mysterious clues.

Key points

The Mysterious Disappearance. Suzanne Strereer and Stacy McCall go missing after a graduation celebration, leaving friends and family worried.
Unanswered Calls. Friends of the missing girls start calling, but no one answers, raising alarm.
The Broken Porch Light. Janelle and Mike discover broken glass and an unlocked door at the missing girls' home.
The Geek's Messages. A friend known as 'the geek' left long, musical messages instead of information.
Unusual Crime Scene. The police find evidence suggesting the women didn't leave voluntarily, raising suspicions of foul play.
Bart's Troubled Past. Bart, Susie's brother, had a history of alcohol issues and a strained relationship with his family.

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