Suzanne E. Streeter Above Images: Streeter, circa 1992 Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: June 7, 1992 from Springfield, Missouri Classification: Endangered Missing Date Of Birth: March 9, 1973 Age: 19 years old Height and Weight: 5'2 - 5'5, 102 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Bleached blonde hair, brown eyes. Suzanne has a scar on her upper right forearm. She has a small tumor on the left corner of her mouth which gives the appearance of chewing tobacco. Suzanne has large-sized teeth with no previous dental work. Both of her ears are pierced; Suzanne's left ear is pierced twice, including a hole in the upper portion of her ear. Her nickname is Suzie. Clothing/Jewelry Description: A white t-shirt, jeans and pink shoes.
Stacy Kathleen McCall l, circa 1992; Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: June 7, 1992 from Springfield, Missouri Classification: Endangered Missing Date Of Birth: April 23, 1974 Age: 18 years old Height and Weight: 5'3, 120 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Dark blonde hair, blue eyes. McCall's hair is lightened from the sun at the ends. She has facial freckles. McCall has an off-center cleft in her chin and birthmarks on her chin near her lip and on her right arm. Her ears are pierced. McCall had a tanned complexion at the time of her 1992 disappearance. Clothing/Jewelry Description: A yellow shirt, flowered bikini pants, a fourteen-inch gold herringbone chain necklace, a flat gold initial ring and a ring with a small diamond. Medical Conditions: McCall suffers from migraine headaches and requires medication to control the pain. She did not have her prescription with her at the time of her disappearance.
Details of Disappearance
Suzanne Streeter and Stacy McCall Graduated from Kickapoo High School in Springfield MIssouri on June 6.1992 Suzanne and Stacy returned to Sherrill's residence at approximately 2:15 a.m. on June 7 after deciding that their friend's home was too crowded. They planned to meet other friends at White Water amusement park in Branson later in the day. The girls drove their separate vehicles to Sherrill's house. Neither they nor Sherrill have been heard from again. Neighbors did not hear any suspicious activity near Sherrill's home during the overnight hours.
One of the girls' friends phoned and visited Sherrill's residence several times during the day in an attempt to locate the three women. McCall's family alerted authorities about the disappearances during the evening of June 7. All of the women's personal belongings were discovered inside the house; their vehicles were also parked at the home. Sherrill's bed appeared to have been slept in during the previous night. Her eyeglasses were beside her bed and a book had been turned over, indicating that Sherrill may have been interrupted while reading. The family's Yorkshire Terrier, Cinnamon, was still inside the house and appeared to be anxious. All of Sherrill's personal belongings were untouched and the television was turned on. There was no sign of a struggle at the residence, but the porch light had been shattered. No additional physical evidence was discovered at the scene. Authorities now believe that the broken glass from the porch light may have provided clues about the disappearances. A friend of the girls swept the shards into the garbage, unaware that he was discarding possible evidence at the time.
Investigators noted that Sherrill and Suzanne's cigarettes and lighters were still inside the house. The three women's purses were placed together on the stairs. The blinds in Suzanne's room were pulled apart, as if someone had been looking outside. Authorities later admitted that the crime scene had possibly been tainted by the twenty or so loved ones and police who visited Sherrill's house after their disappearances were reported. No one realized the seriousness of the situation until nearly 24 hours had passed. Officers left a note on Sherrill's door, asking her to call the police department and cancel the missing persons' reports when she and the girls returned home.
An extensive search of the surrounding areas produced no clues as to the women's whereabouts. Robert Craig Cox, a convicted robber serving time on unrelated charges in a Texas prison, was identified as a possible suspect in the case. Cox initially told investigators that he was not in the Springfield area on June 7, but later recanted his statement. Cox also told a journalist that he knew the women had been murdered and buried near Levitt's home, but he claimed that their remains would never be discovered. Authorities are uncertain if Cox was involved in the case or if he is seeking attention by issuing false statements. Cox has never been charged in connection with the women's disappearances.
A witness reported observing a woman matching Suzanne's description driving an older model moss green Dodge van later during the day on June 7. The witness claimed that the woman appeared terrified as an unseen male voice told her "Don't do anything stupid." The witness did not contact investigators with her account until several days had passed. Additional witnesses reported seeing the Dodge van in different areas of Springfield after the women's disappearances. A man told authorities that he saw the blonde female sitting in the driver's seat of a similar vehicle in the parking lot of a local grocery store. The individual said that he wrote the van's license plate number on a newspaper, as the vehicle seemed suspicious. The man threw the paper away before contacting investigators. Law enforcement officials agreed to hypnotize the man, but he was only able to provide the plate's first three digits. Authorities have been unable to determine if a van was involved in the women's cases.
Other witnesses reported hearing a woman's screams and the squeal of tires in eastern Greene County, Missouri during the early hours of June 7. Officials searched the area, but no evidence related to the case was located. A composite sketch of an unidentified transient man was released in the days proceeding the disappearances. The individual was allegedly spotted near Sherrill and Suzanne's residence in early June 1992. Authorities do not know if the man was involved in the case. Sherrill's son and Suzanne's older brother, Bartt Streeter, and one of Suzanne's former boyfriends were ruled out as suspects in the case early in the investigation.
An anonymous caller phoned America's Most Wanted's hotline after the program profiled the women's case in late December 1992. The caller was disconnected before he could speak to Springfield investigators. Authorities believe that the person held vital information connected to the disappearances. Despite public pleas for assistance, the individual never contacted authorities again.
Several officials charged the former chief of police of impeding their investigation into the case in the late 1990s. Others dispute that contention and said that little evidence was available in the case from its onset. One of the original investigators theorized that the women's assailant(s) took Cinnamon out of Sherrill's yard during the overnight hours of June 7 in an effort to gain access to the residence. The officer speculated that the attacker(s) knocked on the door, pretending to have rescued the dog after he wandered away from the home. The investigator theorized that one of the women may have opened the door to retrieve Cinnamon and was overpowered by the assailant(s).
Sherrill and Suzanne moved into their home on East Delmar Street in April 1992, two months before their disappearances. Sherrill was employed at New Attitudes Hair Salon on West Sunshine Street in Springfield in 1992. She had 250 clients at the time of her disappearance and was considered a model employee. Her family members describe her as a private person who had a close relationship with Streeter in 1992. Their relatives had them both declared legally deceased in 1997, five years after their disappearances. A bench was dedicated to the women in Victims Memorial Garden in Springfield's Phelps Grove Park the same year. Their cases remain unsolved.
Significant events
Here’s a timeline in the case of the three missing Women.
June 7, 1992: Stacy McCall, 18, Suzie Streeter, 19, and Suzie’s mother, Sherill Levitt, 47, disappeared from Levitt’s home at 1717 E. Delmar St. The teenagers had attended a party on the evening of June 6 after their graduations from Kickapoo High School, then went to Levitt’s home, with plans to go with friends on an outing the next day. They weren’t in the home when friends came by on Sunday morning. Family members notified police that evening after they hadn’t heard from the women.
June 8, 1992: Springfield police assigned more than 30 officers to work on the case around the clock. Police notified reporters that morning, setting off massive waves of publicity about the case. McCall’s parents distributed flyers about the women to businesses, hoping that someone would remember something that would be useful.
June 23, 1992: Billboards with the women's pictures went up around the area.
June 24, 1992: A reward fund climbed to $40,000 for information on the case.
July 18, 1992: An FBI expert on violent crime arrived in Springfield to work on the case.
Sep. 3, 1992: A CBS program, "48 Hours," featured the missing women's case. Other national programs that covered the case included NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries,” and Fox's "America's Most Wanted.”
Oct. 8, 1992: Springfield police finished a mock-up of a green Dodge van that might have been involved in the abductions. That van sat on the front lawn of the Springfield Police Department for many months to remind people about the case and to try to jog some memories.
March 15, 1993: Police continued tracing leads. Sixty-six calls came in from a story on "America's Most Wanted." Four Springfield detectives still worked on the case full-time.
April 7, 1993: A cassette tape with three songs dedicated to the missing women was packaged and sold to add to the reward fund.
Aug. 28, 1993: Law officers with a search warrant spent all day looking for the bodies of the three women on the farm of Francis Robb in Webster County. Afterwards, officers said they found "some" evidence that they analyzed but nothing ever came of the search.
Oct. 28-29, 1993: Ripley County, Ind., sheriff's officers recovered a 1985 blue Dodge van motor home in a campground in Versailles, Ind. People in the campground said it had been occupied by a man until about June or July and felt it was abandoned. The van's vehicle identification number matched the VIN on a van stolen from an automobile dealership in Springfield between June 4 and June 9, 1992, that once was considered to be a possible suspect vehicle in the missing women case.
Aug. 26-27, 1994: A federal grand jury reviewed evidence in the missing women's case. Police sources said they had three suspects at the time.
One was a 36-year-old man from Springfield with a long criminal record dating to 1978. He's spent most of his adult life in jail or prison, including sentences for stealing, burglary, theft, robbery and harassment. He had escaped from prison and, most recently, was arrested for raping and sodomizing a woman in Springfield after breaking into her home. On this date, he was behind bars.
The second suspect was a 28-year-old man from Kansas. He, too, has a criminal record dating to 1984, including convictions for burglary, aggravated assault, escape and various parole violations. He also was behind bars at this time.
The third suspect was a 28-year-old man who was originally from Cedar County, Mo., near Stockton. He was first arrested in 1985 and has done time for burglary, stealing and parole violation. He escaped from prison with the first suspect in 1990 but was in custody as of this date.
These three men were moved around the Kansas prison system for years and often did time together in the same facility. When the three women disappeared, all three of the men were on the street.
The federal grand jury issued no indictments.
Nov. 2, 1994: “America's Most Wanted” got a tip with directions to "bodies" near Gainesville, Mo. Searchers found a garbage bag with two blue T-shirts with gunshot holes and “old” blood on them. An animal’s body also was in the bag.
May 13, 1997: Jim Williams, Levitt’s father, died in Seattle.
June 7, 1997: On the fifth anniversary of their disappearance, hundreds of friends and family members gathered in Phelps Grove Park in Springfield to dedicate a monument to them -- a black granite bench engraved with their names -- in the park’s Crime Victims Garden.
Sep. 26, 1997: A judge granted the request of relatives of Streeter and Levitt to officially declare them dead after the mandatory five-year waiting period had passed. McCall’s parents have declined to take that step.
July and August, 2002: Webster County Sheriff Ron Worsham led a search, which included cadaver dogs, men with backhoes, archaeologists and FBI agents, of a property on Highway A in his county. Worsham’s department received a tip about two men who drove a green van and worked for a concrete company in Greene County. The property was where the concrete company dumped material. The search, which covered parts of two weekends, turned up nothing that led investigators to believe the missing women’s bodies were on the property. Worsham was assistant police chief in Springfield when the women disappeared.
April 7-10, 2003: Searchers dug at a property south of Cassville, following tips that led them to believe the women might be buried there. Nothing was found there that indicated a link to Streeter, Levitt and McCall.
Spring, 2006: Independent investigator Kathee Baird says she found evidence that the women are buried under a parking garage near Cox South Hospital. Police spent many months trying to verify her claim but declined to tear up the garage to search for bodies.
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