Missouri - The Springfield Three--missing since June 1992 - #7

[tlcya]

Sherrill Levitt was born on November 1, 1944, and was age 47 at time of her disappearance. She was 5 feet 0 inches (1.52 m), 110 pounds (50 kg), with short light blonde hair, brown eyes and pierced ears. She was a cosmetologist at a local salon and a single mother, and was described as being very close to her daughter, Suzanne Elizabeth "Suzie" Streeter. Streeter was born on March 9, 1973 (age 19 in 1992), was 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m), 102 pounds (46 kg), with shoulder length blonde hair and brown eyes. Her distinguishable marks included a scar on her upper right forearm, a small mole on the left corner of her mouth, and pierced ears (left ear pierced twice). Streeter's friend, Stacy McCall, was born on April 23, 1974 (age 18 in 1992), was 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m) and 120 pounds (54 kg), with long dark blonde hair and light colored eyes.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Springfield_Three

On Tuesday, fresh flowers rest near by a memorial to the two teens and mother. Like those fresh flowers Stacy McCall's mother tells KSPR she feels fresh leads, technology and investigators can still bring her daughter and the other two women home.

"I look at Stacy and I think she's not 18, she's 38. It's heartbreaking," McCall said in an interview with us on the twenty year anniversary. "Twenty birthdays and twenty Thanksgivings and Christmases and so many times that we sit around the table wanting her nearby."

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Chief Webb offers this advice to any law enforcement who finds the mystery in their hands: "Never give up. You have to go to work on this and treat any piece of information like it's the glue we've been waiting for to crack this case open."

Janis McCall asks people who speculate to stick to the facts and stay away from so many rumors she feels have sensationalized the case.The reward fund for prosecution of those responsible now sits at 42 thousand dollars.

http://www.kspr.com/content/news/New-eyes-on-the-case-of-Springfields-3-missing-women-382172711.html


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Admin note: During the period the posts in #2 and #3 were being made, Websleuths rules were different, links are no longer good and much of the discusssion that took place at that time has since been disproved as not connected or incorrect. For that reason, Threads #2 and #3 will remain unavailable.

Sometimes, a colder case needs fresh eyes. Eyes that will start with nothing and examine every available resource to come up with a theory. This is one of those cases. What was done was done. Some was very helpful and bears continued scrutiny. Some has already been put to bed and left behind. Consider Threads #2 and #3 to be the latter. Thank you to all who examine the facts of this case and provide your thoughts. These women still wait for justice. Their family members still await closure.

tlcya

 

[TexasT]

Well, don't bother with the podcast link on thread #6. They described the Zellers Murder on Gerald Carnahan. Only thing I gleamed was that the female thought cox was cute enough she would get in his van, really ? No wonder these people don't have a real job.

TT

 

[dexter75]

Sherrill Levitt was born on November 1, 1944, and was age 47 at time of her disappearance. She was 5 feet 0 inches (1.52 m), 110 pounds (50 kg), with short light blonde hair, brown eyes and pierced ears. She was a cosmetologist at a local salon and a single mother, and was described as being very close to her daughter, Suzanne Elizabeth "Suzie" Streeter. Streeter was born on March 9, 1973 (age 19 in 1992), was 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m), 102 pounds (46 kg), with shoulder length blonde hair and brown eyes. Her distinguishable marks included a scar on her upper right forearm, a small mole on the left corner of her mouth, and pierced ears (left ear pierced twice). Streeter's friend, Stacy McCall, was born on April 23, 1974 (age 18 in 1992), was 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m) and 120 pounds (54 kg), with long dark blonde hair and light colored eyes.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Springfield_Three

On Tuesday, fresh flowers rest near by a memorial to the two teens and mother. Like those fresh flowers Stacy McCall's mother tells KSPR she feels fresh leads, technology and investigators can still bring her daughter and the other two women home.

"I look at Stacy and I think she's not 18, she's 38. It's heartbreaking," McCall said in an interview with us on the twenty year anniversary. "Twenty birthdays and twenty Thanksgivings and Christmases and so many times that we sit around the table wanting her nearby."

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Chief Webb offers this advice to any law enforcement who finds the mystery in their hands: "Never give up. You have to go to work on this and treat any piece of information like it's the glue we've been waiting for to crack this case open."

Janis McCall asks people who speculate to stick to the facts and stay away from so many rumors she feels have sensationalized the case.The reward fund for prosecution of those responsible now sits at 42 thousand dollars.

http://www.kspr.com/content/news/New-eyes-on-the-case-of-Springfields-3-missing-women-382172711.html


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So heartbreaking

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[Ibiz]

Not much to go on except for the green van that the witness saw.

 

[wfgodot]

Twenty-four years and a month now, 8796 days.

 

[Rhino79]

This new thread hasn't been very active, but I have a question...
Does anyone know for certain whether the obscene phone calls to the Levitt home were definitively attributed to anyone? I remember reading that there was some serial obscene caller that was identified, but was it ever established that this suspect made the calls to the Delmar residence?

 

[pittsburghgirl]

I have never seen any public statement that the call or callers to the Delmar house were identified. There was a man in the area who made obscene phone calls, but I have not seen any media articles identifying him and I don't think this person is a POI in the abduction case. There is a thread that discusses the phone calls in some detail.

However, it's my own thought that the calls over that weekend to the Delmar house were made by the abductors, most particularly the 2 that came in the next day.

 

[TexasT]

Why would they be calling After the abductions though ?


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[Rhino79]

However, it's my own thought that the calls over that weekend to the Delmar house were made by the abductors, most particularly the 2 that came in the next day.

I agree. It's just too much of a coincidence. I think the obscene message left on the answering machine could have solved this case if it hadn't been erased. I hope that in the intervening years the police have tried to extract the message from the tape.

TexasT... the calls could have been made for a few reasons. The caller could have wanted to see if his crime had been discovered yet by the victim's friends and family. He could have gotten some sadistic thrill from tormenting whoever answered the phone.

 

[wfgodot]

I used to think the calls were coincidence. But really.

 

[Rhino79]

I asked about the identity of the caller because I came across something interesting that I don't think has been commented on before. I was looking at some old articles about Steve Garrison. There was an April 1990 News-Leader article titled "Officers, SWAT teams surround Springfield house where escapee holes up." The article talks about Garrison's escape from a Kansas prison camp and how he fled to his sister's house in Springfield. The (incomplete) article can be found here http://imgur.com/Aekviud?r or here http://3missingwomen.proboards.com/thread/61/articles-garrison.

What caught my eye was a paragraph at the end of the article, which states: "... Garrison had been calling Wallen since Sunday night and making death threats and using vulgar language." I have no idea who "Wallen" is, but here is proof that Garrison had a history of making harassing phone calls and using vulgar/obscene language.

 

[pittsburghgirl]

Now, that's interesting, Rhino79.

 

[theforgotten]

I never could understand how they erased those messages by accident!

 

[Ibiz]

I never could understand how they erased those messages by accident!

The message would of had to been recorded over if was the old cassette type machine.

 

[monkeymann]

Why would they be calling After the abductions though ?


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To see if anyone had discovered the crime yet......would be my best guess.

 

[monkeymann]

The message would of had to been recorded over if was the old cassette type machine.

Here's something curious. According to the Spfld-News Leader, an obscene call had come into the house on June 5th, 1992, but according to the people who were at the house that day, the messages got erased, and they didn't remember what the man had said. Now my question is this, they claim not to remember what the guy said on the message.......but somehow, they remember that a call came into the house on June 5th, 1992. Seems like someone would have remembered what the caller said a lot more readily, than they would have remembered that a call on the answering machine was received on June 5th.....two days prior to the 3MW crime.

 

[monkeymann]

The message would of had to been recorded over if was the old cassette type machine.

It wouldn't surprise me with todays technology, that the erased phone call might be able to be recovered.......if LE took time to seek out specialists in audio/computer technology. I'll bet it could be recovered.........if they tried.

 

[TexasT]

The message would of had to been recorded over if was the old cassette type machine.

Digital machines were fairly new . I believe Ms McCall accidently erased it punching buttons .

While the timing seems suspicious , I don't believe anyone was calling to see if anyone had discovered the women missing yet . Otherwise , there would be 50 missed calls ? Unless they were watching , then why call ?

Caller ID was just introduced the year before as well .

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[Rhino79]

The answering machine wasn't digital. It was an old-school analog machine with a cassette tape. And I assume it indicated new messages with a blinking light and didn't show the number of missed calls.
I think people are suggesting that even though a message may have been "erased," it's possible that it hadn't yet been recorded over. If so, it could still be present on the tape.

 

[Rhino79]

Now my question is this, they claim not to remember what the guy said on the message.......but somehow, they remember that a call came into the house on June 5th, 1992. Seems like someone would have remembered what the caller said a lot more readily, than they would have remembered that a call on the answering machine was received on June 5th.....two days prior to the 3MW crime.

It has been suggested that Janelle Kirby and Mrs. McCall remembered perfectly well what was said by the obscene caller but were instructed by police not to reveal that information publicly. This seems reasonable since the content of the calls could be used in the interrogation of suspects and to weed out false confessions.