Missouri Mule
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Even though I tend to agree with your opinion concerning Georges Steakhouse the timeline still makes it a possibility, however remote. And I keep coming back to this comment in the News-Leader of June 8, 2003:
Back in 1992, three calls came in to police that the three women were seen in the early morning hours at Georges Steakhouse. The callers said they also saw three men with them.
Moore wants to know who those three men are, and if they could be related to suspects developed in Barry County. End quote.
It would be interesting to know if these three witnesses who called in 1992 were all employees of Georges Steakhouse at the time or if some were also customers at that hour.
So far as I know the only identified witness was the waitress (seen on "48 hours.") However, I seem to recall that none of the other restaurant personnel could corroborate her story. I seem to recall that the waitress said that Suzie was being argumentative or something to that effect and that Sherrill was trying to calm her down. The three individuals were men who were said to be talking to them. That's who I believed Moore was trying to find to talk to if my recollection is correct. But as I recall, the SPD almost immediately discounted the story. I used to put a lot of credence in this story but the timeline is very thin for this to have occurred. Still it cannot positively be ruled out. If in fact there were three calls from three different people who could positively ID the women then this would be highly significant. Why wasn't this more vigorously pursued by the SPD then if the calls were credible? The SPD has never, to my knowledge, discussed this to any degree. It was just out there, left hanging to our imagination, like so many things about this case.
What I have never understood to the present day is why the selection of the color of the van was said to be "moss green" in view of the color of the van "dirty white" that cruised the neighborhood for a full three weeks prior to the abductions. Yet it was the "moss green" van the SPD chose to put on the front lawn of the SPD for several months. The witness accounts just didn't seem very solid to me. I wouldn't have gone with it if it were up to me, or alternatively I would have put both colored vans on the lawn for all to see. To me this is potentially the most important aspect of the whole case which I won't go into here.
There are any number of loose ends that have never been explained to my satisfaction. Trying to understand this case is like trying to describe an elephant by a blind man. Nearly impossible.