Hi, new to this subforum and thread, and have a quick question; where is thread #3 in the series The Springfield Three?
Also, am wondering if LE are considering Craig Wood's whereabouts at the time of the disappearance of the Springfield Three? (The suspect in this week's slaying of little Hailey Owens, Springfield, MO.)
Craig Wood had recently returned to Missouri State University in 1992 after a stint at a substance abuse program. He was an excessive partier by his own admission, and had to drop out due to that and alcoholism. He returned to MSU in 1992; MSU's Hammons Student Center was the site of the Kickapoo High School graduation that June 6. The girls attended two parties after that, then disappeared after returning to Suzie's mom's home at 1717 Delmar (several blocks due east of MSU).
1. It's not inconceivable that Craig Wood returned to his partying ways upon returning to MSU.
2. Graduation parties in that town would have included older (likely college) kids as they all grew up together, knew siblings of friends, and the older kids were their ticket to the alcohol at those parties. Alcohol was consumed at those parties; in fact, we're told LE were called and broke up the second party they attended, due south of MSU in the 1500 block of East Hanover Street in Springfield. The girls arrived at that location around 1:30 and left around 2 PM. Sometime after arriving back at the Delmar house, they were abducted. Not at all inconceivable that older MSU guys might have attended that party as well.
3. Suzie's mom (Sherrill Levitt) had received a phone call (11:15 PM) after the girls told her they were going to spend the night at a friend's house. Did that person who called Sherrill come over to the house, possibly--for legitimate business (or not)? Sherrill would not have known the girls were also coming to her Delmar house at that point, as they'd already called her and said they were spending the night at a friend's house. So it stands to reason, if Sherrill had a visitor that she let in that night, that visitor was as surprised as Sherrill was by the girls' arrival. (Why was $800 cash in Sherrill's purse?)
4. If Springfield was Robert Cox's hometown, and he returned there immediately after being paroled from FL when his conviction for rape/strangulation of a 19 yr old girl was overturned, he'd have been a resident at a parolee halfway house in Springfield. Would he have had cause to meet Craig Wood, a recent graduate of a substance abuse program?
Source re Wood's MSU college/partying history:
http://www.news-leader.com/comments...S01/302190101/Craig-Michael-Wood-HAILEY-OWENS