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@TheCars1986 are appreciated, and there are a lot of things in here I hadn't seen before. The empty picture frame. Never saw that anywhere except on these threads and this article. AND confirmation Stacy's yellow shirt gone. This alarms me because I've seen a few UID cases where there's a yellow shirt, I always note them thinking of Stacy.
The cops said there was no sign of forced entry, and Officer Bookout said that when he first arrived the smell of varnish was strong throughout the house. IMO, that means Sherrill varnished inside the house, or brought the armoire back inside to a room with the door shut (then when the people were in and out of the house on the 7th the door was opened, thus making the whole house smell like varnish). Some creep watching Sherrill from outside would have had to have gotten her to open the door. If the motive was a sexual assault as the police seem to believe, why wasn't this done when the person gained entry into the house? And if he had a site already in mind to take someone to, why didn't he take Sherrill when she was home alone?
Everything seems to have happened after the girls left Branson. In 2012 on the 20th anniversary, the police released this statement:
https://www.springfieldmo.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/2003
"Around the time of the crime, the suspect may have spent a considerable amount of time in, or may otherwise have been familiar with, the area of the crime, and he may have frequently been out and about at odd hours. The suspect also may have developed an interest in the victims.
People who know the suspect may not believe that he is capable of committing this type ofcrime, and he may not have a history of committing crimes of violence."
The bolded, IMO, would rule out the lone predator like Carnahan, Cox, and a career criminal like Garrison.
Emphasis on this point from post:
If the motive was a sexual assault as the police seem to believe, why wasn't this done when the person gained entry into the house?
How could we be sure it wasn't done, though? If the perp got Sherrill before Suzie & Stacy came home, I can well picture it having happened before they returned. And unfortunately, by him attacking in such a manner, this would also make such horrors more possible when Suzie & Stacy finally did arrive, as he now has two targets, not three, to deal with. With a gun, he can possibly ensure silence and bindings. But would more picture him waiting for them to fall asleep and committing murders then, and possibly other horrors.
The inventory of clothing in that home-- it's extensive. Really extensive, this stands to reason, Sherrill's in a fashion-related industry. There seemed to be some disarray in Sherrill's room in terms of clothing and such on the floor/in the closet. This is disputed, but I'm wondering if it's the case. So following this hypothetical on the potential for SAs, what if the evidence (or the bulk of it, obvious evidence), were removed? Like sheet sets, or maybe piles of miscellaneous clothing. What if some perp just bundled up everything that had any obvious signs and took it with him? In this hypothetical, the perp's loading bodies into a vehicle. He's also coming in through a window, and replacing the screen at departure. So now, if there's a heap of clothing somewhere indicating SA, even sheets laid out somewhere for whatever reason, why wouldn't he take them? He's going to be disposing of three bodies later so nobody finds them for decades. In that context, don't think it's at all beyond the realm of possibility that he'd take anything indicative of SA. With so, so much clothing in the house, who would know anything specifically is missing?
There's a certain Doe (Falls County TX) that got me thinking along these lines with this case. There were a lot, lot of clothing items found with this Doe. Blouses, yellow shirt/tee shirts, two scarves, jewelry that seems it's of completely different tastes,
and-- sheet sets, florals. Falls County Jane Doe has possibly been unsolved just as long (maybe longer) as this one has based on PMI.
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Have no idea what happened in Springfield Three, and find the case chilling. Am keeping an open mind for sure (arguably too open in terms of speculation, and I acknowledge that), but tt's a VERY long time now for three women to be missing without a trace. So there's something not just exponentially horrible here, but something that goes beyond the pale in terms of viciously destructive cunning. No murderer gets this "lucky," it's not luck, but alll jmo.
