Missouri - The Springfield Three - missing since 7 June 1992 - #16

[snooptroop88]

Just commenting on recent posts about who was the target and/or why that night.

It does seem significant to me this wasn't an ordinary, routine night. Often we see home invasions/kidnappings happen on a 'normal' night. The perp has been surveilling the place, has figured out the routine, created a plan, then strikes.

Eg Idaho 4, the Tepe's.

This was not a normal night. Suze might not have come home at all. And when she did, another person with her, and so a strange car in the driveway...IMO would put off a stalker of the home.

So I think that implies this was someone/people focussed on the girls, who followed them to the home, and knew there was only a Mom there, and decided spur of the moment to take all three. To me, that implies people (IMO could be more than one) who was on the fringe of the parties with the grads, who were pumped up by grad night and felt bold, and were looking for vulnerable young women.

JMO

(respectfully bolded) Agreed this is a special night, and that does seem extremely significant. Still feel this is someone who was aware of the activities but not necessarily from that area, and he was jmo likely beyond the age range for participating in the parties, so tend to agree with the fringe aspect. He's "in between," he's younger than Sherrill and older than Suzie and Stacy, but again jmo. Also, special nights like graduation bring chaos and unexpected events, but I think he had been watching that house and the women in it for a time and may have felt fairly confident that he generally knew what to expect-- he may have even welcomed the chaos, it's not just chaotic for him. He may have been rifling through purses and spending time once inside the house to make sure he was prepared for what might come next.

I don't know on the bold aspect, tend to agree especially if that was him calling on the phone, but think he's an active or dormant SK and he's as calculated as he is bold. Am wondering if a high school graduation event didn't trigger him in some way. Evidently killers might target milestone events, and since this theoretical killer would himself have experienced a high school graduation-- maybe it triggered something in him.

As special as the night is, I don't think it's more special than the layout & location of that house with two attractive females occupying it. But totally agreeing with the idea that the graduation-- it had to play some role. Am staying open to all the theories discussed on here, they've all seemed plausible and well supported and I'm not glued to any theory right now. With that said, I don't think this was any teenager or group of teens, graverobber, etc. The voice might be teenish, but this was jmo no teen.

 

[DD Byrd]

I'm not convinced it wasn't one or more persons invited to come with the girls, thereby entering the house normally. Sherrill, having fallen asleep on the couch watching tv while her room aired out may or may not have even been awake/introduced (or knew the person/s anyway).

IMO, Stacy, Suzie and the guest/s would have been drinking earlier at the very least, and perhaps continued the party in Suzie's room. From there I can think of multiple things that went off the rails, though entirely unplanned. Perhaps an expected hook up evaporated and someone reacted to being rejected. Or maybe Stacy or Suzie overdosed (or was believed to have) and someone panicked. If any one of the 3 women were headed to the phone to call for help, that could have sealed the deal. Someone under the influence, who also didn't want police contact might go to extremes. Or, because the hospital was so close and an ambulance wait would be longer...everyone voluntarily loaded into a larger vehicle en route to it. That would explain a sudden departure with no purses or cigarettes. A body carried out while maneuvering through the front door could break the porch light. Once on the road, the women realized they weren't headed to the hospital.

It's entirely possible that even more people showed up and were in the house and everything was fine, at first. The scene was so trampled that prints would not only be everywhere, but probably overlapping and unhelpful, let alone inadmissible. The perp/s could be very well known to all, but LE couldn't exactly print the entire high school student body (or faculty/staff), every family member or friend at the graduation or parties.

The timing makes it seem someone/s was already there at the house with Stacy and Suzie, or was known to be coming. I can see both Stacy and Suzie being comfortable changing into shorts and t-shirts in time to reconvene when the visitors arrived or popping together into the bathroom to change while the others got a movie ready. After the women were gone, perp/s may have come back and done a perfunctory clean up. Cinnamon might lose her mind sensing something wrong, or be underfoot in general and placed in the bathroom.

There is always evidence that hasn't been released, and in this case I'd imagine one or more suspects are still alive and potentially only in their early 50s. Forensic technology progresses every day and I think this can eventually be solved.

 

[the_p0ssum]

Did that house have a crawl space? I'm seeing online that it did.
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The crawl space, I wish we could get some more information about the crawl space of that house. It might not matter, but it might matter. I'm assuming LE checked it and found nothing amiss. I don't know, though, that just because nothing looks amiss that nothing in reality was amiss.

According to this listing, the house is noted as having:

• Foundation: Crawl Space: Yes

 

[TheCars1986]

I just can't envision a scenario where there is someone already present inside the house (presumably in Sherrill's bedroom with her) when Suzie and Stacy arrived home that morning. If the perp/s where inside when they got home, they let them walk through the house, to the bathroom to remove makeup, and then back into Suzie's room to prepare for bed. If someone was already there, parked behind Sherrill's car, why let Suzy and Stacy mill around the house to prepare for bed? If he had a weapon, and almost everyone agrees that there was one present, why not nab them the second they come through the door and take the three out of the house immediately?