Yeah, I was thinking of that guy when I titled the thread. 
Come on…when you think unsolved mysteries you have to think of Robert Stack walking out and telling you the story of something horrific that happened to someone you probably never met and about twenty minutes after the show ends will never think of again!
Today, though, I’m thinking of a mystery that I know has a very real possibility of one of you knowing someone involved in one way or another. The case of Springfield’s “Three Missing Women“: Sherrill Levitt, Susie Streeter and Stacy McCall.
The reason they are on my mind was that my fiancee and I were taking advantage of a very rare kid free afternoon to grab some chicken strips from Wally*World and find some shade under a tree by Lake Springfield for a nice, quiet lunch. (Operative word: quiet.) While having this lunch, I mentioned that during my recent City University class Bob Hosmer mentioned one time he stepped into the water of Lake Springfield and sank up to his hip in mud.
That’s when my beautiful fiancee said that some people think that’s the reason the three missing women were dumped into Lake Springfield. It made me think about the case because of the fifteen year anniversary last year and the work of a local investigative reporter who is trying to find a solution to the mystery.
Now, I’ll admit I’ve only seen what’s been in the News-Leader and on website about the story since I wasn’t around in 1992. Still, I’m amazed at how much detail hasn’t been released on the net about the case. Well, if there’s evidence to release. I know that retired Springfield police captain Tony Glenn told the News-Leader “You had this feeling as you looked around that something was missing, that something had to be missing. But there wasn’t. Just them.”
That’s what gets me…there was NO evidence of ANYTHING at all? Sure, I know CSI is not like real life but the crime shows on TruTV and you would think from those shows that they had to find some kind of clue even if they can’t match it up to someone right now.
I mean, I’m not a police detective but it seems like common sense that if someone came into the house and somehow forced out the three women there would be some kind of evidence that a struggle had taken place in the house. I mean…what could you really do to get three women out of a house, into a vehicle and gone against their will and have them do nothing to try and stop you? Even if someone pulled a gun you would think there’s something…a spilled drink, nachos on the floor, someone’s lipstick in a hallway…something that says it wasn’t just an ordinary night other than people being missing.
There can’t be a “perfect crime”…can there?
If they knew the folks and went along then you would think they had taken something. According to one report I had read, it appeared the girls took their makeup off and one of them (Stacy I think) had her shorts neatly folded with jewelry in the pocket. So if they went with friends, she’d get dressed in her own clothes, don’t you think?
It certainly is a strange mystery. I also saw on a website about some radar imaging done at Cox South that shows what appears to be the remains of three people under a parking structure. If that’s the case, why hasn’t that been investigated? I’m sure you can find some folks to pony up the cash not only to make the dig (or drill the hole as the case may be) but then pay for repairs should the search prove to be futile.
At this point, shouldn’t every avenue be exhausted?
Yeah, I’m probably too much of a detective novel buff and think that any crime should be able to be solved at some point. I’m sure there’s facts here I don’t know and I just have a gut feeling there’s facts that the public still doesn’t know about the case because the police have to keep a few cards close to the vest.
(Note: this is not slamming the police or the investigators in any way. I have little doubt this is an incredibly complex and difficult case. That’s probably what makes it intriguing. The puzzle that seems to have no solution.)
Anyway, I hope that someday the answer is revealed and the people responsible are held accountable for their actions (if they are even still alive themselves.)
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