Three Women Vanished From One House After Graduation Night. They Left Their Purses. The Springfield Three.

On the morning of Sunday, June 7, 1992, two friends walked up to a house on Delmar Street in Springfield, Missouri.

They were looking for two girls who had graduated from high school the day before. The plan had been to meet up and spend the day at a water park.

The front door was unlocked. All three cars that belonged to the people who lived there were parked outside.

Inside, there were purses. Keys. Cigarettes. Nearly nine hundred dollars in cash. A small dog, very upset.

But nobody was home.

Three women had vanished: a mother, her daughter, and her daughter's best friend. They are known today as the Springfield Three.

More than thirty years later, nobody knows where they went.

Three women

Sherrill Levitt was forty-seven. She was a single mother and a hairdresser.

Her daughter, Suzanne Streeter, who went by Suzie, was nineteen.

Suzie's friend, Stacy McCall, was eighteen.

On Saturday, June 6, 1992, Suzie and Stacy graduated from Kickapoo High School in Springfield. The ceremony was at four in the afternoon. Sherrill was there.

It was supposed to be the start of summer.

That evening, Stacy got a puppy as a graduation present, and had her graduation photos taken. Suzie spent part of the evening taking photos at the house on Delmar Street with a friend named Nigel Kenney.

The girls made plans with friends. The next morning, they would all meet up and go to White Water, a water park in Branson.

Graduation night

That evening, the girls went out to celebrate.

Stacy's mother had told her she did not like the idea of her driving around late at night. Earlier in the evening, the girls had talked about going to Branson, a tourist town nearby. At about ten o'clock, Stacy called her mother to say they were not going to Branson after all.

At about eleven-fifteen, Sherrill Levitt talked on the phone with a friend. That is the last known contact anyone had with her.

The girls went to a graduation party. At about one-fifty in the morning, police broke it up.

They had planned to spend the night at a friend's house. But at about two o'clock in the morning, Suzie and Stacy decided to go back to Suzie's house on Delmar Street instead.

That is the last time anyone reported seeing them.

The house

At about nine in the morning, the friend they were supposed to meet, Kathy Kirby, and her boyfriend went to the Delmar house when the girls did not show up.

The front door was unlocked. The three women's cars were all there.

The glass globe on the porch light was broken, but the bulb was still intact. Kathy's boyfriend swept up the glass, thinking he was being helpful. Police later said that may have destroyed evidence.

Inside, there was no sign of a fight.

But everything that people take with them when they leave was still there. All three purses. Their keys. Their IDs. Their medication. Their cigarettes. Their jewelry. Sherrill's purse had nearly nine hundred dollars in cash in it, money from her work at the salon.

Stacy's clothes were folded. The TV in Suzie's room was showing static. Sherrill's bed looked like it had been slept in. The blinds were bent.

The family's little Yorkshire terrier, Cinnamon, was agitated.

There was one more small detail. Suzie's friend Nigel Kenney later said Suzie was a creature of habit about where she parked her car. That morning, it was not in its usual spot. Kenney wondered if someone else had parked it. That is speculation. But it is the kind of tiny thing that nags at people in this case.

Stacy's mother, Janis, did not hear from her daughter that morning. More than sixteen hours after the girls were last seen, Stacy's parents contacted the police.

The phone

While Kathy was at the house, the phone rang. She answered it. It was an unknown man, making obscene remarks. She hung up.

Suzie had been complaining about prank calls since that spring. Police never linked those calls to the case.

Later that day, Stacy's mother, Janis McCall, came to the house looking for her daughter. She found the purses. She called the police.

While she was there, she listened to a message on the answering machine. She later called it a "strange message." It was accidentally erased during normal playback. Police considered it possibly important. Nobody knows what it said, or who left it.

Twenty people

What happened next is one of the most painful parts of this case.

By the time police arrived and treated the house as a crime scene, somewhere between ten and twenty people had walked through it. Friends. Family. Worried people trying to help.

Some of them tidied up. Ashtrays were emptied. Cups were washed. Whatever evidence might have been in that house, fingerprints, footprints, something left behind, much of it was likely gone.

Nobody meant any harm. But it may have cost the case its best chance.

The tips

Police received more than five thousand tips over the years.

None of them led to the women.

On December 31, 1992, a man called the hotline for the TV show America's Most Wanted, saying he knew what happened. The call got disconnected while it was being transferred. He never called back.

Sherrill was supposed to have a doctor's appointment on June 8. Stacy was supposed to work a shift on June 8. Suzie had a shift on June 9. None of them showed up.

Over the years, the case was featured on 48 Hours and America's Most Wanted, and in a 2011 episode of the TV series Disappeared. A podcast about it launched in 2021.

Through all of it, the families kept the women's names in the news, hoping one tip would be the right one.

The parking garage

In 2007, a tip claimed the women were buried under the south parking garage at Cox Hospital in Springfield.

An engineer ran a ground-penetrating radar scan there. He said he found three anomalies, three spots where something might be under the concrete.

Police said the tip was not credible. The garage, they noted, was built starting in September 1993, more than a year after the women disappeared. A person who worked in the prosecutor's office at the time said the tipster claimed the information came from a dream or a psychic insight.

The garage was never dug up.

A person of interest

There is one person of interest the public knows about. We are not naming him, because he has never been charged in this case.

He was a man with prior convictions for kidnapping and robbery. In 1992, he gave police an alibi. His girlfriend later took it back. She said he had asked her to lie for him.

In 1997, he claimed the three women had been murdered, and that their bodies would never be found. He said he would tell what happened after his mother died. Investigators have said they do not consider him credible.

No one has ever been charged.

What we still don't know

In 1997, Sherrill Levitt and Suzie Streeter were declared legally dead. Officially, all three are still listed as missing. That same year, a bench was dedicated to them in a memorial garden in Phelps Grove Park in Springfield.

In June 2026, thirty-four years later, local TV station KY3 was still going over the clues. The case is still open.

We do not know who came to that house. We do not know how three adults were taken without a fight, and without their purses, keys or cars. We do not know who left that message on the answering machine.

What we know is this. On the night that should have been the start of two young women's adult lives, they went home. And by morning, they and a mother were gone.

Sherrill Levitt. Suzie Streeter. Stacy McCall.

If you know anything, contact the Springfield Police Department.