Springfields 3 Missing Women

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On June 7, 1992, the Springfield, Missouri Police Department was notified of the disappearance of three women from a residence in central Springfield.

The parents of Stacy McCall, one of the missing women, contacted the police department in reference to their daughter’s disappearance from the home of Sherrill Levitt and Suzanne Streeter, the other two missing women. Upon officers’ arrival, the house bore no signs of a struggle, but rather the appearance of the missing women being abducted. All personal property was left behind including purses, money, clothing, cars, keys, cigarettes, and the family dog.

Stacy McCall and Suzanne Streeter had graduated from high school the day before their disappearance and were last seen at approximately 2:15 a.m. on June 7, 1992, when they left a graduation party in a nearby community en route to the Levitt/Streeter home at 1717 E. Delmar, Springfield. It appeared as though they had arrived at the residence because their clothing, jewelry, purses, and vehicles were still at this location.

Suzanne’s mother, Sherrill Levitt, was last heard from at approximately 11:15 p.m. on June 6, 1992, when she talked with a friend about painting a chest of drawers. Levitt’s car, purse, keys, etc., were left at the residence and it appeared as though her bed had been slept in when friends and police arrived to check the residence.

Sherrill Levitt: 11-01-44, 5′, 110 lbs., brown eyes, short bleached-blonde hair, naturally curly hair, longer on top and short in the back. Sherrill Levitt has a thin build and has freckles on her neck and upper chest area.

Stacy McCall: White female, DOB 04/23/74, 5’3”, 120 lbs., blue eyes, dark blonde hair to the middle of her back with sun-lightened ends. She has freckles on her face and a dimple in the middle of her chin.

Suzanne (Suzie) Streeter: White female, DOB 03/09/73, 5’2”, 102 lbs., brown eyes, straight bleached-blonde, shoulder-length hair, large teeth with no dental work. She has a 3-1/2” scar on top of her right forearm and a small tumor in the left corner of her mouth which gives the appearance that she has something in her mouth.

With the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Missouri State Highway Patrol, and numerous other law enforcement agencies, an extensive investigation into the lives of the missing women has been conducted with no positive leads concerning the reason for their disappearance or their location.

A reward fund of $42,000 has been established for the location and prosecution of the persons responsible for the abduction of the three women.

Anyone with information into the disappearance of Mrs. Levitt, Miss Streeter, and Miss McCall is requested to contact the Springfield Police Department or Crime Stoppers.

http://www.springfieldmo.gov/2498/Three-Missing-Women

Judge reveals details of child’s death

April 2, 1982

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — In an open letter to the killer of a 9-year-old girl, a county judge described how the child allegedly was forced to watch the digging of her grave and threatened the unknown slayer with the gas chamber.

‘I am personally going to see that you are sent to the gas chamber,’ Greene County Circuit Judge Don Clough told the killer, in a letter sent to the Springfield news media Thursday.

‘I’m going to be present when they strap you in, and it’s going to be the happiest day of my life.’

Clough warned new evidence soon will be available in the death of Shirley Jane Rose and invited witnesses of the slaying to come forward voluntarily or alsoface the death sentence.

The child disappeared Oct. 17, 1975. Her decomposed body was found in a shallow grave near a municipal water supply north of Springfield Dec. 13, 1975.

‘So that you will know that I know exactly the way things happened, I’m going to tell you about the last few minutes of Shirley’s life,’ the letter said. ‘These facts have never been published by the news media.

‘Shirley was taken out to McDaniel Lake. She was told she would be killed. She was made to stand there and watch her grave being dug. She was crying. When the grave was ready, you took your bare hands and strangled her. You were not alone. There were a number of other people with you.’

Clough said the child was abducted because the killer thought certain drugs would be returned to him or he would be paid for them if he had the child to trade.

‘Unfortunately for Shirley, the search for her came about so fast that you panicked and killed her,’ the letter said.

Clough said he had received the information when he was an attorney, from a client, and therefore could not reveal the source’s identity. The former client, who is ill and could die at any moment, has been afraid to talk but wants the information about the killing released when he dies, Clough said.

http://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/04/02/Judge-reveals-details-of-childs-death/5605386571600/

Missouri Judge Conducting Hunt for Murderer of Girl, 9

 

SPRINGFIELD, Mo., April 3— A judge who has waged a personal campaign to find the murderer of a 9-year-old girl said Friday he had received dozens of phone calls providing information about the killing.

Judge Don Clough of Greene County Circuit Court warned the killer of Shirley Jane Rose in a letter sent to a Springfield newspaper Thursday that he was ”personally going to see that you are sent to the gas chamber” and said the execution date would be ”the happiest day of my life.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/04/us/missouri-judge-conducting-hunt-for-murderer-of-girl-9.html