Police Walked Into an Open Front Door. What They Found Became a 34-Year Mystery.

The Front Door Was Open. The Women Were Gone.

On the night of June 6, 1992, two teenage girls who had just graduated high school attended a few parties in Springfield, Missouri, then decided to go back to one of their homes instead of staying out. Suzie Streeter, 19, and her best friend Stacy McCall, 18, drove to Suzie’s house on East Delmar Street, where Suzie’s mother Sherrill Levitt, 47, was already home for the night.

It was a routine end to a celebration. By morning, all three women were gone.

When friends arrived the next day looking for the girls, they found the front door open. Sherrill’s car was in the driveway. Stacy’s car was there too. All three purses sat neatly in a bedroom - cash still inside. The clothes the girls had worn to the parties were folded. The television in Suzie’s room was still on. An untouched can of soda sat near a pack of cigarettes. The family’s Yorkshire terrier, Cinnamon, was alone in the house.

There was no sign of a struggle. There was no sign of the women.

What Police Found - and What They Didn’t

Law enforcement confirmed the women appeared to have arrived home that night. Sherrill’s bed looked slept in. Nothing obvious had been disturbed, except for one thing - the porch light globe was broken.

According to Newsweek, an answering machine message that friends described as strange was accidentally erased during playback before police could preserve it. Between 10 and 20 people entered the home before authorities were called, compromising the scene. One visitor swept up broken glass from the porch, unaware it was potentially evidence.

A caller reached the America’s Most Wanted hotline on New Year’s Eve 1992 and told investigators he had prime knowledge of the abductions. The call was disconnected when a switchboard operator tried to transfer it to Springfield police. The caller never called back.

5,000 Tips. No Answers.

The Springfield Police Department has processed more than 5,000 tips over 34 years, according to Newsweek. The FBI joined the investigation within days. Missouri State Highway Patrol assisted. Searches were conducted across rural stretches of the state - Lake Springfield, Forsyth, Joplin, Stockton. Nothing was found.

In 1997, a convicted robber named Robert Craig Cox, then imprisoned in Texas, told a Springfield reporter that he knew the women had been murdered and that their bodies would never be recovered. He has never been charged. Police have long considered him unreliable.

In 2007, a local crime reporter arranged for a mechanical engineer to use ground-penetrating radar beneath the south parking garage at Cox Hospital, following a tip. The scan detected three anomalies consistent with potential burial sites. Springfield Police reviewed the tip and declined to excavate, saying the evidence was insufficient.

The women were officially declared legally dead in 1997. Their case files, however, are still classified as missing persons.

‘I Never Thought It Would Be 34 Years’

Stacy McCall’s mother, Janis, has spent more than three decades attending memorial events, speaking to media, and publicly asking for anyone with information to come forward. She has never stopped.

‘I expected her home that night, the next day, maybe a couple of days afterward,’ McCall told KY3 in a 2017 interview. ‘Never in my wildest imagination did I ever think that it would be 25 years later, and I would be saying Stacy is still missing.’

That was nine years ago. Today it has been 34 years.

In January 2026, Fox News True Crime Podcast revisited the case with journalist Anne Roderique-Jones, who had closely covered the investigation. The episode drew renewed attention and reminded a new generation of listeners that the case has never been resolved - no suspects charged, no remains recovered, no explanation for how three women left a graduation party, came home for the night, and were never seen again.

The House on East Delmar Street

The house where it happened still stands. The women do not. Sherrill Levitt was 47 years old - a working mother who had talked to a friend about painting a chest of drawers that same evening. Suzie Streeter had just graduated. Stacy McCall had plans for the week ahead.

By 8 a.m. on June 7, 1992, they were gone. No witnesses. No confirmed suspects. No bodies found in three and a half decades of searching.

The front door was open. The porch light was broken. The dog was waiting inside.

Investigators say they still receive tips. They say they believe someone in Springfield knows something. After 34 years, no one has come forward with the answer.

References: Missing in Missouri: The Mystery of the Springfield Three | Three Women Vanished. More Than 30 Years Later, No One Knows What Happened | The Springfield Three: 33 Years and Counting