When Stacy McCall’s mother went looking for her daughter after graduation night, Stacy’s belongings were at her friend’s house. Her purse was there. So were her keys and shoes. Janice McCall knew her daughter’s habits well enough to expect a call if her plans changed. There had been no call. At the same address, two other people were missing.
The house at 1717 East Delmar in Springfield, Missouri, was home to Sherrill Levitt, 47, and her daughter Suzanne, known as Suzie, 19. Stacy, 18, had graduated from Kickapoo High School with Suzie on Saturday, June 6, 1992. The two had been celebrating with friends and were going to spend the night at the house.
That is how three people came to share a missing-person bulletin. Two had spent the evening in company. One was at home. Investigators could retrace the celebration and account for the women’s cars. They could find no reliable witness to the moment all three disappeared.
Timeline of the Night and Morning After
- June 6: Suzie and Stacy graduate and attend parties with friends.
- About 2:15 a.m. on June 7: The two leave a gathering to spend the night at Suzie’s home. That departure time is the last reported sighting before their return, not a witnessed arrival time.
- Between 2:15 and 7:30 a.m.: The FBI places the disappearance of all three women within this window.
- June 7: Stacy’s parents contact Springfield police. Cars and personal belongings remain at the East Delmar address.
The two times in the FBI bulletin can give a misleading impression of precision. They set the limits of a period in the early hours. They do not mark two sightings of the women at the house or establish when a visitor might have arrived.
What the House Seems to Say
There was no apparent struggle inside the house. All the cars were still there. Janice could point to the things Stacy had brought and identify the clothes her daughter had left behind. These were details from the life she had been living the day before. None told Janice where to look next.
Police treated the scene as a possible abduction. Nothing in the arrangement of the belongings identified an offender, revealed how many people had been at the house or established that anyone had opened the door to someone they knew.
What Doesn’t Add Up
The search spread well beyond East Delmar. Volunteers joined investigators, and Stacy’s parents asked businesses to put photographs in their windows. Investigators searched rural ground and bodies of water. When people reported a green van in the area, police put a similar van outside the police department so witnesses could look at it.
Seeing that vehicle on the news was quite different from seeing it outside the house. It was there to prompt people to come forward, not because police had recovered the vehicle used to take the women. The tip did not establish how any of the three left East Delmar.
Suspects, Theories, and the Weight of Rumor
A tip can be specific enough to justify a search without proving the account that inspired it. In 1993, investigators searched land in Webster County for the women. The search did not locate them. Public attention has attached to people questioned over the years, but the available evidence does not identify who was responsible.
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Why This Case Still Gets Attention
The case became part of the history of the neighborhood as well as the families. Ron Davis, a reporter who lived on East Delmar at the time, later described meeting a younger Kickapoo graduate who had learned about the case years afterward. The graduate, Drew Stephens, wanted people at the school to remember Suzie and Stacy. Long after the last graduation party ended, their names still meant something there.
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FAQ
What happened to the Springfield Three?
The Springfield Three refers to Sherrill Levitt, Suzie Streeter, and Stacy McCall, who vanished from a house in Springfield, Missouri, in the early hours of June 7, 1992. Their disappearance has never been solved, and no confirmed trace of the women has been found.
Is the Springfield Three case still unsolved?
Yes. The FBI continues to list Levitt, Streeter and McCall as missing.
What did investigators find at the house?
Their cars and personal belongings remained there. Officers reported no obvious sign of a struggle.
Did police identify who took the women?
The public investigative record does not establish who was responsible. A vehicle description and searches following tips did not resolve the case.
Why does the disappearance still get attention?
Witnesses could help reconstruct graduation night, and family could identify what the women left behind. There is still no verified account of where they went.
Research Sources
The following resources were consulted to verify and update this article.
- FBI ViCAP, the Springfield Three — Provides the disappearance window, relationship between the women and outstanding request for tips.
- Springfield police statement carried by KSGF — Records the party departure, address, initial reporting by Stacy’s parents and scene observations.
- KY3, archival reports and interviews — Documents Janice McCall’s description of her daughter’s belongings, community searches and the police van appeal.
- KSMU, interview with reporter Ron Davis — Describes the graduation, the neighborhood and the continued local search for answers.
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