hi friends how are you
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my name is bailey syrian and today is monday
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story that’s been heavy on my
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if you don’t know cause i don’t even think i’ve talked
about it here on murder mystery makeup but i
started another series called dark history
it’s like murder mystery makeup except it’s
murder mystery and history
yeah it’s so fun
no makeup though i mean i’m wearing makeup but like
it’s more storytelling the reason i started this
series was because while researching true
crime i always came
across stories throughout history that i wanted to talk
about here on monday
but because they were more like history
focus i felt like
kinda like didn’t
belong in a way so i’ve been wanting to
start a new
series that was
essentially stories throughout history that
at least i never
learned about in school
cause let me tell you history is wild
okay wild we kind of got off her
rocky start at
first but i’m finding
my groove in it and getting way more comfortable
at least i think so
my whole goal with the
series was to talk
about lesser
known stories throughout history
but make it realistic for like the
everyday person to
understand you know
cause have you ever read a history book
and you’re like
what kind of language are they
speaking i don’t
know what i just read i know not everyone’s
gonna relate
to that but that’s how i felt of all the times
well i wanted
dark history to be
kind of like this
where if i sit down and i tell you what i learned
cause let me tell you it’s freaking
fascinating
so on dark history we’ve partnered with historians and
specialists in the
field for each episode
who helps us tell the real stories and know like
sugar coat and
things you know it’s been an incredible
experience and i’ve been
learning so much
so if you’re interested
in that you can find the dark history podcast
every wednesday
wherever you listen to podcast
and i upload the
video version on
thursday here on my youtube
for those of you who
are more of a visual person like myself you know if you
wanna watch the
video version so i’ll stop yip
yapping and let’s get into
today’s story
story this one has been highly requested
and it honestly
drove me nuts
because i don’t like unsolved stories
this one it is unsolved i know
ugh i hate them
so today’s story takes
place in springfield missouri
in june of 1992
now like many kids in june it’s
graduation day for the students over at kickapoo
high school so
the kids are all excited
you know many are waiting
for this day for so long and they’re just excited to
you know when you’re
graduating you’re just
excited to get out of high school
and start like that new chapter in life
but at first a lot of the students
after graduation
what do they wanna do
they want a party
there’s lots of
you know parties
after graduation
going on and you know how high
school parties are
honestly nothing good happens but
hey whatever time to celebrate
you know within the
graduating class there were two good friends stacy
mccall and suzie
streeter yes
there’s a lot of
ss in this name too
which doesn’t matter but
it was kind of
throwing me off
so stacy is 18
and it was said that she was fun she’s bubbly she had a
great sense of humor
she hung out with a lot of the
class clowns it seemed
and she loved
to joke around have fun
she just seemed
like an all around fun person to be around
it was said that she was very good looking and
she did a couple of like
modeling gigs for a
local wedding shop but after high
school she was
ready to graduate and go to missouri
state university susie
now susie was nineteen
she’s also similar
to stacy it was said she was very outspoken
she’s outgoing
she was super fun to be around
and seemed like a genuinely like
happy person
susie was said to
like be one to hang out with the popular
crowd even dating one of the high
school bad boys
i’m rolling my eyes
cause it’s like
well yeah okay yeah bad boys in
class it plays
later on it makes
sense i guess i just don’t like bad boys
whatever children with problems
anywho doesn’t matter she was dating one of the high
school bad boys you know but
susie herself she stayed out of
trouble you know though they’re just
teenagers being
teenagers some of
susie’s friends
would tease her because
she was like a creature of habit
i guess that’s hilarious
well i’m laughing because like
it’s not but i get it
cause when you’re a teenager
people just
pick on you for anything but she was a creature of
habit she liked a routine
susie did she liked a routine
and some of her friends believe that she may have had
ocd tendencies
cannot confirm or deny
but that’s what her friends
kind of were
thinking after high
school susie
she wanted to follow in her mom’s footsteps and become
a hairdresser
so there are a lot of
things going on this
night there were a lot of parties
all around many people were heading to branson missouri
and they were
gonna stay the
night out there at a hotel
and everyone was like
gonna celebrate at the
hotel party
and then the next day they’re
gonna head to the
local water park it was called
white water so
party at the hotel
wake up go to
white water
and celebrate
there with all the friends and
stuff you know
so stacy and susie were
gonna do this they were
gonna go out to the
hotel then join everybody at the water park
great but at the last
minute they decided to
change their minds
they decided to head to another friends
of theirs house
her name was janelle
kirby stacy
calls her mom
at ten thirty p m
to let her know
that the plans had
changed okay so stacy and
susie are hanging out together
she calls up her mom she’s like hey mom i’m not
going to the
hotel anymore i’m
going to janelle’s
cause she’s having like a little
party over there
and then tomorrow i’m
gonna go to the water park
so her mom was like
great have fun
call me in the morning
before you head to the
water park just so i know
you’re safe and all that you know
mom’s gonna check in
so stacy and
susie they head
over to janelle’s
house where
her neighbor was having a
graduation party of some sorts it was said that it was
crowded and it seemed to be a lot of fun
so they had stayed up
until around like 2 am
and then stacy and
susie decide like hey
we should probably go to bed
because we gotta wake up early and
head to the water park
so stacy and susier
go inside of like janelle’s house
and they plan on staying the
night there but they’re like oh it’s too
crowded we can’t stay here
i guess janelle’s family like a
bunch of her family members had
come into town
she didn’t know they were coming into town
but there was no room for stacy and
susie to crash
so they were like okay
one more now
so they decide like let’s go to
susie’s house
and sleep there instead
so they go their friend janelle
and they’re like hey
we’re heading out but we’ll be back in the morning you
know so we could all head to the
water park together pick her up
go together you know
and janelle’s like
great you know see you then
so the girls head over
to 1717 east del mar
street where susie
lived with her mom
cheryl levitt so
we’ve got stacy
susie and cheryl
cheryl and her
daughter susie
they had recently
moved into this home
i guess like
susie’s parents had divorced
and the two
her mom and
susie they moved into the
house they were
still kind of like
settling in it seems like
it was said that cheryl
the mom she was forty
seven years old
and i’m laughing because
i was watching some interviews
trying to get an idea of like who cheryl was you know
and you know most of the time
in a story like
today’s people are like oh so and so
lit up a room when she walked inside and her
smile would
turn anyone’s
day around like they were just amazing as a person well
it’s awkward it’s awkward because
cheryl’s sister in a
later interview
would describe her as
quote a pretty fierce lady
that didn’t do a lot
of half measures in her life so yeah
i really sat with that for a
while i was
like what does that mean half measures in her life huh
was that even me
i don’t get it you know
most of times you get like
other smile lit up a room
and the way she said it was like very
straightforward like no like
i just don’t
know what that meant i really sat with that for like
a while and
couldn’t figure out what she was getting out there half
measures in her life i’m sure someone will let me know
down below can’t wait
cheryl she also worked as a hairstylist at one of the
local salons so the two of them
drive over to
susie’s house okay
they change out of their
clothes they wash off
their makeup and then they head to bed here’s
where the mystery comes in
so the next morning it’s 8 a
m janelle is calling susie
she’s calling her house it’s
again 8 a m
but nobody’s picking up the
phone bring
bring bring
bring bring
brain brain
nothing goes to voicemail okay
weird susie and stacy
were supposed to head over to janelle’s that morning
to go to the water park
and everyone is kind of like waiting for them
so they can all head out so janelle ends up calling
again bang bang
bang you know
again no answer
so janelle’s
thinking like okay i bet they slept in
right i mean they had a late
night last night
and they probably just don’t hear the
phone ringing
make sense so janelle and her boyfriend they decide to
drive over to
susie’s house
and it’s around nine am
when they arrive when they get there
so when janelle and her boyfriend pull up to
susie’s house
they see that all
three of their cars
are out front in the
driveway so
again they must be home all
their cars are there looks like everybody’s home
great this is a
random side note
but remember
i don’t know if you know but it’s nineteen ninety two
okay no cell phones
member no cell
phones this is a time when people people
back then before cell
phones they
would just show up to your
house oh yeah
let me tell you it was a different time people
would just show up
knock knock
knock and you’re like oh hi
it sounds awful
but honestly
kinda miss it
anyways so no cell phones
great so they go to the house they
see all the cars
okay so janelle
and her boyfriend mike
they walk up to the
front door and the
first thing that they noticed is that the
front porch
light it was broken
and there was
glass all over the
floor but the weird
thing was or is i don’t know the weird
thing was is
the weird thing was that the porch
light itself was broken
but not the bulb inside
do you know
i’m saying like just the outer part was broken
but not the bulb
and that was something that was noted okay
weird but more annoying
because janelle said that she wasn’t wearing
any shoes she was barefoot
so she was just more
like worried that she was
gonna step on glass
so it was said that the boyfriend
janelle’s boyfriend his name is mike
he makes like a makeshift
broom and is able to
sweep up the
glass okay they
haven’t even got to the door yet they
saw the glass
just sweeping it up
super nice my question here
because i was trying to
figure this out was
i don’t know
how he the boyfriend had like a
broom on deck or
where this said
broom came from
because it said that he swept it up with a
broom and in my mind i was
thinking i was
thinking it
would make sense if it was a makeshift broom
you know like if you have two pieces of
cardboard in your car or something and you’re like
so i was like
maybe it was a makeshift broom
but a lot of reports said he
grabbed a broom and swept up the
glass either way
i don’t know
if it matters or not but that part to me i just
i get fixated on the
weird stuff
right i was like
where did this
broom come from
but he swept up the glass
so after doing so
which honestly was nice
but crime scene so not good so
after he swept it up he goes to the front door
knock knock
knock no answer
and then they realize
that the um the
front door was unlocked okay so the
doors unlocked and the two of them go inside okay they
start looking around the
house now the
house itself was pretty quiet
um the tv was left on
which was weird i
guess it was left on like when those
static channels were just like the
white black and
white you know what i’m talking about
hopefully you don’t so the tv was left on
and then they see cheryl’s dog
his name is cinnamon
he comes walking into the
living room and he seems very anxious little cinnamon
very anxious
he just wants to like be held
and they’re like okay
they said that like
they didn’t see anything unusual but something felt
off and you know how that is i’m
just saying like you know our feelings man sometimes
they don’t make any
sense but man are we
little weirdos i don’t know
so they’re saying like they felt something something
felt off so the two of them are looking around the
house and they come across all
three of the ladies
purses jewelry
and makeup out the house
now to janelle and her boyfriend
it meant like oh they must have
literally just been here
but the house was
empty so it was like okay
we must have just missed them
so other than the
light fixture outside being
broken there was really like no signs of a struggle
it was just
weird vibes inside
you know janelle
would say later on that she honestly thought that
the girls just must have like headed out to the park
the water park
already at that
point and they just must have like missed each
other so janelle and her boyfriend they
decide like okay let’s just head to the park they’re
probably already there and we’ll probably run into like
susie and stacy you know
so while they are walking out to the
front door the
phone rings
the phone rings janelle
answers the
phone now on the
other end of the
phone was a man she didn’t know
and whoever it was was saying like a
bunch of sexual innuendos
yeah i couldn’t figure out like what i don’t
think it matters it was just said sexual
anyone knows it was enough to
gross janelle out
and she just hangs up the
phone she’s like ew
click not long
after she hangs up
the phone rings
again and this time janelle
says that she kind of hesitated a little bit more
she’s like i don’t know if i want to answer this but
she ends up picking it up again and
and it’s a man on the
other end just saying all sorts of like
freak nasty
stuff janelle
says she gets
grossed out she’s like ew
and then hangs up at this moment janelle said
that she had like a
light bulb moment she had remembered not long ago
susie had mentioned that she was getting like
weird prank calls is it
prank calls or
crank calls by the way i
should have looked that up
i really don’t know
cause i’ve heard both and i don’t
i always say prank
so janelle was like yeah that was
weird that must have been like
the prank caller i guess
i don’t know she
doesn’t think much
about it and then she decides to head out and go
catch up with
their friends at the
water park so they leave
now i know what you’re thinking
right now you’re like uh
wouldn’t you be worried
wouldn’t you do this
wouldn’t you do that
wouldn’t you blah blah blah blah blah
could would have should
right but honestly
again nobody cared like that ninety two no cell
phones if someone wasn’t home they
weren’t home and it wasn’t like
you know i don’t know
but they didn’t they
weren’t thinking i can’t
speak for them
but they just
yeah do you get what i’m saying
maybe you don’t
we could play
coulda woulda
shoulda all day but
at the end of the day they left and they went to the
water park so around this time janice mccall
stacy’s mom
yeah yeah yeah stacy’s mom what
mom we know it’s
gonna come stacy’s mom she’s feeling a little uneasy
she hadn’t heard from her
daughter that morning
and it was very unlike her to
not call at least like
check in so stacy’s
mother she decides to call janelle’s
house remember janelle
the original plan so she calls janelle’s
house and then
janelle tells her oh they end up staying at
susie’s house and
i think at this
point stacy’s
mom was like oh okay she must be just doing her thing
like graduation
night plans are
changing like she’s fine just
let her do her
thing and she kind of just lets
her daughter be
and i say this because janice
ends up waiting
about seven
hours she lets
seven hours go by
until she tries to
again connect with her
daughter again we
coulda woulda
shoulda all damn day
but she was just kind of like you know what my
daughter she
just graduated
she’s hanging out with her friend she’s doing her
thing she’s responsible like let her be she’s okay
which is super sad because
i’m sure you want to like
trust your daughter and
stuff and now it’s not the time to be
trusting them
anyway so seven
hours go by so then
stacy’s mother she decides to call
cheryl’s house
see if her daughter’s there because
again seven
hours go by she hasn’t
heard from her
daughter at all and
ring ring ring
no answer so janice
figures that something must be
wrong with the
house phone because like it’s ringing
and nobody’s answering so like something must be
wrong with the phone
so she decides just to go by cheryl’s house
and see if they’re there so when janice
gets to the home she finds that the
front door is unlocked
and she goes inside and the
house is empty
now at this very same time janelle
and her boyfriend show back up at the
house to check and see why
susie and stacy didn’t show up
so it’s kind of like a little
scooby doo meeting
you know like the
three of them
are all there and they’re
like you’re looking for them i’m looking for them we
haven’t seen them so all
three of them decide to
kind of walk around the
house and do some investigating
you know looking for any answers
so janice goes into
susie’s room and she notices that stacy’s
purse and makeup bag
were sitting on the floor
right next to not only
susie’s purse
but also her mom
cheryl’s purse
too now it’s
weird because
first of all if you’re
going somewhere most likely you’re
gonna take your bag with you okay
has all of your
cards id you get it you
would take it great
but that wasn’t
what was really
weird i think what was even more
weird was the fact that all
three of their purses
were on the ground
next to each
other tell me that’s not
weird that suspicious
right there
that would give me the chills
like why are all
their bags on the floor
next to each
other so this obviously kind of like gives
janice a weird feeling she’s not feeling that great
she’s like you know what i’m
gonna call police
okay so she calls police
lets him know
what’s going on and then
afterwards she
calls her husband and tells him to come over
while she waits for police so she hangs up the phone
and then janice
she notices that
oh that’s my
chair i’m not farting
the on the answering machine
there’s a blinking light
going off informing
her that there’s a message on the answering machine
and on the old
school answering machines it
would blink
you know great
so she’s like okay
let me listen to the answering machine because
maybe someone
maybe they left me a message or something janice
listens to the answering machine
and whoever it was left a very
lewd message
and it was pointless
didn’t really get to anything it was just somebody
again making
sexual innuendos
so she’s like oh my god that’s so
gross that’s so
weird you know
now here’s the
thing the old
school answering machines
they wouldn’t save your messages
most of the
time like you had to make sure and save the messages
most of the times they
would be automatically deleted once you played them
so with that being said
after listening to the message
it gets deleted from the answering machine no
yes like i get it she shouldn’t have listened
to the answering machine and
everyone’s gonna
roast her i know it in the comment section we’re all
gonna be like why
would you do that
but i i get it i get it she wanted
to know and she didn’t mean for it to get deleted but
it got deleted
poor lady i’m sure she regrets that very much
i know this may be wrong but
i’m in love with stacy’s mom
so by the time all this has taken
place and the police are called
it’s been like a full day
since anyone
has heard from any of the
ladies okay
but police end up coming out
and they try to investigate the scene
but since people were coming and going
it’s believed that it contaminated the
crime scene
plus on top of that the
voice message was deleted
so there’s really not a lot to work with also a side
note that i kind of was purposely leaving out cause it
could get a bit confusing
for a lot of people
so while stacy’s mom is
waiting for
the police and
stuff to show up
she starts cleaning the
house a little bit okay and i
guess like some neighbors
kind of hang out too it wasn’t
clear if it was neighbors or if it was like um
chanel and her boyfriend but they start
cleaning up the
house they’re like oh
since i’m here like let me just
pick up and make
things look nice
not realizing that this is a
crime scene
and you shouldn’t be
cleaning it up you know
so they’re cleaning up the
house they’re like
since i’m here let me just
be polite and do the dishes for her and vacuum so
they literally
clean the house
and they’re waiting and
yeah so that
all bad stacy’s mom
literally did
everything you
should not do
um great that part was a little confusing
to me because i wasn’t sure if it was like the
neighbors because i know people were kind of coming and
going everyone seemed to be really
close which
sounds nice
but not when it’s a
crime scene ugh
could you imagine
ah whoopsie
i’m in love with stacy
bailey stop
with that song it’s not appropriate right now
okay so police come out and they’re looking around
and kind of like what
everybody else was saying there’s like not much for
police to be working with they did note that the the
porch light was indeed broken right
but other than that there was no sign of a struggle
the house looked very normal
and very clean
cause it was cleaned
susie’s bed it looked like it had been
slept in the girl’s clothes
they were folded
and they were like on the
dresser next to
their jewelry
and it was said that in
the room there were makeup wipes around suggesting that
at some point they must have came home
they got unready
and then they went to bed they
think that’s
at least at some
point were there
okay also upon
further investigation everybody’s
stuff was still there they found 900
in cheryl’s purse
her car keys and
again there was jewelry
so it was clear to the police that it wasn’t
a robbery yeah
cause those are
prime things to be stolen
especially the 900
and then one
thing that was noted
many found odd
was that cheryl her pack of
smokes and her
lighter were
still in her bag in the
house now this
may not seem that important to many of us out here in
youtube world
but cheryl was a big time smoker
and it was said that there was no way in heck that she
would leave the
house without her
smokes yeah she
could have gotten another pack or something but she
wouldn’t waste a pack like that
it would go with her
you know what i’m saying
so they’re like that’s
that’s something
so police they
tried their best
to try and like recover
the deleted
voice message but
it was a dead end they couldn’t do anything
about it it was just gone
and again there was nothing in the
house that gave any clues as to what happened that
night no furniture out of
place there was no signs of a struggle
there’s no dna
no blood splatter
spatter it’s a con
i mean there’s nothing so police they
don’t know where to go from here well some
time goes by and there are not many leads so police
start digging around
you know and they look into all of the
girls past and they’re trying to figure out you know
someone’s gone off
freaking something so they
start looking into
susie’s background
and they see that she was dating a guy
named dustin
for a bit of time now remember in the beginning i said
she was dating a bad boy yeah
well dustin was indeed
a very bad boy okay they see that they were dating
for a bit of time and he had recently been arrested
for being part of a
grave robbing gang
yes he robbed someone’s
grave and then got caught
so he got like gold teeth
or something like super
i hate people they’re just so
stupid like why just leave them
alone they’re dead
leave them alone
anyway so he got caught okay and i
guess at some point
susie had learned
about this that they had robbed graves
and she ended up
breaking up with him
now there were rumors
going around that said
susie was the one who turned him into police
i don’t think it was a
rumor because i
found another source that said
that she had actually given a
statement to police
on march 5th 1992 so yeah she
definitely said something and
the boys this gang
they were going on
trial and susie was
scheduled to testify
against her ex boyfriend and his gang
at the trial in a few
months so if that
doesn’t scream a
freaking motive i
don’t know what else does i mean all signs are kind of
pointing to him
hello boop boop
boop like yes
you police are like okay
that’s it it’s this guy for sure no ifs ands or buts
so police they go out and they question dustin
and they question also the
friends that he’s hanging out with and they all pass
a polygraph
test and they denied having anything to do with
susie’s disappearance
now there was nothing
there was no evidence to link them to any crime okay
so the police they had to let them go
but it was noted
that none of them had like a
solid alibi
as to where they were the
night that the
ladies went missing kind of seem like everybody’s
story was kind of wishy washy
okay and they’re like we’re
gonna freaking get you i know
them it has to be
next the police decide to look into bart
streeter so they’re looking into this
older brother
and they look into his
background and they find that bart he
was about nine years
older than susie
and he was kind of considered the
black sheep in the family
years before 1992
this whole situation happened
bart was kicked out of the family home and he
was like on his own and he was struggling with alcohol
and he just really
didn’t have the best relationship with his family
and for a while he kept his distance
and then after a bad
breakup he had recently
moved back to springfield
bart wanted to try
and fix things between his family
pretty much his mom’s relationship
and his sister
so he cleaned up
he got a job and
think he got sober
for my understanding but
it was said that he was doing a lot better
and then there was one
point when susie
actually ended up moving in with bart for a bit
of time to try and bond and like rebuild the brother
sister relationship but
it didn’t last
that long the two had gotten into a really bad
fight i guess bart was drinking
and then he got
aggressive towards
susie so it was
it wasn’t long
after she moved in she ends up moving back home
and then that was the end of
their relationship so cops
bring bart in
for questioning and he tells them that on the
night of june 6 the night
before the women
went missing
he had been in a neighbor’s
house and he was super
drunk he said i was just wasted
so he said he was
super wasted
but he ended up
going home at
about 11 30
pm and then he passed out now there were no witnesses
to confirm if his
story was even true
so plus he kept saying he was super
drunk so it’s like how much do we believe you bud
so they asked if bart
would do a polygraph test
and bart agrees
and it says that he passes with flying
colors and again because there’s no
direct evidence
that connects bart to the disappearance the cops
police investigators whoever they have to let him go
cause they got nothing
a couple of days
after the disappearance another lead comes in
this time it’s from an
older woman who lived
in the same neighborhood as the girls who were missing
so i guess this
older woman she would sit
like outside
on her little patio
pretty often
as one does
you know and she
would just kind of observe her surroundings
she knew what
kind of cars came through the neighborhood
and she just kind of knew when
things seemed out of
place well she
had called the police to report that a couple of days
after the woman’s disappearance
she had noticed a strange
greenish van
driving on the block
yeah it was like one of those
creeper vans
and it was definitely out of
place but what
was even more strange to her was that there was a
young woman driving
with blonde hair okay she’s driving the van
and she seemed to be stressed or
worried or bothered like she wasn’t driving
happy she was just very
some something told the
woman that she was very stressed
now the woman also said that she had
heard a male
voice talking to the driver or whoever was driving
and this male
voice it sounded very
aggressive so she reported hearing a male
voice saying
quote don’t do anything
stupid at least it was
along those lines
so police asked her like
what took you so long to like report this information
and the lady was like well i didn’t
i didn’t know
about these
women that were missing
until recently and then she made the connection
about the van
and they’re like okay
let me at least
they got it
so police show this woman a
photo of the
three missing women
and she said that the person who was driving the van
definitely looked like susie so
could be true
could be not true you know how eyewitness accounts go
it’s like you
wanna believe it you really do but it’s hard because
eyewitness accounts are not
not the best but
hey they got nothing so the
woman reporting this
sighting had no description
of the man who was talking in the van
but she did give a good description of the
vehicle itself she said that it was like a
greenish color
it was between 1960 to 1970s
and um the police
they thought that she was a very credible witness
so with this information they go on a
search for anyone with this type of
vehicle they
start pulling over
every van that matches the description
and they go
as far as to buying a van similar to the one that the
woman described
and they parked it in
front of the
local police station with like a message
in the window that said like have you seen this van
looking for information
you know so it’s parked out
front so anyone driving by
if they saw
that vans i come forward with any information
they’re like okay
i thought it was a good idea i was like oh that’s
great you know how
these stories go most of the time police are like
oh well you know
we’ve seen it here
so at least they’re trying
they’re really hoping that anybody will come forward
with some information like have they seen that ban
and over time they end up getting a lot of tips
in regards to this van
right but many were reporting it to be like a different
color but it
sounded like police
were saying that it was like
every color you can
think of people were saying they saw this van but in
black white
purple but you
know and it was just it wasn’t helping it just wasn’t
going anywhere
so six months go by
still no leads
on new year’s eve of 1992
an episode of america’s most wanted was playing on tv
and they were sharing the
story about the strange disappearance
of what was now called the springfield
three because it’s springfield and there’s
three missing
on the show they
share all the information they had
right and they tell people
to call and come forward if they have any information
you know like they do so that
night a man calls in saying that he had information
about this case
and the operator on the
phone who initially answered the call
then was trying to connect them to the
springfield detectives but sadly
the call was
dropped or whoever called hung up but either way
call was done so whoever it was hung up whatever
and they didn’t call back
and the hotline was unable to
trace the call
so once again a
freaking dead end
i guess it sounded promising
promising enough to like
bring it up
but who knows what if it was just a
prank call prank call
whatever it is
well again more time just goes by
and then in
1993 there’s a man by the name of steven garrison
he came forward saying that he knew
what happened to the
springfield 3
and he said he knew
where they were buried at
and was willing to
share this information
only if he could get a plea bargain
for what he was dealing with so this guy
steve says that one
night he was at a party
and he was like getting
drunk with some friends you know
and this other friend who was there that was
super drunk comes up to him and
starts confessing to killing
these women
so that’s what he tells the police
now police are kind of like hmm
i don’t know
about your story
sir you know like
okay but then steven
start to share some
information that wasn’t
released to the public
regarding the case
so they decide to have steven
take them where the
bodies were buried allegedly
according to him
i’m not sure what it was he shared that was
not public information but it was something that
definitely got police interested like
okay maybe he’s onto something here
police also
serve three
search warrants in two different
states where they
think there
might be more clues
based off of what the stephen guy was saying
and so steven he ends up
bringing them to some
property a property that was
searched was
a site that was once mentioned in another case
of two missing
women back in
1990 now this was not related
to this this
springfield
three case at all
but it was weird that this was like the same location
for another missing case
so maybe steven got his cases
mixed up or
i don’t know police
found something
they found something okay the property
owner was said to be an
older man i don’t know and he pled guilty to two
counts of second degree murder
which was a case that was believed to be a drug deal
gone bad again not related
to this case
at all but please find something on his property
and they end up putting a gag
order on steven
which pretty much says that he legally cannot
speak about this case or anything that they may have
found on the property
so they put on this gag
i don’t know why it’s called a gag
order it sounds
dirty but it’s called a gag
order so no one can talk
about the case
right not even the police could talk
about the case
some people are
asking police like what are the updates or information
about these missing
women like what
happened to them because there’s like nothing
nobody can talk
about it because of the gag
order so whatever was on this property
or whatever was
found they were not
going to talk about it
nobody was allowed to talk
about it nothing
very strange
you know naturally people are like oh my god
it’s related
to the springfield
three i mean
hello makes sense
they’re being so hush hush
about it and it
could be true but it also
might not be and
maybe they found
stuff on the property that was not related
in any way but
maybe it was related
to another case uh
huh but police did find steven’s information credible
and they were
pretty familiar with steven’s past as well
you see steven was not a very
great person to say the
least steven
steven steven
steven was in
prison serving a 40 year sentence for kidnapping
and rape charges
from a springfield college girl
who was kidnapped in 1993 so
again like he wanted some sort of plea
bargain to help him out with that situation
no who freaking knows what they
found who knows what they
found on that property i don’t know
so it’s a super weird
story and no answer seemed to be coming from this lead
especially with the gag
order in place
again this story
three women just
vanished poof stacy
susie and cheryl
it’s bizarre
no answers seem to be coming from anyone
well that’s what
another tip comes in from florida suggesting that a guy
named robert
cox was responsible for the disappearances now
robert was said to be a
highly trained army ranger who was recently convicted
and sentenced to
death for brutally
murdering another 19 year old girl in florida
but in the end his verdict was reversed
that’s a whole mess that we’re not gonna
touch right now
but please do some digging around and find out that
robert had moved to springfield
right before these
women went missing and he used to work at the same
dealership as stacy’s dad
so i mean mmm
you know police question him
and he says
that he was at a golf tournament with his parents
he was staying with them for the
night and then the next morning he took his
girlfriend to church
and according to his
girlfriend that’s exactly what happened
you know they don’t really believe him
or her but again
without any hard evidence
they have to let him go they don’t have anything
i don’t know how i feel
about this robert guy i mean yeah
it’s like mmm
could be but i don’t know
when he robbed them or so i don’t know
later in 1995
robert was arrested in
texas for aggravated robbery but
this time his
girlfriend or the
now ex girlfriend
starts singing a different tune
you know she
snatches back her original alibi
on the night
of the springfield 3
when they went missing so
she’s like actually i lied for him
he wasn’t with me that night
so when springfield police hear this they go down to
texas to question him but he refuses to talk
but then oddly enough
in nineteen ninety six during an interview with the
local reporter
robert says something just
super weird
super weird this reporter
asked him hey do you know anything
about the springfield three
and then robert
says i know that they’re dead
i’ll say that well police
again get word of this
and they head out to question
robert once again
but he refuses to
admit killing the women
being involved
he starts saying like
super cryptic mysterious
messages to police like
i can’t give you any specifics
until my mom is dead
i just know
they’re dead that’s not my theory i just know that
and it’s like dude shut up don’t do that
that’s so annoying
so robert is
still considered
a person of interest but they don’t have any confession
or hard evidence
linking him to the case
so until then the case
goes cold once again
great you know
so with no new
solid information or leads
after five years the
cops finally have to stop actively working on the case
the three women were legally
declared dead in june of 1997
even though
their case file
still considers them to be missing yeah
super sad there’s nothing there’s nothing
so weird so years go by
and then in 2007 there’s a journalist
named kathy
bared anyway she gets a tip from someone
who either claimed to be a psychic
or claimed to have like had a vision or a dream
about the springfield iii case
she said that the
three missing
women were buried in the
foundation of the
south parking garage
at cox hospital
mmm her vision told her this
so back in 1992
when the women went missing
this parking
structure at the hospital
hadn’t been
built yet it was just a big lot of dirt
she shares this information with investigators
but they pretty much just
laugh in her face
and they say something like there’s no way
what are we
gonna do like tear up all the parking
structure you know
and she’s like well
are you wanna do anything
about it and they’re telling her like no
if they are there they’re buried by a
ton of cement and we’re not
going to go like blow up a parking
structure just
because a psychic said so
that’s what police are saying
well kathy she
can’t just let go of this tip she needs to know
if this tip is
right she needs closure
like i get it girl
we would all be like wait no
i need to investigate myself then
so she hires a
mechanical engineer
to use a ground penetrating
radar to scan the parking garage
floor and see if anything
turns up now she’s recording this guy i guess
and this guy he’s
using his machine and he
says that he’s getting two images that are parallel
in one spot
and there’s another like a
third nearby that’s perpendicular
i don’t know
and then kathy she gets
super excited and
she goes over to the guy she hired and she tells him
i’m working on a missing persons case
and he’s very casually like oh yeah that’s weird
because like this is exactly what i see on my radar
when i go over old graves
huh well this parking garage it wasn’t built
until a year
after the women went missing so in theory
the bodies should
have turned up during an excavation when they actually
started to build the garage
right kathy
goes to police
and tells him that she also records the guy
doing it so she
could show police like look at what he
found i hired him
this is what he’s saying blah
blah please tell kathy
that the radar
scans aren’t enough for them to demolish the garage
they still need more evidence so kathy
starts doing some more digging and then
strangely she just stops
now there was a podcast this girl’s
kinda weird
this don’t get too
excited okay
because there was
a podcast who was doing an episode on the springfield 3
and they interviewed kathy
was it a podcast
no i think it was a youtube
video and they interview kathy
about the radar scan in her investigation
and in the interview she mentions that she
thinks she knows what happened
and unfortunately
stacy was just collateral damage
in the scenario she gets
god what’s the word cryptic i
guess herself and she gets
super tense
and it’s awkward and uncomfortable
cause the interviewer
presses her for more information
about who the real
target was and
cathy says that
she gets all uncomfortable she’s like i’m not
going to talk about that
and then she goes on to say like
i’ve been advised
to leave this case
alone and i’m afraid for my safety
and then she goes on to say a little bit more
but kathy said that she
would not leave this case alone
until she had
solid proof of who did
it okay look in the interview she’s giving off the vibe
that she knows who did it
that i can’t talk
about it because
i will be murdered next and she’s being
super again cryptic
like she knows
and then in the interview she even
goes on to say that she knows who was responsible
but that she won’t give up the information
until it’s solved
and it’s like girl
you can’t solve the mystery
if you don’t give
up the information
as to who did it but you’re on national tv
it just kind of seemed like she
i hate to say it i hate to say it girl i’m
sorry but it kind of seems like she was doing
whole interview and
stuff for attention
because why
would you do
an interview if you know all the information
go to police like what are you doing on this interview
alluding that you know but
i’m not gonna say anything like why are you here then
why are you wasting our damn time
it just seemed a little
self serving
i don’t know she
might be onto something with the parking garage area
but police they felt like her timeline didn’t add up
and i couldn’t find a straight answer
as to why they didn’t want to
search more into this tip that to me
doesn’t make any
sense i mean i
understand that blowing up a parking garage
that’s probably a headache but
aren’t you supposed to
solve some mysteries
isn’t that what you’re
supposed to do i don’t know i didn’t like that lady
but i just was
gonna mention it because
she is mentioned a lot of the time in this story
she acts like she knows something
i don’t know i don’t like her i don’t get good vibes
so since then
there have only
been two more leads that didn’t really pan out
all that much
and then in 2002
there was a
lead of a similar looking van that was spotted when the
three went missing
so cops went to
a concrete company
where the van was spotted
and they brought
cadaver dogs with them and the dogs did find some bones
i know but then testing
reports came back saying that the bones were too old
to be the women
so great now they saw
someone else’s mystery i guess
i hope they circle back on that one
and then in 2003 a tip leads investigators to a farm
about an hour away from springfield and
after some digging police find possible
blood evidence
and a piece of a
vehicle that
maybe could be part of the van that was seen
so police are
excited and immediately they sent
the blood to the lab for testing
but it came back inconclusive
so they just can’t
catch a break it’s
weird because it seems like they do want to
solve this case
because they
they’re trying but then with the concrete thing
they don’t want to
solve they don’t want to do that though i don’t know
maybe they just don’t find her credible
that lady anywho
this case is
still ongoing
and hopefully one day we’ll know what happened to
these three ladies
springfield three
they just freaking
disappeared
and nobody knows
anything it’s just bizarre
i spent so much time
on this one like looking around just trying to look for
you just want something
there’s nothing a couple of
things one was it
susie’s boyfriend the bad boy
obviously there’s a motive there
i guess at one
point it was mentioned like oh i
would kill her
from the boyfriend
because he was so mad that she rat him out
and honestly like that makes the most
sense right the boyfriend and like the the
grave diggers
if any if any of them that
seems like the
thing but here’s the
thing and this is
my theory i don’t know like
who am i exactly
i’m just in youtube box but um
people like to talk you know
people love talking
they love sharing stories
they love sharing
secrets oh yes
you love sharing a
secret don’t lie don’t lie
secret you’re
gonna tell someone
so if it was the boyfriend and the gang of friends
there was like
five or six of them chances are
one of them
would say something right
one of them
would open their
mouth chicken out confess
live with regret
there’s just no way they
would all keep
their mouth
shut for this long you know so that’s kind of why i was
thinking maybe it’s not them
because i cannot believe that they
would keep the
secret for this long
they would someone
would crack by now
but i don’t know it
could be i mean
again they have
the motive and all that it totally makes
sense maybe they did keep the
secret for this song
but then i was
thinking i was marinating on this a little bit
and i was like okay
so everyone seemed to know or be aware
that the kids were
graduating high
school that weekend
remember graduation
means parties
kids doing stuff
kids hanging out at
other people’s houses
just not home whatever
so my thought was
or is or i don’t know
is that the killer
or whoever was
knew that the girls were not
going to be home that
night susie’s
house and it
would just be mom
by herself at the home because the kids
remember they were originally
gonna stay at janelle’s
house well first they were
gonna stay at the hotel
then they’re
gonna stay at janelle’s
house and they didn’t tell their mom
that they were coming home so mom
she seemed outgoing
and it kind of almost seems like
maybe wrong
place wrong time
like the two girls were supposed to stay the
night at the
hotel originally
they had their friends
and they weren’t
gonna be home
so mom is back at the house
okay maybe she invites a lone ranger over to the house
since the kids are away and
this visitor
parks in the driveway
in the spot that
the daughter always
parked in remember in the beginning when i described
susie and her
friends had said that she had like ocd tendencies
okay well it was said that susie
always parked in the same
exact spot at her
house when she
arrived there okay
but then that day when janelle
went to the
house she noted that
susie’s car was not parked
where it normally is and that was like
major it was
something that she obviously remembered like that’s
weird so the thought is
what if somebody was at the
house and was parked in the spot that the
daughter would always park in
right so susie pulls up and was like oh
weird someone’s
in my spot i’ll just park here behind my mom
and then stacy
followed her
and parked behind her
cause there was
three cards there mom
susie stacey
or something like that
maybe someone was parked in her spot
somebody was hanging out with mom
okay maybe mom was at the
house the visitor is at the
house and the two girls come home that
night totally unplanned
oh no they’re not
supposed to be here they’re supposed to be whatever now
this killer this bad person’s like shit i
gotta get rid of all
three of these people now not just
cheryl or whatever you know
and my thought is that
whoever it was
it was a super random hit
and that’s why there’s like no
trace back to anyone
because it was someone
random or completely new
because that’s why nobody
has solved it that’s my thought because
people again love to talk
somebody would have said something
unless it was someone who was
completely new
and not around
and just left and nobody knew this
i don’t know
i obviously am not solving any mysteries but like i’m
hmm i’m trying
i hate unsolve stories you know you just want closure
it’s just so sad like
weird i don’t know
i would love to hear your guys theories down below
let me know in the comment section what you guys think
but other than that is
today’s really sad story
three just go missing like damn
scary anyways
thank you guys so much for hanging out with me
today i hope you have a wonderful rest of your day
a great week
ahead and i’ll be seeing you very soon
make good choices
be safe and
i love you okay bye
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