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The Haunting Silence: Revisiting the Springfield Three Disappearance
Episode 2143rd December 2024 • The Dead Life with Allison DuBois • Allison DuBois
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Three women vanished from Springfield, Missouri, on June 7, 1992, and the case remains unsolved even after 30 years. Host Allison DuBois delves into the chilling details surrounding the disappearance of Susie Streeter, Stacy McCall, and Cheryl Levitt, exploring the timeline of events that led to their fateful night. With a unique psychic perspective, DuBois highlights the complexities of the investigation, emphasizing the critical importance of evidence collection. As she navigates through the emotions of the families and the unsettling possibilities surrounding the case, she shares her insights on the potential motives behind the abduction. Join Allison as she seeks to unravel the mystery and urges anyone with information to come forward, reminding listeners that even the coldest cases can still hold the key to resolution.

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Allison Dubois:

Welcome to the Dead Life.

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Here's world renowned medium Allison Dubois.

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Three women disappeared in Springfield, Missouri and after 30 years, the case is still cold.

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Cheryl Levitt watched her daughter Susie graduate from high school.

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This is a happy occasion for most parents watching their children grow up and succeed.

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But for Sheryl Levitt, that happy occasion turned into what I could only imagine was a terrifying abduction and triple murder.

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My process when I do a write up on a case is to write down the impressions that come to me and write them down.

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I then pass my write up onto law enforcement for them to follow up on any leads it may give them.

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With the Springfield 3, that was the process I followed.

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This case is the hardest kind of case for me to work because the bodies were never recovered.

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When a body has been found, law enforcement has a greater likelihood of discovering evidence left behind through DNA or clues through manner of death.

Allison Dubois:

Those clues give me psychic breadcrumbs to follow into the nothingness around a murder that needs answering.

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For any of you who are trying to exercise your investigator sixth sense, please remember to do your write up first.

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Without knowing any details around a case, just look at a picture of the victim or the missing person.

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Write their first name at the top of your file and begin writing down the impressions that you pull from the energy of the crime.

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I do not collaborate with other psychics.

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It can muddy the waters and if one of you is inaccurate, then the inaccurate details just took you in the wrong direction and you don't want to risk that.

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So keep it clean.

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This case has a lot of problems.

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Let me set the scene for you.

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Their very proud parents watched their daughters achieve one of many milestones in a young person's life.

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On June 7, Susie and Stacy decided to go out and celebrate by grad party hopping.

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Some reports said they were supposed to spend the night at their friend Janelle Kirby's house, but Stacy decided to stay at Susie's house instead.

Allison Dubois:

According to Janelle Kirby and Mike Henson, both friends of Susie and Stacy, the last time they saw Susie and Stacy, the girls had left Janelle's house, which was around the corner from the party they were at.

Allison Dubois:

And this was at around 2am on the 7th.

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So if they graduated in the formal ceremony on the 6th, then they went out the night of the 6th, but were last seen in the early mornings of the 7th of June.

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So at around 2am they left and each girl left driving her own car.

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Stacy and Susie said they were headed to Susie's house to sleep and told Janelle to call them in the morning to go to Whitewater, which is a water park.

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That was the last time anyone saw or spoke to Susie Streeter or Stacy McCall.

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As far as we know, the third missing person is Cheryl Lovett, Susie's mother.

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The last time anyone heard from Cheryl was around 11pm on the night of the 6th when she was on the phone with a friend.

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Mrs.

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McCall, Stacy's mother said she saw Cheryl Levitt at the graduation ceremony on the 6th at around 6pm So 11pm is around the last time anyone talked to Cheryl and knew she was okay.

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Now let's look at the police report.

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Janelle Kirby started calling Susie's house around 7:30am Several hours after last seeing her drive away.

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She called her several times that morning with no answer, just the answering machine.

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ent to Susie's house again at:

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They stated that Susie and Stacy's cars were there as well as the mother, Cheryl's.

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This is a lot of reports, so bear with me.

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So Cheryl's car was in the carport.

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Janella.

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Mike said the door was closed, but unlocked.

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They rang the doorbell, they knocked and then announced themselves as they entered the premises.

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They said the front porch like globe was broken, but on they went into Susie's room and the TV was on.

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They said all three women's purses were in Susie's room.

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I found that to be strange.

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Why would her mom, Cheryl's purse be in her daughter's room?

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Unless the person who broke in led them to think it was a robbery.

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The purses need to be run for fingerprints and DNA.

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If they were well preserved by law enforcement, that could be done now.

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So I found the purses to be important, especially the mother's purse.

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If they wanted to, if the abductors wanted to go through some sort of a ruse, that they were just there for money and we're just gonna, you know, take you out and Leave you on the side of the road to give us time to get away.

Allison Dubois:

You know, that could be something that the women might have thought, you know, that they would be okay if that were the case.

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Now I know from working in law enforcement and with law enforcement for so long, you never allow somebody to remove you from where you're being abducted from.

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But I know that a lot of people would want to see if maybe they could get someone's attention if they're out of the house, maybe they could get help.

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So I could see how people panic and move in that direction as well.

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Janelle and Mike left and came back later around 7:30pm and said that everything looked the same.

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ng machine, stopped by around:

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I don't know if they went ahead and went to the water park thinking somehow the girls got picked up and would be there, and then came back later around 7:30pm so that that space of time I have no answer for because there was no follow up report on this case.

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Mrs.

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McCall, Stacy's mother and her husband arrived at Susie's house around 9pm and Mrs.

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McCall called the police.

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When the police showed up to take a report, they stated that there were several people already at the house.

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All those present were friends of Susie and Stacy, along with their parents.

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Prior to the officer's arrival, Janelle's boyfriend had cleaned up the broken glass from the porch light.

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So this is unfortunate because the only clue that they had that anything was a miss was the broken glass globe that fits around a light bulb on a porch light.

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And apparently Michael cleaned it up.

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So did the police retrieve that broken glass?

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You know, how did, how did that break?

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Because if somebody was breaking it to get rid of the light so that they can be undetected by neighbors, I would think that it wouldn't be on.

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So the light bulb still seemed to be on and that seemed to be obvious.

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So I thought the broken glass was strange because it really wouldn't have achieved anything as it pertains to giving them darkness as a cloak to be obscure and not be seen by the neighbors.

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Or did one of the girls or the mother break it on the way out, trying to get away?

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You know, we don't have those answers.

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So Mrs.

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McCall told the officers that Stacy's swimsuit, her clothes, as well as the clothes she was wearing that night were still in Susie's room.

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Officer Galt advised Mrs.

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McCall that he found jewelry which Mrs.

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McCall stated that Stacy had been holding in her shorts pocket.

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So the jewelry was Stacy's.

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Clearly because her mother identified it and had known it to be in the pocket.

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But it didn't say where the police officer found the jewelry.

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Did he look in the pocket?

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Was it on the floor?

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Was she thinking it was a robbery and trying to pull out jewelry to maybe satiate the perpetrators and say, take this, take this.

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Maybe she didn't have money.

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So we don't know the answer to that either.

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Mrs.

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McCall said that her daughter Stacy would never leave without her purse.

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Her medication for headaches and depression and her makeup.

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Anyone who's had a teenage girl knows this is true, especially back in the 90s.

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So the offer officers interviewed the neighbors and the next door neighbor wasn't home.

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There was no follow up on that.

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If they were able to talk to that neighbor later and the other neighbors didn't see or hear anything suspicious.

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The officers then secured the residence, which by then was a contaminated crime scene.

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All of those people going back and forth, you know, meaning well, to see, you know, to wait it out.

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Hopefully the girls come home and Cheryl comes home.

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They were contaminating the crime scene of any evidence that may have been there at the time.

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So that wasn't good.

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The lot.

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They then the police officers logged the house keys into property and that was the end of the police report.

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I found the police report to be very short.

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I was limited in giving impressions since I didn't have access to the crime scene or crime scene photos.

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I don't live near Springfield, Missouri.

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I also don't have pictures of the remains to pull impressions off of.

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So here's what I could get based on an online picture of the women on the police site and their first names.

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Again, I never have worked a case with this little access, but I'll give it a shot.

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Okay.

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Some of what I sensed when I did my write up earlier.

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One of the first things I got, I kept getting a dog barking.

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I didn't know if asking the neighbors specifically about hearing a dog barking could establish a timeline for the disruption in the house.

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I picked up on cigarette butts in the yard that belonged to the assailants.

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The DNA would be very important in this case.

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Did the police collect cigarette butts from the front yard?

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The purses in Susie's room surprised me because I didn't get robbery as a motive.

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I sensed that it was sexually motivated.

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The assailants could have led them to Believe that all they wanted was money.

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But it wasn't.

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I sensed a young man who was fixated on Stacy specifically.

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The two men felt linked to me, meaning maybe they're related.

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They felt very close.

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Susie's window also felt important to me and that there would be evidence around the window sill.

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I kept seeing a man crouch down trying to peer through Susie's window from the outside.

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I also got two assailants.

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This doesn't feel like one person.

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It felt like two.

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The mother, Cheryl, wasn't necessary.

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She didn't feel like the focus of this crime.

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But she woke up after hearing a commotion coming from Susie's room.

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So maybe she heard a dog barking.

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Maybe she heard voices.

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My sense is that the guys went there hoping to spend time with Susie and Stacy, but the girls weren't interested.

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They were actually both very annoyed and scared.

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The girls recognized one of the guys.

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So to me, this is somebody who knew them, had seen them.

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One knew them, one had just seen them.

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This wasn't totally planned out.

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It felt messy to me.

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The assailants were improvising.

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They didn't know what to do.

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I had some energy on whoever lives three houses down.

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I'm not sure what their connection is, but I kept seeing three houses down as being important.

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Sometimes that can be that evidence is thrown in the yard there.

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Sometimes the person that commits a crime is connected to someone in the house or could be someone in the house, so I'm not sure.

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Again, I didn't have any photographs of areas to go by.

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The TV felt important to me, as though the perpetrator had touched the volume setting.

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So I don't know if they turned it down or torn or turned it up.

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But I felt like the volume setting had been touched.

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So I'm hoping they still have that in evidence.

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A friend of mine who's a psychic medium gave a description of a perp years ago on a case that pointed the finger at an innocent man because they had the same name.

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For that reason, I'm leaving my in depth description of the perps out of this podcast episode.

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Some of my other impressions were of one of the men threatening the women with hurting the others if they didn't cooperate.

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So I feel like they were using each of the victims as leverage to keep the other women under control.

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This is not an ex boyfriend.

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The pers came in contact with the girls at one of the parties.

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There was pizza served at this party.

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I know that sounds random for me to get, but I just kept seeing pizza connection to this.

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Maybe it Helps decipher, like, which party they were at.

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Maybe one of the people worked for a pizza company in town.

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I just know pizza is connected.

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They decided to go to Susie's house.

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They knew the girls would be there.

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They waited just down the street in their car.

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This is sort of where it feels like smoking cigarettes, waiting it out.

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So if all the purses belonging to the victims, that's all three purses of the women were in Susie's room, it was to try and give them a false sense of security, that it was simply a robbery until they could subdue them or remove the women from the house, telling them they'd let them go unharmed later.

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The perps really didn't know what they were going to do with these women.

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Again, I didn't get robbery as the motive.

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I got it being sexually motivated.

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Maybe they told him they'd tie the girls to the tree.

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To a tree in order to give the assailants themselves a head start to get out of town.

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I don't know what they told them.

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I just know that when the women left, they thought they were going to be okay.

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So at least one of the assailants also thought they were going to be okay.

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He didn't intend to hurt them permanently.

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The other man knew the women could identify them, and he wasn't going to let that happen.

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So after the night that they disappeared, I got the men moving after that night.

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So it'd be interesting to know which of the people connected to them packed up their truck and their car and took off.

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I also kept seeing a 313 sign.

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I looked it up and it's a freeway that leads to Michigan.

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I don't know where those signs begin in reference to the town the victims are from.

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I just kept seeing the 313 sign.

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Maybe it's the road the guys took to get out of town.

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Maybe they moved to Michigan.

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Maybe they're originally from there.

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I just saw the Michigan connection to the assailants.

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I also kept seeing the woods, and the assailants hunt.

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They own guns and knives, they fish in camp, and they go to bonfires in this area.

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And there was also a barn like structure nearby, possibly abandoned.

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In:

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From what I can tell, there were many mistakes made with securing the crime scene and preserving evidence.

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Cases like the Springfield Three are the most difficult to solve.

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Thirty years have passed, so time isn't on our side.

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Evidence doesn't seem to have been preserved very well.

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But I again, I have very little information on the evidence that was taken into custody.

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The crime scene was contaminated by all of the well intending friends and family.

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That's not optimal.

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So it seems to me that Stacy and Susie's friends, Janelle Kirby and Mike Henson Are the best witnesses to anything helpful.

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They were the last ones to see the girls, and they were in and out of the crime scene during the day of the abduction.

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Has hypnosis been used to extract clues from the day the girls disappeared?

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Did Mike and Janelle see headlights follow the girls out down the road after they left Janelle's house?

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Did Mike spend the night at Janelle's?

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Does he have a solid alibi to be able to exclude him?

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I know that the girls knew one of the perps.

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So eliminating suspects is key in getting to the right people.

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My sense is that multiple people know or suspect who committed this crime, and they just want to leave it in the past and not get involved.

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So this case, again, worst case scenario, because you're not dealing with somebody directly tied to the victims as far as being family or a husband.

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Also, the crime scene was contaminated.

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There's very little information.

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It seemed to me that the police, as well as the friends of Susie and Stacy and Cheryl, Almost seemed like they were just waiting for them to come home and didn't want to bother the police, which was a mistake.

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If earlier in the day when Janelle and Mike.

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And again, I'm armchair, you know, quarterbacking this, and I understand that.

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So I mean no disrespect to Janelle and Mike, and they were young, and young people don't want to deal with law enforcement.

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They don't want to do something that'll get them in trouble or that people will, you know, think that they're.

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They're causing some sort of a dust up over nothing.

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So I understand why they didn't call.

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But if Janelle and Michael had called the.

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and then called the police at:

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Maybe the glass wouldn't have been cleaned up off the porch by Mike, Perhaps they would have been able to establish clues and rope off the house and make sure that it wasn't a contaminated scene.

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Even back in the:

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One day to the killer.

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And they would carefully preserve fibers and blood and body fluids, a feather, a penny, like anything that was at the crime scene that could be pertinent later in the future when we were going to be able to use it as some sort of evidence and we'd have the scientific methods to, to extract clues from.

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And it just doesn't seem in this case as though that was done.

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I would like to hear more about that.

Allison Dubois:

It would be great if the police that, that handled this case would bring forth a lot of what they do have and the people that they have been able to eliminate who have alibis so that, you know, this can be looked at in its totality.

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Removing some of these, we don't know, scenarios of what happened.

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Were there crime scene photos taken?

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Are the purses preserved to where they could be tested?

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Now?

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Was the TV kept to be run for fingerprints?

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Did they do that back then?

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I just don't know what was done.

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So I will say that the great detectives of the past were very good at securing everything for the future.

Allison Dubois:

I hope that was done in this case so that we could have some answers as to what happened to Susie, to Stacy and to Cheryl.

Allison Dubois:

It just.

Allison Dubois:

A case should not go this long without being solved.

Allison Dubois:

And in this day and time, because we have DNA and forensics, it's more likely to be solved than not, in my, my view.

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The way I see things, if things are properly collected, there's almost always going to be something that the perpetrator left behind that can tie them to the crime.

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So it.

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I found this incredibly frustrating.

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I did my best in pulling the impressions.

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I will say, even though I'm not going to give the profiles of the two men because I don't want a finger being pointed to the wrong townie or person in town that was there at the time.

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I will say one thing that kept standing out to me connected to one of the perpetrators was a green army jacket.

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I just kept seeing him in this green army jacket as though it was his favorite.

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ssouri who will think back to:

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But I did just keep feeling that there are family members that know what went on and there are friends, other people that know, but nobody wants to address it.

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They want to put it behind them and move on as though it was some sort of an accident.

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At least I believe that's what the killers would say.

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So let me know what you think.

Allison Dubois:

Tune in next week for a fresh episode of the Dead Life.

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