James Rader

On the night of June 6, 1992, Suzie Streeter and Stacy McCall graduated from Kickapoo High School in Springfield, Missouri. Suzie was 19. Stacy was 18. They spent the night hopping between graduation parties, celebrating with friends. The plan was to crash at a friend's place and drive to a water park in Branson the next morning. But that house was too crowded. So around 2 a.m., the two girls drove over to Suzie's house to sleep there instead. Suzie's mom, Sherrill Levitt, was home. That was the last time anyone saw any of them. The next morning, friends came by to pick the girls up for Branson. The front door was unlocked. The beds had been slept in. Sherrill's little dog was inside, upset. All three women's purses were sitting in a bedroom. Their cigarettes were there. Their cars were parked in the driveway. But Sherrill, Suzie, and Stacy were gone. The only thing out of place was the glass cover on the porch light. It was broken. A friend swept up the glass. Because nothing looked wrong, nobody treated it like a crime scene. All day long, people walked in and out of that house. They answered the phone. They touched everything. One friend picked up a call from a strange man who made sexual comments and hung up. A message on the answering machine was accidentally erased. Police weren't called until that night. By then, a dozen or more people had been through the house. Whatever evidence was there was ruined. Over the years, police chased more than 5,000 tips. A convicted kidnapper living in Springfield later hinted that he knew the women were dead and buried. Police didn't believe him. An ex-boyfriend of Suzie's, who she'd reportedly given a statement against in a separate case, was looked at too. Nobody was ever charged. 34 years later, there's no body. No arrest. No sign of them anywhere. Three women went to bed in their own home on a summer night in Missouri. By morning, they had vanished, and they took nothing with them.