S4 Ep43: Three's (Tragic) Company: The Disappearance of The Springfield Three

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In 1992 three women in Springfield, MO inexplicably vanished from their home leaving almost no clues. To this day, no one knows what happened to The Springfield Three.

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0:00.0	I've asked it many times on this show,
0:07.8	how can someone just vanish out of existence?
0:11.5	How can someone with a whole life and community just cease to be without a trace?
0:17.5	But even more confounding, how can three people get erased from the earth, leaving almost no evidence behind?
0:30.5	Welcome to strange and unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.
0:34.2	Sometimes I marvel at how lucky I am that I was never snatched and or murdered while I was
0:39.5	running around the streets of New York in my teens acting like a complete lunatic with no sense of my own
0:45.8	mortality. The things I did and places I went with complete strangers absolutely horrifies me now to
0:53.4	think about.
0:56.9	Who knows how many near misses I had?
1:04.1	But it turns out one doesn't have to be testing the limits of one's own safety in order to meet with disaster.
1:10.8	Turns out you can bloop right out of existence from the comfort and safety of your own home. High school graduation is, for most people, the end of one era in the beginning of a new one.
1:36.2	It's a milestone that marks when we leave childhood behind and step into our future as adults.
1:42.5	Some of us go to college.
1:47.0	Some of us go to work. Some of us travel. Others get their first apartment. People come of age in different ways, but everyone who
1:52.0	attends their high school graduation knows that they are leaving their former life behind
1:56.0	to embrace something new that usually brings with it greater responsibility and greater freedom.
2:02.3	It's exciting, and it can be scary. But for three women in Springfield, Missouri, in 1992,
2:09.8	it might have been scary for all the wrong reasons. For 18-year-old Stacey McCall and 19-year-old Suzanne Streeter, their high school graduation
2:20.8	unfolded as most do, with pomp and ceremony, celebration and family and pride.
2:27.2	But that is where things stopped being normal.
2:31.4	On June 7, 1992, in the early morning after the graduation ceremony, Stacey and Susie, along with Susie's mother, Cheryl, disappeared from Cheryl and Susie's home and were never heard from again. Today, their case is no closer to being solved than it was 33 years ago. What happened to the Springfield 3?
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