The Springfield Three

DEVIANT

Cold Open Media

Education, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On June 7th, 1992, Sherrill Levitt, her daughter Suzie Streeter, and Suzie’s friend Stacy McCall disappear from a quiet home in Springfield, MO without leaving a trace. Their cars, keys, purses, and personal belongings stay behind. The women don’t. In this episode, DEVIANT host Dan Szematowicz walks through the final hours before they’re last seen… the empty house that made no sense… the contaminated crime scene… the massive grid searches… the false leads… and the men whose names rose to the top of the suspect list. And we follow the most enduring person of interest whose past, alibis, and statements have kept him in the center of the case for more than thirty years, even as investigators have never been able to tie him to the crime. Decades later, the mystery remains one of the most haunting unsolved cases in America. Three women. One house. No answers. If you have information about the disappearance of Sherrill Levitt, Suzie Streeter, or Stacy McCall, contact the Springfield Police Department or your local law enforcement agency. Follow @deviant.podcast on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for true-crime storytelling every week. SOURCES Springfield News-Leader — “Three Missing Women: Ten Years Later” (Robert Keyes) Springfield Police Department public statements and case summaries America’s Most Wanted (1992 broadcast coverage) The Charley Project — Case files for Levitt, Streeter & McCall Associated Press reporting on the investigation and Robert Craig Cox Copyright 2025 Cold Open Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is it. The world, as you know, it is over. Completely done. It's not about to be over. It's over.
0:09.1	Some of the scientists who helped build AI are now sounding the alarm.
0:13.5	I was selling AI as a great thing for decades, and I was wrong. I was wrong. There is a longer term existential threat
0:24.4	that will arise when we create digital beings that are more intelligent than ourselves. We have
0:30.1	no idea whether we can stay in control. While others say that AI will usher in unfathomable abundance,
0:36.6	I've always believed that it's going to be
0:38.2	the most important invention that humanity will ever make.
0:41.2	This really will be a world of abundance.
0:44.0	And among these fears and these fantasies,
0:46.6	we seek the story of our future.
0:49.4	Listen to the last invention
0:51.2	on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music,
0:53.5	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:59.2	Hey, everyone, it's Dan Sematovich. Before we get into the show, just want to remind you,
1:04.0	if you're not, please follow us on social. We're on TikTok and Instagram at Deviant. Podcast.
1:18.7	And if you'd like to help support the show, visiting deviantpodcast.com is a great way to do that.
1:30.3	Three women banished from a suburban home in Springfield, Missouri. There's no forced entry, no signs of his struggle, and everything they own is still inside.
1:37.3	But they're gone, and no one knows how or why.
1:43.3	This is Deviant.
1:50.0	We're all wired differently.
1:53.0	Some of us are wired for good, some of us are wired for bad,
1:57.0	but a select few step outside of all society's boundaries.
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