June 7, 1992. Springfield, Missouri. After an evening of partying following their high school graduation,

19-year-old Susie Streeter and 18-year-old Stacey McCall go to spend the night at Susie's house alongside Susie's 47-year-old mother, Cheryl Levitt.

Later that morning, Susie, Stacey, and Cheryl, aka the Springfield 3, are all discovered to be missing from the residents.

The scene contains some bizarre clues, including a broken globe for the porch light and an odd answering machine message, which is inadvertently erased, but no hard evidence about what might have happened.

Over the years, there would be a number of leads, such as a convicted criminal who claimed to know what happened to the victims, but no trace of the Springfield 3 is ever found.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our three-year anniversary show of the trail went cold. I'm your host Robin Warder, and today we are going to be covering a very famous and highly requested missing persons case,

which was voted on by you the listeners. The disappearances of Susie Streeter, Stacey McCall, and Cheryl Levitt, more commonly known as the Springfield 3.

Yes, it's hard to believe that the trail went cold has made it to its third anniversary, as it feels like we just started this podcast yesterday.

That voice you just heard narrate our intro as Anna Long, the winner of this month's trail went cold listener voiceover contest, and she did a tremendous job, so thank you very much Anna.

For the past year and a half, this has been a popular recurring monthly contest, and if you'd like to enter, and haven't already done so, I will be providing instructions near the end of this episode.

Anyway, the Springfield 3 is considered to be one of the most baffling and haunting missing persons cases of the modern era, and ever since I made reference to it in our second episode, which covered the disappearance of the Fort Worth 3, I've been getting requests to cover it on the podcast.

It's become a tradition for me to hold a poll for our anniversary show each year, in which listeners can vote on which case they'd like to see featured on the episode, and while it was a close race this time around, it doesn't surprise me too much that the Springfield 3 wound up being the winner.

The reason this story has always struck such a chord is because it involves three people vanishing without a trace from a house in the middle of the night.

However, there were no signs of any struggle or evidence that an intruder had been inside the house, so if these three women were abducted, how did the perpetrator or perpetrators manage to pull it off?

There have been a lot of potential leads in this case over the past two decades, and the most infamous involves a rumor that the victims are buried underneath the parking garage of a local hospital, so you can be sure I'll be addressing that in this episode.

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So with all that out of the way, let us now explore the disappearance of the Springfield 3.

Our story begins in Springfield, Missouri in 1992.

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