A normal graduation night ends with a porch light smashed, three purses stacked on the stairs, and a little dog shaking in someone’s arms and then three women are simply gone. We’re in Orlando recording from a hotel room, laughing about theme park drinks and anxiety wins, and then we pivot hard into one of the most haunting unsolved missing persons cases in America: the Springfield Three from Springfield, Missouri.

We lay out the timeline from June 1992, when Cheryl Levitt and her daughter Susie Streeter welcome Susie’s friend Stacey McCall for what should’ve been a safe sleepover after the parties. By morning, friends find the door unlocked, the TV on static, makeup removed, cash and personal items left behind, and a broken globe on the porch light. Then the phone rings and an unknown man starts making sexual comments and later, a recorded message like that gets erased, taking a potential piece of evidence with it. Sixteen hours after they were last known to be safe, all three are reported missing and the case begins its long slide into cold-case limbo.

We also talk through the suspects that keep resurfacing, why theories about a gun and control come up so often, and how a small last-minute change of plans can create the exact opening a predator needs. If you’ve never gone deep on the Springfield Three case, this is the episode that will stick in your head and if you have, we think you’ll still find new angles to argue with us about.

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