Fact and Suspicion

In the early morning hours of June 7, 1992, the quiet town of Springfield Missouri became home to one of the most baffling mysteries in American history. Sometime between 3 and 7am, 47-year-old Sherrill Levitt, her 19-year-old daughter Suzie Streeter, and Suzie’s friend 18-year-old Stacy McCall disappeared without a trace from Levitt’s home on Delmar Street.

There were no signs of forced entry or a struggle, the beds appeared to have been slept in, and none of the neighbors remembering seeing or hearing anything out of the ordinary. Even to seasoned investigators, it seemed as though the women had simply vanished into thin air.

For more than 30 years, police and amateur sleuths alike have worked to solve the disappearance of the Springfield Three. Yet, we seem no closer to finding the missing women than on the day they vanished.

On April 30th, 2011 Gail Polmgren dropped off her kids with her husband Matthew and drove off in her red Jeep Rubicon, never to be seen alive again. Her marriage was failing and she had asked friends to hide documents and money because she was afraid of her husband.

And as the facts of the case began to surface, the shock and outrage of the community grew to a fever pitch.

Marshal Iwaasa was a 26-year-old college student from Calgary Alberta. A shy, hard-working man according to those who knew him best, his family was shocked when his truck was found burned deep in the wilderness of British Columbia with his belongings scattered around it.

Marshal Iwaasa has not been seen since.

November 16th, 1999. Cherica Adams called 911 to report that she had been shot.  Cherica was eight months pregnant and losing blood rapidly, but she managed to survive long enough for her son to be born by emergency caesarian section. She also implicated her boyfriend in her murder: it was NFL start Rae Carruth.

May 6, 2014: Peggy Winn enters the home of 88-year-old Russell Dermond and his 87-year-old wife Shirley. She had been trying to reach the couple for the last three days. After searching through the home, Peggy and her husband found Russell's body in a pool of blood in the garage.

To this day, Russell's head has never been found.

Bobbie Jo Stinnett was 23-years-old and 8 months pregnant on December 16, 2004: the day she lost her life. She was found by her mother, Becky Harper, who described the scene as looking like her daughter's stomach had exploded.

The truth of Bobbie Jo's death was tragic and beyond disturbing.

On August 10th, 2017, Freelance Journalist Kim wall joined Danish inventor Peter Madsen on his Submarine, the UC3 Nautilus, with the intent of interviewing him. Several hours after they were expected to return, Kim's boyfriend reported her missing. A search ensued for Kim, Peter, and the missing submarine.

The next day, Madsen was rescued from the sinking sub, but Kim was nowhere to be found. What followed was the most infamous criminal investigation in the history of Denmark.

The American Stonehenge, that was the name given by many to the Georgia Guidestones, a 19ft tall granite monument weighing over 230,000 lbs with advanced astronomical features and cryptic engravings. In 2022, the Guidestones were damaged by a bomber and were suspiciously dismantled by local authorities later that same day. Today, we will discuss the mysteries of who built the Guidestones and why they were destroyed.

Most cold cases will never be solved. Occasionally, though, new information or advancements in technology will give investigators the edge they need for a major breakthrough.

This happened to be the case in the disappearance of 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel, who vanished during her spring break while walking down Ocean Blvd., the busy main thoroughfare in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

On February 24, 1978, five men from Marysville California drove to a basketball game in Chico. The last time they were seen alive was shortly after the game ended at a convenience store just off the Chico State campus. Their car was later found in a remote area of the Plumas County forest. Months later, four of their bodies were found miles from the car.

To this day, the fifth man, Gary Matthias has not been found. The reason they ended up in the Plumas National Forest is still unknown, and has since become one of the strangest missing person's mysteries of all time.