Orlando Check In And Park Drinks

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Hey, Jesse.

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Hello, Lindsay.

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So we're just gonna go right into it. We are coming to you from Orlando this weekend. We're recording in a hotel room again. We are sh collectively sharing a drink, which is two cans. Okay, so it's all in one cup. So we got two cans of blood orange white claw with retro vibe Celsius, which is like a Sherbert flavor. And let me tell you something. This is a great combination. Okay. Do you not agree?

SPEAKER_03 0:34

I gotta try it again.

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But we have drank at Animal Kingdom all day long. We Ubered in and Ubered out, and we had a fucking blast, Jesse. Do you agree? It was an awesome time there, Lindsay. And my anxiety behaved, and I I did do two rides. Now I didn't do Everest, but how did you get it? That was an awesome time there, Lindsay. Yeah, tell me about it. You and Sai went on Everest.

SPEAKER_03 1:04

Yes, it's a very great time there, Lindsay.

SPEAKER_02 1:06

Uh getting attacked by a Yeti there. It was really fun there. Yeah. Are you going Canadian comedy on me today?

SPEAKER_03 1:13

I don't know what I'm doing. I just wanted to like bullshit. Nobody makes me bullshit my own bullshit. But uh yeah, yeah. Um I just, you know, can I just go ahead and say this? Absolutely. Happy Friday.

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Give me that drink over there. Give me that yak. Passing it over. Let me get that yak.

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Ball down. Ball down.

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I'm very sad. I did take a picture of it, but my phone is charging. So I'll share it in stories uh later. So I got Jesse this awesome margarita uh near the Everest ride at Animal Kingdom. Well, it was like tequila and pineapple. Yeah, we took a picture of it. Yes, we did. Yeah. And so check that out for stories. And so it was like a pineapple margarita type thing with a tahine rim. Good. Fresh pineapple. I mean, I was white clawing all day, but I got Jesse two. It was like shimmering something. We took a picture of it.

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And it had like natural watermelon in there too.

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So it was like a pineapple watermelon tahine green drink.

SPEAKER_03 2:43

Yeah. It kind of reminded me of like a bloody merry margarita. I don't know why, but I don't know. It had that like earthy vibe to the watermelon because it was like a natural watermelon. It had that rind kind of taste to it a little bit, which kind of brought me back to like a uh I don't know, I don't understand why, but it kind of had a bloody merry type flavor to it. I don't understand why. It was just like that.

SPEAKER_06 3:04

It's probably because of the tahine.

SPEAKER_03 3:07

Yeah, maybe that was what I hit first because I was like getting notes.

SPEAKER_06 3:10

Yeah, it was all over my hands from holding the drink because I so I got out of line to get us a drink and then got back in line. So I was like spilling all over me because I was trying to catch up with him, and the tahine was all over my hands. So I'm like licking my hands because I love tahine, like I was just licking it off, and it was so good.

SPEAKER_03 3:29

Well, and the couple behind us, like her husband left out too. So we like, I was like, I'm just gonna stand to the side and let people kind of funnel through. And some some some people from Australia was like, I'll let you shut, Mike. And they just kept on telling me, like, four of them kept telling me they like my shirt, and the chick was like, Well, they like your shirt.

SPEAKER_06 3:46

Yeah, so make sure you look at stories for Jesse's shirts for sure. He's gonna do a collab on YouTube as well. Yeah. Of ever of our adventure.

SPEAKER_03 3:55

Yes. It'll be like drunk about something went Gen Z weekend.

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But we had this, so in the Asia, so if you go to Animal Kingdom, make sure you go to the Fool Ba uh right beside the um Everest ride. And um sleep there. Yeah. And then we went uh down a little bit. Uh so we're in the Asia area. We go down a little bit and we stop at this little one spot that had like it was like a sparkling peach, I don't know what, tote from Tokyo.

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Don't sleep there.

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And it was good. We enjoyed that drink. And we also had um pot stickers and fried rice from there, just a little snack to get us through, keep us going. And what was our but I mean, honestly, our best meal today was uh the resort we're staying at. We got us uh a croissant sandwich.

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A good croissant meal side. And it was really cool.

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And we're going back down there in just a little bit when we get done recording to get us a euro and some wings.

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Yeah, hang out at the poop.

Feeling Old With Sudden Loss

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But Jesse, I have a story to tell you and our listeners today.

SPEAKER_03 4:58

I don't want it. I don't want it, dude. You know what though? At the end of this, I know I'm keeping it cool. You know, but first, you know, I gotta destroy me, and then I'm keeping it cool at the end. Yeah. But you can go ahead and ask your damn ask over here.

SPEAKER_06 5:10

What made you feel oh this week?

SPEAKER_03 5:14

You don't want to know.

SPEAKER_06 5:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:15

Yeah, you don't want to know.

SPEAKER_06 5:16

I don't. I already read ahead of the class.

SPEAKER_03 5:18

Yeah, yeah. I'm sad. I don't want to know. All right. So it's like, why are you asking me these questions? But you already know the answers to it.

SPEAKER_06 5:23

Well, you put it in front of me, and I just automatically look.

SPEAKER_03 5:26

Yeah, uh I do periodically get on there and check out my retirement, my 401k, and I play with some of the little stocks things. You can slide the little slidey and do the things, and sometimes I look at all that, and in this fucked up economy, it's fucked up. Like, I want to retire about 65, no later than 65. No later than 65.

SPEAKER_06 5:48

22 years till that.

SPEAKER_03 5:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 5:51

You twenty one, me 22 years.

SPEAKER_03 5:55

But yeah, in this economy, it's just like hard, dude, because like if you get a little pay increase, you're like, fuck, dude. Like, can I put 1% into my retirement, or do I have to just use that 1% just to stay caught up, you know?

SPEAKER_06 6:07

All right, Jesse. Look at me.

SPEAKER_03 6:09

I'm looking at you right now. I'm looking at you.

SPEAKER_06 6:11

You, me, and all of our listeners right now. Let's manifest a better economy for everyone all over the globe for from now until forever. Yeah. Miracles and amazingness forever and continue.

SPEAKER_03 6:30

Ah, yeah. Well, I don't want to continue, but um what really made me feel old is a coworker of mine died in his sleep Tuesday. And we called him Pete, man. I called him Petey. His name was Pete or something. But yeah, well, he called me because when I first met him 20 something years ago, fuck. I had a cold sore on my lip, and he called me pus because look at that, it's all pushing, look at you. And then we connected because I was goofing back about my cold sore all pussing and oozing out, and it was goofy.

SPEAKER_06 7:05

You know, you haven't had a cold sore in a long time. When I first met Jesse, he got like three in a row. It's weird.

SPEAKER_03 7:12

I get him.

SPEAKER_06 7:12

But so it was funny because Jesse was like, I don't even want to look at it because I herpy. I will never forget that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:20

And it was funny because like an outsider would be like some kind of display.

SPEAKER_06 7:26

Everybody else in in the wild that was listening to the convers to that conversation, was like, you know what? I get it. Because it's not like herpes, herpes, but it is. I mean, cold sores are a type of herpes.

SPEAKER_03 7:37

Well, yeah, I used to get them real bad. My sister, like, I don't know why. I wouldn't even touch her. And it would be like, Bam, why the hell? But um, so he called me pus. And then and my coworker, which I've been around him longer than I've known Lindsay for over 20 years, his name is Cheese, is what they call him. So it was Cheese Puss instead of Cheese Puff, you know.

SPEAKER_02 7:59

Oh man.

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And old Petey would come in there and he'd talk shit, and I would show him my titties and all that cool stuff, and talk dirty with him and shop talk and just just didn't. Well, he was older, so like whatever visceral fucking things that I could pour on him that was just disgusting at the same time, but it was just like we're we're cutting up and goofing. He would just he would just laugh at it and be like, Yeah, okay. Oh, yeah. You know, it's like just whatever stupid jokes that we would do. It was just goofing, you know. But Cheese would just be over there like, Y'all, y'all crazy. Y'all some crazy people, you know. And I'm over there like acting all stupid in front of him, and I'm playing like goodbye horses and dancing, you know, goodbye horses. Yeah. And he's all he's all goodbye, yeah. And he's giving me this look, and he's all like, Okay. All right, whatever, pus. And then it'd go on, you know. I'd be like, all Petey, come here, Petey. Yeah. He died in his sleep, though. Yeah, Tuesday. That made me feel old because he wasn't really that old. No, no, he was 60 in his 60s, yeah. 67. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 9:10

Us being in our 40s, 60 doesn't seem old at all anymore. No.

SPEAKER_03 9:14

And if I retire at 65, what I get two years of coolness and I die in my sleep too. They'll be calling me pus too at work. Shit. I'm all right. Well, they already are. Never mind. I'm gonna I'm gonna hang on to pus forever there, Lindsay. But what made you feel old this week? I'm not gonna talk anymore about this because I did like this dude. You know, he was a really cool cat. When he showed up, I lit up, you know, just because his goofiness with me, you know?

SPEAKER_06 9:35

Well, I didn't have anything prepared, so I'm gonna kind of piggyback off yours. And um, one of my old coworkers just passed away as well. And it's crazy because when I started working where I work 20 years ago.

SPEAKER_02 9:50

Well, before you get into that, give me that yak over there.

SPEAKER_06 9:53

And she uh she worked there, her and her sister. Her sister trained me, and you know you know her sister. We've been friends, we've partied at her house. Um they were much older than me, but like we related because I'm kind of an old soul and I like old music and I like old rock and roll, and we kind of bonded over Ozzy. And um this woman, she passed away uh two weeks ago. And what's crazy though is like when I started, she was literally taking a leave of absence and she beat breast cancer. Oh shit. And lived another 20 years, like beat it, everything. Um, she did a whole woman makeover. She got her. Yeah, she got herself like redid the tummy and the and the boobies and all the things. And but you know what? She had a wonderful last 20 years.

SPEAKER_03 10:59

So it was like a 20-year run of her just glistening in the sun. Glistening in the sun. I fucking get that. That is cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 11:07

Yes. And she was able to retire early, so she has really been able to enjoy the last 15 years of her life, you know, without having to work, just doing life, being amazing. She was a plant mommy, a dog mommy, a real uh, and a human mommy, too. Like, you know, she and she helped raise her grandkids and her nieces and nephews. She was just a wonderful woman, and that made me feel old because on top of that, this woman also worked with my birth mother 40 years ago.

SPEAKER_03 11:48

Wow. Yeah. So she made it though. Like really, I feel like she made it. Oh, Pete though, he worked Monday, went to bed. You know what I'm saying? Like nothing, nothing set up at his age to just to to get on that level of. But I mean, she did, she face the she faced the dragon and overcame it, and then had a great 15 years of what I want. I want 15 years of it too, you know. So that was good for her, you know. And um yeah, so let us know about stories like that. At our age, you start finding more and more of those stories, and I hate it, you know. Yeah, ah. But anyhow, you got stories too, Lindsay.

Springfield Three Case Setup

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I do. So today we are drinking about the Springfield 3.

SPEAKER_03 12:36

Mass? Springfield Mass?

SPEAKER_06 12:39

No, Springfield, um, Missouri.

SPEAKER_03 12:43

Oh, okay. Okay. So not Massachusetts. Okay. No.

SPEAKER_06 12:47

Well, I think of Springfield, Illinois is what I thought of first before I started researching.

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I guess Springfield's everywhere.

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And I've I've heard tale of this case several times throughout my podcast listening journey over the last 10 years or so. Um, and it it's like it's it's on my lists, and I said that I'm I'm gonna start banging out my lists like more and more.

SPEAKER_03 13:11

Even the Simpsons were from Springfield. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 13:14

They were Illinois, and that's what I thought of immediately. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:17

There you go. I get it. I get it. Holy shit, Springfield. I don't know if I'm ready for this though.

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So in 1992, 47-year-old Cheryl Levitt worked as a cosmetologist for a local salon in Springfield, Missouri. And her daughter Susie Streeter was graduating high school in June with her friends, Stacey McCall and Janelle Kirby from Kickapoo High School. Oh, long, long fucking time ago in school called Kickapoo. Kickapoo. But it wasn't the town. Hell yeah. It wasn't the town called Kicka Poo, but it was the school called Kiko.

SPEAKER_03 13:57

If you get that fucking joke right there, I'll send you a shirt.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:00

I swear to God, I will. Yeah, email me if you get that joke right there. I just said. God, that's fucking.

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They lived a humble family. Religious throw and through.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_03 14:10

But no. So now we're gonna watch that movie. We ain't gonna tell them that.

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So in June, after the ceremonies ended at Hammond's Student Center, the girls got changed and they got dressed to party the night away because you know graduation night is party night. Like you're ready, you're closing out a chapter of your life, and these girls had all been friends for a very long time. Now the school was offering an all-night alcohol-free lock-in event, but the girls were like, nah, we have other plans. There was a party happening near Janelle's house who lived in Battlefield, which was about I think a 20-minute drive from Springfield. So the friends headed there. Now, Cheryl, she was invited to Janelle's for dinner, but she declined. This woman, she had she was so cool. She had she had projects going on at house. She was wallpapering and revarnishing an armoire that night.

SPEAKER_02 15:13

That's like an armoire. Like that's that's she was revarnishing the armoire, but also wallpapering.

SPEAKER_06 15:20

Yeah, but I mean, like, wallpapering is a job. Yeah, I don't know. So, listeners, reach out. If y'all grew up in the 90s and watched your mom wallpaper your house, it's it's it's a deal. It's a deal.

SPEAKER_03 15:31

I like wallpaper though. I really like wallpaper. I love the aesthetics of wallpaper, dude. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_06 15:36

Like, if I found, like today, uh, this morning when Silas scared the shit out of us in the middle of the night. In the middle of the nine.

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So the the Lindsay's screaming in her sleep.

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The suite that we're staying in. So Silas is on the pull-out couch in the living room, and he has an entrance to the bathroom. And then we have in the bedroom a separate entrance to the bathroom, and ours is a sliding glass door. And I don't know what it was, but when he slid that sliding door open, she went to it.

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It was the death screech, dude. It was like, and I'm like, what the fuck just happened, dude? Where's my gun? Where's my gun? And Lindsay's standing there, like screaming at Silas.

SPEAKER_04 16:24

What the fuck are you doing?

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He's like scared.

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He's like, why are you so scared? Like my heart was racing for forever. But, anyways, so to get me back to sleep, I uh I clicked on TikTok for a little bit and there was a person who had recorded buying a house that was completely still 100% in the 70s. All wallpaper. Every room had different wallpaper. It the the aesthetic was very cool, very 70s. Like I said, if I moved into something like that that was already wallpapered, that's cool. But I'm not gonna do it. I'd rather paint than wallpaper.

SPEAKER_03 17:01

No, the first time I remember wallpaper, like we snuck into this old abandoned house up on top of a hill, up in Appalachia, right? Oh, this dude had pornographic wallpaper all over his room and bathroom. His bedroom and bathroom.

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And you were a baby.

SPEAKER_03 17:17

I was seven.

SPEAKER_05 17:18

Yeah, you were a baby when you still lived in Kentucky.

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It was a lavish mansion. It was really cool. Like, but that part stuck in my head, you know. And then of course we would we would go up there during the winter time and slide down on inner tubes because it would snow on the bank right there. It was an 18 and up only house. Yeah, I didn't know that, but it was abandoned forever. And we were like, fuck it, let's go check it out, right? We were kids, adventurous. It was our Goonies time, you know? Yeah. And we did our thing, and and we went back in that back bedroom. It was all pornographic wallpapers. Craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. It was my first time ever seeing shit like that, you know? It sticks in your head. That's crazy. I don't want that wallpaper in my house, Lindsay. No.

SPEAKER_06 18:05

So Susie, Stacey, and Janelle go to this party that's near Janelle's house, and then carpooled with friends to a few other parties, you know, making appearances, doing their thing. Now the plan was after the parties were over, they were gonna go drive to Branson and get a hotel and then go to the white water water park with more friends the next day. Fuck yeah. But as the night wore on, drinking was involved and things like that. They were like, you know what? Let's just stay at Janelle's house instead and go to the water park from there. But when they go to Janelle's, a bunch of her relatives had come to town and the Kirby house was full. So Susie told Stacy, hey girl, I just got this brand new king size waterbed for my graduation present. So Cheryl had bought Suzy a king size water bed, and that's if if you remember 1992, parties on, yeah. King size waterbed, that's the tits.

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That's everything. Yeah, that's everything.

SPEAKER_06 19:14

Everything. My parents had a queen size, and that was cool enough. I re I loved like just kind of clunking on it, and it would go.

SPEAKER_04 19:24

Yeah.

The Morning After And Red Flags

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Waterbeds were the tets, but they would flood your house if they leaked. So anyway, so they say their goodbyes to Chanel and tell her that they will call her in the morning to meet up to go to Whitewater. Now Stacy had already called her mom to let her know about the change of plans, and they head to Suzy's house at 1717 East Delmar Street around 2 a.m. Now the next morning on June 7th, Janelle didn't hear from Susie or Stacy. So her and her boyfriend, Mike Henson, they head over to Suzy's house and arrive around 9 a.m. Now Janelle was already worried because both of these girls, Susie and Stacy, were both super responsible and it was not like them to not have arrived at her house on time, much less not even given her a phone call.

SPEAKER_03 20:18

Lindsay, they didn't drown in the waterbed, did they? No. Don't you give me a waterbed drowning fucking episode here?

SPEAKER_06 20:25

Well, when Susie and Mike get to, you know, Cheryl and Susie's house, they notice that the bulb or the the the glass around the bulb on the porch light was broken. So glass was all over the porch. And since Janelle was barefoot and it just seemed like a nice thing to do, Mike starts cleaning up the glass while Janelle is knocking on the door. But there's no answer. Janelle finds that the door is unlocked, so she just goes in. And younger listeners, this is just what we did in the 90s. Like our friend's house, you just you went in. You didn't care. I mean, I have friends that just come in my house now without a knock. Like you just walk in. Yeah, knock, knock, knock. Hey, it's Jesse. I'm coming down in. Where are you at?

SPEAKER_03 21:12

You know, yeah, whatever. I've done that so many times. Yeah.

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Now no one is in the house except the little Yorkie named Cinnamon who is visibly distressed and jumps right into Janelle's arms. Now it looked like the girls had taken off their makeup and gotten ready for bed because there were dirty makeup wipes and jewelry and the TV was on static mode. Any of our listeners born in the 80s or before. I can't do it.

SPEAKER_03 21:43

Hang on, let me try it again. Hang on. Just going, yeah. You know, uh, we don't remember whenever they would play they would play the national anthem and then TV would just go static.

SPEAKER_06 21:57

Now that was before our time. That was before our time. So this It looked like they had watched a movie, and sometimes you had to put your TV on a different channel.

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And then when the movie was over, it shut itself off the VCR. And then it would be on the Snow channel.

SPEAKER_06 22:12

Yeah. So all their purses, including Cheryl's, were all left behind and all the contents in it, including a$900 deposit in Cheryl's purse. And all the purses were piled up along with Stacey's overnight bag on the stairs. Then the phone rings. And Janelle, she answers it, and some creep bag just starts talking or saying sexual induendos. Like just this guy is just on the phone just being nasty. And Janelle's like, what the fuck? She hangs up and then the guy calls back, and Janelle hangs up again. And she remembers that Susie had told her that her and her mom had been getting weird prank calls for a while. And another thing was that all the cars were in the driveway. But Susie, who was known to be a creature of habit, her car wasn't in its normal spot. But like I said, this was a different time. So Janelle and Mike, they just left and they decided to go to a different water park called Hydra Slide instead of going to Branson and they just go enjoy their day. They're like, whatever. We'll we'll we'll catch up with them later.

SPEAKER_03 23:37

Still, something's creepy.

SPEAKER_06 23:38

Something's something's not right, but they don't realize that at the time. Now, a few hours later, Stacy's mom, she her name is Janice Mackey, and she or excuse me, Janice McCall. She shows up to 1717 East Delmar Street because she hasn't been able to get anyone on the phone and was worried about her daughter's whereabouts. Right. Now she knew some folks that worked at Whitewater and Branson, and they told her, no, Stacy's not here. Neither is Susie.

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They ain't showed up nowhere.

SPEAKER_06 24:13

Something's something's weird. So she gets to the house, and poor little cinnamon, the little dog, is still stressed the fuck out. And she sees all the women's belongings, including her own daughter's clothes, you know, on the stairs. And she's like, what is going on? And then she also noticed that along with the purses, Cheryl's cigarettes and the lighter was still, you know, visible. And Cheryl, she liked her smoke. She liked her Misty 120s or Virginia Slim's, maybe a Benson and Hedges. We don't know for sure. Uh, but then when I look at her picture, I just imagine her smoking one of those three.

SPEAKER_03 24:54

No Paul Malls here, huh?

Police Response And Early Missteps

SPEAKER_06 24:56

I don't think there was a Paul Mall. No. I'm just I'm really like Misty 120s is like the brand that I really no uh Winston's. This looked like a lady who loved her teeny tiny cigarettes. Okay. Or her thin, very feminine cigarettes. But, anyways, she knew that Cheryl was not going anywhere without her cigarettes. And then she also sees the answering machine blinking. So, if you're familiar with answering machines in the 90s, so they would blink to let you know that there was a message. And when you played it, most of the time it would go away. Now, Janice knew that she had left her own message on this answer machine. So she was like, Well, I'm gonna just play it because I'm here at the house. I'll go ahead and play it. She was just expecting them to show up at any time. Like she was not expecting anything weird at this point. So she plays the message, but then this creepy guy with these sexual induendos, his message plays, and she's like, What the fuck? And unfortunately, it does delete, which could have been key evidence along with the busted glass on the porch. So Janice also decides she's gonna clean house, she's gonna clean up, and other people start coming over, or other people start coming over, and they're wondering what the fuck. And finally, 16 hours after the women had last been seen or heard from, Janice calls the police to report Cheryl, Stacy, and Susie missing. Now, when the police arrive, they notice all the people coming in and out, and they're like, fuck.

SPEAKER_03 26:50

Y'all might be fucking up some evidence. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 26:53

But this was still the 90s, so they're like, you know what? They might just be back soon, you know.

SPEAKER_03 27:00

They might have just And that's what they were waiting for all those hours because the communication is not there as much. You know? Not at all. You could have hit them up on the hip, you know, hit them with the beeper or something.

SPEAKER_06 27:11

Not yet, not in 1992.

SPEAKER_03 27:13

Not unless you were like a doctor or yeah, they weren't it was about 95. I think beepers were like people were getting beepers. Yeah. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_06 27:22

In our area, it was like 96, 97.

SPEAKER_03 27:25

You still had to find an actual phone and then you just sent a number. Remember how you used to send the number on their codes, you know?

SPEAKER_06 27:31

Yeah, well, you used your house phone or you used a payphone. Like there was no cell phone. Cell phones were not for, they were not a household item quite yet. It'd be about another 10 years. Because I remember I got my first one in 2002, actually. Right. Almost 2003. A few people that I knew had them, but they weren't as popular. They weren't a necessity like they are now.

SPEAKER_03 27:58

Right. Yeah.

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So the police do a walkthrough and they make a note of everything. And like I said, they said, well, they might be back soon. And Janice, she is like, Well, if my daughter is somewhere out in public, she's not wearing any clothes because they're all right here. But the police get everyone out, they lock up, and they leave a note on the door for the women to contact them upon arrival. But they never do arrive, Jesse. All three of these women have now been missing for 33 years.

SPEAKER_02 28:31

33 years? Almost 34. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 28:36

So the next day, June 8th, 1992, the story of the missing women is now on the news and word spreads quickly. The police interview the girls' friends and family and Cheryl's co-workers to see if maybe these women just ran off. And everybody was like, no, this does none of this makes any sense. And after three days, the FBI gets involved. Now, Susie had previously dated a guy named Dustin Relka that happened to be part of a grave robbing gang that had been caught. Like they found some gold teeth. And I guess they tried to sell it. So they were caught in all this. And Susie was set to testify against him.

SPEAKER_03 29:24

And that's the only lead right here.

SPEAKER_06 29:26

Well, hold on. I'm getting there. But all him and all his gang friends, their alibis checked out, and they passed polygraph tests. Now, even though those aren't admissible in court, like at this time, they were still using them. Right.

SPEAKER_03 29:40

A prominent head turner all the way up until the late 90s.

SPEAKER_06 29:44

Right. Well, I'm saying, they used this to eliminate suspects. The next suspect was Larry Hall, who had been a Civil War reenactor, who was believed to have abducted, raped, and tortured many women and girls throughout all these reenactment areas. And uh just so happened to be that there were reenactments happening at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, but no solid evidence could ever point to him.

SPEAKER_03 30:14

Still very fucking creepy.

Suspects Leads And Dead Ends

SPEAKER_06 30:17

Right, right. And uh I kind of want to deep dive more into that guy later on. He is on my list now. Larry Hall. Remember that name. Now a neighbor would come out and say that a transient man that she had never seen before had been seen like lurking about Cheryl's house. So the police do a sketch, you know, they get their sketch artists, they do a sketch of this guy, and nothing came of that either. She also said that there was a van that came to the house. So she told the police and the make and model of this van, but no leads ever come to that. Like people, like tips were coming forward of like every color of the rainbow. You know what I'm saying? Like they even found a van that looked like the neighbor's description and just like posted up in town. Have you seen this van? But nothing led to anything. Then they look into Cheryl's past because she had been twice divorced, but she hadn't had any contact with the ex-husbands in quite some time. Now in 1997, this happened in 92. In 97, Robert Craig Cox said that he knew that the three women had been murdered and that their bodies would never be recovered.

SPEAKER_03 31:38

This is fucking crazy to me.

SPEAKER_06 31:41

I know. After investigating all of his claims and even people that he was close to, it seems that he was just seeking attention, possibly. Like uh like his girlfriend uh corroborated his story, but then later on said, Well, I just said what Robert told me to. Now there have been over 5,000 tips that have led to nothing. Thousands of missing person photos were put up in the Springfield area, and some still remain there to this day. Now the women were declared legally dead in 1997, and a memorial bench dedicated to the three uh resides in the victim's memorial garden in Springfield's Phelps Grove Park. This story has appeared on 48 Hours, on America's Most Wanted, and a few other series like Investigation Discovery. But unfortunately, these families of all these women and their friends, they have no closure. But a lot, like they still really suspect uh the Robert Cox guy because he knew details that hadn't been presented to the public quite yet.

SPEAKER_03 33:02

Oh, yeah, he already knew stuff more than what they yeah.

SPEAKER_06 33:07

And now when I was researching this um in Wikipedia, it says that Robert says that he will reveal all of this information when his mother dies.

SPEAKER_03 33:20

Which has got to be close to now. I mean, they should have turned over more.

SPEAKER_06 33:26

Well, that's on Wikipedia. I could not find anything else on that, like in interviews and and and documentaries that I watched.

SPEAKER_03 33:33

But I'm sure they watched him for a few years after that, right? And then they were just like, this is a cold thing, right? I mean, but they should have shook up some of the things.

SPEAKER_06 33:41

So there was there was an investigator who kind of went undercover in prison to try to get Robert to talk. But then when he learned who he was, that he was an investigator, he kind of just shut down.

SPEAKER_04 33:54

Fuck.

SPEAKER_06 33:55

Yeah. Now there have been many psychics that have come forward with information that seemed like it would, it was gonna, you know, kind of solve the crime, but never did. Um, Stacy's mom, Janice, she actually found a person to like survey this area um to find where dead bodies might be buried. And it seemed as though it was under like this huge developed parking garage. So nobody wanted to tear that apart just to maybe see if it was uh but they said if there had been bodies there, that it would have been discovered in the excavation of this land that was turned into a parking garage. So it's just been an absolute mess for 33 years.

SPEAKER_03 34:52

The bold face realization that you can get snatched up three people and completely just disappear.

SPEAKER_06 35:02

Now, a lot of people think that, or uh I don't want to say a lot of people, so it's speculated that this was directed more towards Cheryl and Susie, and that Stacey just got caught in the crossfires because she was just spending the night. And these two girls weren't even supposed to be there. They were supposed to stay at Janelle's house, but who who could take all three of these women without anybody noticing? Well, even if they're like gagging them like one at a time, the other two might scream or run to a neighbor's house because this was in a neighbor's more than one person, I think.

SPEAKER_03 35:43

There's no way they're one person. I mean, you could have came in there with a gun and been like, everybody shut the hell up, whatever. That's what I'm thinking. You're thinking about all the scenarios. But there were conversations before that to lead somebody of this caliber into the household, I think.

SPEAKER_06 35:57

And why was the glass busted around the bulb and not the bulb? Like the bulb wasn't busted, just the glass around it. Um, like some people, I even heard uh some crazy struggle on the porch. Somebody said that yeah, if they were carrying out one person that maybe they kicked it. But the other two girls or the other two women that were not being gagged or or or suffocated, whatever, they could scream or run for help. You know, it's just hard if it's one person involved to get three people out of a house unless they're all being let out by gunpoint. Right. And that is just like my speculation. I have no idea. And I've heard this story, I don't know how many times. I have no idea what could have possibly happened to these women.

SPEAKER_03 36:44

There's too many scenarios right there. There's too many variables that could go into play when somebody comes into your household, even if it's one person, if they have you know they're demanding that power and they have something to back it up, all you have to, all you have to rely on is fear, you know? And all three young females.

SPEAKER_06 37:05

Well, Cheryl was 47. Okay, and then the other two, you know, they were fresh graduates, they graduated that day.

SPEAKER_03 37:12

Right. So if she went after the alpha female or the day before that they went over the alpha female, the older one, the other two probably had to go along with it. I mean, there's nothing else to compare livelihood in a in a traumatic situation, you know what I'm saying? Once you got one subdued, the other will follow. So there's a lot of scenarios right there. Could have just been one dude or a or a female. You know, we don't know. You know, generally doesn't matter. But if you come in there with enough power in your hand, you know, a gun or whatever, you know, and you get one subdued and you you you can easily control the other two.

SPEAKER_06 37:48

Now, this is a lesson for any of our young women listeners out there that could be graduating high school or college or whatever. Don't change your plans. Yes, they had been drinking, but they could have stayed at Janelle's house on a pallet on the floor. That was prepared for them to do, even though her house was full. Don't change your plans.

SPEAKER_03 38:12

Yeah, party plan and fun, all intentional and all outspoken, and never deviate. Because if you're if you're if you're doing things, you know, you add a little uh some kind of other things on top of the intoxication and the parties, and if you switch houses, but everything needs to be all intentional, all with breadcrumbs, because you don't know what could happen. You know, a conversation at a gas station could have fucking turned this thing.

SPEAKER_06 38:38

And I mean, fortunately, now we do have cell phones with people and uh with people having their locations turned on and you have Life 360 and you have things like that, but things like this still happen today. So just keep yourself protected at all costs. Keep in touch with everybody. If you have to spend your grad night sober to stay safe, do it. Yeah, do it.

unknown 39:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:05

I mean, like I said, they could have bumped into somebody at a convenience store and set them, set him or her off and was like, I'm fixing to just take these people just because of whatever. Well, you never know when you never know what's happening in somebody's head. It might not even been that, and that might be the reason why there is no real leads. It could have been something just that spontaneous, and just boom, everything went down. They followed them, they did the they waited on the right moment, took them out, had their little crazy infatuation joy of sickness, and buried them underneath some concrete somewhere.

SPEAKER_06 39:41

Well, and also like Cheryl, she was supposed to just be home alone all night. They could have just been stalking her. Like the neighbor said, that transient man that she had never seen before had been lurking around Cheryl's house, maybe studying Cheryl's routine and things like that. And then when these girls got home, like I said, Susie parked in a different spot. Maybe there was another car in that driveway that made her park in a different spot. And then when she enters the home, everything goes awry. You just never know.

SPEAKER_03 40:13

Yeah, because this is later on in the night. Yeah, 2 a.m.

SPEAKER_06 40:16

It was 2 a.m.

SPEAKER_03 40:18

when everybody's asleep. It's easy.

SPEAKER_06 40:21

Well, they weren't as well it looked like one bed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:30

They nobody was up to see anything, you know? And if they would have kicked something out and a little bit of struggle right there, that moment between the the porch and whatever vehicle or whatever they got put into to get away with, nobody nobody noticed anything. Nobody knows. Yeah.

Tip Lines And Pushing For Answers

SPEAKER_06 40:47

Now it did look like one bed had been disturbed or you know, possibly already slept in. But I mean, there's just there's nothing else to go on. So now, listeners, if anybody out there listening to this, and this has been put out there a few times, um, if you have any knowledge about this case or know someone who does, so uh there's a few numbers that you can call. Uh 417-869-8477, which is 417-869-TIPS. You can call that number.

SPEAKER_03 41:24

You can probably call that for most anything, right?

SPEAKER_06 41:26

In that area. Yeah. So that's a Springfield number. And then to contact the Springfield police directly is 417-864-1810. And you can also submit anonymous tips online at p3tips.com. And there is also a P3 app as well. Let's get this case solved. Somebody's got to know something. And if it was Robert fucking Cox, oh, somebody there's where our anger lies, right there.

SPEAKER_03 41:59

That's the only person we can project into.

SPEAKER_06 42:01

Yeah, he's the only one saying that he knows something. And he says, like I said, according to Wikipedia, he says that he will reveal. And he's in jail now, right?

SPEAKER_03 42:13

Yeah, he's he's serving a prison term for other charges. Right. But are creepy too, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. As far as what we're trying to keep our fixation on, because he's the only person that actually has some kind of tangible something that might tie back into that.

SPEAKER_06 42:30

Yeah, he he has said it's on, I mean, like I said, documented that he says he will reveal details, I guess. Or, you know, incriminating evidence when his mother dies.

SPEAKER_03 42:43

Why would you hang? Are you fucking waiting for everybody else to fucking die away? How old's her mom now? I mean, it's got to be his mom. Her mom, too. Oh, Janice? Yeah. Like everybody.

SPEAKER_06 42:55

So that's 33 years ago. Cheryl would be in her 70s. Yeah. Um, I mean, it is absolutely very, very rare that any of these women are alive.

SPEAKER_03 43:05

And I'm talking with you because I'm pissed off. That's okay. Okay, fucking help it, dude.

SPEAKER_02 43:09

Damn. I'm so I gotta throw you an unsolved one in every now and then.

SPEAKER_03 43:14

Oh, I can't take these, man. Now I'm gonna think about it forever.

SPEAKER_06 43:18

But yeah, so that is unfortunately the unsolved case of the Springfield three. And I hope so much for these families that are involved, the families of these three, that something can give them closure. I just really, really hope that because this made me really sit and think while I was researching this about my own children. And if one of them went missing, or even just somebody that I knew that I was close to, one of my friends just went missing and nobody knew anything. Like that's maddening. Maddening. And I don't know how. You can go on from that. No. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 44:03

Yeah. Years and years and years of just everyone in that scenario in their families, you know? They're completely just distraught for years and years and years. One dude is walking around boasting that he knows more about it. You're a fucking piece of shit to begin with. If you don't know anything, or if you do, spill it, be done with it. That guy gets the fucking piece of shit, Ward, but Lindsay, you get what you always get because you destroyed me. Thank you. Uh and I hate you at the same time, yeah. Yeah. Uh today and tomorrow, and you know. With all of my heart, you have filled me once again with complete destruction.

SPEAKER_06 44:51

And I love you so much for it, but we're having but you know, I mean, you never know when something can get solved. I mean, there's cases that I'm gonna talk about in the future that's 30, 40 years.

SPEAKER_03 45:03

Well, this is already past 30, but still, yeah, there's been so many of them, you know. Historical evidence has been thousands of years, actually.

SPEAKER_06 45:11

We're still waiting on we're still waiting on evidence for the West Memphis 3, which we will be re-releasing here in the future. I'm gonna take a little break in a couple of weeks um just to get ready for our Rockville trip. And we'll be re-releasing our three-part of West Memphis series of the West Memphis 3, which we're still waiting on. Yes, we're still waiting on that shit.

SPEAKER_03 45:33

Before we do the Rockville, we're gonna turn loose West Memphis 3 all over again, right? Yes. Okay, let's do that. Yeah, I'm down. I'm down.

SPEAKER_06 45:42

So what I mean? I can I can't do you have for us today.

SPEAKER_03 45:48

Man, this is the time that I we haven't done this yet, Lindsay. Okay, we have not done this yet. And uh kind of met some dudes, man. Met some dudes online and uh they have some cool stuff. And I didn't know this was a male, female, whatever appointed type true crimes scenario. So, but I got a couple of guys here, and they are called Good Cop Rad Cop.

unknown 46:15

Ooh!

SPEAKER_03 46:16

Yeah, good cop rad cop R-A-D cop.

SPEAKER_06 46:19

So you love the name already.

SPEAKER_03 46:21

Yes, check out Good Cop Rad Cop, and this song is called Motel Where My Dad Lives. What? You're gonna fucking love this, Lindsay. And it's my fucking turn to just bring some light onto the bottom end of this fucking garbage that you always spill on me, so it's my turn. I get to be Jesse at this moment. Yes, yes, you're gonna love it.

SPEAKER_00 46:40

Jesse it up. We wrote this next song about Dave's dad's living situation before he died in a minefield this afternoon in Cleveland, Tennessee.

SPEAKER_01 46:54

On my way back from grandma's cool ranch on my hands, warm smell of a dumpster coming in from the fan. Up ahead in the distance. I see two dudes in a fight. Grandma pulls over and she drops me, huh? I have to stay here tonight. Welcome to the motel where my dad lives Where the pool is green, where the pool is green, and the sheets aren't clean. There's minimal rules at the motel where my dad lives When I'm over here, when I'm over here, I can drink a beer. Pretty cool, he's not right, Daddy. His neighbor's a sex offender. He was an extra on friends uh A lot of people come into his room because he sells bad. Can I go back to mom's house? He doesn't agree. It's the weekend and the government says that you have to stay with me. Oh and it's finished, it's finish, being bonito on a tell Don't baby but be Papa La piscina expertise.

SPEAKER_00 48:39

That's tough. Yeah, I watched uh on a Dora the Explode. Backpack of the big eyes a lot of meth in that backpack, yeah. Alright, back to English. Well, the vending machine at the motel where my dad lived.

SPEAKER_01 48:57

It hasn't worked in a month. It hasn't worked in a month, just like my dad.

SPEAKER_03 49:43

Right. Fuck yeah. That was, I mean, I'm allowed to sometimes, you know.

SPEAKER_06 49:53

That was amazing. Made me laugh after this horrific, unsolved story. And so go right now and follow Good Cop Rad Cop on Instagram. And they uh their music is on YouTube and they are out of Atlanta, Georgia. Out of A Town. A Town Peace Up.

SPEAKER_03 50:14

A Town. They need to do that one next. They probably already did.

SPEAKER_02 50:18

I don't know, but hotel where my dad lives. That's just that That was perfect.

SPEAKER_06 50:22

I had no idea that that was a parody, and that made my day. That made my day.

SPEAKER_03 50:27

So I'm allowed to sing that karaoke down at the fucking pool later on there, Lindsay.

SPEAKER_06 50:31

Yeah, they don't have karaoke tonight, though. Oh, they didn't have it last night. Bastards. It says it's on Sunday night. The little resort we're saying at has like an itinerary of their activities. Uh but yeah, we're gonna go down and we're gonna swim and we're gonna get some Euros and some chicken wings and we're gonna enjoy the rest of our night here. But make sure that you guys, first of all, follow the band.

SPEAKER_03 50:56

Yes. That was really cool. I mean, I I want to do more stuff like this. This is fun for me at the end of all the horrific shit. I'm a goofball, dude. I'm loving that. Thank you, good cop rad. That was cool.

SPEAKER_06 51:10

And make sure that you guys follow us. Uh for first of all, we want to thank you for an amazing month. April so far has been our biggest month thus far. April 2026. Um, so thank you guys for listening. Number one. Number two, if you're new to us, we would really appreciate if you would follow us on Instagram at drinkabout something and on fuck what else?

SPEAKER_03 51:39

On TikTok.

SPEAKER_06 51:40

On TikTok, drinkabout something pod underscore Lindsay. Send us an email at drinkabout something pod at gmail.com. And where are we?

SPEAKER_02 51:49

On YouTube, Jesse.

SPEAKER_03 51:51

They already know, but I'm gonna tell them anyhow. Our whole handle is Gen Z, J-E-N-D-S-E-Y, as she throws the microphone across the room and saying it.

SPEAKER_06 52:02

And if you guys did hear noises, um the little the little place that we're staying is nice, but the walls are paper thin and some people walked by earlier.

SPEAKER_03 52:12

Very thin. It's worth the money. So it's worth the money. Hit us up and we'll tell you where we're at. And we're having a great time. We're gonna go down to the pool, we're gonna do some things, check us out on YouTube. It's Gen Z J N D S E Y. You can party with us and see our whole weekend.

SPEAKER_06 52:24

Yeah, and drinkaboutsomething.sight. Yes, that way uh everything's there. You can follow us directly, uh, directly from there and find out what platform uh you want to listen to us on.

SPEAKER_03 52:37

Yeah, it was like 30 something different avenues to find us. Yeah, so we're on everything. So check us out. Come have fun with us and tell me about the little uh the hidden gem in the middle of this episode that we just talked about. I'll send you some merch, dude. Yes, that's what we want to do. Absolutely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 52:56

We love all of you guys that have been here from the beginning, and we love you guys that have started from the middle and are brand new to this episode. And next week we're gonna be talking about four. Four? So I did three this week, and next week we're gonna talk about four.

SPEAKER_03 53:14

So just keep that in mind. No, I don't three was bad, dude. I'm sitting here thinking of all these crazy twists and turns to the middle of all this.

SPEAKER_06 53:23

Well, next week is solved, so you can have that in your mind.

SPEAKER_03 53:25

Well, I mean, yeah, but we get the whole case thing, and there's a purse in there we can pin the hate on fully. I'm already pinning hate on, dude. May his something come to him and just spill the whole thing. Spill it, just be done.

SPEAKER_06 53:40

Spill it. Or if anybody else that is not Robert Cox knows, yeah. Y'all spill it. Come forward, do the thing, make it right, let's solve this case.

SPEAKER_03 53:50

I don't know to handle this, and you need to do it just for me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 53:53

Just for Chad.

SPEAKER_03 53:54

Just do it for me. You know, otherwise you're gonna be at the hotel where their dad lives, and that's not cool either. And I th well, actually, with the hotel where their dad lives is where he's living now. Because the government said he can't fucking go there. He can't leave, dude. You're there forever. Oh, yeah, he did, didn't he? Oh, fuck. Well, at least that case was solved. Fuck. I knew where his dad lived. The vending machine at the hotel where my dad lives. Yeah. I want to go jam with them guys. We're gonna go down to the pool. I'm gonna go find them guys, we're gonna get an acoustic guitar, and we're gonna document it. Thank you guys for so much for sharing and following along. We love you so fucking much, Lynn. So fucking much. And she just wants to say one last thing. Bye.