Swaters directed Dateline to the latest media release on the case, posted in May 2022. “At some point in that night, they went missing,” Debra said.ĭateline spoke with the Springfield Police Department Public Affairs Officer, Cris Swaters. Suzie, Stacy, and Sherrill were nowhere to be found. So the friends headed to Suzie’s house to check up on them. “They weren’t answering the phone and they didn’t show up,” she said. Sarah told Dateline the teens were supposed to meet some friends the next morning to go to a water park, but they never showed. After the parties, Sarah said, “They made a last-minute decision to go spend the night at my cousin's house.” Stacy and Suzie at their graduation. According to Sarah, Suzie and her friend Stacy McCall went to multiple parties together that night. “They graduated high school with their families and then the girls went to graduation parties,” Sarah told Dateline. On June 6, 1992, Suzie Streeter graduated high school. It was the last time Debra’s family saw Sherrill and Suzie.
“It was a wonderful time.”ĭebra told Dateline that although they wanted to stay in Springfield to be there for Suzie’s graduation a few weeks later, Sarah had recently joined the Navy and had to return to base. “Sherrill was just making a big deal over the fact that her baby sister was turning 40,” Debra recalled. “She would always have the trendy haircuts and the trendy clothes.”ĭebra told Dateline that in May of 1992 she celebrated a milestone birthday and the whole family went to Springfield to see her sister. “She wanted to do cosmetology like Sherrill,” Sarah said. Sarah told Dateline that Sherrill and Suzie were extremely close, and Suzie wanted to follow in her mother’s footsteps. “They were all babes,” Sarah said, describing her cousin and aunt. “She was independent, tough.” Sarah, Kelly and Suzie. “She was always really fashionable and, like, cool,” Sarah told Dateline. Bartt was older and had already moved out, so the house was a fresh start for Sherrill and Suzie.ĭebra’s daughter, Sarah Beeson, who was the same age as Suzie, always admired her cousin. “She got this house in a great area,” Debra said. But before long, she was able to get a home of her own. “They had lost this really great house,” Debra said. Following the divorce, Sherrill struggled, initially. Six years later, Sherrill and Don divorced. She said that Sherrill was a cosmetologist and had built up a loyal clientele and did not want to go back to Washington. “She was making good money,” Debra told Dateline. “To leave her was very upsetting to everybody,” Debra said, but by then Sherrill had settled into life in Springfield. “She moved to Springfield because we moved down there,” Debra told Dateline.īut in 1983, the plant where Debra’s husband worked shut down and they made the decision to return to Washington. Sherrill and Don followed with their family. That same year, Debra and her family moved to Springfield, Missouri for her husband’s job. “They were kind of like the Brady Bunch,” Debra said. Like Sherrill, Don had children from his previous marriage. In 1980, Sherrill married her second husband, Don Levitt. “We were very close then.”ĭebra told Dateline that not long after Suzie was born, Sherrill and Brentt divorced. “We were both pregnant at the same time,” Debra said. That was around the same time Debra gave birth to her daughter, Sarah. And in 1973, Sherrill gave birth to their daughter, Suzie. The next year, the couple had a son, Bartt. “She was definitely always looking out for me.”ĭebra told Dateline that Sherrill got married to her first husband, Brentt Streeter in 1964. “She was usually the one to cook me dinner,” Debra recalled. Despite that, Debra said Sherrill was always there to take care of her.
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