Webster County authorities search for missing women

MARSHFIELD, Mo. -- Authorities began digging Saturday at an abandoned slaughterhouse near this Southwest Missouri town in a search for three Springfield women missing since 1992.

After receiving a tip, Webster County Sheriff's deputies began searching the area last weekend with cadaver dogs. The dogs pinpointed two spots at the slaughterhouse.

Authorities returned to the spot Saturday but had only covered a couple hundred square feet before taking a break because of the heat.

Sherrill Levitt, her 19-year-old daughter Suzanne "Suzie" Streeter, and her daughter's friend, Stacy McCall, 18, vanished without a trace on June 7, 1992.

Streeter and McCall graduated from Kickapoo High School on June 6, 1992. After attending two parties, the girls decided to get a few hours sleep before heading to a Branson amusement park with friends. They arrived at Levitt's home in the early morning of June 7 and prepared for bed.

When friends arrived later that morning, the three women were gone.

Authorities have no solid clues and no suspects in the women's disappearance.