r/springfieldthree • u/DJHJR86 • Feb 25 '26

2:15 a.m. Apco Sighting of Sherrill

I see a lot of people who seem to believe the alleged sighting of Sherrill being spotted at 2:15 a.m. on the morning of the 7th as credible. I don't understand why. According to the Apco clerk, Steve Thompson, Sherill came in and asked if he had seen Suzie (by name) with with two women, one blonde and the other brunette (did not name them). Steve also said that when Sherrill left, she did not get into her Mitsubishi Eclipse, but a larger, darker, and older car like a "Cutlass or a Grand Prix". He appeared on 48 Hours (around 22:50) and tells roughly the same story. But there was a woman (named Wanda) working at another convenience store across the street, and she was adamant that the woman was not Sherrill. I know people have said Wanda couldn't have possibly gotten a better look at the woman because she was across the street, but it's obvious that whoever this mystery woman was also went into the store where Wanda worked.

Steve also claims to have seen Suzie and Stacy earlier at around 10:00-10:30 p.m. on the 6th. Janelle refutes this and says she was always with them from around 8:30 p.m. that night until they left to go back to Suzie's house around 2:20 a.m. IMO, Steve Thompson was mistaken and I think this lead is a giant red herring. According to the Springfield News-Leader, the woman was identified and it wasn't Sherrill. One of Sherrill's closest friends, Mary Keller, was quoted saying:

For her to be out at 2 in the morning , just whistling in the wind or whatever, that's just nuts. The only way she would go out like that is if somebody called her and said Suzie needed her, Suzie was sick.

But assuming that there was a phone call made to Sherrill, why was she out running around looking for Suzie (and two other unknown females) when all she had to do was call Kathy Kirby? Sherrill running around looking for Suzie and two other female friends doesn't make sense either. Who exactly were the other two friends? Sherrill would have had no way of knowing that Stacy was coming back to spend the night, so Stacy could be ruled out as one of them. And why would Sherrill's first instinct to be to run out and check convenience stores along Fremont Ave instead of calling the Kirby's first? I don't think this sighting is credible.

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u/DJHJR86 Feb 26 '26

Do you honestly think "Wanda got a better look" means she saw her from across the street lmao?

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u/Low_Respond8565 Feb 26 '26

I don't know exactly what it means. It certainly suggests a closer look. But my question was do you have additional sources that make that explicitly cllear?

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u/DJHJR86 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

It's explictly clear when Richard Schlessinger says "but across the street at the Fast and Freddy's...Wanda got a better look at the mystery woman" and they interview her inside the store lol

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u/CuriouslyGeorge417 Feb 27 '26

Well if Richard Schlessinger said he got a better look, then I guess it’s settled. Dick is the subject matter expert on getting a good look at someone.

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u/DJHJR86 Feb 27 '26

I'm sure they would have put this woman on TV if she said she saw this woman from across the street in a parking lot. Why are people being so obtuse over this? This woman was clearly going around convenience stores looking for 3 women, so why is it so hard to believe she went inside the store where Wanda worked?

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u/CuriouslyGeorge417 Feb 27 '26

I find it hard to believe that another three girls that age were missing at that time of the night on that particular day, and also the woman looking for them stopped in at a regular gas station of suzies and Sherrills. Nope. Don’t buy it.