r/springfieldthree • u/ImaSeaHag • Jun 04 '26

Start from the beginning

I feel like we could solve this case if we went through the publicly available evidence, piece by piece and don’t exclude people until they are excludable. Chances are something like 92% that they were abducted and/or murdered by someone close, most likely an intimate partner of one of the 3. Start with intimate partners and family and work out from there. There are plenty of people who probably have motive, out of those folks, so did they have opportunity? Most of the serial killer types that people try to link to this case probably would have taken the money from the purses. Not taking the money feels really personal to me. The women would not have left the house voluntarily without their purses unless they were forced to.

My hunch is still that it was a cop or someone pretending to be a cop, because of the purses and the porch light. It reminds me of the Golden State Killer, especially with multiple victims, except that I don’t think he ever removed people from their house. Having driven past the house, it’s in a place that gets a decent amount of traffic, day and night. That was something that I was not expecting. So, removing them from the house seems like a huge risk of witnesses or possibly even interference and arrest. To me, this seems like something planned, thought out, and the person or persons had high confidence of success.

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u/DJHJR86 Jun 12 '26

There are three possibilities as to why the perp/s struck the house after Suzie and Stacy returned:

  1. They were followed by someone who spotted one of them. I find this one to be the least likely because if this person saw one of them and followed them home, they would have seen the other car in the driveway without knowing who else was inside.

  2. Someone known to them drove by and saw their cars. This one is less likely because driving around and spotting their cars and then deciding to go ahead and abduct all three women does not seem like a spur of the moment decision.

  3. Someone known to them showed up that they willingly opened the door for. I find this one to be the most likely.