Book club:
Further reading for The Springfield Three/ Bobby Dunbar/ The Amish Serial killer
Gone in the Night: The Springfield Three
A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That Haunted a Nation
At the start of the episode there is a great idea to start a book club, reading nostalgic books (starting with V.C. Andrews)
Three separate mysterious disappearances:
The Springfield Three, June 7, 1992 Suzie Streeter, Stacy McCall, and Sherill Levitt go missing from Levitt’s home in Springfield, Missouri. In the early hours of that morning, around 2 am Streeter and McCall had been seen leaving graduation parties in the area they left to spend the rest of the night at Streeter’s (her mother being Sherill Levitt) home. The two younger girls had plans to meet a friend the next day at 9am, when they didn’t show their friend Janelle Kirby and her boy friend decided to go see where the girls were at.
Kirby and her boyfriend found no sign of any of the women but reported that the door was unlocked and the glass on the porch light was broken, but the light bulb itself was intact. Kirby innocently swept the glass up destroying any possible evidence, she also found the families dog locked in the bathroom, and while she was there she also answered two disturbing phone calls of sexual nature.
Although the investigation is still on going, it remains unsolved.
Feb 14, 2000 in Shelby North Carolina, 9 year old Asha Degree leaves her home at approximately 2:30am for reasons totally unknown. She has packed a backpack and begins walking along the highway in a heavy rainstorm, she is seen by several passing motorists as a nine year old in a white shirt, and white pants walking in a rainstorm at 2am is not something you see everyday, one motorist turned around and as he began to approach her, she ran into a wooded area to never be seen again.
Intensive searches began, leading to finding some her personal belongings. A year and a half later, her backpack, still packed the way she had it, was found at a construction site running along a highway. Asha however, has still not been found.
Why she left her house that night is still unknown, her family life was stable and loving and she was not a troubled child. Its seems that she may have been coaxed to leave her house only to be abducted, but why?
Way back in 1912, in Louisiana 4 year old Bobby Dunbar disappeared while on a fishing trip with his family. After an 8 month search a man name William Cantwell, who was a traveling piano repairman was arrested for having a boy with him whom police believed to be Bobby, even though Cantwell said the boy was name Bruce Anderson, the son of a woman who worked for his family, the boys mother Julia would later confirm that yes it was her son and that she willingly granted Cantwell custody. The police however, believing the boy to be Bobby returned him to the Dunbar home.
When the boy met with the Dunbars upon return, it is uncertain what the reaction was, one account says the boy shouted “mother” and the two embraced while another says the boy just cried. The following day, after spending time with the boy Mrs Dunbar said she positively identified mores and scars that belonged to her son and that she was certain this was Bobby.
Julia Anderson held strong to the fact that the boy was her son, but without money for court fees as well as the fact that the boy did not seem to know her it was appointed that the boy was in fact Bobby Dunbar and he would live out his life as such.
Recent DNA evidence proves otherwise.
And an Amish serial killer, a man living a life that doesnt match how he feels leads him to commit some of the worst murders.
Along the corn fields of Nebraska a hunter finds the body of a young boy in blue pajamas, he becomes known as “Little Boy Blue” he lays unclaimed and identified for two years before the authorities are led to Eli Stutzman, and previously Amish man with a dark past, who also happens to be the boys father.
Episode 95
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