The Strange Case of The Springfield Three

Sherrill Levitt was a 47-year-old single mother and cosmetologist. She loved her profession at the local hair salon. Her 19 year old daughter, Suzanne Streeter, had ambitions to become a stylist in the future was well. Suzanne was a little bit OCD as well.

On June 6th, 1992, Suzanne and child hood friend, 18 year old Stacy McCall, graduated from Kickapoo High School.

Stacy McCall was funny and bubbly and she wanted to go to college.

Later that evening after the ceremony, Suzanne, Stacy, and a mutual friend, Janelle Kirby went to Janelle's house for a celebration. 

After the party, Suzanne and Stacy went back to Sherrill’s home on 1700 block of East Delmar Street in Springfield, Missouri, at approximately 2:00 a.m. They told Janelle that they would call her in the morning. That is the last time Suzanne and Stacy were heard from or seen. Investigators believe that they probably made it back to Sherrill's house. 

Earlier that night, Sherrill was last heard from between the time frame of 11-11:30 p.m. speaking to a friend on the phone and working on a project.The following morning, Janelle called Sherrill’s house. She made attempts numerous times, including leaving messages on the answering machine, but Janelle never got an answer. At first, Janelle made the presumption that the girls were still asleep.

Later, Janelle called her boyfriend, Mike, and drove to Sherrill’s home close to 9 A.M. When they pulled in cars belonging to Suzanne, Stacy, and Sherrill were present, but Stacy's wasn't parked in her usual area under the carport. She got out of the car with Mike to knock on the front door. Janelle and Mike were on the front porch they noticed the front door was left wide open. There had been broken glass scattered everywhere, coming from the globe that covers the light, but the light itself was perfectly intact. Mike grabbed a nearby broom and swept up the glass.

When Janelle and Mike made their way inside, the television was on but with only static. As they continued their rounds of the home, both were shouting the names of Suzanne and Stacy, but it was to no avail.

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The only signs of Sherrill, Suzanne, and Stacy were their purses, jewelry, and cigarettes.Their makeup was in the bathroom and the beds had signs of being slept in. The family dog, a terrier by the name of Cinnamon, was freaked out and acting crazy. There were no indications of foul play.

Janelle suggested that it was possible Suzanne and Stacy had already left. While walking outside the landline phone began ringing. Janelle quickly answered. On the other end of the phone, a male voice was throwing out lecherous sexual innuendos. She hung up the phone. The same male called back immediately continuing where he left off after the initial hangup. Janelle cut him off again and both her and Mike hurriedly made their way out and left the area.

Stacy’s mother, Janis, and her oldest daughter, Lisa thought that  Stacy was at Janelle’s house. A relative relayed the information that Suzanne and Stacy left for Sherrill’s. Janis and Lisa headed into town to pick up Lisa’s wedding dress at the bridal store. Almost a full day had gone by and Janis still hadn’t heard from her daughter, Stacy, so Janis decided to go to Sherrill's house.

Though nearly twelve hours have gone by since Janelle and Mike were at the home, everything was still the same. By now Sherrill's home is full of friends cleaning up, waiting to hear from the three missing women. Janelle used the landline and called the police. Janis unintentionally deleted the messages that were on the answering machine previously, including the unidentified male voice leaving lewd and absurd messages of whom Janelle spoke to. 

The police filed the report as a Missing Person’s case. And since they received the call at such late hours, they suggested Janis swing by the police station the following morning. They also asked if she could bring her daughter's dental records.

Days later,  a young waitress working at Sherrill and Suzanne's favorite restaurant, George’s Breakfast, claimed to see the three missing women the night of their disappearance between the hours of 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. This sighting could never be cooberated.

The police started digging into the backgrounds of the three women, which led them to Sherill Levitt's son, Bartt Streeter. At one point in the early 1980’s, Bartt was kicked out of the home due to him being an alcoholic. He came back ten years later. Bartt and Suzanne agreed on sharing an apartment together. It wasn’t long and Bartt became a worse alcoholic than ever. During an argument between Bartt and Suzanne, the fight led to physical altercations. That was the final straw for Suzie and she moved back home with their mother, Sherrill. However, police quickly ruled him out as a suspect.

Police stared to look at Suzanne’s ex-boyfriend Dustin "Dusty" Recla and his friend, Michael Clay. While the two were in a relationship, the two men were charged with vandalizing a mausoleum and also stealing gold teeth from the corpses of some, of which they profited by selling at nearby pawn shops. Once Suzanne found out about the criminal charges, she broke off the relationship. Dustin and Michael always suspected that it was Suzanne who turned them in. Suzanne supposedly was going to testify at their trial that was just a few months away.

After the breakup, there were multiple reports about hearing Michael say that he'd wished that all three of the women were dead. Their whereabouts the night they vanished has never been confirmed. They have never been apprehended or charged with the disappearances, but are still considered suspects to this day.

A lady came forward and stated that on the day of the women's disappearance at 6:30 a.m., she was sitting out on her front porch when she noticed a dodge panel van that had a silver to a greenish hue, seemingly from the mid-1960’s to early 1970’s. She noticed a young woman in the driver’s seat that appeared very distressed. She claimed to hear an unidentified male voice speaking to the driver saying, “Back out slowly and don’t do anything stupid.”

Someone from the state of Florida called in after seeing the case on the national news, telling them to look at Robert Craig Cox. The caller was the brother of Sharon Zellers, a 19-year-old teenager allegedly murdered by Robert Craig Cox in 1978, as she was on her way home from a late night of work at Disney World.

In California, Cox pleaded guilty to kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to nine years in prison and dishonorably discharged from the Army. After his release, Cox was convicted and sentenced to death in 1988 for the 1978 murder of Sharon Zellars in Orlando, Florida. But in a rare ruling that conviction and death sentence was overturned in 1989 due to lack of evidence. After released, Robert Cox moved to Springfield, Missouri where he coincidentally worked with Stacy McCall’s father. There was no evidence linking him directly to The Springfield Three disappearance, so he was never charged with any crime. In the meantime, Cox was arrested in Texas for aggravated robbery and it was while he was in custody that he declared he believed The Springfield Three were dead and whoever did it was someone who knew what they were doing.

Years later, Kathy Baer, a freelance journalist and an amateur detective gets a tip that the three are buried underneath a hospital, that use to just be dirt back when the three disappeared. She brought this information to police and they pretty much laughed at her, so Kathy hires a man who uses high-tech, ground penetrating radar. The radar is able to find grave hidden concrete. He finds three images that look to be graves. Police say that it doesn't fit with the timeline. 

Kathy claims that she knows who did this to the three ladies, but so won't say because she is afraid for her safety. She will say that Stacy wasn't the target. She has received death threats and has been advised to leave the case alone.

The case of The Springfield Three remains unsolved.

There is a $42,000 reward offered for information of who is responsible. 

If you have any information, no matter how small, please call

1-417-869-TIPS.

Was News Anchor Jodi Huisentruit Abducted?

Jodi Sue Huisentruit was beautiful and accomplished.

She was born June 5th,1968 in Long Prairie Minnesota to Imogene L. "Jane" and Maurice Nicholas Huisentruit. She was very good at golf. In high school her team won the state Class A tournament in 1985 and 1986. She went to St. Cloud State University, where she studied mass communications and speech communication and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in 1990. Her first job after graduation was with Northwest Airlines. She entered broadcasting by getting a job at KGAN in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as the station's Iowa City bureau chief.  Later she returned to Minnesota for a job at KSAX in Alexandria before returning to Iowa for her KIMT news anchor position.

On June 26th, 1995, 27 year old Jodi participated in a golf tournament and, according to Mason City resident John Vansice, she went to his home to view a video tape of the birthday party that he had arranged for her earlier in the month.

Jodi was scheduled to work the next day at 4:00 a.m. She spoke to a co-worker at the station at approximately that time and said that she would be arriving shortly from her home. She has never been seen again.

Her co-workers became concerned when she did not contact them by 7:00 a.m. and called the police. Police searched her apartment and some of her belongings were found scattered in the apartment complex's parking lot around her red Mazda Miata, including a pair of red dress shoes, a blow dryer, a bottle of hair spray, earrings, and her bent car key. A unidentified palm print was recovered from the car.

A co-worker assisted in searching Jodi's apartment, which showed no signs of a struggle.

Witnesses near her reported hearing a scream from the parking lot shortly after 4:00 a.m. A neighbor that lived nearby reported seeing a white van with its running lights on parked in Jodi's parking lot at about the same time. This van was never positively identified. It is believed that Jodi was taken against her from the lot that morning. There has been no sign of her since that time.

Mason City Police Department executed a search warrant on March 20, 2017, for GPS data on two cars related to John Vansice.

Jodi's sister Nathe believes Vansice was “fixated” on her sister, even though Jodi had never once mentioned his name to her.

Nathe isn’t convinced that only one person was responsible for the crime. Nathe said her sister’s landlord reported hearing “two different male voices” in the parking lot at the time and the sound of a loud muffler.

At the time of her disappearance Jodi was 5'3 - 5'4, 110 - 120 pounds with blonde hair, brown eyes and pierced ears.

Where is Brianna Maitland? Was She Murdered Over Drug Money?

Brianna Alexandra Maitland had life sparkling in her eyes. She was happy and spontaneous. She was very open and friendly and saw everyone in a good light.

She was born in Burlington, Vermont on October 8th, 1986 to Bruce and Kelly Maitland. She was raised with her older brother on their parents' farm near the U.S.-Canadian border. She was extensively trained in a Japanese close combat, martial art known as jiu-jitsu. She attended Missisquoi Valley Union High School before transferring to Enosburg Falls High School in Enosburg Falls during her sophomore year.

On her 17th birthday in 2003, Brianna decided she wanted more independence, so she moved in with her friends who lived 15 miles away. She enrolled at her friends' high school. Her living arrangements were unstable as she moved in and out of several friends' homes. By the end of February 2004, she had dropped out of school and moved in with her childhood friend, Jillian Stout, in Sheldon, Vermont. To complete her education, Brianna enrolled in a GED program.

About three weeks before her disappearance, Brianna was at a party when she was attacked by a girl named Keallie Lacross. Some say that the fight stemmed from jealousy over a boy at the party. For some known reason, Brianna didn't defend herself or fight back and was subsequently hit in the face several times while she was seated in a truck.

After the attack she went to the hospital and receive treatment for a concussion, a broken nose, facial cuts and two black eyes. She filed a criminal complaint against her alleged attacker, but it was dropped after she disappeared.

On the morning of Friday, March 19, 2004, Brianna passed her GED examination and had lunch with her mother to celebrate. Her mother said she seemed to be happy as they discussed her plan for college part-time. 

After lunch, Briana went with her mother to go shopping and do errands. While waiting in the check out line of a store, Brianna told her mother she would return shortly, and left the store. When Kellie completed her purchase and met Brianna in the parking lot, she noticed that her daughter seemed unnerved, shaken, and agitated. Briana told her mother that she needed to go home and prepare for her upcoming work shift as a dishwasher at the Black Lantern Inn, a restaurant in Montgomery.  It was Briana's second weekend working at the inn, frequented mainly by tourists in a remote ski town. Kellie did not ask what had happened, and dropped Brianna off at Stout's home between 3:30 and 4:00 p.m. This was the last time she saw her daughter. Before leaving for work, Briana left a note for Stout saying she'd return after work that evening. Briana then departed for the Black Lantern Inn in a 1985 Oldsmobile sedan registered to Kellie.

After work, Briana clocked out and left at 11:20 p.m. Her co-workers asked her to have dinner with them, but she declined and told them she needed to get home and rest before working the next day at her second job in St. Albans. She was alone in her vehicle when she left. She never arrived and her friend assumed she had moved back in with her parents and brother. 

On March 20th, Brianna's vehicle, a pale green four-door 1985 Oldsmobile sedan, was found back into the side of a  abandoned house on Route 118 in Richford, about a mile from the Black Lantern Inn. Known locally as "the old Dutchburn house," the siding of the home had been breached by the rear end of the car. A piece of plywood that had been covering a window lay on the car's trunk. The car doors were unlocked and Briana's paychecks were on the front seat of the car.  Her ATM card, wallet, glasses, contact lens case, and migraine medication had also been left inside. Outside it, law enforcement observed loose change, a water bottle, and an unsmoked cigarette. A woman's fleece jacket was found in a field near Brianna's car, but it apparently did not belong to her. It was assumed the car had been abandoned by a drunk driver, and a towing company took the vehicle to a local garage.

The friend that Brianna was supposedly staying with called Brianna's parents on March 23 and found out Brianna wasn't there. That is when she was reported missing. Thursday, March 25, Kellie and Bruce gave photos of Brianna to Vermont State Police in St. Albans. They were showed the picture of the car that crashed at the Dutchburn house and identified is the one that Brianna drove.

When Brianna's car was found, the ground was frozen, so there was no footprints. Even though there was no signs of a struggle, investigators later came to believe the accident may have been staged and that foul play might be involved in Brianna's disappearance. 

In the week after Brianna disappeared, the Vermont State Police received an anonymous tip claiming that she was being held against her will in a house in nearby Berkshire, Vermont. The rented house was occupied by Ramon L. Ryans and Nathaniel Charles Jackson, two known drug dealers from New York. The house was raided by police on April 15, 2004 and various drug paraphernalia were discovered inside, as well as substantial amounts of cocaine and marijuana. There was no sign of Brianna, but she supposedly knew both Ryans and Jackson from her past experimentation with hard drugs. 

In late 2004, police received a statement from an anonymous "older female" who implicated both Ryans and Jackson in Brianna's disappearance and alleged murder. In the signed affidavit were detailed claims about Brianna being murdered approximately a week after her disappearance. The woman claimed that Ryans murdered Brianna during an argument over money she had lent him to purchase crack, and that her body had been temporarily stored in the basement of a recently incarcerated local woman's home. Her body was then allegedly dismembered with a table saw and disposed of on a pig farm. Law enforcement was unable to corroborate these claims.

The Maitland family additionally reported that they had received several uncorroborated anonymous phone calls from persons claiming Brianna was "tied to a tree in the woods," and that she had been disposed of at the bottom of a lake.

In 2006, security footage at Caesars World casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey showed a woman resembling Brianna sitting at a poker table. The woman was never possibly identified.

In March 2016, investigators revealed to a local television station they had recovered DNA samples from Brianna's car. The results of the DNA tests were not made public. In July 2016, the farmhouse where Brianna's vehicle was discovered was destroyed in a fire.

At the time of her disappearance Briana was between 5'3 - 5'5, 105 to 118 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes. She had a faint scar extending from her left eyebrow to her forehead. Her left nostril was pierced. She wore a small ring or stud in it at the time of her disappearance. She wears contact lenses, but they were left behind when she vanished along with her glasses.

Anyone with information is asked to contact: Vermont State Police at (802) 524-5993; the State Police Crime Information Tip Line at (802) 241-5355; or submit an anonymous tip at www.vtips.info or by texting "CRIMES" (274637) with keyword: VTIPS.

The Godfather Claims That Bobby Kennedy Had Marilyn Monroe Killed.

Actor Gianni Russo claimed that Marilyn Monroe was killed by a guy known as "The Doctor" paid by Bobby Kennedy. The Doctor allegedly is a killer for a hire and an actual MD. Gianni said that The Doctor injected air into the vein near Marilyn's pubic region, and she died of an embolism, but it looked like drugs to the coroner.

Gianni said there had been rumors tying the Kennedys to affairs with Monroe and Bobby feared the story getting out.

Why Was Casey Anthony Found Innocent In The Murder Of Her Daughter Caylee Anthony?

Caylee Anthony was a beautiful and bright 2 year old little girl who lived with her mother, Casey Anthony and her maternal grandparents in Orlando, Florida. 

On July 15, 2008, her grandmother Cindy made a 911 call saying that she had not seen Caylee for 31 days and that Casey's car smelled like a dead body had been inside it. Casey lied to detectives, telling them Caylee had been kidnapped by a nanny on June 9, and that she had been trying to find her, too frightened to alert the authorities. 

Casey was charged with first-degree murder in October 2008 and pleaded not guilty. 

On December 11, 2008, Caylee's skeletal remains were found with a blanket inside a trash bag in a wooded area near the Anthony family's house.The medical examiner mentioned duct tape as one reason she ruled the death a homicide, but officially listed it as "death by undetermined means".

During the trial Casey clams that Caylee accidentally drowned at the family's home and that her father got rid of the body. Casey said she was too frightened of her father to come forward earlier.

Casey was aquitted of Caylee's murder and was only convicted of lying to police. Two weeks later, Casey walked free.

Why was Casey found not guilty?

Jurors later claim that none of them liked Casey Anthony at all and that she seems like a horrible person, but the prosecutors did not give them enough evidence to convict beyond a reasonable doubt. They also said that the prosecutors seemed to be arrogant and cold and that the only one that seemed to care was Casey's lead defense attorney, Jose Baez.

Jurors also said that Cindy seemed unbelievable, that she was under a lot of stress and not making sense and taking a lot of medication.

The Jurors say they are haunted by their decision and wish they had known more details about the case than they did. They wished they had more evidence at the time to put her away. 

What Really Happened To Natalee Holloway?

You probably know the story by now. Natalee Holloway and her friends are on a senior trip in Aruba. They are there to have a good time. 

On the 29th of May they go to a casino, located at their Holiday Inn they were staying at. That is where they met the nefarious Joran Van Der Sloot. After a while they decided to go to this local hot spot called Carlos N' Charlies and invited Joran to come along. He went with them with his buddies the Kalpoe brothers tagging along. 

They all stayed at Carlos N' Charlies until closing time.  

Joran and the Kalpoe brothers decided then decided they were going to go cruising around in the car and Natalee went with them. That is the last time Natalee was seen by her friends.

Joran says he dropped Natalee off and left on a beach.

What really happened to Natalee?

Joran was arrested twice in Natalee's disappearance. There were three fisherman on the beach that Joran said he dropped Natalee off on. The fisherman said that they didn't see Joran or Natalee there that night. A different witness says that they saw Joran's car, Joran and the Kalpoe brothers, on a different part of the Island.

In one of the many police statements that Joran gave, changed his story and said that he took Natalee to his apartment. Joran's friends say that he would frequently pick up girls from Carlos N' Charlies and take them back to his place or to a hotel to have sex with them. He usually filmed these encounters.

When the police searched Joran's computer and other personal belongings, there was no video or pictures of the girls. Did Joran give all the footage and photos to Paul Brough AKA Mr. Pink?

Mr. Pink had a water sports company in Aruba. He was luring girls from other places to come down to Aruba to be in porn films with promises of being models.

Steve AKA DJ Diablo, worked in Aruba on a party boat named Tattoo. After Natalee disappeared he came forward as a voluntary witness. He stated that he saw Natalee being brought back to the Holiday where she was staying by Joran and the Kalpoe brothers. Subservience video of the hotel shows that Steve lied. He changed his story several times, each time a lie. One of the lies he told was that he was working on the boat that night. Steve was arrested for giving a false statement to police. This made him a suspect and he was interrogated many times. It turns out that Steve was at Carlos N' Charlies the night of Natalee's disappearance. After Carlos N' Charlies closed for the evening, Steve's whereabouts are unknown for that night.

One week before Natalee was in Aruba, Tracy Allen was there with her family. During Tracey's stay, on May 21st, she got up just before sunrise to collect sea shells. She was walking on the beach where Joran says he dropped off Natalee. Tracy said that there was a man siting there. When Tracy started heading back, she noticed that the man had pulled his vehicle around and had it running with the doors open. He then ran up to her naked and blocked her way. He tried to get her to his car. She resisted, this got attention of other people on the beach and the suspect fled. 

Police tried to find the man. The man had dark skin, was about 25 years old, about 5'6" tall with short dark hair and wore glasses. The police showed pictures to Tracy and saw the man who tried to abduct her. The police took the man into custody. A few weeks later, the police called Tracy and told her the suspect was no longer in custody and may have fled to Columbia. 

Allegedly the man in the sketch was Cheremy Croes AKA Jerry Strawberry.

Did you know that Natalee's room door was opened three times on the night she disappeared with her key? An explanation for this was never found. There was no subservience footage of this and her roommates were never questioned. 

Police didn't try to get any surveillance footage, from anywhere, until three weeks after Natalee's disappearance. Most of the footage was erased by that time, because most places only held footage for two weeks.

Things You Need To Know About Natalee Holloway's Disappearance.

Was Natalee Holloway Sold Into Slavery?

First Suicides and Now Plane Crashes.

Staff Sergeant Robert Luis Harding of Oklahoma National Guard took this photo of a Ryder at the base shortly before the Oklahoma City Bombing.

He was 45 years old when he was killed on a Monday after noon in May 1995 when a small experimental aircraft he was flying hit a power line and crashed at Camp Gruber.  Autopsy and toxicology were not performed.
Harding worked at the Whitaker Education Training Center in Pryor. An employee of Mid-America Aviation in Pryor said Harding was an excellent pilot with more than 20 years flying experience and had at least 100 hours flying time in the light single-engine plane.

Woody Lemons was one of the  executives convicted in the savings and loan scandal of the 1980's. He had flown retired CIA operative Joe Harp into Oklahoma City to investigate the bombing. 

Woody died in a plane crash in his private plane along with his mother and his wife. This happened on May 16th, 1998 with his wife piloting the aircraft. The plane started to return to the airport when it plunged onto the highway, skidded and burst into flames.

Four days before the fatal crash, Joe received a phone call from William Jasper of the John Birch Society. (The John Birch Society is a radical right and far-right organization and an advocacy group supporting anti-communism and limited government.)  In the conversation Joe mentions that Woody had a copy of a laboratory report finding fulminating Mercury was used in the bombing.

Joe Harp, based on his military explosives experience, identified an alleged unexploded bomb found attached to a gas line inside the Murrah building and that were being removed, as well as two additional bombs, that were also in FEMA memo reports, as being military in nature.

Another "Suicide" In The Oklahoma City Bombing.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Ted Richardson was a sports hunter and was active with his sons and the boys scouts in his church. He was also the chief bombing and arson prosecutor for the Western District of Oklahoma at the time of the Oklahoma City Bombing. He was immediately transferred out of that position after the bombing. 

Ted was investigating Samir Khalil and his connection to the 1993 Word Trade Center Bombing and to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks. Khalid also was the employer of the Iraqi suspect Hussain Hashem al-HUSSAINI. The Department of Justice took Richardson off the Khalil investigation days after the Oklahoma City Bombing even though Richardson was preparing to submit evidence to a Grand Jury on Khalils HUD property scams and tax evasion schemes to raise money to finance Hamas. 

Ted also helped put the case together against McVeigh and Nichols in the Oklahoma City Bombing.

A month after Melvin Beall, a 26 year veteran of the Oklahoma City PD, who talked to and gave directions along with three other OG&E employees to McVeigh, Fortier, McVeigh’s sister and Fortier's wife,  complained to Ted that the FBI and later the County grand jury covered up and ignored his and the employees testimony, Ted was found dead. Ted was 49 years old when he was found dead in 1997, near his church and allegedly Khalil's home. He was wearing a T-shirt honoring the unknown hundreds who came to the aid of victims: "Nameless Saints," it said, "We Give Our Thanks." He had a single shotgun blast that tore a hole through that T-shirt. His death was ruled as a suicide, even though his family claims he wasn't suicidal.

Another Hero Bites The Dust In A Mysterious Plane Crash.

Dr. Howard Don Chumley had a clinic 12 blocks away from the Murrah building and was one of the first doctors on the scene of the Oklahoma City Bombing. He shared a safety deposit box and information with Sgt.Terrance E. Yeakey, who was also a first responder to the Oklahoma City Bombing. He had his step son, Sean Jones, with him. When Sean and Howard first arrived, they were sent to the parking garage. Victims were trapped there. When they got there, they were approached by a man repeatedly yelling about a bomb, so they all ran away.

Sean said that Howard was the only doctor to actually go in the building. Sean and Howard saved nine infants from the day care center. 

Howard said that two FBI agents came up to him and asked to be bandaged, even though they had no wounds. Howard told the agents he had real injuries to treat and he didn't want to be a part of whatever they were concocting. His claim was corroborated by another witness. The two agents tried with another doctor, but Howard stepped in and said he would report them if they didn't leave.

Howard, like Terrance, didn't believe the official story of what happened that was being put out about the bombing. Rumor has it that he was about to go public with the evidence he had found inside the Murrah building.

Four months after the Oklahoma City Bombing, Howard was 47 years old when he was killed in a plane crash, in his personal plane, on a routine trip from Texas back to Oklahoma.  He was flying his Cessna 210 when the plane went from 7,000 feet to a full nose dive, seemingly out of nowhere. An investigation was conducted and there was nothing wrong found with his body or the plane that could have caused the crash. 

The safe deposit box, remember, was found empty. The information that Howard had allegedly compiled was never made public.