Anguish but No Answers a Year After 3 Women’s Disappearance : Crime: They were apparently kidnaped after a high school graduation party. Police found no suspects and few clues.

It’s been a year of anguish, fears and anger for the families and friends of three women who disappeared after a graduation party. Even the investigators have shed tears.

The waiting continues.

A year ago last Monday, Sherill Levitt, her daughter, Suzie Streeter, and Suzie’s high school classmate, Stacy McCall, disappeared from Levitt’s home.

After 5,000 leads, investigators have no suspects and few clues. They acknowledge they are no closer to solving the case than the night of June 7, 1992.

“I couldn’t even begin to tell you how awful it’s been,” said Janis McCall, Stacy McCall’s mother.

“The only positive things are that we have met wonderful, wonderful people and that we’ll always have their love and concern,” she said. “But as far as the emotion and the roller coaster that we’ve gone through in the past year, I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. Ever.”

The women disappeared hours after McCall, who was 18 at the time, and Streeter, then 19, graduated from Kickapoo High School. Police suspect the three were kidnaped and murdered.

But, like the families, investigators won’t rule out the possibility they could turn up alive.

Investigators who know better than to get emotionally involved in their cases said they couldn’t avoid it in this one.

“Knowing I have a job to do, knowing that there are people depending on me, has kept me and others going,” said Detective Gerald Dove, who has shed tears of frustration.

Deb Schwartz of Seattle wants to establish a memorial of some type--a gravestone or red roses--for her half-sister, Levitt, and her niece. But where? There’s no grave site to visit.

“Where do you go?” she said. “I think it’s one of the most cruel things someone could do, to take lives like this and watch people--the survivors--dangle on a wire.”

Levitt, a divorced hair stylist, was last seen alive at 4 p.m. on June 6, 1992. After leaving a graduation party with Streeter around 2 a.m. on June 7, McCall decided to spend the night with her friend.

Sometime in the early hours of June 7, the three apparently were abducted from the home “quickly and without a struggle,” police Sgt. David Asher said.

McCall hadn’t planned to spend the night at the home, leading authorities to believe she wasn’t the target of an abduction.

Police later found each woman’s car parked outside the Levitt home. Inside the unlocked and orderly home was everything the women likely would have taken had they left willingly: purses, cash, makeup, keys, identification, cigarettes, medication.

There apparently were no witnesses, and a report of a green van parked near the home was never confirmed.

Police in this Ozark city of about 140,000 initially put 30 investigators on the case. Now, one full-time and two part-time investigators remain. The case has been profiled on television crime shows, but tips have dwindled.

Police will investigate “until we resolve the case,” police Capt. Todd Whitson said.

Last Monday, about 200 people gathered in a park to pay tribute to the women and release yellow balloons, inscribed with messages that included, “Come home soon,” and, “We’ll never give up!”

Mark Ogle didn’t know the missing women, but said he felt compelled as a father to attend the observance with his young son and daughter.

“We pray for them,” he said.