Chuck Rogers, the stage designer and co-technical director for the Landers, told KSMU that he never believed the ghost stories about the theater until sometime in the '90s when a spooky figure changed his mind. It's no secret that old theaters tend to be haunted by the spirits of actors who spent time treading their boards, but the Landers Theatre in Springfield, MO, is supposedly filled to the brim with specters. Hers is one of 12 unsolved homicide cases that have occurred in Fort Smith since 1985. Over 300 "persons of interest" have been pinpointed in the case, but no one has been formally charged with Witt's slaying. The police believe the person who made the phone call found the body and moved it out of fear that he would be blamed. Two trappers found her in the Ozark National Forest a couple of days after the police received a strange phone call in which a young man was instructed to tell the police what he "found." He refused and hung up the phone. It took 45 days for Witt's body to be discovered.
Along with DNA samples, "car keys were found in the parking lot and one earring was found in the parking lot." Rider, she received a blow to the head and was taken. According to former Fort Smith Police Captain Jay C. Before she made it inside the bowling alley, though, something awful happened.
Melissa "Missy" Witt was last seen in the parking lot of Bowling World in Fort Smith, AR, on December 1, 1994.
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