By the late-1990s, Cox was behind bars yet again, serving out a 30-year sentence for armed robbery in Texas. It was then, in 1996, that Cox told a KY3 News reporter he knew about the disappearances and deaths of the Springfield Three. He claimed he knew the women were dead and that their bodies would never be found.

Furthermore, Cox's girlfriend had later come forward to recant her initial corroboration of Cox's alibi. She claimed that Cox told her to lie if cops ever asked where they were that fateful June weekend. Cox, however, was a notorious attention-seeker; authorities were uncertain as to whether Cox was just lying about his involvement to keep himself in the limelight. While Cox was a promising suspect, authorities had no concrete evidence with which to pursue. Eventually, the case went cold yet again.

Investigating the case of the Springfield Three has led to nothing but dead ends and frustration. Theories about what happened to the women that night run the gamut from kidnapping and human trafficking to calculated murder. At one point, investigators received a tip that the women were buried in the foundation of the south parking garage at a local hospital—though they did not believe this “tip” to be credible enough to justify tearing up the concrete.

In early 2019, reports surfaced that Bartt Streeter was arrested on suspicion of public intoxication, disorderly conduct, and attempted false imprisonment of a 15-year-old girl after a February 28 incident at a nail salon in Smyrna, Tennessee. The Streeter family later released a statement saying the charges were "exaggerated."

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