1975 disappearance of the Lyon sisters

Bann

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As horrendous & awful this is, I sure hope they find these girls there. What a horrible thing for parents.
 
BOP

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Dakota said:
Police say the person of interest is a convicted child sex offender, who is currently incarcerated. They say he traveled extensively throughout the United States and investigators will be requesting help from the public in gathering information about this person, his associates, and his activities.

Read more: Person of interest identified in 1975 disappearance of the Lyon - DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG
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I thought Teddy Kennedy was dead. :shrug:
 
lovinmaryland

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Update on the case
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/24/lyon-sisters-welch-_n_6746504.html
Police say they're closer than ever to solving the mysterious disappearance of Sheila and Katherine Lyon, the young sisters who vanished almost 40 years ago from a suburban Washington, D.C., shopping center.

Lloyd Lee Welch, a 58-year-old convicted sex offender who authorities named as a person of interest last year, has implicated not only himself, but also an uncle and a cousin, according to newly released police documents.

Welch told detectives he saw his uncle sexually assault one of the girls the day after they were kidnapped, according to the documents. The documents also reveal investigators have been searching for the girls' bodies in rural southwest Virginia, where Welch's family owns property.

"Lloyd Welch has admitted he left Wheaton Plaza in a vehicle with the Lyon sisters on the day they disappeared," police say in the documents.

Sheila Lyon, 12, and her 10-year-old sister, Katherine, were last seen inside Wheaton Plaza, a popular shopping center in the Maryland suburbs, on March 25, 1975. The girls were on spring break from school and reportedly went to look at Easter exhibits. They had about $4 between them. They had been told by their parents, prominent radio disc jockey John Lyon and his wife Mary, to return home by 4 p.m., according to a March 25, 1980, article in The Washington Post.

Around 2 p.m. that day, the girls were spotted by witnesses at a pizza shop. What happened after that has remained a painful mystery.

Lloyd Welch, according to police, said he was with the girls that day in a car with his uncle, Richard Welch Sr., now 69, and a cousin, Thomas Welch Jr., who was 10 in 1975. Lloyd Welch told investigators he was dropped off near his home and his uncle and cousin drove off with the girls, according to the documents.

"Lloyd Welch stated that the following day he went to the home of Richard Welch and observed Richard Welch having sexual intercourse with one of the Lyon sisters," the court documents allege. "Lloyd Welch claims that he left the residence and never saw the Lyon sisters again."

Lloyd Welch told police he had nothing to do with "killing those girls." Richard Welch has declined to comment to reporters. His daughter told The Washington Post the allegations are a lie and "my dad would never do something like that."

No one has been charged in the case.

Lloyd Welch told police he doesn't know where the sisters are buried, the documents say. A search warrant alleges Lloyd Welch told a fellow inmate in Delaware, where Welch is serving time for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl, that he had kidnapped the Lyon sisters and buried them on family property in Virginia
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Lloyd Lee Welch has been charged with first-degree murder for the deaths of Sheila and Katherine Lyon.

It sounds like it is going to be a "no bodies" type case and that just sucks. :ohwell:
 
Hijinx

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Dakota said:
Lloyd Lee Welch has been charged with first-degree murder for the deaths of Sheila and Katherine Lyon.

It sounds like it is going to be a "no bodies" type case and that just sucks. :ohwell:
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If guilty , he needs to be executed.
 
mitzi

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The poor parents. They must be in their 70s now. What hell to endure all of their lives. I hope this guy gets the death penalty and any family who covered for him gets a long prison sentence.
 
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Put him in solitary confinement and let him rot there. :mad: Death is the easy way out. I want him to suffer. :mad:
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I read an article or biography or something, somewhere where a person recently executed left a message to those waiting on death row.

He said something like how we are all owed a death and for those on death row, they know it will be quick, unlike the rest of us who will die a little each day. Many of us will suffer long painful deaths and that they get to escape all of that.

Over the last several years, I have been for a person sitting in jail and rotting. If we cannot just hang them up outside the court house like they used to do for all of us to see, why bother dragging it along with numerous appeals and doing it later. :ohwell:
 
Hijinx

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Dakota said:
I read an article or biography or something, somewhere where a person recently executed left a message to those waiting on death row.

He said something like how we are all owed a death and for those on death row, they know it will be quick, unlike the rest of us who will die a little each day. Many of us will suffer long painful deaths and that they get to escape all of that.

Over the last several years, I have been for a person sitting in jail and rotting. If we cannot just hang them up outside the court house like they used to do for all of us to see, why bother dragging it along with numerous appeals and doing it later. :ohwell:
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I have always been an advocate for an automatic retrial after 6 months for a person who get the death penalty.
An automatic retrial with a new judge, a new jury, new attorneys, and then bring on the witnesses.

After that retrial if the defendant is then found guilty and receives the death sentence, he gets it next morning.
Right in the back of the head.
 
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