Biography e lyon maryland

The murders of Katherine and Sheila Lyon were the abduction , sexual abuse and murder of two sisters — aged 10 and 12 respectively — who disappeared from a shopping center in Wheaton , Maryland , on March 25, Described as a crime which shattered the innocence of the suburbs of Maryland, [ 5 ] the disappearance of Katherine and Sheila Lyon initiated one of the largest police investigations in the history of the Washington metropolitan area , although their fate would remain unknown for thirty-eight years, by which time their disappearance had long become a cold case.

A re-investigation of the sisters' disappearance in led detectives to charge a convicted child sex offender named Lloyd Lee Welch Jr. Welch was indicted for their murders in July ; he pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in September via a plea bargain in which he admitted to participating in the girls' abduction, but not their sexual assault and murder.

He was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 48 years' imprisonment. The bodies of Katherine and Sheila Lyon have never been found, [ 7 ] although authorities believe their bodies were burned and buried upon a remote mountain in Bedford County , Virginia. The girls were two of four children and the only girls born to their parents, with an older brother, Jay, and a younger brother, Joseph, completing the family.

The Lyon children lived in a close, middle-class household on Plyers Mill Road. By , the oldest Lyon sibling, Jay, was 15 years old; the youngest sibling, Joseph, was nine. Sheila was 12 years old, and Katherine ten. According to their mother, neither girl "[could] wait" for the upcoming occasion. March 25, , was the second day of school spring vacation; as such, the four Lyon children woke at approximately 10 a.

Shortly after eating breakfast, the Lyon brothers visited a local basketball court; Katherine and Sheila opted to walk to the Wheaton Plaza shopping center now Westfield Wheaton to browse Easter exhibits and meet friends who frequently socialized at this location.

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The girls left their home between 11 a. At the insistence of a friend, Mary Lyon later visited a bowling alley; she was driven to the bowling alley by her husband, who — working a night shift — woke at midday. The Wheaton Plaza shopping center was located approximately half a mile from the Lyon household.