Katherine and Sheila Lyon Katherine Mary Lyon, 10, and Sheila Mary Lyon, 12, are two sisters who vanished without a trace on March 25, 1975, while on a trip to a shopping mall in Wheaton, Maryland. For decades, their
A reopening of the cold case in 2013 led detectives to Lloyd Lee Welch, Jr., then serving a lengthy prison sentence in Delaware for child sexual abuse. In September 2017, Welch pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder for the abduction and murder of the sisters, whose remains have never been found.
The Journal reported, “At times, Lyon thought to himself, 'This could be my trial. '” One of the sisters' brother Jay, who was 15 at the time of the disappearance is 43 years old now and a homicide detective with the Montgomery County police.
S1 E1 Who Killed the Lyon Sisters? Based on the book by bestselling author Mark Bowden, this documentary recounts the haunting 1975 disappearance of two sisters from a Maryland mall and the predatory backwoods clan that may have concealed the crime for 40 years.
Lyons was paroled in 1961 and pardoned by the Governor of Oklahoma in 1965 after 20 years in prison. He subsequently disappeared into obscurity.
Katherine and Sheila were born to John and Mary Lyon in Kensington, Maryland. They also had an older brother, Jay, who later became a homicide detective. Their father, John Lyon, was well-known as a radio personality on WMAL Radio.
It was March 25, 1975, when 10-year-old Katherine and 12-year-old Sheila Lyon, daughters of well-known Washington radio personality John Lyon, walked to a shopping mall near their home in Kensington, Maryland. The girls vanished and their bodies were never found.
The Bowes-Lyon family descends from George Bowes of Gibside and Streatlam Castle (1701–1760), a County Durham landowner and politician, through John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, chief of the Clan Lyon.
In the terminology of the era, both were classified as "imbeciles", and neither learned to talk. Nerissa died in 1986, aged 66, with only hospital staff attending the funeral, while Katherine died in 2014, aged 87. The sisters received no money from the family other than £125 paid to Earlswood each year.
A 36 year-old Nigerian, John Lyon, has been nabbed after a N70 million ransom payment was allegedly traced to his bank account. In a viral video, John Lyon allegedly confesses of being involved in only two kidnappings. In the video, Lyon was stripped and left with a boxer short only.
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Welch's father, Richard, is considered a "person of interest" in the disappearance of Katherine and Sheila Lyon. The girls, ages 10 and 12, disappeared from a Maryland shopping mall in 1975 and haven't been seen since. Police believe the Lyons were kidnapped and murdered in Bedford County.
Both sisters were born with developmental disabilities, including the inability to talk, and, after being clinically diagnosed in 1941 as “imbeciles,” per The Telegraph, Katherine and Nerissa were secretly placed in Royal Earlswood Hospital, a Surrey mental hospital, and essentially left there to live out their days.
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