The decades-old case of Katherine and Sheila Lyon, two young sisters who disappeared in 1975 after visiting a Maryland shopping center, resurfaced, with authorities initiating a new search. Initially unsolved, the case went cold for 42 years until 2017, when Lloyd Lee Welch Jr., a man with a violent criminal history, was convicted of abducting and murdering the girls. Investigators, motivated by new evidence, are now re-examining a piece of land in Virginia, where Welch had indicated the sisters’ remains might be buried.
Trigger warning: true crime, physical and sexual abuse – The Lyon sisters went missing in 1975 in Maryland, USA, days away from celebrating their 11th and 13th birthdays.
They went out for pizza but never returned home, missing their curfew. When the Lyon sisters went missing, their mother alerted police, sparking one of the largest searches in Washington, D.C., history with divers, dogs, and planes involved.
