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Lyon sisters suspect told police girls likely were abducted, raped, burned
Public Safety
By
Dan Morse July 21 at 9:54 PM
Lloyd Lee Welch, the 58-year-old former carnival worker charged with murder in the 1975 disappearance of two young Maryland sisters, told investigators that he believed the girls were “abducted, raped and burned up,” according to a police affidavit filed in Virginia Circuit Court.
The affidavit, which was submitted to get a judge’s permission to search the Salem, Va., home of a cousin of Welch’s in January, offers new details about how detectives closed in on Welch, starting in 2013, in the decades-old disappearance of Sheila Lyon, 12, and her sister, Katherine, 10.
According to the affidavit, another cousin of Welch’s, Henry Parker, told detectives late last year that it had been known among family members in 1975 that Lloyd Welch had something to do with the girls’ disappearance in Maryland and was trying to get them to central Virginia before police caught up with him.
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Last week, officials announced that Welch was indicted in Bedford County, Va., on two counts of first-degree murder. In an attempt to find evidence and the girls’ remains, authorities have conducted numerous searches in Maryland and Virginia — including in a rugged area of Virginia known as Taylors Mountain, where the Welch family has owned land.
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