Is ongoing and more people could be charged. The Montgomery County police and all of our partners will work to hold every individual responsible who was involved with the abduction and murder of the lyons sisters as well as the ongoing conspiracy to conceal these crimes. Reporter prosecutors said they are also investigating the possibility that lloyd welch may have been involved in other child abductions across the country. So they are retracing all of his steps, starting 40 years ago. Track welchs activities from the time that this abduction occurred through to when he was incarcerated. Its we are our investigators, thats part of what they have been doing all over the country. Reporter Court Records released today show investigators recovered bone fragments and remnants of a burned plastic bag on a hill side property in a remote section of Central Virginia where the welch family once had property. As john and mary lyon, the parents of the two girls sat nearby and list and to prosecuto
Punishment that ultimately led to his death. The boy was regularly beaten and restrained by the adults that should have been caring from. Detectives repeat some information used to charge Robert Wilson with federal child abuse earlier this month. Police say wilson beat 9year old jack unconscious for taking a piece of birthday cake without permission. Jack couldnt fight back. His uncle had handcuffed his hands behind his back and used a bike lock to secure him to a dining room chair. Oriana garcia turned away the first ambulance sent for her son telling paramedics he was simply congested. The charges documents show her culpability doesnt end there. She told police she regularly consulted with wilson and her brother over how to discipline jack. The discipline called [indiscernible] and simes beatings with a bamboo sword. Sometimes jack would be handcuffed. Oriana garcia told police jack had been, quote, stealing food. She said the last time he had eaten before the fatal incident was the
There. Not everyone will see it and its not going to rain all day by any means. Another gorgeous start if our michael son camera. Some blue tint out there for the sky. Well see temperatures pretty comfortable, into the mid80s. The humidity is dropping and thats going to be the key here this time of year. Winds are out of the northwest. Thats going to usher in that nice dry air, especially for this evening. A threat for a shower today. Temperatures across the region are comfortable. 66 gaithersburg. As you head down to southern maryland, about 70 degrees on average. So the rain did come last night after the taylor swift concert so thats good. Just prepare for a quick passing shower, a quick downpour but the winds are so strong that it will usher it right out of the way. Temperatures into the mid80s by this afternoon. [ no audio ] a heavily traveled d. C. Road has been closed all morning because of a police investigation. Last night a woman was struck and killed on suitland parkway on st
A major News Conference is expected to start in just a few minutes. Bruce leshan is live at the News Conference. What do we know so far today . Reporter both parents are here. They just walked up bracing for answers in the disappearance of their daughters but there is startling silence from the principals. A spokesman for the Prosecutor Says that a judge has sealed sealed this information until it is released in just a few minutes. Whether it is a grand jury indictment or crucial new evidence, were just going to have to wait for the announcement on this stage here shortly. Police and prosecutors from two sides of the potomac all maintaining absolute silence pending the News Conference. A stage set for what they say will be a Major Development in a case that has shaken parents for your decades. What happened to sheila and Katherine Lyon after they innocently left home to look at easter decorations at Wheaton Plaza on an early spring day in 1975. A massive weeks long search by police, th
Live in wheaton bruce leshan, wusa9. Very Long Time Coming bruce, thank you. So we heard the word closure, but it comes with a push qualifier. A conviction of Lloyd Lee Welch and details that will likely be revealed in a virginia trial will help, but only the discovery of the girls remains will ultimately put an emotional end to this for some people here. So now question get reactions from the community that was changed forever by this case. Our scott broom is at the Oakland Terrace Elementary School where the kids who went there 40 years ago with the lyon girls have all grown up and where many are still living in that same neighborhood. Scott . Reporter yeah, this is the school the lyon sisters attended and there are still a lot of people around here like me about my age, theyre in their 50s and went to this school with the lyon sisters and remember all this vividly and always bruce just reported, we hear again that word repeatedly as we talk to people, closure. It feels like theres s