Family to respect their pry vass so i privacy and their grief. Reporter it comes 40 years after the sifting through clues including the excavation of a remote hill side in virginia where the family once own property. Dozens of subpoenas issued. Reams of documents analyzed and over 100 interviews and interrogations have been cop conducted. We have traveled to half a dozen states. Reporter lloyd welch is in prison in delaware on unrelated child Sexual Assault charges. He will be extradited to virginia in the next few days, where he will stand trial. If convicted he could face the death penalty. At 6 00, you will hear from prosecutors on why they are looking at lloyd welch possibly being involved in other child abductions across the country and you will hear from prosecutors as to why this case is being tried in virginia and not here in maryland. Pat, back to you. The man at the center of this case lloyd welch, is already in prison, serving time now for sexually assaulting young girls del
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
Police allege that Douglas Shannon, 64, threatened to report his neighbor to authorities about being in the country illegally, an assumption based on the person’s race. The neighbor also alleged that Shannon threatened to shoot him.