Prosecutor joe mccarthy, states attorney from Montgomery County as well as the Commonwealth Attorney for Bedford County, virginia, sitting at the table over here to the right. The parents of the lyon sisters. It was 40 years ago this year that the two little girls, 12 and 10 years old, vanished from what was then the Wheaton Plaza just across the street from where we are right now. The Bedford County sheriff without a press release saying there would be a major development. What we believe will happen is that they will announce charges are being filed against one of the socalled persons of interest that had been named in this case. This is still up in the air. It has been kept very, very quiet. We believe indictments were issued some time ago but kept sealed, and that the prosecutor the commonwealths attorney, and sheriff of Bedford County virginia now believe there are ready to move ahead with charges. Why virginia . The family of the socalled person of interest, lloyd welch convicted
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
Wrong early with Montgomery County police in 1975 focused on a man with a microphone instead of the long haired man seen staring at the sisters at the mall. Court documents suggest welch actually went back to the mall after the abduction and talked to police and they let him go. Now in another Court Affidavit released today police say that another of welchs relatives also talked about those bloody duffel bags. She says that they refused welchs request to wash the bloody clothes that were inside those duffel bags. She says that he told her, welch told her, that he had had some hamburger meat that had gone bad and that thats why those duffel bags were bloody and why the clothes inside were bloody. Now police also say in some other search warrant returns unsealed today that they fond some bone fragments up on a found some bone fragments up on that mountain. Live in wheaton bruce leshan, wusa9. Welch is in a delaware prison now for sexually abusing another child. No word on how welch react
Harder on me than anything i could imagine. And caitlins courage. She makes a Public Comment from a man to a woman. Its not just about me. Its about all of us accepting one another. Captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for thursday july 16th 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Former president george h. W. Bush spent the night in a maine hospital where hes being treated for a broken bone in his neck. He is listed in stable condition. President obama fell at his summer home in kennebunkport yesterday morning. He was brought by ambulance to portlands maine medical center. Wendy gillette is here in new york with the details. Good morning, wendy. Good morning, annemarie. A spokesman said the former president will have to wear a neck brace, but hes fine. At 91 years old hes the oldest living president. This is the latest Health Setback for mr. Bush. He was hospitalized for about a week in december for shortness of breath and