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
Lloyd welch in the murders of sheila and Katherine Lyon. Bruce leshan has a look at what happens next. Reporter despite thousands of hours of searching police have still been unable to find the bodies of the lyon sisters, but new search warrant affidavits unsealed today reveal the kind of circumstantial case that they are building against twice convicted child sex offender lloyd welch. Police say in an affidavit that a relative told them welch came to her in bedford in the spring of 1975 with a duffel bag filled with bloody clothing. He said the blood was from spoiled ground beef. She refused to wash it. Another cousin allegedly told investigators that he helped welch burn two big heavy duffel bags with red stains and the odor of death. The grand jurors believed welch abducted sheila and Katherine Lyon from Wheaton Plaza and that he killed them in bedford. The girls parents 11ed stoically to news of the indictment listened stoicically to news of the indictment and then left without tal