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
It was more of the same here along much of Long Beach Island, a few vacations said that the rain was coming down if buckets. Haley says that when it was over long beach boulevard including the School Parking lot looked like a river. I come outside to watch the cars come by they send waves literally up to our front door. Reporter but what took her back was the strong wind that came with it. It was strong and windy and this flag got ripped out. A little bit of action. And back out live where it might not be over yet, the rain is just starting to fall once again. Reporting live walter perez channel 6 action news. Walter thank you. Lets head over to meteorologist, adam joseph, hopefully adam the worst of this is behind us now. We have some residual downpours in a couple of locations but they are not flooding downpours, but sitting over the same areas for a long period of time. Its now off the coast and some lingering showers at the shore but its light rain and some downpours between allent
Heavy crowding on the systems busiest line. Chopper four is en route to the red line to give images of this for now, we can tell you, if metro says if you need to reach the begin brook or white flynn stations you have to use an outbound train from d. C. Toward Montgomery County. The inbound trains will be passing the stations to reduce delays. This appears to be connected to a track problem outside grover in metro has been working on since this morning. Two men are facing charges for shooting a man inside a metro garage. Douglas chase and Brent Sanderson are accused of killing a man by the name of eric melgar inside the Wheaton Metro station garage. It happened yesterday evening before the sun set. No word yet on a possible motive in that shooting. Another development in the birthday cake beating. The mother and uncle are held without bail. The uncle handcuffed his nephew to a chair so the moms boyfriend could beat him unconscious. Jack garcia was only 9 years old and died from that be
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