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"Anything is possible" is usually the last argument made before someone is convicted of murder and sentenced to life. Of course anything is possible, which is why the standard for conviction is BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. The police obviously made a mistake in 1975 in not investigating Lloyd...

Lloyd Welch was only identified by the police and named as a suspect in late 2014, and his minimal connection to Thaxton/Bristol which consisted of visiting relatives there in the 70s, and MAYBE burying bodies there, was not discovered by the police or released to the public until 2015. I...

I and I think others, are waiting to see the evidence that will come out in the trial. If the police have solved the crime (with or without enough evidence to convict) there is little purpose in speculating on other theories. But the speculation on connections and other crimes seems...

The Boston Marathon bombing is now a case study in the successes (getting tips to the police) and failures (people wrongly accused by the mob) of crowd sourcing. There maybe be an advertising page first, but this Forbes article summarizes the case...

<modsnip> It's good to provide any detail to the police, but I am not sure it's good to provide details of conversations with the police to the public, such as possible suspects or "persons of interest" that the police have not publicly identified. If the police want to identify persons of...

I am not sure what you mean by "creepasite," but even if Lloyd is totally innocent of any crime that day, there were a minimum of two creepy people at Wheaton Plaza that day: Lloyd and Tape Recorder Man. Likely there were a few other people "interested" in young girls under 14 at the mall...

The police are very good at getting people to confess, often by hook or by crook. Sometimes, fairly often, even innocent people confess. This is knows as "false confessions," which one can google. The Central Park Jogger case is the most famous case of the police obtaining (without torture)...

It is fairly common for criminals afraid of being identified by an eyewitness to change their hair style and grow or shave facial hair. On the subject of search warrants in 1975, I doubt that the police would even need a search warrant if anyone told them the girls were being held, alive...

Unfortunately, the scene of the crime is huge, either an entire plazza/mall with thousands of visitors each day, or the mall and their walk home, with maybe a stop anywhere in town - unless it can be narrowed down to maybe a few hundred yards of road and path through woods - which it never has...

I am pretty sure that the reason the police failed to search any property related to Lloyd Welch or to investigate him in any way was because as the police claim, they failed to identify Lloyd as a suspect in 1975, despite the Long-hair-man sketch that most people think is Lloyd. Keep in mind...

We don't know what Lloyd told the police in 1975, but I doubt if anyone, even a criminal, liar, lunatic, or homeless person, told the police he saw the girls at a specific house, the police would have failed to check out the location. My GUESS is that Lloyd told the police 1) his actual seeing...

There was actually a witness PRIOR to the crime happening. Lloyd was staring so much at the Lyon sisters and a friend that the friend walked up to Lloyd and said, "Take a Polaroid. It will last longer." This friend of the Lyon sisters, whose name has not be released by the police, was the one...

Even smart people make mistakes, but Lloyd Welch is pretty stupid. While he later got his GED (maybe in prison), he was a high-school drop out who worked gardening and other menial jobs, and was stupid enough to get convicted for the same crime over and over - although it's tough for even smart...

I believe Lloyd mostly traveled to the northern most tip of Washington, DC - next to Silver Spring MD, while Eileen traveled in a different direction to downtown DC to her work. I also think Eileen just moved into her own apartment in Hyattsville. I don't know where she lived with her parents...

Maybe a "DNA dragnet" was not the best choice of words by me, since in the past some "DNA dragnets" involved hundreds of men such as every male at a school or in a small town, which has privacy and constitutional concerns beyond my area of expertise. However the males mentioned by others - I...

I only read a few newspaper articles on the Eileen Kelly case, and I agree there are many differences, but a few similarities. The most obvious difference is that Eileen Kelly was a young 18-year old woman largely supporting herself working downtown as a secretary and not living with her...

Thanks for posting about Henry Parker passing. If you did not post, I think I and everyone except the police who needed him as a witness would not have noticed. But you may want to say why you are posting instead of just leaving it up to us to assume, fortunately correctly in this case, why you...

The cousin who declined to wash Lloyd's bloody clothing was the person who posted news of Henry Parker's death on Facebook. I obviously know the cousin's name, but don't want to post it just in case anyone here is unwisely thinking of contacting her which could 1) interfere with a police...

I THINK it's the same Henry Parker, but there could be two Henry Parkers of close age in the area. There appear to be many Henry Parkers. From: http://www.roanoke.com/obituaries/parker-henry/article_0f247721-282f-5148-b0ce-3f0ee6adf00e.html "Henry Parker, 59, of Roanoke and formerly of...

If three reliable witnesses placed the girls in anyone's house after they disappeared, that person would be in jail now. One of the "witnesses" is Lloyd, a known liar to say the least. Seeing the girls after the disappearance was one of his six stories, which I believe he through his lawyer...