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I see that I have not checked into this forum for two years (35th anniversary), and that is because I was starting to find it repetitive and given over to speculation, without much new information or insight. But as I look through posts of the past few years, I see that you are still providing...

Oh, relax. There was no attempt to embarrass anyone. I was just pointing out that some of this information was made available in the news at the time, and you can read the original material if you like. If you state what house you lived in in 1975, you certainly aren't concerned about preserving...

The memoirs of "Ginseck" are interesting, and remind me of the time as well. However, I don't think this adds much to the case. With all due respect, however, I think there is a lot of nostalgia in her account - I was intimately familiar with the area in 1975 also, and there were plenty of...

On the map, keep in mind that Drumm Road was essentially a dirt path through tall weeds for the section between McComas and Plyers Mill in 1975. There are now many more houses in that area. Also, Wheaton Plaza was open air in 1975, and there was a bank at the end of Faulkner - a very different...

Jennings is not actually a "small road"; almost a mile long and about one hundred houses, and quite a lot of turnover; since 1975, perhaps thousands of people have lived on it. In 1975 (or even 1982) database tracking of sexual offenders was generally not done. Now that it is common, we see...

I have not been here in a while, and just saw questions that have been posed to me. I will try to answer. 1. I lived in the neighborhood in 1975, but did not know the Lyons personally then. Like many people, I was bombarded with publicity and rumors about the case, and was personally familiar...

Next Wednesday, March 25, will mark the 34th anniversary of the girls' disappearance. Please remember them and the family in the way you think appropriate, and continue to hope this story has an end.

I read the novel, and have some personal familiarity with the Lyon case. I think the author would have been wise to set it in a different year, a different season, and perhaps outside of Maryland. But I don't think it resembles the facts of the Lyon case much at all. No one in the novel remotely...

Just a few things in response to all that has been written in the past week: 1. John Lyon, and the family, were subject to intense police scrutiny from Day 1. This is routine. They found nothing, and no one who had a grudge against him, and no one he knew, or the girls knew, who disappeared...

Yes, the story is that Jay saw them eating pizza, but did not see the TRM. I said a while back in this thread that I did not believe the story about the boy who saw them walking home. I think he was mistaken either in the day or in whom he saw. He did not mention it until several days after...

The search was incredibly exhaustive, and everyone who was determined to be acquainted with the girls, or had any history with the family was accounted for, and no one was identified who could have had any connection disappeared shortly afterward (of course, Fred Coffey disappeared the day after...

As far as I know, the answering machine recording is just one theory about what the TRM may have presented. Some people reported this ruse at other times or places. John Lyon was a career radio announcer, so I doubt the girls would have been too dumbstruck by seeing recording equipment. And...

It is less hard to understand Coffey if you recognize that in 1975, local law enforcement knew nothing about him and there were no databases for child offenders or missing children. That type of crime was almost unheard of in this county in 1975. It wasn't until 12 years later that MCPS learned...

Good to see some comment here again - maybe nothing much new, but I don't want to see it forgotten. I talked to the Lyons at a party a few days ago, and was thinking I should check on this thread again. They remain great inspirations to me. The problem with the TRM sketch is that it looks like...

Another reason to think of TRM and Coffey together are that they are the two most substantial leads in the case. MCP have not found anyone whose profile and movements fit the disappearance of the girls as Coffey does; add that to the fact that Coffey is known to have used similar lures in...

I sent you a private message on this--

The number of TRMs has always been a question, and I think this has been discussed in this forum a couple years back. I am confused myself. I don't think anyone can say with confidence that the person who came forward is or is not the Wheaton Plaza person. Of course, we don't know definitely...

As it happens, I just got back from Europe and concentration camp/Holocaust sites. The world can indeed be a dark place. The vulnerability of the Lyons, which you mention, is what I think always struck me as the greatest thing to deal with. They had to live at the mercy of people from the...

Thanks for the prayers. I feel the pain. I see John and Mary Lyon fairly often, and they are always so positive, kind and generous. John's courage and sense of humor are amazing. Sadly, people who don't know him have mistaken his positive approach to life as not caring too deeply. This is a...

It has now been 33 years, four months - a third of a century - and I think the chances of any witness coming forward are remote; even if one did, the chance that the information would be reliable and lead to a solution is even more remote. Many of the original investigators and figures close to...