richard -- that's great info, if it's true, but please give me your source of how you KNOW that the info given police on 4/1/75 was from a tip. i know the stepmom (you said his mom - but his mom was dead. it was his stepmom.) said she remembered him calling in, but how do we KNOW that that's the way the police got his address on 4/1/75. couldn't it have been from interviewing him? thanks!
You are correct about it being his Stepmother rather than his Biological Mother who made the statement. Being a Biological Parent, a Foster Parent, and an Adoptive Parent, myself I often do not make the distinction when speaking or writing. I assume that you are referring to a post I made some time back. Here is a more recent one that I made on the Lloyd Welch thread a few days ago:
quote ... What he said to police on 1 April 1975 (if anything) would certainly have to be verified, but the fact that he SAID that he was going to call in a tip and try to claim a reward CAN be verified:
- His stepmother clearly recalled that Lloyd made such a statement in her presense at her Hyattsville home after hearing about a reward.
- Police have verified that they received Lloyd's name and Hyattsville address FROM HIM on 1 April 1975.
- On 1 April 1975, the Washington Post reported for the first time that a reward of $7,000 was being offered for information leading to the recovery of the Lyon Sisters. The article states that MCP had requested that no reward be offered previous to that 1 April date.
I do not know what was in Lloyd's head at the time or what he actually said to the police, but it is clear that he was claiming to know something about the case on that day. The big questions are "What information did he give?" and "What did MCP do in response?" unquote.
My source for the statement about Lloyd Welch's Hyattsville address comes directly from the MCP press conference of February 2014. They posted a very specific date: 1 April 1975 and stated that it was provided to them. While it is possible that Lloyd could have been picked up for some reason and provided that address, it is NOT because of any charges, as there are none in the Maryland Juciciary record for that date.
Also, it is rather likely that current case officers found this address and possibly a statement in the Lyon file, since that is where they would have been looking. The possibility that some random (and unrelated) police stop was in some way connected to the case 39 years later just is too much of a stretch.
The fact that Lloyd SAID he was going to call in a tip Probably on 1 April 1975 (when news of the reward first broke) and the fact that police had that address in their file provided by him on the same date is too much of a coincidence to be ignored. The fact, also that he has been associated with the case as a person of interest whom police now believe was at Wheaton Plaza would also indicate that Lloyd may well have spoken with them about the Lyon sisters in his attempt to claim the reward.
As I stated in my post quoted above, whether Lloyd only phoned in a tip to police or whether they subsequently followed up on it in person is something that I do not know. Certainly a big question to be answered.