luckyseven
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Police pinpoint Va. mountain for 2 girls missing since '75
Three detectives pulled up to a rugged piece of land here, a 220-mile drive from their offices in suburban Maryland...
...The trip, six months ago, had come after significant progress in their efforts to solve an indelible, heartbreaking mystery the 1975 disappearance of two Montgomery County girls, Sheila Lyon, 12, and her sister, Katherine, 10...
...The detectives had zeroed in on a man who had family connections to the land a sex offender who had gone so far as to tell detectives hed left that mall with the Lyon sisters, according to court papers...
...Their interest in Lloyd Welch led to an interest in his relatives, including an uncle, Richard Welch of Hyattsville. Richard Welch owned a parcel of land in Bedford. Next to that parcel is 34 acres formerly owned by Richard Welchs sister, according to the affidavits...
...With about two dozen people, including county and state investigators, police were ready to search the mountain known as Taylors Mountain.