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Do you have Luke Welch's DOD?
Valentine's Day 1984, see attached obit. Looks like he did not leave a surviving wife or have any children. This seems unusual considering how prolific the W family has been.
Here's a question for you. Whatever happened to Luther's sister, Rachel Lee Welch? She is never mentioned again in any of the other sibling's subsequent obits as having predeceased them, or having survived them.
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Concerning the jailhouse confessions/ bragging about the murders, a perp might well be truthful to a cell mate in sharing the horrible details, except when it comes to the true location of the bodies, jmo.
Passing the buck and the blame on to the deceased gets my attention.
It's odd that an innocent man would blame a deceased relation unless he had some knowledge of the activity, and at that, having knowledge of a child murder and telling no one does not reflect kindly on your soul.
This also caught my attention a while ago.
Richard must have had some "knowledge" to suggest that a dead relative was a better place for the police to look than himself, but this "knowledge" could range from, second-hand gossip/speculation decades after the fact to actually observing events (murder or coverup.), although Richard's lawyer's other statements don't imply the later. Richard via his Lawyer claims to have shared all his information with the police.
There are also a few other dead relatives, including Lloyd's dead girlfriend/wife, who Lloyd showed up in VA with some time in 1975.
It's very convenient to have a dead fall guy. Of course you are dragging the deceaseds name through the worst kind of mud possible, but a dead man cannot dispute or confirm any allegations. The statements of RAW's lawyer leads me to believe his involvement. The blaming of the dead and the description of RAW as not a good reader/writer hints they are trying to deflect the inevitable indictment.
Steve you were very skeptical about the Washington Post story and maybe it was warranted, but I think it is becoming clear now that there is a lot more information behind the search warrant affadavits, especially since it has been leaked to not only the Post but to WUSA9. The Post did not have the detail about the pool table, but they likely got the inside story from someone in LE who has read much deeper into the information behind the warrants.
I don't think anyone is jumping the gun on this one, it's been a long 18 months since LLW was named a person of interest. Hopefully LE is playing careful and getting it right. I'm checking the news on this at twice a day, my gut feeling is the indictment comes soon.
Steve you were very skeptical about the Washington Post story and maybe it was warranted, but I think it is becoming clear now that there is a lot more information behind the search warrant affadavits, especially since it has been leaked to not only the Post but to WUSA9. The Post did not have the detail about the pool table, but they likely got the inside story from someone in LE who has read much deeper into the information behind the warrants.
The search warrant affidavits were not "leaked". They are matters of public record and anyone can walk into the courthouse and ask to see them. The Post, WUSA, and the Roanoke newspaper were the only ones that were industrious enough to do so.
I don't recommend identifying anyone not identified by police, both because it may be slander and interfere with an ongoing police investigation, but if one combines the information leaked (not the most reliable info) from both the Washington Post and WUSA 9 reports, one gets a good idea who the second relative implicating Richard is. The first relative is the unreliable Lloyd, who may have recanted.
Two more relatives arrested. They are arresting them as soon as they come out of the grand jury room.
http://www.wdbj7.com/news/local/les...harged-in-lyon-sisters-investigation/34599572
http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/2015/08/07/suspects-brother--law-arrested-lyon-sister-case/31307799/Leslie Engleking was charged with perjury and Amy Welch and Gladys Stangee were charged with obstruction of justice in connection to the rape and murder of 10-year old Shiela Lyon and her sister, 12-year old Katherine Lyon. All three have posted bond.
The three are all related to Richard Welch, who is being looked at as a person of interest in the disappearance of the two girls. Engleking is Welch's brother in law, Welch is his granddaughter and Stangee is his sister.
Cold case detectives from Bedford and Montgomery Counties are convinced that the Welch family is engaged in an on-going cover-up of an almost unbearably horrible crime. Prosecutors have already charged Richard Welch's sister Patricia Welch with perjury. She is now potentially looking at two to 10 years in prison.
Last month, grand jurors indicted Lloyd Welch on charges of murder and abduction with intent to defile.
Is the middle name of Gladys Stangee "May"?
such a powerful article...
http://www.salon.com/2015/08/09/the...wonders_why_the_biggest_clue_went_unexamined/
Have to say that she is right on with everything she writes