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No DNA or remains have been announced as found. I think this press conference was sending a message to those who are still involved and holding back secrets or have lied. That these police are not letting up.
Virginia has the death penalty and actually uses it.
Assuming the reason no DNA or remains has been announced is because none has been found, Lloyd, if guilty, is one lucky idiot.
If the bodies were burned at a very high temperature, as when cremated, that would have destroyed any evidence.
It's also possible that a fire did not totally destroy the body, leaving major bones, and Lloyed disposed of these some other way since even an idiot would not leave human bones laying around the yard.
In any case, burning the bodies does seem like a very good plan for someone as dumb as Lloyd, making me think he had advice from someone else on how to dispose of evidence. The part about getting help from his cousin, now a potential witness to burn the duffel bags and asking his aunt to clean bloody cloths is the level of stupidity I would expect from Lloyd.
Where does it say neighbors smelled burning flesh?
Witness testimony in the warrants say they noted the memory of a fire, because it burned for several days and smelled like burning flesh.
Neighbors told investigators they remember a fire burning on the property for several days around the same time as the girls disappearance. One neighbor was quoted in the affidavit saying he remembered the fire smelled like burning flesh.
As for Richard and Patricia knowing "nothing", be assured that Patricia Welch did not perjure herself for a dead person or LLW2. However, she would lie to save her own skin and that of her husband.
Like everyone without access to the grand jury testimony, I have no idea why PW may have lied.
But I am pretty sure it was not to save her skin or her husband's skin, since one can't be compelled to testify against one's self or one's husband in most situations. The would simply take the fifth, as any lawyer would advise if their skin were at risk.
They could be protecting some other relative's skin, hiding some very embarrassing, maybe even criminal thing they did in the past where they can't be charged with because of the statute of limitations or immunity, or the charges could be trumped up to apply pressure.
It will be interesting to see what the perjury charge is based on. In Virginia, Grand Jury testimony is not open to the public. The only people present are the jury members, the Commonwealth's Attorney and the person testifying. Witnesses are not allowed to have legal counsel present.
This is pure speculation on my part...but this charge could be something like "on such and such day, were you and your husband present at such and such location or on said day did you contact a certain family member and inquire about law enforcement digging on property in Taylor's Mountain. If she answered in the negative and they have witnesses that can contradict her, that could be the basis for the charge. Also, once it became known that Lloyd was talking to LE, she could have contacted other family members and made inquiries if LE had contacted them and asked what they disclosed. Something of this nature may have been the question by the Commonwealth's Attorney and rather than take the 5th, she may have denied it, which could be contrary to what other witnesses are saying.
Hopefully, the Indictment against her will be made public soon and we will know for sure. If not, everything should come to light in her actual trial.
I just wish we could go back 40 years and a neighbour called the cops then the Lyon family would have been spared 40 years of misery not knowing what happened to their daughters and they could have given them a funeral.
Yes, John and Mary Lyon had two other children, two sons, one older than the girls, and one younger than the girls. In fact, the last family member to see Katherine and Shiela Lyon on 03/25/75, was their older brother who saw them at Wheaton Plaza.