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Investigators comb Va. forests. linked to the unsolved murder case of the Lyon sisters in 1975

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Investigators comb Va. forests. linked to the unsolved murder case of the Lyon sisters in 1975

Federal investigators returned to Virginia’s mountain forests in response to the freeze unresolved murder case of two young sisters who disappeared almost 50 years ago.

The FBI and U.S. Marshals returned to Taylor’s Mountain in Bedford County to look for clues based on “new evidence” from the unsolved case, which they did not specify, The case was reported by the Washington Post..

However, the area is infamously linked to a murder in 1975 Katherine, 10, and Sheila Lyon, 12whose bodies were never found after a sex offender abducted them and allegedly burned one of their remains in the mountains.

Investigators are searching the area linked to the 1975 murders of Sheila and Katherine Lyon. AP
Lloyd Lee Welch Jr. was sentenced to 48 years in prison for the murder of the sisters, but their bodies were never found. ASSOCIATED PRESS

Local, state and federal officials declined to comment on the ongoing investigation in the mountains.

Officials combed the mountains twice in connection with the case – once in 2015 and again in 2017, when the sex offender Lloyd Welch Jr. confessed to murdering two girls.

In 2015, Welch admitted to helping his father and uncle kidnap the Lyon sisters while they were in Montgomery County, Maryland, to meet friends.

Welch, who insists he took no active part in the murders, told police he saw his father and uncle dismember one of the girls in the dungeon-like basement and hand the remains to him for disposal.

Investigators combed the Taylor’s Mountain, Virginia, area twice for clues about the girls’ bodies. Facebook

Records show that two cousins ​​told police that Welch arrived at his family’s Taylor’s Mountain property with a bag containing bloody clothes and burned the bodies.

Welch became a person of interest in the case after a friend of the girls identified him as the man who was allegedly watching the sisters on the day of their disappearance.

The suspect has a long history of sexually assaulting children, and Welch was twice convicted of molesting a 10-year-old girl in 1992 and 1997.

During his 2017 sentencing for his role in the sisters’ deaths, Lyon Welch also pleaded guilty to two unrelated sexual assault cases in Prince William County, Virginia.

Welch is nearing the end of his sentence for a 1997 assault. When it ends in 2025, it will begin a 48-year sentence in the Lyon sisters’ case.

Investigators were unable to gather enough evidence to charge anyone else.