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The first release of the sketch of the Long Haired Man (LHM) was on 23 November 2013, although it appears from the date and remarks on the sketch that it was actually made on 27 March 1975, two days after the Lyon sisters went missing.

Here is a link to the Washington Post release of the LHM sketch, along with its origional cover story.


LINK:

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...Assault-Suspect-from-the-1970s-233116121.html
 
"TAYLORS MOUNTAIN, VA. — Three detectives pulled up to a rugged piece of land here, a 220-mile drive from their offices in suburban Maryland.
To their right was a small white house. Beyond that, a rutted dirt road extended up a steep slope, bending through towering trees.
The detectives walked up a 100-foot driveway and knocked. Nikki Arrington, 30, answered, telling them she just started renting the place and it would be fine for them to look around. She pointed to the dirt road. “There’s a family graveyard up there on the hill,” she said."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...7d3ed8-c907-11e4-b2a1-bed1aaea2816_story.html


 
More digging in Lyon sisters case as investigation nears 40-year mark

The Washington Post
By Dan Morse
March 23 2015

In January, an FBI forensic team searched land in the Taylors Mountain area of Virginia for evidence in the 40-year-old case of Sheila and Katherine Lyon. Investigators returned to the area this week for another dig. (Photo by Nikki Arrington) ...


... Investigators trying to solve the case of Sheila and Katherine Lyon — two Montgomery County girls who went missing from a shopping mall in 1975 — are conducting another dig this week in the Taylors Mountain area in central Virginia.

... Investigators have searched the area off and on since September. Of particular interest in the case are 34 acres once owned by relatives of Lloyd Welch, a Delaware prison inmate who earlier was named a “person of interest” in the case. Detectives have spoken with Welch, who told them he left the Wheaton Plaza shopping mall with the two girls, 12 and 10 years old at the time, according to court papers that detectives have filed in the case.

The search is being conducted by investigators from the Montgomery County Police Department, Bedford County Sheriff’s Office and Virginia State Police. In a statement Monday, the Bedford Sheriff’s Office said, “The investigation has developed additional leads through supplemental investigative interviews that have found cause to conduct an additional dig on the mountain.”

A representative from the Virginia Department of Forensic Science also is on the scene, according to the Bedford Sheriff’s Office.

News of the new search was reported on Sunday by WDBJ-7 TV in Roanoke, Va.
Wednesday of this week marks the 40th anniversary of the case. It was March 25, 1975, that the Lyon sisters went missing....

LINK:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...b3795c-d173-11e4-ab77-9646eea6a4c7_story.html
 
Book: Ghost Burgler

Here is a link to a website promoting a 2012 book titled "Ghost Burgler" about a high profile burglar named Bernard Welch who was active in the 1970's and 80's.

One of the authors was a member of the Montgomery County Police force in the 1970's, and as such would have been involved in the Lyon case, and in burglary cases involving Lloyd Welch. Note that after retiring from MCP, Mr. King worked for Security in Montgomery County schools, using his experience to protect children.

Bernard Welch (subject of the book) escaped from prison in September of 1974 and made his living burglarizing homes for high value items. Many of these homes were in Montgomery County.

In 1980, Bernard Welch murdered Dr. Michael Halberstam of Great Falls, Virginia while in the process of burglarizing the Halberstam home.

He was captured, tried and convicted of that murder and sent to a Chicago prison, from which he escaped in 1985.

I do not know if there is any relation between Bernard Welch and Lloyd Welch. They were of simialr criminal professions, but a world apart in regard to organization and "success". Both have spent time in prisons where they belong.

One of the book's authors, James D. King was one of the chief investigators of the Ghost Burglar cases for the Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland. From his work on various robberies, King developed an interest in antiques and art theft. After extensive research, he wrote several articles for the International Archive of Art and Antique Theft.

This research, combined with his work on the Welch case, led him to write and champion a Montgomery County law that required sellers of precious metals and antiques to produce identification and the buyers to report the purchases to the police. This law became the model on which a Maryland state law was based, on behalf of which King was called on to testify.

LINK:

http://www.ghostburglar.com/p/about-authors.html
 
The Lyon sisters of Kensington, Md. -- 10-year-old Katherine and 12-year-old Sheila -- went to a mall in their Washington, D.C., suburb on March 25, 1975, and never came home. Witnesses told police they saw the girls at the mall, about a half-mile from their home, speaking to a man. Despite a search that grew to include National Guard troops, neither the man nor the girls were ever found, and the case remains active. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children last year, police were asking the public for information on a vehicle believed to have been involved in the girls’ disappearance.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-etan-patz-missing-children-20150509-story.html
 
A small article on Patricia Welch:

http://www.wset.com/story/29431776/wife-of-lyon-sisters-person-of-interest-in-court-monday


Bedford County, VA - The wife of a person of interest in the 1975 disappearance of the Lyon sisters is expected in Bedford County General District Court for her preliminary hearing Monday.

Patricia Welch is charged with perjury. Welch is accused of lying to the grand jury. She's married to Richard "Dick" Welch.

The couple owns land on Taylor's Mountain in Thaxton. Investigators believe the girls were buried on that mountain.

Their nephew, Lloyd Welch, Jr., is also a person of interest in the case. He is a convicted sex offender serving time in Delaware.

Sheila Lyon, 12, and Katherine Lyon, 10, were last seen at Montgomery County, MD shopping center in March 1975.
 
"Maryland woman was in court in Bedford County Monday for a preliminary hearing in connection with the disappearance of Sheila and Katherine Lyon.

Patricia Welch faced a perjury charge. Welch waived her right to a hearing, sending the case to circuit court. It will go before a grand jury on July 7.

According to the Commonwealth’s attorney, this will speed up the process of her case. Welch and her lawyer asked the media to “get away” several times after she left the hearing.

However, the Commonwsalth’s Attorney Randy Krantz said he was ready to present evidence that would show Welch falsely testified before a grand jury investigating the disappearance of the Lyon sisters. He also said Welch did not receive any incentives for waiving her right to a hearing today.

“There were no inducements for that waiver made to her no pleas have been entered in consultation with her for counsel, for whatever reason, thought was proper she made the decision not to have that evidence presented in open court and exercised her right to waive that hearing,” Krantz said.

http://wsls.com/2015/06/29/woman-charged-in-connection-to-lyon-sisters-case-waives-right-to-hearing/
 
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