"Curious, how do we know for certain he lost custody of his children?"
This was reported in one of the Washington Post articles, but I can't recall if the Post found the information from legal records or the memory of a Welch family member.
"Thinking outside the box one more time, there is always a remote possibility (not probability), the Lyon sisters left on their own accord. There may not be an abduction crime at all, but instead perhaps false imprisonment, assault, etc."
Since both the sisters and Lloyd Welch, if not the other Welch hung out and/or worked at the mall, I always thought there was a good chance they knew each other if only by sight, and there was a chance Lloyd could have talked the girls into something. Today people see him as a convicted sex offender no 12-year old girl would talk to, but at the time, he was more likely a cool older boy to the girls.
"Thinking outside the box, if the Lyon sisters were kept alive for some time, then that amount of time would be legally germane to the case. "
Lloyd alone did not have the resources to keep anyone, even himself, alive with depending on family. Lloyd did not even have the resources to move a body. The uncle, working as a security guard or at a grocery store, even a good union job, likely did not have the resources to keep a second house/apartment for other women or girls. Maybe that Kraisel had the money. Isn't Richard the expert on the Tape Recorder Man? Does Richard have an opinion of if he looked anything like Tape Recorder Man?
"there is always a remote possibility (not probability), the Lyon sisters left on their own accord."
As someone posted online, they did have an hour or two between possibly walking down Drumm Ave home, and could have walked anywhere in Kensington, planning to be home on time. There is a lesser chance that they hung out at the mall, and decided to run away in the afternoon. But as the most probable things are ruled out (the most probable was they they should have made it home) other rare events become more likely. This would likely have to be combined with some other bad luck, like falling in a river, for neither to have been found.
This was reported in one of the Washington Post articles, but I can't recall if the Post found the information from legal records or the memory of a Welch family member.
"Thinking outside the box one more time, there is always a remote possibility (not probability), the Lyon sisters left on their own accord. There may not be an abduction crime at all, but instead perhaps false imprisonment, assault, etc."
Since both the sisters and Lloyd Welch, if not the other Welch hung out and/or worked at the mall, I always thought there was a good chance they knew each other if only by sight, and there was a chance Lloyd could have talked the girls into something. Today people see him as a convicted sex offender no 12-year old girl would talk to, but at the time, he was more likely a cool older boy to the girls.
"Thinking outside the box, if the Lyon sisters were kept alive for some time, then that amount of time would be legally germane to the case. "
Lloyd alone did not have the resources to keep anyone, even himself, alive with depending on family. Lloyd did not even have the resources to move a body. The uncle, working as a security guard or at a grocery store, even a good union job, likely did not have the resources to keep a second house/apartment for other women or girls. Maybe that Kraisel had the money. Isn't Richard the expert on the Tape Recorder Man? Does Richard have an opinion of if he looked anything like Tape Recorder Man?
"there is always a remote possibility (not probability), the Lyon sisters left on their own accord."
As someone posted online, they did have an hour or two between possibly walking down Drumm Ave home, and could have walked anywhere in Kensington, planning to be home on time. There is a lesser chance that they hung out at the mall, and decided to run away in the afternoon. But as the most probable things are ruled out (the most probable was they they should have made it home) other rare events become more likely. This would likely have to be combined with some other bad luck, like falling in a river, for neither to have been found.
