CAPTURED: Lloyd Lee Welch

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🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

During spring break of 1975, Sheila & Kate Lyon went missing from a shopping center near their home and for almost 40 years no one knew what happened to them. Over the years horrible men would come into focus as suspects. Men who took the lives of 10-year-old Amanda Ray, 5-year-old Neely Smith, and 15-year-old Kathy Beatty. But it wasn't until a cold case investigator came across a single old report from 1975 (a report that had been there all along) that the case would finally be solved and Mr. & Mrs. Lyon would finally have answers about what happened to their daughters.

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0:00.0	Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Brett. And today's story is a crazy one
0:07.0	about an unsolved case that took over 40 years to bring closure to. And it takes you really
0:14.0	inside the investigation to show you how a couple of tenacious investigators found the truth
0:20.0	amongst years of lies and how they ended up capturing Lloyd Lee Welch for the murder of Kate
0:27.4	and Sheila Lyon. But listen close because this story opens the door to other cases, cases that
0:36.3	have very specific things we can do to help with.
1:07.2	In March of 1975, Kate Lyon was 10 years old and her sister Sheila was 12. They lived with
1:19.6	their parents and older brother Jay in a Maryland suburb outside of Washington, DC where their
1:25.2	father worked as a well-known radio host. March 25 was a Tuesday, but the girls were on spring break.
1:32.8	And like any young kid on spring break, the last thing you want to do is just stay home.
1:38.9	So that afternoon, the girls planned a trip to Wheaton Plaza, which was a shopping mall just about
1:43.7	a half a mile from their house. They could walk there on their own and you know, they took a couple
1:48.8	of bucks with them. They were going to eat lunch at this restaurant there. And they left the house
1:52.8	sometime around 11 or 12 o'clock and they promised their mom they'd be home by four. Now they were
1:58.1	going for lunch, but Wheaton Plaza was like the hub of the town. It was likely that they would see
2:03.2	friends, likely they would hang out, you know, just do it, you know, the young girls too. Right.
2:08.2	Four o'clock rolled around, then 4.30, five o'clock, and the girls still weren't back home.
2:15.7	By seven, their parents are calling the police to report them missing. No one wanted to believe
2:21.9	the worse. Perhaps maybe they just like ran off with friends. Even their parents couldn't bring
2:26.7	themselves to say the worst out loud. The next morning, their dad used his wildly popular radio show
2:32.9	as a platform asking for someone to bring the girls home. And he honestly tries to be kind of
2:38.4	lighthearted about it, saying, you know, this is probably all a huge misunderstanding. We're all
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