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[h=4]Inmate charged with 1975 murder of Lyon sisters[/h]Lloyd Lee Welch, 58, is charged with first-degree felony murder in the 40-year-old case.
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Officials have charged convicted sex offender Lloyd Welch with the 1975 disappearance of two young sisters from Maryland. USA TODAY
Lloyd Lee Welch is expected to be implicated today in the disappearance of Sheila and Katherine Lyon, two sisters, in 1975.(Photo: Submitted)
WILMINGTON, Del. -- A Delaware sex offender doing time in a Delaware prison has been charged with murder in connection with the 1975 disappearance of two young sisters in Maryland.
Sheila Lyon, 12, and her sister Katherine, 10, disappeared 40 years ago from a shopping mall in Wheaton, Md., the Washington, D.C.-area suburb where they lived.
At a noon news conference Wednesday in Wheaton, Maryland and Virginia police indicted Lloyd Lee Welch, 58, on two charges of first-degree felony murder.
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Maryland police last year identified Welch, who is serving time in the Vaughn Correctional Center near Smyrna, Del., as a "person of interest" in the cold case.
Welch was arrested in 1997 on a number of unlawful sex charges, according to Superior Court electronic records. He pleaded guilty to first-degree unlawful sexual intercourse and unlawful sexual penetration in 1998.
He had worked as a ride operator for a carnival company, which often set up at malls, and he has been arrested in several states and charged with sexual offenses against young girls.
FILE - This file handout image provided by the Montgomery County, Md., Police Department shows photos from the original missing person/suspicious circumstances bulletin for the 1975 disappearance of two sisters in Maryland, Sheila Lyon and Katherine Lyon, who never returned home from a shopping mall. Police and prosecutors from Montgomery County, Maryland, and Bedford County, Virginia, will hold a news conference Wednesday, July 15, 2015, in Wheaton, Md., to announce what they call "significant developments" in the 40-year-old case. (AP Photo/Montgomery County, Md., Police Department)<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: AP)
For the past two years, investigators have been looking at Welch, but the grand jury proceedings in Bedford County, Va., where Welch relatives have owned land, have been closed to the public. Since September, authorities also have searched a mountain in Bedford County for the girls' remains and searched homes linked to the family.
Lloyd Welch spoke to investigators recently and told them he was at the shopping mall with the sisters the day they went missing, according to police affidavits filed in court. Welch also said that the next day, he saw his uncle sexually assaulting one of the girls at his uncle's house in Hyattsville, Md., according to police affidavits filed in court.
His uncle, Richard Allen Welch, is another "person of interest" in the case.
Richard Allen Welch's wife, Patricia Jean Welch, 65, was indicted by a Bedford County grand jury, accused of lying in the investigation of the missing sisters.
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Missing person case ends in sadness and relief
Delaware's Board of Pardons in August denied a commutation request for Lloyd Welch.
The 1997 abuse that led to his current prison term began shortly after Welch started watching a pornographic video while a girl "was in the living room area with him," according to court records. He then kissed her on the mouth before he began sexually abusing her. The child was the daughter of Welch's then-girlfriend.
New Castle County police were contacted July 17, 1997, after the mother learned of the abuse.
Contributing: The Washington Post and Associated Press
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