Katherine Lyon Case Study

In 1975, two sisters, Katherine Lyon aged 10 years old and Sheila Lyon aged 12 years old went missing after a trip to a shopping mall in Maryland of Washington, D.C. The girls’ bodies were never found until now. This was one of the longest unsolved cases in Washington D.C.. These sisters were known as The Lyon Sisters and were born in Kensington, Maryland. Their parents, John and Mary Lyon, and brother, Jay, who is a police officer. John Lyon used to work in a local radio station, WMAL, which is run by the owner of ABC Television associated in Washington and now works as victims’ counselor.

On March 25, 1975, Sheila and Katherine Lyon were heading to see the Easter exhibits in Westfield Wheaton shopping mall which was located about half mile away from their home and have lunch at the Orange Bowl. The sisters left home approximately between 11:00 AM and 12:00 PM, and they were commanded by their mother to return home by 4:00 PM. Witnesses spotted the two girls in the mall at 1:00 PM and a boy, who lived in their neighborhood, knew the …show more content…
One which happened about two weeks after the Lyon Sister’s disappearance, on April 7, 1975, a witness spotted the sisters in the back seat of a beige 1968 Ford station wagon. When the driver of the Ford station wagon revealed the witness tailgating him, he ran a red light and drove on Route 234 towards Interstate 66 in VA. The Ford wagon had Maryland plates with characters “DMT-6” but the last two were not known due to the car plate’s dent. A car with these combination was never found. The second false lead was calls, to the Lyon’s family, from people claiming to have the sisters and put in an offer to trade the girls for ransom money. However, one call made on April 4, 1975, seemed so believable where the man requested John Lyon to leave a briefcase with $10,000 in a courthouse restroom in Annapolis, Maryland. The man never picked the briefcase and did not return in touch with the