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In this joint episode with the Silver Linings Handbook podcast, Allison and Jayson tackle what is to date the oldest no-body homicide case to receive a conviction in the US.

In 1975, sisters Sheila (12) and Katherine (10) Lyon were going for a slice of pizza at a popular Baltimore-area shopping mall when they disappeared without a trace. But there were witnesses, and one of them helped generate the sketch of a man it would take nearly 40 years to circle back around to: Lloyd Lee Welch.

Journalist and true crime author Mark Bowden called the Lyon sisters disappearance a case that struck at suburbia's idea of itself, and his book, THE LAST STONE (a major source for this episode) ,details law enforcement's labyrinthine investigation and interrogation of Welch and his family, a story that takes you to the heart of Appalachia and other dark corners that went decades before being exposed to the light of truth.

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Additional Music: "Late Night Radio" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sources:

The Last Stone, a 2019 book by Mark Bowden; the documentary Who Killed the Lyon Sisters?, which was directed by Bowden’s son, Aaron; articles in the Baltimore Sun, the Baltimore News American, The Washington Post and The Frederick News-Post.

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