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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,621 posts) Wed Mar 25, 2015, 09:55 AM Mar 2015

It started in Maryland. Will it end on the mountain?

Lyon Sisters Case

40 years after sisters Sheila and Katherine Lyon disappeared from a Maryland mall, the search for answers goes on 250 miles away in Thaxton

Posted: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 7:57 am

Eleanor Roy

Sheila and Katherine Lyon might be getting ready to celebrate each others' birthdays this weekend if they were alive.

But today marks 40 years since the sisters disappeared from a shopping mall in Wheaton, Maryland, and they're presumed dead by authorities.

Four decades later and nearly 250 miles away from the mall, investigators are digging for clues in the case on Taylor's Mountain in Thaxton, where they're expected to be for several days, according to the Bedford County Sheriff's Office.
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Contact Eleanor Roy at (434) 385-5554 or eroy@newsadvance.com. Facebook: The News & Advance Crime and Public Safety Beat.

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It started in Maryland. Will it end on the mountain? (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2015 OP

I pray they find closure to this packman Mar 2015 #1

packman

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1. I pray they find closure to this

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Wed Mar 25, 2015, 11:31 AM

Mar 2015

I lived near that mall where the girls disappeared. It happened in Montgomery County , Maryland. The county was rapidly transitioning from a laid-back basically rural area (outside Washington, D.C.) to a high powered , high market area. The disappearance of the two girls shocked the community and seemed to signal that dark days were ahead and the past days of open-doors and everyone knowing everyone was over.

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