the case.
The conviction established Welch’s legal responsibility for the murders.
It did not reveal the complete sequence of events surrounding the girls’ final days.
John Lyon finally spoke after the guilty plea
John and Mary Lyon attended the 2017 hearing.
They had spent 42 years watching their daughters’ disappearance remain unresolved.
After the hearing, John thanked the detectives and law-enforcement officers who had worked on the case.
He specifically praised the cold case investigators who had continued examining the evidence long after the original investigation had gone cold.
His message was not one of triumph.
It was exhaustion.
For more than four decades, the Lyon family had been carrying the weight of a case that had never been resolved.
Now, finally, someone had been held legally responsible.
But their daughters still could not be brought home.
The case became a landmark in cold-case investigation
The Lyon sisters investigation became
