had happened.
Jay Lyon chose a career in law enforcement
There was another remarkable consequence of the case.
Jay Lyon, Sheila and Katherine’s older brother, eventually became a police officer and detective.
He had been among the last members of the family to see his sisters before their disappearance.
Decades later, he was working in law enforcement himself.
That career choice has often been understood in the context of the family tragedy.
The boy who had watched his sisters disappear became an adult who worked cases involving other victims and families searching for answers.
The connection between the two parts of his life is difficult to ignore.
The Lyon sisters changed how a community thought about safety
The disappearance of Sheila and Katherine became larger than one family.
It changed the way many parents in the Washington area thought about allowing children to travel independently.
The case emerged during a
