not receive a perfect ending.
The girls’ remains have never been found.
The complete circumstances of their deaths remain partly disputed and unresolved.
And the family never received every answer it had spent a lifetime seeking.
That is why the Lyon sisters case remains significant in the history of American cold case investigations.
It demonstrates that a case can survive decades of silence.
It shows why investigators sometimes have to return to the oldest evidence rather than simply search for something new.
And above all, it demonstrates why the names of missing children can remain important long after the headlines disappear.
Sheila Mary Lyon was 12.
Katherine Mary Lyon was 10.
They walked to a shopping center in Maryland on a spring afternoon in 1975.
They never came home.
Forty-two years later, the word “guilty” finally entered the case.
But the search for the last missing piece — the truth about
