There Is White Trash, And Then There Is EVIL White Trash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                     Let's switch, for a bit, from books to murder,  girls!!!!!!!!!!!  With me,  anything is possible!

                                     The killing of the  Lyon Sisters is a real life version of  the original, 1977 version of the movie "The Hills Have Eyes."  And while some of this mystery has been solved, there is enough left unsolved to question many aspects,  including the girls' parents.

                                       Those parents were John and  Mary Lyon, and the sisters were born--Sheila,  the eldest, in 1963, and Katherine,  in 1965.  They were born in Kensington, Maryland.

                                         Meanwhile,  atop Taylor Mountain, in nearby Virginia, lived a family named the  Welches.  They were as far a cry from "The Waltons" as could be.

                                             There was Lloyd Lee Welch, Sr. and  Jr.  A cousin named Henry Parker.  An uncle named Richard.  And Richard had a wife named Patti, who was trash as trash could be.

                                              They were the kind of folk unfortunate people meet up with in movies  like 1972's "Deliverance," and the aforementioned "The Hills Have Eyes."  Oh, yes, I am telling you, folks like this are really out there.  Just look at the MAGA  people,  if you do not believe  me.  Or the Proud Boys.  Proud, my ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                 These men are the kind who would sodomize  their own  mother,  or grandmother,  while women like Patti stand by, and watch.  

                                                    There was no reason that the paths of these pieces of scum,  and the Lyon Sister, should have crossed.  Unfortunately, they did.

                                                     It all started on March 25, 1975, a Saturday, when the sisters told the parents they were going to a shopping mall in suburban Wheaton.  They were told to be back by 4PM.  They weren't, and trouble began.

                                                    At the same time the sisters were planning  their excursion,  Lloyd Welch, his father, cousin Henry, and Uncle Richard, went  down to the mall,  looking to pick up and abuse some  girls.  One of the  men  watched kiddy porn,  so it was not  surprising  the sisters were chosen. They were not inviting  them for tea,  darlings.  Just to be tortured, sexually abused and killed.  The kind  of thing that mostly happens, up on  Taylor  Mountain.!

                                                      Lloyd, Jr, then 18, trolled the mall, until he found the sisters, who were seated at a table in the Food Court, each having a slice of pizza, and  beverage.  He approached,  and  enticed  them with the  prospect of getting high on marijuana.

                                                          Here is where I ask  questions.  Sheila was only 12, Katherine only 10.  So,  the parents let  them  walk  alone to, and around, a shopping mall?  What is wrong with them, as parents?  Mine  would never have  allowed this at such an age.  So,  I am sorry,  part of  the blame for what happened goes to them!  Meanwhile,  Sheila, the older one, was easier to entice.  She  told her younger sister, Katherine,  it would be  fun  to hang  out, and get high!  And this is the OLDER sister?  Who should have had sense  enough to ignore Welch,  or turn him  down!  Yet it was the younger who was more apprehensive, because she had sense.  Looks like Sheila would  have turned out  to be  another  suburban tramp!  She might have  morphed into White Trash,  as an adult. The signs were there.

                                                              Once Lloyd got the sisters into the car, it was too  late for them.  Once on Taylor  Mountain, the men  tortured, sexually abused, and killed the  girls.  Lloyd  Jr. says he only witnessed it,  though I do not believe that.  And doing  nothing about it is just as bad as killing.

                                                                 Katherine was killed first.  The smarter of  the  two,  she did try to make  a  run for it,  but was overpowered, and her neck  was broken.  As  for Sheila,  she  is buried  up on  that mountain somewhere; it is believed Welch, Jr.,  and  cousin Henry Parker, met  on Mountain Road, in Thaxton, Virginia, which was Welch territory.  Parker had a bag which looked like a dismembered body, and they was burnt it to a crisp.  The remains are believed  to be those of Sheila Lyon, who was killed, after her sister, but how, when, and specifically by whom, remains a mystery.

                                                                      What is clear is this tragedy could have been avoided, if,  and I am sorry to say again,  the  Lyons had kept better watch on their daughters.  Especially Sheila, who,  had this event been averted, was clearly headed for trouble.

                                                                          One  of the greatest examples  of  the  consequences of "stranger danger"  that I have ever heard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                                             Rest In Peace, Lyon Sisters!

                                                                             And parents--keep a  closer eye on your children!