Little Girls Lost: The Lyon Sisters.
Katherine Mary Lyon (aged 10) and Sheila Mary Lyon (aged 12) were sisters who disappeared while visiting a shopping center in Wheaton, Maryland, United States, a suburb of Washington, D.C., on March 25, 1975.
Katherine and Sheila were born to John and Mary Lyon in Kensington, Maryland. They also had an older brother, Jay, who later became a homicide detective. Their father, John Lyon, was well-known as a radio personality on WMAL Radio.
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The majority of true crime consumers are women, as 58% of women report they enjoy true crime. “Ironically, the main audience is women. When I say it's ironic—it's because women are often victims of crime,” says Nye.
CHICAGO (CBS) -- A Cook County jury Friday found a South Side man guilty of brutally murdering his 9-year-old daughter and then dumping her body in a dilapidated lot near his home in order to hide his actions.
Many genealogies erroneously state that the seat of the Lyons was Warkworth Castle in Northumberland: this is incorrect, Warkworth Castle in Northumberland belonged to the Percy family. The English seat of the Lyons family was the identically named Warkworth Castle in Northamptonshire.
Nerissa Bowes-Lyon was born on 18 February 1919 and Katherine Bowes-Lyon was born on 4 July 1926, the daughters of John Herbert Bowes-Lyon and Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis.
It was March 25, 1975, when 10-year-old Katherine and 12-year-old Sheila Lyon, daughters of well-known Washington radio personality John Lyon, walked to a shopping mall near their home in Kensington, Maryland. The girls vanished and their bodies were never found.
Lyon was said to have been arrested on Saturday in the federal capital territory (FCT) by officers of the Bayelsa police command. A video showing the alleged kidnapper being handcuffed surfaced on social media over the weekend.
Episodes. S1 E1 Who Killed the Lyon Sisters? Based on the book by bestselling author Mark Bowden, this documentary recounts the haunting 1975 disappearance of two sisters from a Maryland mall and the predatory backwoods clan that may have concealed the crime for 40 years.
Both sisters were born with developmental disabilities, including the inability to talk, and, after being clinically diagnosed in 1941 as “imbeciles,” per The Telegraph, Katherine and Nerissa were secretly placed in Royal Earlswood Hospital, a Surrey mental hospital, and essentially left there to live out their days.
At the time, Nerissa was 22 years old and Katherine just 15. Although their exact diagnosis was unknown—at the time, they were just called imbecile—the sisters were said to be severely handicapped and nonverbal and have a mental age of six. They remained in hospital care until both of their deaths.
Camilla Is Related to Both Diana and King Charles
Strangely, they are also both related to the late Princess Diana through shared ancestry dating back to King Charles II. Also note that Camilla's great-grandmother was a mistress to King Edward VII, the great-great-grandfather of King Charles.
In the 1950s and 1960s, it was still common for the husband to work while his wife stayed at home to look after the house and children. Mrs Lyons doesn't work, but she has a cleaner, and no children.
The Lyons Crime Family, also known as the Lyons Gang or the Lyons Mob, is a British criminal organisation based in Glasgow. It is one of the most notorious criminal organisations in Scotland, with a long history of involvement in organized crime including drug trafficking, extortion, and money laundering.
Dubbed 'The Godfather', Arthur Thompson Snr, who had reigned supreme in the city's criminal underworld for several decades, died on March 13, 1993 at the age of 61 from a heart attack.
An autopsy revealed that when Nancy Dillard Lyon died, she had nearly 100 times the normal amount of arsenic in her body. In other words, the 37-year-old wife, mother, and wealthy Harvard graduate had been poisoned to death. All signs eventually pointed to her adulterous husband, Richard, as her murderer.
Melanie Lyons, 15, was stabbed and killed at Walmart. A 13-year-old was charged for her murder. That's what most of the world knows about her, but on Friday, family, friends and strangers came together to remember who she really was and to encourage more kids to be like her.
Responding officers found the home's front door open and Amanda's body inside. "Through investigation, detectives identified Amanda's husband, Blair Lyons, as being responsible for her homicide," police said in a media release Tuesday. Police said they do not believe Lyons survived in the frigid and fast-moving water.
As mentioned, most serial killers target vulnerable people. These are often young people who have high-risk lifestyles, especially sex workers.
Too much exposure to true crime can lead to paranoia, unsafe feelings, being more wary of others, and heightened anxiety. The popularity with true crime forms of multimedia can be credited to the 1996 novel “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote, which details the Clutter family murders.
“Crimes are not committed, solved, and tried within days or even months,” she says. “[Typically], it takes years for a case to be solved and go to trial.” In addition, crime dramas tend to place too much emphasis on trials by jury, creating a misrepresentation of what court cases truly look like.
Also accompanying the royal family were members of the Bowes-Lyon family and some of her senior household staff. During the funeral the Union Flag flew at half mast over Buckingham Palace, and her own personal royal standard at Clarence House (the Queen Mother's official London residence since 1952).