Article: Lyons Case Still Unsolved

A dozen years after the investigation opened, the missing persons case file on Katherine and Sheila Lyon has grown to fill three boxes the size of orange crates at Montgomery County's Wheaton police station.

They sit in a storage area, lately untouched.

"You get to a point where there's not much left to pursue," said Sgt. Gary Smith, a supervisor of the detective squad in charge of what has become Montgomery's most noted unsolved case. The girls, daughters of WMAL radio disc jockey John Lyon, were walking home to Kensington from Wheaton Plaza when they disappeared on March 25, 1975.

Sheila was 12, Katherine, 10.

"Leads and leads have been checked," said Smith. "They've been ...

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