The last stone / Mark Bowden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowden, Mark, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police questioning.

Criminal investigation.

Trials (Murder)--Virginia.

Trials (Murder).

Virginia.

Physical Description:

340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019.

Summary:

Investigation into the disappearance and murders of the children Katherine and Sheila Lyon in 1975, and the arrest and conviction, years later, of Lloyd Lee Welch.

On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C. As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing. The investigation was shelved, and mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detective found something he and a generation of detectives had missed. It pointed them toward a man named Lloyd Welch, then serving time for child molestation in Delaware. As a cub reporter for a Baltimore newspaper, Mark Bowden covered the frantic first weeks of the story. In The Last Stone, he returns to write its ending. Over months of intense questioning and extensive investigation of Welch's sprawling, sinister Appalachian clan, five skilled detectives learned to sift truth from determined lies.

Contents:

The first lie

Finding Lloyd

In all "honestly"

The test

Teddy

One hundred and one percent the God's honest truth

The clan

The duffel bag

Wanna get high?

The whole thing from beginning to end

A trick or the truth?

My only ace

The truth is the truth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Bowden, Mark, 1951- author. Last stone

ISBN:

9780802147301

0802147305

OCLC:

1090792564