''The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation'' is a 2019 book by
Mark Bowden. It tells the story of the reopening of the case of the
murders of Katherine and Sheila Lyon
The murders of Katherine and Sheila Lyon are the abduction, sexual abuse and murder of two sisters — aged 10 and 12 respectively — who disappeared from a shopping center in Wheaton, Maryland, on March 25, 1975.
Described as a crime which ...
, two sisters who disappeared from a Maryland shopping mall in 1975.
Following a 2013 cold case re-investigation into the sisters' disappearance, one of the perpetrators,
Lloyd Lee Welch Jr., was indicted upon two first-degree murder charges in 2015; he was later convicted of the children's murder and sentenced to two concurrent 48-year sentences in relation to each count of first-degree murder.
Bowden had covered the disappearance for the ''
Baltimore News-American''.
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2019 non-fiction books
Non-fiction books about murders in the United States
Atlantic Monthly Press books
1975 in Maryland
Wheaton, Maryland