Just finished The Last Stone, by Mark Bowden, author of Blackhawk Down. It’s about how the Lyon Sisters case was solved, 40 years after the young sisters disappeared at Wheaton Plaza. It’s a testament to cold case detectives, and the incredibly work of the detectives who, through multiple interviews with the suspect, finally cracked the case.
It’s a disturbing book. Although not deliberately grisly, you learn the eventual fate of the girls. I had nightmares the night I finished it, just thinking of them. Those innocent girls went to a local mall to see the Easter decorations and walked into the path of pure evil. And as the book makes clear, there were others in the perpetrator’s family who participated in this crime who were never brought to justice. But for anyone who lived in Montgomery County in 1975, the disappearance of the Lyon Sisters marked the end of innocence for many in the county. This book provides some kind of answers.