Westfield Wheaton
Shopping mall in Montgomery County, MarylandWikipedia
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Search complete. 2 mentions across 1 episode found for "Westfield Wheaton".
Sep 22, 2026
Three Missing Child Cases That Changed America
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40:22Amy TownsendHOST
The Lyon sisters, 12-year-old Sheila and 10-year-old Kate, they were bored.
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40:26Amy TownsendHOST
They had a few dollars burning a hole in their pocket, so they asked their mother if they could make the short walk over to the Wheaton Plaza shopping mall.
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40:35Amy TownsendHOST
They wanted to check out the Easter decorations, get some pizza, meet up with some friends from school, typical kid stuff.
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40:41Amy TownsendHOST
Wheaton, Maryland is a suburb outside of Washington, D.C. It's tight-knit, safe, most certainly not the type of place where parents worried about their kids, at least not back then.
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45:46Amy TownsendHOST
And his mugshot looked a heck of a lot like the sketch of the creepy teenager who'd been staring at the girls that day in the mall.
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45:55Amy TownsendHOST
And 30-something years later, he was still more than happy to talk.
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46:00Amy TownsendHOST
He said he was outside a liquor store a few miles away from the Wheaton Plaza Mall when he saw a man shove Sheila and Kate into the backseat of a black Plymouth and drive away.
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46:11Amy TownsendHOST
He claimed he called the police from a phone booth to report it.