It has been brought to my attention that Walter Shannon Stevenson, whose case I resolved yesterday, has not been found after all. This article, from which I got the original information, has issued a retraction. A suspect, Jeffrey May, has been charged with his murder, but Walter’s case is currently a no-body homicide.
I hope the body turns up soon. In the meantime, I’ll remove the resolved notice and put up Walter’s casefile again with the next update (probably today).
And speaking of murder-without-a-body cases, it looks like the only indicted suspect in Katherine and Sheila Lyon‘s 1975 disappearances is about to plead guilty. Some articles:
- Washington Post: Suspect in 1975 killing of Lyon sisters poised to plead guilty
- The News & Advance: Jury trial nixed in Lyon sisters murder case
- WTOP: Guilty plea expected in ’75 murders of Lyon sisters, ’96 rape in Pr. William Co.
- WTOP (2): Lyon sisters trial: The case against Lloyd Lee Welch
This isn’t the end of the story — there’s another suspect who is also believed to have been involved — but it might be the beginning of the end.
As of this writing, the Corpus Delicti section of Charley — my three lists of murder-without-a-body cases currently on the website — has approximately 615 names. (I saw “approximately” because a few names are on more than one list due to multiple defendants and multiple outcomes. I wish I could find the outcomes for more of those cases on List Three, which surely must have been resolved by now.)
For more details about murder-without-a-body cases, I highly recommend you check out Tad DiBiase’s website (particularly this PDF) and book.
The Charley Project Blog 