On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.
C.
His most recent book is Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam..
He is also the writer in residence at the University of Delaware.
He reported at the Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years and now writes for the Atlantic , Vanity Fair , and other magazines.
About the Author: Mark Bowden is the author of thirteen books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down .
How do you get a compulsive liar with every reason in the world to lie to tell the truth? The Last Stone recounts a Masterpiece of Criminal interrogation, and delivers a chilling and unprecedented look inside a disturbing Criminal mind.
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.
In The Last Stone, he returns to write its ending.
As a cub reporter for a Baltimore newspaper, Mark Bowden covered the frantic first weeks of the story.
It pointed them toward a man named Lloyd Welch, then serving time for child molestation in Delaware.
Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detective found something he and a generation of detectives had missed.
The investigation was shelved, and mystery endured.
As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing.
On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.
C
