Sex offender 'pleading guilty' to 1975 murder of young sisters
A convicted sex offender accused of murdering two young sisters who disappeared from a Maryland shopping centre is expected to plead guilty to the crime that has haunted the area for more than 40 years.
Lloyd Welch, 60, was due to to stand trial on Tuesday for the murder of Sheila Lyon, 12, and her sister Katherine, 10 - but online court records in Bedford County, Virginia, indicate it has been "withdrawn" and a plea hearing is scheduled instead.
