AND
AND TUESDAY, TONIGHT, A NEW INVESTIGATION INTO
INVESTIGATION INTO ONE MINNESOTA'S MOST NOTORIOUS
UNSOLVED MURDERS. THE RAKER
SISTERS WERE JUST 15 AND 12
YEARS OLD WHEN THEY WERE KILLED
NEAR ST. CLOUD IN THE 1970S.
DECADES LATER, THERE IS A NEW
LEAD. BUT THE WOMAN WHO TIPPED
OFF AUTHORITIES TELLS A.J. LAGOE
SHE'S IGNORED. AND WE SHOULD
NOTE THIS STORY WAS IN THE WORKS
BEFORE COVERED . SO YOU MAY
NOTICE THEY ARE NOT WEARING
MASKS
MASKS
MASKS >>.
MASKS >>. IT'S LIKE YOU DO IT OR YOU
DIE. THAT WAS A CHOICE.
GEORGIANNE DREHER SAYS IT
HAPPENED FORTY SIX YEARS AGO
HE HAD
HE HAD
HE HAD >>
HE HAD >> A SCAR IN HIS LEFT EYEBROW.
THE FACE OF HER ATTACKER, SERED
IN HER MEMORY. ALL
>> HE SAID WAS MY NAME IS IS
LLOYD.
LLOYD.
LLOYD. >>
LLOYD. >> NOW SHE'S HAUNTED BY
THE BELIEF THAT THE VERY SAME.
LLOYD WAS INVOLVED IN A
MYSTERIOUS MINNESOA DOUBLE
MURDER. MISSING POSTERS WENT
UP JUST AFTER LABOR DAY 1974.
THE YOUNG RAKERS SISTERS MISSING
LAST SEEN WALKING TO WHAT WAS
BACK THEN THE ZAYRES SHOPPING
CENTER IN ST. CLOUD. THE BODIES
FOUND ALMOST A MONTH LATER AT
A NEARBY QUARRY. THEY'D BEEN
STABBED REPEATEDLY.
STABBED REPEATEDLY. >> GEORGIANNE SAYS SHE WAS ALSO
ATTACKED AT KNIFEPOINT JUST DAYS
BEFORE THE RAKERS SISTERS
DISAPPEARED. HE SLICED UP MY
PANTS. THAT KNIFE WAS SHARP. IT
WAS LIKE A RAZOR. HE HAD HE HAD
AS SHE TELLS HER STORY. LISTEN,
FOR THE SIMILARITIES AND HE WAS
COMING ACROSS THE PARKING LOT ON
A BIKE. GEORGIANNE SAYS A GUY
IN HIS LATE TEENS RODE UP TOUR
NEAR THE SAME SPOT. THE RAKER
SISTERS WERE LAST SEEN AT ZAYRES
SHOPPING CENTER WAS RIGHT OVER
THERE. IT WAS
>> A HOT SUMMER DAY. GEORGIANNE
NEW IN TOWN WAS INTERESTED
IN MAKING FRIENDS AND I ASKED
THEM . I HAD, YOU KNOW, ANY GOOD
SWIMMING SPOTS. HE SAID YES.
THE QUARRY. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL
PLACE. THE QUARRY. THE SAME
PLACE THE SISTERS BODIES WOULD
BE FOUND, SHE SAYS. THEY BIKED
OFF TOGETHER, STOPPING ALONG
THE WAY HERE DOWN ALONG THE BANK
OF THE SAUK RIVER AT FIRST
SHARING STORIES AND I SAID WHAT
ARE YOU DO ? AND HE SAID, I'M A
CARNIVAL WORKER. AND HE NEVER
SAID THE LAST NAME. I KNOW HIM
AS LLOYD, THE CARNIVAL WORKER.
BUT AS THEY TALK, HIS MOOD
SUDDENLY CHANGED. HE REACHED
BACK IN HIS FIDDLING AROUND
WITH HIS LEFT HAND AND HE PULLED
OUT A KNIFE AND THAT'S WHEN
I JUST STARTED DOING EVERYTHING
HE SAID AS HE ASSAULTED HER.
HE TALKED ABOUT HIS FANTASIES.
HER NIGHTMARE DID NOT END UNTIL
A CAR PULLED UP JUST ENOUGH OF A
DISTRACTION. SHE WAS ABLE
TO ESCAPE. SHE EVEN WROTE ABOUT
IT AT THE TIME IN HER SCRAPBOOK.
>> HE WROTE HIS NAME RIGHT IN
YOUR. YES. LLOYD
>> NEXT TO THE WORDS THEN TRIED
TO KILL ME, REMEMBER? IT WAS
JUST DAYS BEFORE THE REKER
SISTERS DISAPPEARED.
SISTERS DISAPPEARED. >> SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE I HAVE
THIS STRAIGHT. YOU MET THE MAN
WHO ASSAULTED YOU ACROSS
THE STREET FROM THE ZAYRES
AND REAX WHERE YOU WERE SEXUALLY
ASSAULTED WAS LESS THAN THREE
QUARTERS OF A MILE FROM WHERE
THE SISTERS BODIES WERE FOUND.
HER.
HER.
HER. >>
HER. >> SHE SAYS SHE REPORTED HER
ATTACK TO AUTHORITIES. LLOYD WAS
NEVER LOCATED IN A STEARNS
COUNTY SHERIFF'S INVESTIGATOR
TOLD HER THEY DIDN'T THINK THERE
WAS A CONNECTION TO THE REKER
GIRLS. YEARS LATER, STILL
HAUNTED. SHE SET UP AN ALERT ON
HER COMPUTER FOR LLOYD.
THE CARNIVAL WORKER. EVENTUALLY
SHE GOT A HIT. IT CAME UP FROM
ANOTHER STATE , A LINK TO THIS
2014 HEADLINE LLOYD WELSH, A ONE
TIME CARNIVAL WORKER NAMED
A PERSON OF INTEREST IN ANOTHER
COLD CASE INVOLVING YOUNG GIRLS.
THE LYON SISTERS CATHERINE
AND SHEILA DISAPPEARED FROM
THE WHEATON PLAZA SHOPPING
CENTER OUTSIDE WASHINGTON, D.C.
IN THE SPRING OF 1975. LESS THAN
A YEAR AFTER THE RAKERS SISTERS
AUTHORITIES RELEASED THIS MUG
SHOT TO SHOW WHAT WELSCH HAD
LOOKED LIKE. AROUND THAT TIME
>> IT WAS MIND BLOWING WHEN YOU
SAW THIS PHOTO, DID YOU HAVE ANY
DOUBT THAT THIS WAS THE MAN
>> WHO SADLY ASSAULTED ME OR
NOT? THAT WAS THE MAN
THAT ASSAULTED ME.
>> LLOYD WELSH WAS ALREADY
A CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER AND A
SUSPECT IN OTHER CRIMES ACROSS
THE COUNTRY. REPORTER GEORGIANNE
REACHED OUT TO THE MARYLAND
DETECTIVES INVESTIGATING
DETECTIVES INVESTIGATING THE CASE
THE CASE
THE CASE >>. DETECTIVE TANEN, DETECTIVE
LEGGETT ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA
INTERVIEWED GEORGIANNE DREYER.
THIS IS A RECORDING THE EAST
COAST DETECTIVES MADE WHEN THEY
CAME ALL THE WAY TO MINNESOTA
TO INTERVIEW GEORGIANNE ABOUT
THINGS HER ATTACKER HAD TOLD
HER, INCLUDING THE NAME OF A
WOMAN TRAVELING WITH HIM.
>> TALKS A LOT ABOUT OLUND THEY
REALLY LOVE TELL BUT HE CALLED
HER HELEN BY NAME. YES
>>. TURNS OUT LLOYD WELSH HAD
BEEN TRAVELING THE COUNTRY
WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND HELEN
THAT AND A HOST OF OTHER TINY
DETAILS CONVINCED EAST COAST
AUTHORITIES GEORGIANNE HAD BEEN
ATTACKED BY LLOYD WELSH SO
CONVINCED THEY ISSUED THIS
SUBPOENA TO HAVE HER TESTIFY AS
A PATTERN WITNESS. WHEN HE WENT
TO TRIAL FOR MURDERING THE LYON
SISTERS. BUT HER TESTIMONY
WASN'T NECESSARY
WASN'T NECESSARY >> FOR IN
>> FOR IN
>> FOR IN >> COURT. LLOYD WELSH PLEADED
GUILTY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE
LYON SISTERS MURDER EVEN THOUGH
GEORGIANNE DREYER WAS GOING
TO BE A WITNESS IN THAT CASE.
SHE SAYS AUTHORITIES IN STERN'S
COUNTY STILL REFUSE TO CONSIDER
LLOYD WELSH A SERIOUS SUSPECT
IN THE RAKERS SISTERS MURDERS.
WHAT
WHAT
WHAT >>
WHAT >> THE GUY IS A SERIAL KILLER.
YOU GOT TWO GIRLS AND ONE ON
THE EAST COAST, TWO GIRLS OUT
HERE AND HE'S GOT A FANTASY
ABOUT
ABOUT
ABOUT >>
ABOUT >> SISTERS IN THIS
>> EMAIL DATED AUGUST 20 20.
STEARNS COUNTY INVESTIGATOR
WRITES THE INVESTIGATION OF THE
RAPE OR HOMICIDES POINTS IN A
DIFFERENT DIRECTION THAN MR.
WELSH. GEORGIANNE ISN'T GIVING
UP . SHE'S WRITTEN TO LLOYD
WELSH, EVEN VISITED HIM ONCE
IN PRISON HOPING FOR A
CONFESSION BUT STILL HASN'T COME
.YOU
.YOU
.YOU >>
.YOU >> WANT ANSWERS? YES, I WANT
ANSWERS FOR KARE11 INVESTIGATES.
I'M AJ LAGOE
>>. ALTHOUGH
>>. ALTHOUGH