File:Lyon Sisters Suspect Wheaton Plaza Shopping Center March 25 1975.jpg

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Description Image depicts a Montgomery County Police Department facial composite of Lloyd Lee Welch Jr. created from eyewitnesses' description of a young male seen leering at the girls on March 25, 1975.
Author or
copyright owner
Montgomery County Police Department sketch artist
Source (WP:NFCC#4) WTOP-FM News article. Direct link here
Date of publication March 1975
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Murders of Katherine and Sheila Lyon
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) To support encyclopedic discussion of this work in this article. The illustration is specifically needed to support the following point(s):

To illustrate the identikit subsequently proven to be of the individual convicted of the murder of the subjects to whom the Wikipedia article in question is devoted to.

Not replaceable with
free media because
(WP:NFCC#1)
Any derivative work based upon the artwork would be a copyright violation, so creation of a free image is not possible.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) * The portion of the image used here is cropped from the one used upon the source from where the image is taken (NFCC3)
  • Image is intended solely for usage upon one sub-section of the article upon which usage is intended
  • Image is 171x193px; original (color) image is 300x291px
  • Image is of a tinted hue - making it a lower resolution quality
Respect for
commercial opportunities
(WP:NFCC#2)
The use of a low resolution image of the artwork will not impact the commercial viability of the art.
Other information


  • Image has been vastly distributed in the media, via various methods, since 1975 (including latterly the internet), and in both a better visual quality, and un-cropped.
  • Original police department author has been credited
  • Believed that the use of this image upon only the English-language Wikipedia, to illustrate a section of the article discussing aspects relating to the person and structure depicted, falls under the "Non-profit, educational" clause of the 'Fair Use' doctrine, as currently upheld by U.S. law. (17 U.S.C. § 107.)
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Murders of Katherine and Sheila Lyon//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lyon_Sisters_Suspect_Wheaton_Plaza_Shopping_Center_March_25_1975.jpgtrue

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