 These people reported that he had approached several young girls and asked them to read an answering machine message typed on an index card into his hand-held microphone.The police never publicly acknowledged a direct link between these reports and the Lyon sisters' disappearance.After the disappearance, a friend of the Lyon sisters, a girl who was in their age bracket, described to detectives how a long-haired man at the mall had stared at the girls so long and so intently that she confronted him.