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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

138: The Yogurt Shop Murders

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The 1991 murders in an Austin yogurt shop are still unsolved with dead ends and questionable suspects. New Video: I Feel Fantastic Los Feliz Murder House Shirt Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: http://bit.ly/2MFSM6t Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Greetings. I'm D. Classified Dave. I'm Mr. Remike. I'm Slickfronk Sanders. Join us on the Hush Hust Society Conspiracy Hour Mondays.

0:10.0

Where we look into the dark secrets of the conspiratorial world.

0:14.0

We'll explore the likes of government cover-ups, the existence of other worldly beings, unexplained phenomena and cryptids.

0:22.0

We tackle these topics with an open mind, a sense of humor and dapper drippage.

0:27.0

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0:35.0

A chilling murder. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib.

0:39.0

And this is Ghost Town.

0:41.0

Today we're going to be talking about another harder, incredibly intriguing, but again, the details in this will be difficult.

1:07.0

This is a famous Austin case of four teenage girls found dead in an incinerated yogurt shop.

1:15.0

This is the yogurt shop murders.

1:17.0

On December 6, 1991, it was a chilly Friday night in Austin, Texas.

1:22.0

15-year-old Sarah Harbassin and her 13-year-old friend Amy Ayers or Ayers. Again, apologies if I get names wrong.

1:28.0

We're at North Cress Mall in downtown Austin. Again, like you do in 1991.

1:33.0

They were milling around, shopping, just kind of killing time until Sarah's sister Jennifer and her friend and coworker Eliza Thomas, both 17, were done with their late shift, which would end around 11 p.m.

1:45.0

Jennifer and Eliza worked at the, I can't believe it's not yogurt shop located in the hillside strip mall, blocks away from North Cress Mall.

1:51.0

I can't believe it's yogurt is something that I was familiar with, but again, it's a very, it's kind of a heavier Texas chain founded in 1977.

2:00.0

It's a pretty cool job to have. I can imagine as a teenager, you know, easy, kind of fun.

2:08.0

I would also imagine Sarah was excited that around 10 p.m. when she went to help Jennifer and Eliza close up that she was, you know, getting ready for her weekend.

2:20.0

It was Friday night. They were all four going to go to a friends for a sleepover party afterwards.

2:25.0

It's, it feels like a very, and this I think is what gets me to, it feels like a very like typical 90s thing that I would have absolutely been a part of and could see myself in this specific time in place.

2:39.0

Just before midnight, Austin Police Department officer Troy Gay was patrolling the area. He noticed smoke rising up from the strip mall.

2:46.0

Gay reported it as a fire and a firefighter soon arrived on the scene as they were extinguishing the blaze. They saw it wasn't just a fire. It was a murder scene.

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