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Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast

6. Austin Yogurt Shop Murders Part 1

Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast

Bless This Mess

Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.8733 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Four teenage girls were murdered in Austin, TX.  Join us while we explore the possible murderers and why this case is still unsolved.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tomorrow marks 25 years since four teenage girls were murdered in a North Austin yogurt shop. It was set on fire,

0:22.7

and when the flames were put out, their bodies were found in the torched building tied up,

0:28.3

stacked on top of each other, all of them shot in the head. Today, KXA and Zeran

0:32.6

Kargile asked Austin police if they're any closer to solving this cold case.

0:38.5

After a quarter of a century.

0:40.8

You can't help but relive those images.

0:45.1

And I still see the images.

0:47.6

Renee Garza can tell you the exact moment the yogurt shop fire turned into a quadruple homicide.

0:54.5

The firefighter with me tapped me on the shoulder and pointed down. And he asked me,

0:58.0

is that a body? And I had to step back. And it was. I saw another body. I knew that it wasn't

1:05.6

right. Something was not right. We teamed up with our partners at Crime Watch to keep the story

1:10.7

of these four teenagers

1:12.0

alive, Eliza, Amy, and sisters Jennifer and Sarah. Amy's brother was in bed when his family got the

1:20.6

news. I heard my mom's great. I walked in the living room. She looked at me and said Amy's dead.

1:25.4

I mean, play that over in your mind time and time again.

1:28.3

Eight years later, four men were arrested, but only two, Robert Springsteen and Michael

1:33.3

Scott went to trial.

1:35.3

Both confessed and were convicted and set free when new testing revealed DNA from a mystery suspect

1:42.3

was found on the youngest victim, Amy Ayers.

1:45.9

We have some unanswered DNA questions.

1:48.0

APD's cold case unit says it's a very specific type. Finding a match is extremely labor

1:54.6

intensive.

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