What's up you guys, I'm Haley, and I'm Andrea, and this is inhuman a true crime podcast.

All right you guys, welcome back to part two of the Austin Yogurt Shop murders.

If you have not listened to part one, go do that because you're going to be very confused if you didn't listen to part one.

And you're going to miss the crime, the actual crime.

Yeah, the actual crime. But we are just going to dive right into part two because there's a lot.

So I had mentioned at the end of part one that there had been some issues in the Austin Police Department in the mid to late 90s.

That's pretty much where we're picking up for part two. So in the summer after the murders, a new chief of police entered the scene, Elizabeth Betsy Watson.

And she was basically hired in secret by the city manager. So the APD officers just were not very happy.

They just kind of felt undermined. And when she joined the force, they just didn't really support her all that much.

Yeah, I didn't the source I read didn't really talk a ton about exactly like why that happened, but it did kind of lead morale in the APD even lower than it already was since you know they weren't able to solve this horrific murder.

Yeah, I hope it wasn't because she was a woman.

I know. I don't think that's why I think it was just the way that she was hired and how it kind of like it wasn't like a typically they would kind of it was more of like a democratic decision, whereas this wasn't like that at all.

Okay.

So one of the biggest issues in the APD came from senior sergeant Hector Polanco.

One local attorney actually said quote, if you want to know about APD homicide in the 80s and 90s, you have to know about Polanco.

And sergeant Jones, who was if you remember from part one for a very long time, the head of the yogurt shop murders investigation.

He once said about Hector saying that everybody had a Hector story.

So this guy was yeah, that kind of gives you an idea.

Polanco was known for his interrogation skills and for obtaining confessions oftentimes without any evidence and oftentimes for basically coercing confessions out of suspects.

That's terrible terrible terrible reputation to have.

Yes, very bad reputation and he was actually known as L Diablo and to other cops and the law and like lawyers in the community, he was known as the cobra.

So that kind of gives you an idea of his reputation.

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