Friday Night Lights: The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders

Cold Case Murder Mysteries

True Crime

3.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

December 6, 1991. Austin, TX. The local fire department is called to the scene of a blaze at the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt store after 11pm when a police officer notices smoke coming from the rear of the building. But when the flames subside, it soon becomes clear something much more sinister is at play. Inside, the money is missing from the cash register, and four teen girls lay dead on the floor. The subsequent investigation yielded hundreds of suspects, dozens of confessions, and even sent two men to prison. Nearly thirty years later, however, we're still searching for the truth about what happened that night. Join host Ryan Kraus for a journey through the crime scene and beyond in an effort to unveil the face of evil.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan
0:09.9	Krauss back in the driver's seat once again to take you on a guided tour of a truly
0:14.5	baffling unsolved case, which is the Austin yogurt shop murders. Sometime
0:19.7	around 11 p.m. on the night of December 6
0:22.7	1991 as the store closed for the night. Multiple armed
0:27.2	gunman stole 540 dollars from the cash register
0:30.9	before ultimately setting the shop on fire and making their way out the
0:35.4	back door to freedom, never to be seen again. But within that time frame lies a mystery rendering
0:42.3	far greater consequences than monetary loss.
0:45.7	As two 17-year-old employees working the closing shift that night, Eliza Thomas and Jennifer
0:51.5	Harbison, were found dead at the scene, along with the bodies of Jennifer's
0:56.1	15-year-old sister Sarah and Sarah's 13-year-old friend Amy Aiers.
1:01.9	So let's get this rolling by recounting how the incident
1:04.8	transpires, starting with the response of police and firefighters and then
1:09.1	employing the recollections of witnesses who were in the shop before closing time.
1:14.0	Now, the first indication there's a problem comes when a cop driving past the scene in his
1:19.2	patrol car happens to notice smoke rising from the back section of the yogurt shop.
1:24.0	With the store being closed, like the business is right next to it in the strip mall,
1:29.0	there doesn't seem to be any reason anybody would legitimately be burning something at the time.
1:35.3	It's apparent that cause is likely a fire inside the building.
1:39.4	So he calls in the fire department unaware that the bodies of 14 girls are located inside.
1:46.4	Firefighters arrive along with the police and the cops wait outside as the fire is
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