The 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders | Red Thread

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🗓️ 23 January 2026

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0:00.0	Austin, Texas in 1991 was a city on the rise.
0:09.5	The state capital had shed its sleepy college town reputation and was rapidly becoming
0:14.2	a hub for technology music and young professionals drawn to its unique blend of Southern
0:19.2	charm and countercultural edge.
0:21.6	It was the kind of place where teenagers could work closing shifts at strip mall shops without their parents losing sleep,
0:27.6	where the worst thing that could happen on a Friday night was a fender bender or a noise complaint following a house party living on into the waning hours of a fun night.
0:36.6	That sense of safety would be shattered on the 6th of December in a crime so brutal and so baffling
0:43.7	that it would haunt the city for decades.
0:46.2	The yogurt shop murders, as they came to be known, represent one of the most disturbing,
0:51.0	unsolved cases in Texas history. What followed was an investigation spanning more than 30 years, false confessions coerced
0:59.6	by interrogators, wrongful arrests, overturned convictions, and ultimately more questions than answers
1:07.0	until very recently. But before the task forces, before the controversial trials,
1:12.6	before the cold case reviews,
1:14.4	there was simply a fire in the night and a patrol officer
1:17.6	who had no idea what he was about to uncover.
1:21.6	That's what we're talking about this week on Red Thread.
1:26.9	Theirte. this week on Red Thread. Welcome to the show, a cold taste episode.
1:53.0	I feel like it's been a long time, Jordan, since we've covered anything,
1:56.8	anything true crime related, really.
1:59.9	Well, that's because it has been.
2:01.6	It has been? I'm not going crazy? Okay.
2:03.6	No, I don't think you are.
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