The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders (Part Two: Confidence)
Unresolved
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🗓️ 29 March 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Those were the words spoken by Austin's mayor Kirk Watson, at a press conference held in October of 1999. In the nearly eight years since four teenage girls had been killed inside of a yogurt shop, the city had rallied behind law enforcement in their desperate pursuit of answers. Now, it appeared like they finally had them.
However, the buildup to this announcement was much more complicated than met the eye. Investigators had come and gone, suspects had vanished nearly as quickly as they arrived, and the answers provided by police nearly a decade later were far less than a sure thing...
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| 0:00.0 | On the evening of December 6, 1991, 14-age girls were murdered inside of a yogurt shop |
| 0:10.9 | in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:12.7 | Two of the girls were 17-year-old employees of the yogurt shop, Jennifer Harbison and |
| 0:17.7 | Eliza Thomas, while the other two were Jennifer's 15-year-old sister and her 13-year-old best |
| 0:23.4 | friend, Sarah Harbison and Amy Ayers. |
| 0:27.2 | The bodies of all four were found after a patrolling police officer found smoke coming from |
| 0:31.8 | the yogurt shop at around midnight. |
| 0:33.9 | Within minutes, the location was crawling with more than a dozen firefighters who had quickly |
| 0:39.0 | killed the flame, but then found the bodies in the back area of the yogurt shop. |
| 0:44.6 | Throughout a lengthy investigation, police would determine that the victims had been forced |
| 0:49.1 | to undress, and were then bound in their own clothing, before being shot in the back |
| 0:54.4 | of the head. |
| 0:55.6 | People had been shot at least once, but the youngest victim, Amy Ayers, whose body was |
| 1:00.8 | found separated from the other three by several feet, had been shot twice. |
| 1:05.5 | It would later be revealed that at least one 38-calibre shell and slug would be recovered |
| 1:10.8 | from the crime scene, in addition to 422-calibre bullets, which were taken from the victim's |
| 1:16.5 | bodies. |
| 1:17.5 | The fire, which had alerted officials to the scene, had been started intentionally. |
| 1:22.6 | The culprits had gathered material from around the store and placed it around the victims |
| 1:26.6 | before starting the blaze. |
| 1:28.6 | It is believed that they did so to try and destroy evidence, but that decision ultimately |
| 1:33.8 | led police to discover the crime scene rather quickly, potentially just minutes after the |
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