The Trail Went Cold – Episode 342 – The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders (Part 1)

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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December 6, 1991. Austin, Texas. After responding to a fire at a local yogurt shop, the authorities discover the burned nude bodies of four victims who have all been shot in the head: 17-year old employees Eliza Thomas and Jennifer Harbison; Jennifer’s 15-year old sister, Sarah Harbison; and Sarah’s 13-year old friend, Amy Ayers. Nearly […]

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0:00.0	We would like to send out a special thanks to HelloFresh America's number one meal kit
0:04.4	for sponsoring this episode. Go to HelloFresh.com slash 50 went cold and use code 50 went cold for
0:11.7	50% off plus free shipping. Enjoy the episode. December 6, 1991, Austin, Texas. After responding to
0:20.7	a fire at a local yogurt shop, authorities discovered the bodies of four victims who have all been
0:25.6	shot in the head. 17-year-old employees Eliza Thomas and Jennifer Harvison, Jennifer's 15-year-old
0:31.2	sister Sarah Harvison, and Sarah's 13-year-old friend Amy Ayers. Nearly eight years later,
0:36.9	investigators arrest four suspects for the murders, and while charges against two of them are
0:41.7	eventually dropped, the other two, Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott, confessed to the crime,
0:47.2	so they wind up being convicted at trial. However, both men's convictions are overturned due to
0:52.1	civil rights violations, and forensics testing reveals the presence of DNA on the victims, which
0:57.1	does not match any of the alleged perpetrators. In 2009, the charges against two defendants are
1:02.5	dismissed and their release from prison, so there are no conclusive answers about who actually
1:06.8	committed the Austin yogurt shop murders. After that, the trail went cold.
1:22.1	Hello, everyone, and welcome to our latest episode of the
1:51.9	trail went cold. I'm your host Robin Warder, and this week, we're going to be covering a very
1:57.6	infamous case and releasing what will be the first part of an extensive two-part series. The 1991
2:03.7	murders of Eliza Thomas, Jennifer Harvison, Sarah Harvison, and Amy Ayers, aka the Austin yogurt shop
2:11.5	murders. And that voice you just heard narrating our intro was Melissa Lovell, the latest winner of
2:17.1	our most recent trail went cold. Listen or voice over contest, so thank you very much, Melissa.
2:22.5	This is a contest which we've been carrying on for six years now, so if you'd like to enter and
2:27.0	haven't already done so, I will be providing instructions near the end of this episode.
2:32.0	Anyway, as you probably know, this coming weekend I'm going to be appearing at the true crime
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