The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore

PAVE Studios

True Crime

4.4 • 945 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

On a December night in 1991, Amy Ayers, Sarah Harbison, Jennifer Harbison, and Eliza Thomas were working their shifts at a North Austin yogurt shop when tragedy struck. By morning, the store was reduced to ashes, the girls were gone, and a community was left reeling. The investigation that followed was clouded by conflicting statements, false confessions, and critical evidence lost to the fire. Morgan and Kaelyn revisit the girls’ final moments, the clues that emerged from the rubble, and the twists that turned this case into one of Austin’s most heartbreaking and confounding mysteries. Head over to our Clues YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@CluesPod If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Clues to never miss a case! For Ad-free listening and early access to episodes, subscribe to Crime House+ on Apple Podcasts. Clues is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. 🎧 Need More to Binge? Listen to other Crime House Originals including Crime House 24/7, Crimes Of…, Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, Murder True Crime Stories and more wherever you get your podcasts! Follow us on Social YouTube: @CluesPod | @crimehousestudios Instagram: @cluespodcast | @Crimehouse TikTok: @Crimehouse Facebook: @crimehousestudios X: @crimehousemedia Clues is hosted by Morgan Absher & Kaelyn Moore Instagram: @morgsyabsher | @itskaelynmoore TikTok: @twohottakes | @heartstartspounding Episode Sponsor:A year from today isn’t that far away. Get started now at https://www.HelloAlma.com/clues. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On the Crime House original podcast, serial killers and murderous minds, we're diving into the psychology of the world's most complex murder cases.
0:09.5	From serial killers to cult leaders, deadly exes, and spree killers, we're examining not just how they killed, but why.
0:17.3	Is it uncontrollable rage, overwhelming fear? Or is it something deeper?
0:23.3	Serial killers and murderous minds is a crimehouse studio's original. New episodes drop every Monday and Thursday. Follow wherever you get your podcasts. This is Crime House.
0:45.2	In 1991, police walked into a burning yogurt shop and stumbled upon what would become the biggest unsolved mystery in Austin, Texas.
0:53.9	Today, we're talking about the yogurt shop murders and how a 34-year-old cold case has
0:59.8	finally been solved.
1:18.3	Hi, guys. Hi guys, welcome back to Clues, where we sneak past the crime scene tape to explore the key evidence behind some of the most gripping true crime cases. As always, I'm Kayla Moore,
1:22.5	and I'll be the one digging deeper into the timelines, the backstories, and the court files
1:25.9	released for these cases. And I'm your internet sleuth, Morgan Abshcher. I'm the one who's diving into anything I can find online, including Reddit forums, and looking at those lesser known details and pulling at the threads that just don't add up. Don't forget to share your thoughts on social. Morgan and I are always combing through your comments. We love them. Love the comments. And if you want ad-free listening and early access, you can subscribe to
1:47.0	Crimehouse Plus on Apple Podcasts. Let's get into this case and the clues that defined it.
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2:24.7	Now, for those of you who listened to our Thanksgiving episode that we dropped, it was an episode of
2:29.1	Heart Starts Pounding, where I briefly covered this case, got into the weeds a little bit on how it got
2:35.0	solved, but today we're going to do a really big deep dive into the whole thing.
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