The Yogurt Shop Murders /// Part 2 /// 867

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week we take a good solid look at a case that has weighed heavy on the hearts and minds of everyone in the Lone Star state’s capital city. The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders is one of most infamous cases in Texas history. Despite the efforts of the APD it remains unsolved. In 1991 four girls were killed at the I Can’t Believe it’s Yogurt near the Northcross mall. Victims - Amy Ayers (13), Eliza Thomas (17), Jennifer Harbison (17), and Sarah Harbison (15) were shot and killed in the shop’s backroom before the business was set on fire. Police had many leads, some that turned into arrests, and two accused were charged, convicted, and released. Just this month HBO released a four part documentary titled The Yogurt Shop Murders.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Off the Record.
0:10.3	I'm your host, Nick.
0:12.2	It's good to be seen, and it's good to see you.
0:16.1	Off the record, thanks for listening, thanks for telling a friend.
0:20.5	True Crime podcast.
0:22.3	Be good.
0:23.3	Be kind.
0:24.4	And don't let it.
0:26.6	Gather around.
0:27.6	Grab a chair.
0:28.2	Grab a beer.
0:29.1	Let's talk some true crap.
0:30.9	The second episode in the series was titled the fifth victim.
0:43.5	Rotten Tomato's description of this episode is trauma continues to haunt the community as family members search for healing, resolution, and ways to hold on to the memories of the
0:49.7	girls.
0:50.1	The initial suspicions around the four teenage boys lead nowhere. After several false leads in wrongful arrest, homicide supervisor Hector Polanco is found to have coerced a suspect into a false confession and is reassigned.
1:07.5	Lead investigator John Jones is diagnosed with PTSD and is taken off of the case.
1:13.8	That's something you were talking about earlier in our conversation here, seeing
1:18.3	Jones, Detective Jones in his struggle and what this case has done to him on a physical,
1:26.1	emotional, probably even a spiritual level.
1:29.2	And I, when we catch up with Jones later, so I don't know, they didn't go into this.
1:35.5	If they did, I missed it.
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