On December 6, 1991, four teenage girls—Jennifer and Sarah Harbison, Eliza Thomas, and Amy Ayers—were closing up a North Austin yogurt shop when a horrific crime unfolded.
Just before midnight, firefighters arrived to find smoke pouring from the store. Inside, they discovered a nightmare: three of the girls were bound, gagged, stripped, and shot execution-style.
The case quickly became one of Texas’s most infamous investigations. Police chased dozens of suspects, from local teens to a serial killer on death row. In 1999, two men, Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott, confessed after grueling interrogations. But years later, DNA evidence proved they were innocent, and both were released.
Now, more than thirty years later, the Austin Yogurt Shop Murders remain unsolved. With new HBO coverage reigniting interest and advances in DNA technology offering fresh hope, investigators still wonder: is the killer still walking free?
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