Solved: The Yogurt Shop Murders

In Austin, Texas, in 1991, the city was on the verge of becoming the place we know today, a tech hub, a cultural destination. But back then, it was still a big town that felt small, a place that believed itself safe from the kind of darkness that haunted bigger cities.

At the Hillside strip mall on West Anderson Lane, there was a little shop called "I Can't Believe It's Yogurt!" It was a symbol of that every day American life… a place for after-school treats, first dates, and a first job. A place of simple, ordinary innocence.

Buton the cold night of December 6, 1991, this symbol of innocence became the scene of an unspeakable crime. An act of such brutal violence that it would steal four young lives and leave a wound on the soul of the city that would fester for nearly 34 years.

Amy, Eliza, Jennifer, and Sarah would become permanently etched into the city's memory. Their story became a decades-long quest, not just for a killer, but for the truth. It was a quest marred by false starts, thousands of dead-end leads, wrongful convictions that sent innocent men to prison, and ultimately, a scientific breakthrough that no one, not the investigators, not the families, not the city of Austin, ever saw coming.

What happened inside the yogurt shop on that cold December night? And how did one of the most infamous cold cases in Texas history finally find its answer?

Listen to my three-part coverage of this case on Apple Podcasts:

Part 1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-yogurt-shop-murders-part-1/id1469338483?i=1000516356942

Part 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-yogurt-shop-murders-part-2/id1469338483?i=1000517340568

Part 3: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-yogurt-shop-murders-part-3/id1469338483?i=1000518299746

or on Spotify:

Part 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0R7vpt80JxoNjkBu3SqywR?si=v7AlxpmQRmWljGh6kGlGBg

Part 2: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1SR7vHo0zU0UsfrFY9QyCO?si=NiDS048FT2GZRoNw8z06Yw

Part 3: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6PTvFEEMq3TXNN5Np0xugV?si=kglFMizVQmi7oqLP3MCFNw

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