Four men were arrested and charged in 1999 for the yogurt shop murders that took place in 1991, all four men were exonerated in February of this year.
Robert Springsteen, Michael Scott, Maurice Pierce and Forrest Welborn were arrested in 1999 with Springsteen and Scott serving ten years, Pierce spent three years in jail and Welborn’s charges were dropped in 2000 after grand juries refused to indict him.
On Wednesday, May 12, 2026, the city of Austin reached a tentative $35 million settlement with the three surviving exonerated men and the family of the fourth…