The Yogurt Shop Murders (Image via Unsplash/@Roman Rezor)
On December 6, 1991, four teenage girls, Amy Ayers, Eliza Thomas, Jennifer Harbison and her sister Sarah Harbison were in I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! in a North Austin strip mall. In the evening, they got bound, gagged, sexually assaulted, shot in the head, and then the shop itself was set on fire.
The case shook Austin, and it stayed unsolved for over three decades. In early investigations, they noticed traces that pointed to two separate firearms, like a .22-caliber revolver and a .380 pistol. That’s how the old “two-gun theory” came about, and it implied there was more than one person involved…