AUSTIN (KXAN) – In this week’s episode of Unsolved: Central Texas, public safety and Crime Imprints reporter Brianna Hollis talks to Avery Travis about the Travis County District Attorney’s Office’s “first step” in legally clearing the names of the four men previously accused of killing four teenage girls at the I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! shop more than 30 years ago.
The four girls – Amy Ayers, Eliza Thomas, Sarah Harbison and Jennifer Harbison – were killed at the Anderson Lane shop in 1991. Originally, and for varying reasons, police arrested Michael Scott, Robert Springsteen, Maurice Pierce and Forrest Welborn after the murders.
In September the Austin Police Department announced that ballistic and DNA evidence linked a different man – Robert Brashers – to the quadruple murder. Now the DA’s office has filed a motion under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct to initiate the exoneration process for Scott, Springsteen, Pierce and Welborn.
Avery Travis and Brianna Hollis talk through the decades of legal and investigative twists and turns for the four men originally accused in the murders, and they discuss what needs to happen next to move forward with the exoneration process…