Yogurt Shop Murders refers to the deaths of four teenage girls in a yogurt shop in Austin, Texas on the night of Friday 6 December 1991, after which the yogurt shop they were in was set aflame. The bodies of 13-year-old Amy Ayers (sometimes spelled Ayres), 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison, 15-year-old Sarah Harbison, and 17-year-old Eliza Thomas were discovered later that night.
The initial investigation spanned nearly eight years; trials and local ...
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Yogurt Shop Murders refers to the deaths of four teenage girls in a yogurt shop in Austin, Texas on the night of Friday 6 December 1991, after which the yogurt shop they were in was set aflame. The bodies of 13-year-old Amy Ayers (sometimes spelled Ayres), 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison, 15-year-old Sarah Harbison, and 17-year-old Eliza Thomas were discovered later that night.
The initial investigation spanned nearly eight years; trials and local media coverage remain ongoing.
Shortly before midnight on Friday December 6, 1991, a patrolling Austin police officer noticed a fire coming from an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop and reported it to the officer's dispatcher. After the fire was extinguished, the firefighters discovered four bodies, all of which were bound and gagged, with three stacked on top of one another. Each victim had been shot in the head, thus leading police to determine that they likely had died before the fire was started.
Just before the murders, the girls had been...
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