25 Years Later, Still No Clear Answers in the Yogurt Shop Murders Case
Twenty-five years ago today, four girls were murdered in a North Austin yogurt shop. Dozens of lives were forever changed and Austin lost much of its innocence. Despite years of investigations, we’re still asking the same questions that were asked that night.
December 6, 1991, a night that started innocently enough at an I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt shop off West Anderson Lane. In a nice part of town, late on a Friday night, two girls were closing up the yogurt shop. Eliza Thomas and Jennifer Harbison – both 17 – were working at the shop. Like a lot of kids back then, they took the job to maintain their cars. Eliza helped Jennifer get the job. Jennifer’s 15-year-old sister, Sarah, was along for a ride home from hanging out nearby at Northcross Mall. Tagging along was Sarah’s friend Amy Ayers, just 13 years old. The two were going to have a sleepover at Sarah’s house. All four girls were last seen alive at around 10 o’clock.
When Sgt. John Jones with the Austin Police Department took questions from reporters 25 years ago, he couldn't provide many answers.
"We’ll give you as much as we can," Jones said Dec. 6, 1991, "But we are going to have to hold a lot things of things back because we are handling it as a murder.”
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[font color=330099]This murder case always garnered my attention for two reasons: 1) I lived about one mile away from where the murders occurred, and 2) I was the tort reform statistician at the time when the claim reports were submitted to the Department of Insurance. Even though there were no names on the reports it was immediately obvious that they related to this incident.[/font]
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on break from work one evening I joined the candle-light gathering at the state capitol for these girls 
