Back in the 90's many businesses did, especially in cities with low crime rates. I was a manager for TCBY Yogurt at the time, and after this I never worked girls by themselves after dark.
I always got to look at the times, culture, and context. I don’t look at what was happening 30 years ago in another state (or country) with the same eyes as I do here and now. It’s like comparing apples to oranges.
I’m surprised to see these comments cause my friends have been closing since before being legal adults were now in our early twenty’s and they still look like young girls and close with girls just starting in their working careers it happens so much especially in smaller towns but this day and age even small towns aren’t small like they use to be they are just smaller then the bigger towns and cities that are ever growing as well
I’m not from the US, but what puts the loss of their lives & their futures in very clear perspective for me is that my older sister turned 17 the month this awful crime happened. And when I think of everything she’s gotten to experience, I feel how much was taken from these 4 girls & their loved ones.
The mother of sisters Jennifer and & Sarah was so young-looking herself when they showed her. I just searched for her - her name is Barbara Ayres-Wilson & she’ll be 73 this year 🌹 poor mama
Wow! To think their parents had no closure 😢. Wow! This was sadistic. Someone knows something. There had to be more than one culprit to take down 4 teenage girls.
@@_DB.COOPER Tell us you don't know the English language, without telling us you don't know the English language. Closure in this context: A bringing to an end; a conclusion to an unknown.
@@CensoredByRU-vid965 tell us you can bring the death of a loved one to an end, you can close on your parent, sibling, spouse or child and never think about them again because it’s closed! Tell us that you insensitive little Twinkie!
Where I live at there was a Burger chef murders of four kids back in the 70s. Still no one has been held accountable. They just tore the building down 2024. I think there's like three or four businesses have been there but they never lasted. It became a eyesore after that.
@@kite6864I always wondered whether the Austin Yogurt Shop murders was connected to the Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre. Both cases were eerily similar. -Both involved over the top violence against helpless women and children during a robbery of an establishment that attracts families. -Both had witnesses seeing two suspects working together -Both had the perps executing the victims with a .22 caliber pistol while they were bound and facing the wall. -Both had the perps set an office on fire to destroy evidence before fleeing the scene of the crime. The crimes also occurred in neighboring states with Texas and New Mexico.
The dealer may have been. I'm never not surprised that people and detectives are unwilling to think deeply based on... oh yeah. Non existent street experience so...
It's so incredibly tragic that someone will most likely get away with murdering those four beautiful girls. With all the improvements with DNA testing, I hope these murders will be solved. It makes me sick that some psycho is possibly still walking around free on the streets after committing these four horrific murders.
I really hope for your sake that you didn't watch this because that would mean you have no comprehension skills whatsoever! THERE'S NO DNA TO TEST!!!!!!!
I think of this guy that murdered people at a McDonalds, Captain D’s and Baskin Robbin’s in Nashville in the late 90’s. He’s from Texas, did 9 years for armed robbery and got out in 1990, I believe, and was from a town within a few hours of this place. Paul Dennis Reid
The I-65 murders in the gift shops; still unsolved. The Utah Hi-Fi Store murders by two black males in which the 18-yr old Mormon girl was ...ed and all of them forced to drink Drano. The Georgetown (D.C.) Starbucks murders of all 3 staff by a black male. Real horrors in this country, all across the land.
There are a few cases that happened decades ago that stay with me and this is definitely one of them. I regularly check on this case, The Springfield Three, The Lane Bryant Murders, Amy Majalovich, The Girl Scout Murders and sadly many other more recent cases and trials.😢💔. I pray that all families find justice for their loved ones.
This is not the work of a group. Groups usually don't stay quiet this long. At least one has a conscience -- or an ego -- and feels the need to tell someone. This is the work of one sick creep.
My brother Inlaw was murdered and we know who did it. The law says they know too just don’t have enough evidence to prove it. They said we need a confession. Sad that so many families have unanswered questions and no resolution. Won’t bring back our loved ones I know
this happened on my cousin's birthday, one day who ever did this is going to meet God and he will punish them for this brutal crime, i was in elementary when this happened and it was 2021 when i found out about this. if you don't think pictures or videos are important wait until they are all you have left.
@@marcusharley3064 Yes and even if they match the DNA they will have a few more hoops to jump through because of all the damage that was done with the mis prosecutions. I would not be surprised if they have a suspect already,they just have to make sure
I've known of this case for years, and always feel for the victims and families of the victims, but they are wrong about the involvement of the 4 who were first tried, and 2 convicted of these murders. None of the four was involved. This brother says that the testimonies of the two who were convicted were the same, and they were interrogated separately, the problem is that the parts of the recordings of these interrogations that were unflattering for the police, are now available (I believe 48 hours showed them a few years ago), which show clearly, the cops feeding the details to the two suspects, and it is clear that at the beginning, these two suspects turned convicts, provided completely false circumstances of the crime, that didn't match the crime scene at all! They knew nothing about this case. So the victims' families, the brother, live in denial - the famous 4 first accused of this crime are innocent, and it was a classic false confession, under pressure from the cops! And the new DNA confirms it - it wasn't the 4 we know, the real killer is someone completely different, someone we don't know that this DNA belongs to, and probably some other, second person. Plus, one of the detectives in the interrogations, Hector Polanco, had been accused of coercing false confessions in a previous, notorious case involving exonerated defendants Christopher Ochoa and Richard Danziger. Both were released after 13 years in prison; Danziger was assaulted in prison which resulted in permanent brain damage. This is absolutely disgusting from this police department, and the fact that this lying detective didn't get any punishment for ruining innocent people's lives is even more scandalous and disgraceful. Seven jurors from the trials have stated that they would not have convicted Scott and Springsteen had this evidence been available at the time The investigation for years now points at the two strangers sitting in the corner of the Yogurt Shop that night, who were seen by many witnesses - other customers, to still be in the shop when everyone else left/were leaving, and when the girls started to clean the kitchen. This DNA is the key to finally solving this case, but it will still be hard because it is possible that the owner of this DNA, or his family aren't in any database, or that he and the second murderer are already dead. I pray it will be solved one day!
The one DNA sample does not "prove" that the other 4 were not involved. The one DNA sample could be from a 5th gang member. Or, the 2 convicted could have done it with a 3rd person (hence the DNA) who was not arrested yet. The one DNA sample does not eliminate ANY of them.
I remember watching this on Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack. It made international headlines at the time. So sad that all these year later, still unsolved. Young lives taken away, and for what? Was robber ever confirmed as a motive?
I remember this vividly as a child. We used to have TCBY locations growing up and we stopped going even though this was a different yogurt shop. This incident made some of us feel like it might happen at another shop, especially since the perp was never caught.
With genealogy dna this should have been solved. There is DNA they were able to test against. Surely they have started breaking down family lines from this DNA.
Apparently you don't have any comprehension skills, or you didn't watch this! THERE'S NO DNA TO TEST!!!!! The fire, sprinklers, and firefighters washed and destroyed all the evidence!!!
@@isthatmysatay Technically speaking… Adolescence is defined as the time of life between childhood and adulthood, which begins at 13 and continues until the age of 19. Do some research first before you comment some dumb bs on my post clown 🤡
I had just recently moved to Austin not too long before this crime happened. I went to a friend's high school graduation in 1996, I think, and the school administrators had a moment of silence in memoriam of the youngest of the victims, who would have graduated from the school that year. That case still haunts Austin to this day, and hangs over the heads of austinites like dark cloud. I do hope they will eventually catch the animals that did this and get them convicted.
@@cheetahgurll I was born and raised in Austin. I remember passing by on Burnet road, when I looked to my right, and seen all the fire trucks. But there's way way more to this story than you can imagine. It will take you deep into the rabbit hole.
I was living in Dallas at this time. This crime rocked all of Texas not just Austin. It was headline news for weeks. The girls were found stacked atop one another, THEN they were set on fire. I can't imagine the terror, pain and fear they went through. Four little girls. And I don't know if those 2 men are the perpetrators, but the fact that they're still alive says much. Absolutely horrific crime.
Thirteen-year-old Amy was going to spend the night at the Harbison home. She & 15-year-old Sarah had been together at Northcross Mall and walked about 10 minutes to the yogurt shop to ride home with Sarah’s 17-year-old-sister Jennifer.
So listen.. I saw this case awhile back and I was like “wow that sounds just like some murders that happened here in Nashville in the late 90’s”. A guy named Paul Dennis Reid killed like 3 at a McDonalds and 4 at a Captain D’s and I think 2 at.. wait for it TCBY yogurt(maybe it was Baskin Robbin’s). So I wondered where he was from and it turns out he was from Texas. Wow! And it was close to this town.. within 2 hours or so. So I keep digging and he got out of Texas prison in 1990.. 😳 For armed robbery, did 9 years. So I’m like “Im sure he was on parole and had a job.. Nope, he had gotten in an accident and wasn’t working or getting any kind of money so there’s a motive. And then the guy moved up here in 1992. I was trying to find somethin that cancelled him out so I was thinking how this place was set on fire which wasn’t this guys MO. I dig deeper and find out that as a child he tried to set his grandmother on FIRE and was sent to live with an aunt or somethin.. That’s all I can remember as far as coincidences.. He’s dead now either from being executed or he died while waiting to be executed.. Paul Dennis Reid
@@EavyMuturuh He was! He was out on parole but surely they woulda checked him out. But then again they had 4 guys locked up at the time for this but they were let go. Yeah I just double checked. He got out in 1990.. went into prison in 1983 😳 He was suspected in the 1993 Browns Chicken Massacre and the police literally had to drive up there to compare evidence.
When your child dies it’s so unimaginable that you are losing a piece of your heart …… When your child is brutally slain .. such young girls … it’s what nightmares are made of
Yeah that’s an interesting case too, sad obviously because it was young kids who died. I wouldn’t call the three suspects as being innocent by any means but I don’t think they were involved in the murders. I could be wrong though
This is 32 years ago but when I see those videos of those girls, happy, innocent, loving and just living their lives, it really makes me tear up 💔 So sad it's still unsolved.
Probably has his own family now, either the weird neighbor or the charming neighbor that every thinks wouldn't have a past like this one. If one of the murderers were around their ages he would be between 45-50 yrs old.
I remember this when it happened. I was 14 years old just starting high school. Cant believe someone would break into a yogurt shop and do this. There needs to be justice in this case but look who the Governor is....I wouldnt hold my breath for him trying to solve it.
That is heartbreaking. It strikes me especially as the 13-yr-old was only 2 years older than I was @ the time, there’s even a resemblance between us @ that age, and we were apparently both kinda tomboyish & rode horses. As a mother now myself, my heart truly goes out to her family and the life she never got to live. I’m so sorry that this happened, and especially that they never got justice.💐💞😕
I still will wish everyone good luck families and friends and more people who felt this true crime horror story i feel the pain almost everyday even tho it's on my mind everyday and all day times will be hard
I’ve been following this case since I was a kid I was born the year it happened an that hit a nerve in me , I’ve been praying for the awful people to get caught all this time cause this case is one of the most heinous ones that I’ve ever seen yet and I’ve researched a lot of crimes (Its my thing I guess) All I’m saying is even over 15 years after I learned about this case I haven’t forgotten about them They Deserve Justice!!! ❤ I always thought what if they were my child even before I had a kid. We need these evil people bought to justice so these babies can rest in peace. It’s heart breaking that I’m calling them babies and they would be my sisters age today if they were alive (that made me cry) my sister has children the same age these girls were when they got taken so it just hits me cause they deserved to have a full life I’ll keep praying for y’all to get justice Amen We haven’t forgotten about y’all ❤❤❤
I live not far from here and this story has always been talked about even now weirdly where my grandmother lives apparently something very similar happened which is odd
So sad for the girls. They missed most of the lives they could and should have had. Also very sad for all who knew and loved the girl. They have missed the continuing relationship and seeing them grow up and live their lives.
This was the work of a hardcore psychopath, these guys where nuts. Had to be multiple of them, just crazy.....i can't believe there are people in this world that could do such things.
Maybe that mystery DNA was from a customer or one of the girl's? Considering their job consisted of customer service, it could have been ANYONE. So sad they didn't have small cameras back then installed or alarm systems as well as witnesses.
