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It was a cool evening.

Of course, the city was getting into the holiday spirit at that time.

Amy was going to the mall with Sarah,

and Jennifer went to work at the yoga shop.

We believe that it was business as usual. The ship started about seven o'clock.

It was set to close around 11 p.m.

Two of the girls had left to get to the mall,

and we're coming to the yogurt shop.

They were going to have a big slumber party, a big sleepover.

It's Friday night. They're wanting to get out of there.

And the girls were all picking up, cleaning up the yogurt store.

Something horrific and evil was about to walk in that door.

They were supposed to be home by 11, but they were already dead by 11.

It all started late one Friday night with the police radio call to detective John Jones.

Austin police homicide investigator happens to have a news crew riding with him in the car

that night, and he gets a call and starts speeding to the scene.

Oh yeah, I know what I thought of it, but I'm pretty proud of it.

Last handful on the corner.

Triple fatale.

Um, murder.

Great.

The case that would become known as the yogurt shop murders begins on a December night in 1991

in Austin, Texas.

There was a police officer and he was just patrolling the neighborhood,

and he noticed smoke coming out from one of the doors, and it turned out to be the yogurt shop.

So he pulled in to investigate an immediately called for fire officials to respond to the scene.

Fire suppression efforts were aimed towards trying to put out this fire.

And while doing so, they happened to trip over a body.

And that is when they discover a horrific scene.

Then they recognize it's two, and then three, and then finally four.

The yogurt shop, it's probably like a typical retail space in a strip mall.

You have the consumer area at front tables and chairs, and there's a counter kind of

in the middle, and then there's the back room with storage and office and everything is.

I got there right after the fire had been knocked down.

Very smoky. There was water dripping from the ceiling.

It was overwhelming. More than anything, I mean a fire for dead folks, young, burn, shot, and hit.

Three of the girls were just totally not identifiable. They were burned too much.

As soon as the Austin Police Department realized the scope of what they were dealing with,

they called in extra investigators to help them, specifically the FBI arrived at the scene,

the ATF arrived at the scene. It was uphill battle to begin with, the processing,

that crime scene, everything gets doused with water. Because they did such a good job in putting

the fire out, a lot of our evidence was destroyed. There was evidence of sexual assault

at the crime scene on the victims as well. So all four girls were nude and their clothing had

been used to tie each other up. They also took DNA from those victims. So part of your

standard sexual assault kit at an autopsy side swabs is you also would take fingernail clippings.

For that very reason, because you think the woman's being sexually assaulted,

the good chance she's going to fight back. And the fact that we were able to get any DNA

and any evidence from this scene is pretty remarkable, especially given the year 1991. DNA

really was not something we talked about back then.

Initially it was thought that it was possibly robbery gone wrong, a robbery that turned into a

horrific murder. Because cash revenue pulled out and there was some cash missing.

We're dealing with four beautiful teenage girls. Two of them were sisters, Jennifer and Sarah

Harbison, Amy Ayers and Eliza Thomas. Just beautiful girls and it's just a tragedy.

These girls were so innocent enjoying their high school years and their friendships

and just having a really good time that night together.

So Eliza Thomas and Jennifer Harbison were working the evening shift that Friday night.

It was set to close around 11 p.m. But two other girls, Jennifer's sister, Sarah Harbison,

as well as her dear friend Amy Ayers. They were at the mall earlier that evening but went to the

yogurt shop and they were going to have a big slumber party, a big sleepover.

They've swept, they've mopped, they've cleaned the yogurt machines, then put napkins in the

napkin holders, all that good stuff. The girls wore doing what they do every time they

shut the shop down. They were putting the chairs up on the tables. They were taking the money out

of the cash register. The girls were herded into the back of the shop where they were forced to

strip. They were forced to tie to the rep with their underclose, bound and gagged. They were

sexually assaulted and then they were each shot in the back of the head, execution style.

The place was set on fire. So all four girls were shot with a 22 and then Amy, the youngest

victim was also shot at the second time with a 380 of semi-almatic pistol and that shell casing

actually made its way into the floor drain. The fact that Amy had a 380 and a 22 that she was shot

by two different weapons still remains a very intriguing piece of this case. Logically we think

two people or at least two people. Why would you have two guns? So that was the working theory that

was more than one person. It was a very limited amount of resources back in 1991 to devote to this

case. We're talking about you know six-man homicide unit. So they were stretched in from the very

beginning. I've been in homicide a pretty good time and this is probably the worst one I have

ever seen for the mere fact that it involved four young ladies all at the same time.

Over three decades after a horrible crime took the lives of four teenage girls and changed

Austin forever. Our hearts haven't healed. They're still broken for the precious girls we lost.

The Austin police have announced that a significant breakthrough has been made in the yogurt

shop murder case. Austin in 1991 was kind of a sleepy college town. I had a third

the size of it as now and people you know back then didn't lock their doors at night.

We all felt pretty safe and we never thought about anything bad ever happening because it was

everybody just kind of knew everybody was just small.

But when the yogurt shop murders took place it changed Austin forever.

The yogurt shop murders have been repeatedly described as the day Austin lost its innocence.

This is Jennifer's pin from the yogurt store for her uniform. How did you know that was here?

My name is Barbara Wilson and I am the mother of Jennifer and Sarah Harbison.

Jennifer was of course my first born and she was very vivacious and loving.

Jennifer and Sarah were so close they always called Sarah, Sarah Louise little knees.

They made me feel secure they raised me as much as I raised them.

My sister was very social energetic. She was really into fitness and fashion and you know

had fantasies of modeling and doing lots of different things.

She was 17 so she was trying to discover who she was.

There's all of us with the horse.

The youngest of the girls was 13 year old Amy Ayers still in eighth grade her and like her parents

and big brother Sean little Amy was a rancher at heart. I say riding a horse.

Her hair is blowing in the wind and she's just riding and having fun.

I see Sean holding her and she is a baby. He wanted a sister.

That's the first time I got to hold her. So he's like that's when I became a big brother.

She had strawberry blonde hair. I met the length of mine and she wore a hat.

He's a straw hat in the summer.

We were joined to help and she'd go out with me take care of the animals and we were always

riding together and she was just a cowgirl.

So in December 1991 it was a cool evening.

Of course the city was getting into the holiday spirit at that time.

Amy was going to the mall with Sarah and Jennifer went to work at the yogurt shop and then they

were going to go home to Sarah and Jennifer's house. I remember the doorbell ring and I looked

at the bedroom window and saw police cars. Told him I said the police are here and we went to

the front door. This all started at 5.30 in the morning.

I heard someone knock at the door and I jumped up. When I went to the door there were three people

standing at my door. They asked me about if I had a daughter and I yes and those questions are

just not you don't want those questions asked because you know that there's something and you

don't know what it is and it's bad. You don't want to feel that but you know it's here.

The devil has come to your door.

Herb and mom screamed. So I went to living room to look and ask my mom was wrong and she looked

at me and said Amy's dead and I was kind of in numb and then looked around me and there's

cops everywhere. I just remember my body was started shaking and my teeth started chattering

and I couldn't really even hear what was being said. They were telling us some story about

there being a fire. See I'm still not processing any of this very well that there was a fire

and the girls didn't make it. We get burned with the cause of fire I mean we didn't know anything.

They were trying not to tell us that they had been shot.

The families had to reconcile two very different types of emotions. Number one this profound grief

and sadness and shock but on the other hand this desire and this question about who killed

their daughters and why. We live between the bookends of time and their sharp chapters have begun

and they have ended too soon. Let perpetual light shine upon them.

There were hundreds of people at the funerals of these girls.

I said look around. I said look what we've got behind us. Kids. That's all I can say is kids.

We had a lot of support. We really did. The victim's families say they're counting on community

support to find the killers. They say if this call for help isn't enough they'll put up 14

billboards throughout the city asking that justice be done.

So they began this outpouring of tips to the Austin Police Department. Quite literally

thousands of tips from people who called in. There was this all-out effort by the Austin community

to help solve this crime.

It takes only eight days for one of those tips to produce the first solid lead.

Detectives follow that tip to a shopping mall less than half a mile from the yogurt shop

into a 15-year-old teenager named Maurice Pierce.

Different individuals had seen Maurice Pierce with a 22 firearm that there had been

bragging to other people about being at the yogurt shop.

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Show Creek is a creek that runs through Austin and when people think of Austin

they think of show Creek. There was a creek behind the yogurt shop and as

tips were coming in and witnesses were being interviewed there came to be known the creek people.

So underneath the bridge kids were congregate there smoke weed drink beer.

There was a thought that possibly the murder weapon or weapons might have been disposed in the

creek that people had been hanging out at the creek prior to the murders and after.

And so authorities as part of the investigation began trying to learn the names of some of

those people and young men who were there. Police are looking for your help in solving this

murder because there's not a lot of evidence to go on.

There began this outpouring of tips to the Austin police department.

Quite literally thousands of tips from people who said that you know they had seen various things.

The fact that they didn't have suspects that they didn't have someone who did this and that

they didn't solve this crime terrified people. I felt sick. I'm going to scare me to death.

How frightened that it's happened close to home at home. As of this morning the murderers are still

at large. Who are they? Where are they? When will they strike again? The answer?

Anyone? Anyone? Anywhere? Anytime.

The yogurt shop was maybe a couple of blocks from North Cross Mall here in Northwest Austin.

And so all the kids were congregated the mall.

About eight days after the murders, Maurice Pierce is a teenager who is found at North Cross Mall

with a 22. This is Maurice Pierce. He was 15 in 1991.

He was bragging about a gun, about a 22.

And authorities initially became really excited that they thought maybe they had found the perpetrator.

And they call him in for questioning and he is questioned at length.

And it's during questioning that Pierce tells investigators that on the night of the murders,

another boy named Forrest Wellborne borrowed his gun and later returned telling Pierce

he'd done something bad and then he smelled of smoke.

They actually wired up Pierce put a bug on him to see if he could get Forrest to tell the

story again and Forrest was kind of like what are you talking about? And they did talk to Forrest

and Forrest says no the next day me and Maurice and my other friends Robert and Mike we still

a car and drove to San Antonio together. And the police were drawn to the fact that these four

original suspects, Maurice Pierce, Forrest Wellborne, Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen had

been involved and had staked out the yogurt shop earlier in the evening and planned a return

to rob it. So the operating theory that the police are working with is that Pierce and Wellborne

along with two other friends, Scott and Springsteen, all teenagers, robbed the yogurt shop,

assault and killed the girls, set the storm fire and then steal a car and skip town.

To investigators all the pieces seem to fit together. They have the motive, they have the opportunity

according to them and the 22 caliber murder weapon. All except for one thing.

There was absolutely no evidence at all. They didn't have the ballistics for the 22.

They didn't have fingerprints, hair, DNA, nothing that tied any of these boys or anyone to this

crime at all. They had at the beginning a lot of gossip, teenage gossip. And we're talking about

boys that are 15, 16 and 17 years old. The Austin Police Department administered polygraph exams

of both Pierce and Wellborne, but essentially they decided that any information that they had

was not legitimate and that they were likely not involved in the yogurt shop murders.

And then they test Maurice Pierce's 22 and it doesn't match, it's not the gun. Period into story.

For the families this just added to their pain and turmoil and grief. They were not able to get

a simple clear direct answer about who killed their daughters.

Today the families of the 14-age girls murdered in a Northwest Austin yogurt shop held their first

joint news conference. And we always together for so many press conferences trying to keep it alive

and trying to deal with our own grief through that whole process. Their message together we can find

and stop these vicious killers. As police chase down every possible lead, the search for the

killer or killers drags on from days to weeks and then finally to months and still nothing.

Goboards begin to go up all over Austin in a desperate effort to shake loose any clue.

And every time we see those faces it gives us hope and joy and sadness. We want those pictures

that we want people to know that these beautiful girls were alive a part of this city and they

made a difference every day. On the six-month anniversary of the yogurt shop murders,

people converged at the state capital, people are holding whited candles. Investigators are still

no closer to cracking the case. As hopes for an arrest begin to fade public frustration begins to grow.

For the Austin Police Department, it continued to put a bright spotlight on their investigation.

The pressure for them to solve this case was above and beyond any case that they've ever

experienced before ever. And I dare to say that this was the biggest case that ever happened in

Austin's history. Ten months after the crime itself, authorities became very excited after

a man who was arrested in Mexico confessed to the murders. The man on the right goes by the

nickname the Terminator and that's exactly what 24-year-old Carlos Savedra claimed he did when he

raped and killed four Austin teenagers. I'm in the area I'll just come and just I just love to

be able to touch something that's close to them. I shouldn't have to be out here. I'll be able to be

at home with her. One day at a time, some days it's one hour at a time.

Knowing that people that did not know the girls or us or any of the families at all would

care that much, it was eye-opening to see how many people actually had affected.

We did a weekend where we were on the corner where the yogurt shop was. A lot of people had gone out

and passed out flyers as people you know did you see anything. People that didn't know us

you know were willing to try to help us. One of the breakthroughs in the yogurt shop investigation

came about ten months after the crime itself. Authorities from Mexico called Austin police

and it citedly told them that they had obtained this confession.

APD flies down there to interview them.

The man on the right goes by the nickname the Terminator and that's exactly what 24-year-old Carlos

Savedra claimed he did when he raped and killed four Austin teenagers. The problem is as Austin

police began studying the confession many of the details did not match any details of the crime scene.

They didn't know the details of the crime. They were false confessions.

Got your hopes up a little bit like somebody's going to be held accountable for this, finally.

And then they come back and said it wasn't them. At the end of the day there were something like

over 50 confessions in this case and hundreds of more tips beyond that.

There was much desperation I think in trying to find who the killers were. There was posters,

there was rewards. You'd see the posters of the girls on the billboards. There is a huge

effort to try and solve the crime. We know all there is to know about the crime itself and we've

got everything ready except who to charge with. It was a fight we got excuses like where there's

more homicides happening every day in Austin. That's fine but you know just keep working on this one.

Despite all efforts there are no major breakthroughs and more importantly there are no arrests

in the late 1990s. There was a new effort to try to solve this crime.

Investigators dust off the old files, they take a new fresh look at the evidence and wind up going

all the way back to square one. 33 boxes of evidence and videotabes and audio tapes and things.

The police were drawn to the fact that these four original suspects, Maurice Pierce,

Forest Wellborne, Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen were all involved in this.

They bring in Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen for interviews and interrogations.

What we're going to be talking about today is it's kind of taking you back to 1991.

I'll be honest with you guys. I have a passport in there. Well and one of the reasons that we're

here is to help you try every night. We're just kind of on back on with things and trying to

do the best we can. Kind of talk to people that really want to talk to you now. I want to tell

us a little bit about yourself. Well, I'm married to a 46 year old woman that I have two

stepfews and a stepbrank son. They were interviewed over and over and over again.

Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen were subjected to 18 hours and five hours of interviews

respectively. I could tell you if I was there and it's all that I participated in that,

I would think that I would be for the first. This is where the case takes a major turn.

Michael Scott indicates that he and the other three boys were in fact involved in these horrific

murders. He said that Maurice Pierce was something of the ringleader of the crime.

Forced well-born was the lookout and that he and Robert Springsteen were the primary offenders

in terms of killing the young victims and robbing the storm.

Forced well-born, Maurice Pierce never confessed to the crime. In fact, they say emphatically

they had nothing to do with the yogurt shop murders. After hours of unrelenting interviews,

Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen confess to these murders. Robert Springsteen, when he confessed,

the last step of read interrogation is that you have them write the confession and sign it.

Robert Springsteen refused to sign it. He immediately takes it back.

Michael Scott takes it back, but he goes ahead and signs his.

It is possible. It is possible. Is it possible that you were there?

Yes. Is it possible that you killed one or two more of those girls?

Could be. Could be. Is it possible that you were involved in planning? Is it possible?

Yes. You know you did. He knows it.

Yes, I know it. He watched it. He didn't want to watch it.

I don't think so. I'm not going to say no anymore because you guys got a really good pill in case

and I'm starting to remember a few things here in there. But it's terrible. Because it's Frank's

what else do you do?

Chris Scott, John. Don't hold back now. Run behind you until I'm not holding back, guys.

You all made a bunch of memories, triggers.

I remember being shaken, disgusted with myself. I remember my ears ringing.

I remember this is the one that I tried to erase. It'll be a lot.

Robby Hamilton is gone. Look at that guy. It's a draw.

I remember here as a f***ing doer, your neck appointed that down.

Early this morning, the Austin Police Department with assistance from other law enforcement agencies

served four rest warrants, charging four individuals with capital murder.

These charges stem from the murder during the robbery of a yoga chop on December 6, 1991.

Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott confessed, though they charged the two of them

with four counts of capital murder. It's important that these young men get all they deserve

in our judicial system so that we never have to go back through this again.

Austin breathed a collective sigh of relief. The families were relieved to get to the truth of

what happened the night of December 6, 1991.

My son, Michael, see yoga chop suspect. Almost as quickly as the relief came from these arrest.

They know the four boys didn't have anything to do with us. There was no physical evidence linking

them to the scene, no DNA, no fingerprints, nothing. There is something definitely wrong with this case.

In Texas, police say they have solved a sensational eight-year-old murder case.

That is what this case is about. Bringing to justice four individuals for the brutal murder

of four little girls.

Michael Scott, forest well-worn, Maurice Pierce and Robert Springsteen are arrested for the

four yoga shop murders. You have been charged with the offense of fugitive from justice from the

state of Texas for capital murder. We want to know where these young people came from. We want

another background. We want to know how their lifestyle became a murderous one.

You don't have to get my attorney to make a statement or I don't know what else to tell you.

From the time of the murder to the arrests, the four men have had rather unremarkable lives.

Robert Springsteen is now living in West Virginia. Maurice Pierce is married and a father.

Michael Scott, also a father. Meanwhile, to the south of Austin,

forest well-born has developed a business and is seemingly doing well.

District attorney obtained indictments against three of the four defendants.

Yet at the same time, two separate grand juries failed to bring an indictment against forest

well-born. Second Travis County grand jury refused to indict forest well-born, forcing the state

to drop charges against him. A ballistics report provided by the ATF also sat the gun that Maurice

Pierce had on him that night at North Cross Mall was not the firearm that was used in the commission

of the murders. They're now all of these cracks and misgivings in the case. Additionally,

the defense claims the interrogations were coerced using a controversial high-pressure interrogation

method called the Reed technique developed in the 50s and still used today, but criticized by many

in the legal community for possibly leading to false confessions. The Reed technique, I view,

is sort of a form of psychological warfare. When Michael Scott was interrogated, it was over

a series of days. They had his brain so messed up that he didn't know which way was up or down.

He believes them when they say he were involved. He believes it. That's why he's so scared.

But the whole point is, he begins to doubt his memory. What you do with yourself is

just putting yourself in the predicament that you're just digging a paper and thinking for

kind of yourself. I still couldn't even try and remember who he is. You're not doing anything that.

Robert Springstein comes in. He had just gone off work. He worked the night shift and he is just

done with this. I'm just so confused that I think it's, I guess, my version of what happened

and everybody else's version of what happened is to completely tell you everything. So it's

I don't understand. When the confessions don't match, then they keep at them. So it's making him change

to match what they believed happened. So in this portion of the interview, investigators present

false information to Robert Springstein, a common and legal method of the Reed technique.

While the Reed method says you can lie to people.

But the movie was indeed playing the night of the murders.

Questioning throws off his memory and why he could say he wasn't at the yogurt shop.

Scott begins to believe all this stuff they're telling him. He's like, okay, so now I'm trying

to, I'm trying to get these memories out. What were they got up with?

It's not hard. I want to say extension cord, really. Why do you say that?

I remember it being white.

Nothing white.

Okay, but with something white, it's real hard.

No, no, no, no, it's just can't tell what was going to happen.

Was it a electrical cord? He told us.

I can't remember. Finally, it's on something that was actually like underwear,

socks or whatever. There you go, Mike, now you got it, now you're working.

Now you remember, you remember, right?

One of the detectives is trying to get him to confess and goes behind him and puts his gun behind

his head. Does that look like a gun you've seen before? It looks like the gun I've seen before,

but I'm not positive. Does that the gun you shot somebody with, Mike?

No. Is that the gun you walked up behind somebody with and shot the head?

Is that the one?

Talk to me, Mike. Yes, he did that, didn't he? Yes, sir.

He doesn't have to say, I'm going to shoot you, but anyone who is in that situation,

I think, would feel scared.

Between the feeding of facts, the threat and this false memory, you believe,

plus the fear they put into him. They basically scared him to death.

What happened at trials is they tried spring scene first and at spring scene's trial,

they used part of Scott's confession against him and then at Scott's trial, they used part

of spring scene confession against him. So they used their confessions against each other.

Despite the confessions being recanted soon after they were given, they were still used as a key

piece of evidence. The trials were horrible, by the way. They were just horrible.

We were trembling. I mean, just trembling for the verdict.

We the jury find the defendant, Robert Springsteen, the fourth guilty of the offense of Captain

Murray. It's so close to water, Barbara. We want some kind of ending.

Michael Scott is also found guilty. The juries believed the statements and ultimately returned

convictions. And in compliance with the laws of the state of Texas,

I hear by it says your punishment at death.

Robert Springsteen was sentenced to death by lethal injection and Michael Scott was sentenced

to life in prison. Maurice Pierce sits in the Travis County jail for about three years,

awaiting trial and prosecutors drop the charges against him. All they've got is that they were

together. So they have to let him go. I'm innocent of all charges pertaining to the yogurt shot case.

15 years after the crime, the cases of Springsteen and Scott are remanded to be retried after

the US Supreme Court rules in a separate case that two men's statements could not be used against

each other in separate trials. So if you accuse me of something, then by God get up on that stand,

and I'm going to cross-examine you about that. You can't cross-examine a written confession.

The criminal court of appeals in Texas said because of the Supreme Court case that they

deserve a new trial. And so they sent it back to district court to be retried. In 2008 and 2009,

prosecutors are wrestling with what they are going to do. The state says they will retry the case,

but when prosecutors test the crime scene DNA with improved technology called YSTR,

which looks at male genetics only, they find none of the four boys match the DNA recovered

from the crime scene. That evidence made clear that there was no physical evidence

tying the boys to the crime, and the convictions are dismissed. And so as of October 2009,

both guys were now free, but the cases are dismissed pending further investigations.

Which means that at any time, these charges can be brought back to them again,

and they can be arrested at any time for these. There's been a long time in coming and I'm

happy to be here. No comment right now, please. For the families, this was yet another aspect of

this terrible emotional roller coaster. That was pretty bad, because we thought we had the

guys that did it. Our fare was, what they did again. And now in many ways, they felt as though

the investigation was back to square one. Somebody had done this before. At that point,

they realized this was a much bigger case. They called and said, there's been a break in the case.

He said, I know that killed your daughter. I loved my father and then I found out that he's a

killer.

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This is a day that we brought Amy home from the hospital.

And he was proud of her.

Sean wanted his sister. He's just beaming, looking at her.

He was a good big brother to her, played with her, loved honor.

This is this is the first day of school picture,

her and Sean. This is the egg one that we talked about showing her hog that she won a trophy

for showmanship the first year she ever showed. She's proud of that one too. We were too.

How many kids can say they wrote a world champion? Cut and horse.

I had virtually given up on solving our case.

We and I just came the resolution. We weren't going to solve it. I would know when I died, what happened,

but I would have to live with that. Help it thanks to Angie. We've made it this far.

For me it was the right thing to do. I wanted to help them. I wanted to help my sister

in law because it was not right what was done to her and her friends.

Angie Ayers is a fiery force. She also brings this deep and rich passion on behalf of the

sister-in-law she never met. And it's not an easy road to travel. You got to pick yourself up

by the by the boots to have the guts to go down and talk to the police department and talk to

the district attorneys. It's been a fight and it takes a emotional and a physical toll

trying to find the answers that you deserve.

And there are others joining this long battle to find answers for Amy and the girls.

The Ayers meet Travis County prosecutor Mindy Montford who is now working the cold case investigation

for the district attorney's office. As someone who has followed this case from living here

and remembering when it happened and that's my neighborhood. So I've known about this for so long

and had so much empathy and respect for you all. We were nervous because we had gone through so

many people before but I do remember after the meeting you took the chance to walk us down

and you turned to us and you had tears in your eyes you said I'm always going to be here.

I'm going to continue to fight no matter what. Sean and I talked about that on the way out when

we were walking and I was like I hope she stands up to it and you have. A minute. I know you did.

You had DNA and so many of these cases don't have that and so I knew it was just a matter of time

but that we had to try everything. So remember back in 2009 the Austin authorities were

to lease the suspects because the DNA technology had advanced and they were finally able to obtain

something called a YSTR profile and neither Springsteen nor Scott's DNA matched. So now the hope is

can the latest science help match who this DNA actually belongs to? We have tested hundreds,

hundreds of people, first responders, serial killers, family members, police officers,

against that YSTR profile we've had to try to identify the individual without success for years.

Four teenage girls bound, gagged and shot in the head in an I can't believe a joker chop

and now on this 30th anniversary of this heartbreaking crime a case that to this day still has more

questions than answers. But at some point the Austin Police Department formally requested that

the newly formed cold case unit within the AG's office assist APD with this investigation.

I was told you're going to really be excited because we've got this new detective coming on board

and entering in Jackson.

So this is the entry way to the cold case office. The first thing you see when you start your day is

is this here and what we have is a to scale diorama of the strip mall where the yogurt shop was located.

And then we also have here is pictures of the four girls

and a short biography about each girl and then a slight or short synopsis of the case.

And sort of reminds you while we're out here and what we're doing here and why this

unit was actually starting to begin with was to work this case.

Mindy introduced us and I said oh I don't remember my exact words but I know that I said something

to the effect oh so you're only the next investigator 200 and something and he was like

I would like to make the last one. But Dan took this, he looked outside the box, he told us

he never seen crime scene photos never read any of the confessions, none of that stuff he was

looking for evidence. When I took the case over I was like this case will never progress

until you figure out how unknown profile is. We had seen a couple of things off that

didn't result in anything promising so yeah all the leads ended up going nowhere and then

at the end of June of 2025 I don't know why I went down this rabbit hole but I was thinking

about that 380 cartridge that was pulled from the drain thinking about what we could do with it.

The ATF maintains this database and now you can take your expended shell casing,

give it to Niven and they will do one of these computer searches and they will search this

database of thousands and thousands of other expended shell casings and remarkably every once

in a while you get a hit. I wanted to architect this and submitted it and that afternoon my phone

rang and he was like hey you got a second so he called because I have John speaker phone with

a couple of people because are you sitting down? I said yeah because then we got a hit

from a 1998 unsolved case at a Kentucky. I still get chills thinking about it because

when Dan started reading me the police report and I'm hearing this victim was shot in the head

with a 380 possibly sexually assaulted and the business was burned. But we could find no connection

other than that gun but we're still on the name so we still don't know who did it.

At that point Dan Jackson asked crime databases across the country if they would do something called

a manual search. Upload only the strand of DNA that they have into their databases to see if

there is a possible match. So we reached out to all the labs and asked them to do this. All the

states returned information saying no hits, no matches except one state. South Carolina said yes

and that was a huge break. Bingo a lead 34 years in the making. Suddenly we've got a serial killer

on our hands. After 34 years Austin authorities have gotten a big break like nothing else in

this investigation so far. But little do they know it's been years in the making thanks to a new

science called genetic genealogy. There's one name in this area that really stands out and that's

CC more. I have been involved in over 360 law enforcement cases that I've been able to help

law enforcement resolve. Genetic genealogy is the combination of using documentary sources and DNA

to learn more about someone's family history. I started filming a series with ABC news called

the genetic detective. The work I did laid the foundation for the investigators who identify the

killer in the yogurt shot murders. CC Moore's investigation actually kicks off with a different

cold case from 1998 in a Midwestern town 800 miles away from Austin. March 28, 1998 a teenager and

his father came home and made a terrible discovery. Megan and Sherry Sher a mother and young daughter

had been viciously murdered. It was definitely the worst crime scene at the time that I had seen

Sherry had three gunshot wounds to the head.

Megan Sher was laying near Sherry. She also had a gunshot wound to the head. Her hands had been bound

behind her back with an extension cord. Unfortunately, Megan was sexually assaulted and so they were able

to collect DNA from the perpetrator off of her body. Investigators got their first big break in

the case and it came about 40 miles south in Dyer's bird Tennessee. About nine o'clock at night on

the same evening that Sherry and Megan had been murdered. A mother in Dyer County Tennessee

describes coming home with her kids and a maroon van pulls in. The man walks up and she describes

the man and pulling a gun from the waistband of his pants and pointing it directly at her.

She tries to start shutting the door on his arm. That's when he shoots. The bullet goes through

the door and hits her in the shoulder. She survived and he pulled back out to the van and took off.

The crime laboratory technician was able to match the bullets and say that the same gun was used in

both crimes. What's amazing to me is that that wasn't enough for him. Two murders and a rape wasn't

enough. He tried to go and victimize somebody else in the very same day and I think that tells us

something important about him. The survivor, the woman who fought him off, she was able to describe

him to law enforcement and so that was a really key piece of information. So in 1998 we were

interviewing suspects that had criminal histories that had been involved in assaults and sexual assaults

and looked similar to the composite that we had posted on the media. Nothing worked.

The sheer family was beloved in their community and Zuri State Police. This was a really important

case to them but years passed until they were able to do more with that biological evidence and

once DNA technology advanced they were able to get that DNA profile created and uploaded into the

law enforcement database codeus. Her hope was when we submitted this profile it would send us a

name back of a suspect that had been arrested in the past but instead we were linked to a cold case

that occurred in 1990 in Greenville, South Carolina. In South Carolina in April of 1990 a young woman

named Genevieve Zatrici was found murdered in her apartment. Jenny was 28 years old. She had

been strangled. She had been sexually assaulted. When I arrived at a crime scene there was blood

everywhere. Jenny's body was in a bathtub with her hands behind her back. What we conferred from

the crime scene was somebody had done this before. During the autopsy there was a rape kit and

minister either was a cervical swab made that produced a DNA sample. We stored the DNA in hopes that

science would eventually catch up. They now realized they were dealing with a serial killer

and it covered a much bigger area than they had ever imagined.

We thought we had a decent lead and we exhausted that lead and we turned up nothing.

It was frustrating for them. It seemed like such a big development. How could they not find this guy?

After we exhausted all those leads we didn't know exactly where we were going to go from there.

A lot of jurisdictions across the country there was a backlog of processing rape kits.

In 2013 the Memphis Police Department did an inventory of all of their sexual assault kits.

The Memphis Police Department found that 6,179 needed DNA testing.

And so there was a rape from 1997 where the kit had not been processed. Once that was processed

they were in for a big surprise. And in May of 2017 a third-codeous hit matched the crimes

in Greenville, South Carolina and Portageville, Missouri.

There was nothing substantial to go on that would help us find out who he was.

When law enforcement runs out of all of their avenues of investigation investigative genetic genealogy

can step in and help solve it. Well the good news about the Memphis crime being tied to the

others is there was an abundant amount of DNA to work with from that rape kit. They take this

degraded old DNA and they help to make it viable for genetic genealogy so I can do my job.

So from the DNA the Parabong was able to develop. Ceasey Moore was able to create this family tree.

A lot of times I'm lucky and I'm able to narrow it down to just one immediate family,

one candidate or a set of siblings. But in this case there were quite a few cousins who could

potentially be our DNA contributor. So I started looking at each of them and this one person

had a history that made me really sit up and take notice that this had to be the guy.

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CC Moore is working to solve multiple cold cases using genetic genealogy

and building this family tree that eventually will help detectives back in Austin

solve the yogurt shop murders.

I zeroed in on a man named Robert Bershears. When I started digging into him,

I very quickly found a newspaper article that he was charged and convicted of a violent crime

in Florida in 1985. He had attacked a woman, shot her, attempted sexual assault but she had

gotten away and so I started digging further on him.

I was looking at one of Robert Bershears' daughter's Facebook pages and on that page was a picture

that really jumped out at me and it didn't have any labels but he was wearing what looked like

the exact same hat. Look at that and the glasses so that told me that I was looking at the right

person. When I communicated my findings to law enforcement, I actually laid out these pictures.

Robert Eugene Bershears, a name law enforcement had not heard up until the point she said it to them.

In just hours, she gave them the answer that they've been looking for this whole time.

They found out that they've been chasing a ghost because Bershears had been long dead.

And I learned that Robert had killed himself during a police standoff in January 1999.

Law enforcement was very hopeful they would be able to get DNA directly from Robert to compare

against their crime scene DNA. That's the ultimate match.

So we got a court order to exhume his body and take samples of his remains to have DNA tested.

From Greenville, South Carolina, days turned in weeks, weeks to months, months to years, to

Portageville, Missouri. We've traveled all the way across the United States, done countless

interviews. This search for a serial killer and rapist. This is a terrible, terrible thing.

Officially ended Friday when three departments said they got their guy.

Robert Brashears, Robert Brashears. Robert Brashears was the suspect.

I was so overwhelmed. I cried. I laughed. I was thankful that the family had closure.

Usually when I work these cases, once they're resolved, I'm able to set them down and move on.

But I was never able to let this one go. In the hundreds of cases I've been involved in,

there are no others that have stood out to me in the same way that this one did.

He really haunted me. He haunted my dreams. I woke up thinking about him hundreds of times

over the years. I just couldn't let him go. I felt that there was a lot more to his story,

and I believed, wholeheartedly, there were other unsolved cases.

And CC Moore was right, but it's going to take another seven years for this to come full circle

back in Austin. Detective Dan Jackson and his team decide to ask every single crime lab in the

country that collects YSTR DNA data, which focuses only on the male Y chromosome to manually

search the sample collected from the yogurt shop crime scene. I got an email that said that you've

got a YSTR profile matched in Greenville, South Carolina, and it had an offense date. So, of course,

I googled Murder with that offense date, Greenville, South Carolina, and the name Robert Eugene

Persier pops up. Well, what are the odds that the same Y profile comes back to a serial color?

And when you start researching this guy, you find out that this MO is very similar to

the yogurt shop in more than one occasion.

Now we have a face. Now we have a name. So, at that point, we decided let's take the fingernail

scrapings from Amy Ayers. Amy Ayers was a fighter. We knew that there had been a Y profile identified

in those scrapings. However, it just was a very small amount. It was degraded. We wanted to wait

till the perfect time when technology had improved. So, we sent the scrapings and we waited.

They said Robert Persier's is under Amy Ayers fingernails. This is him.

That's what's so scary about serial killers. It's that you can't spot him. He just looked like a normal person.

So, the date is September 26, 2025. Something tells me my son would tell me I need to capture this moment.

We are going to deliver some news and tell the families

who is responsible for the deaths of their children. So, the families aren't going to get justice

necessarily, but they're going to get answers. And we promised them that years ago.

And we were delivered on that today.

They were in Brian, Texas, at a horse show. And we sort of caravaned to the rodeo arena.

And we pulled up and they're waiting for us in the parking lot.

We all kind of had a gut feeling that this was going to be good news this time.

Didn't know just what good news, but something good.

I broke down when I first, when the words first came out on the

mouth. And he sat down and he didn't say anything for a long time.

And he finally tears running down his eyes and his cheeks. He said, I know who killed your daughter.

The ring changed to me. Dan, everybody else disappeared.

Time stopped when he said that. I said, Dan, are you a hundred percent?

I walked through where we started and where we finished and just laid it all out in detail.

Starting with the shell casing that matched Kentucky to the DNA on any family scenarios.

She's scratched when she fought back. And because her fighting back, you know,

that preserved DNA and let us to solve this case study four years later.

We towed him in the very beginning, check Amy's fingernails. We knew that she would have fought.

We always thought she fought and we know for sure she did.

And he looked at me. He said, and he's serial killer.

Brush ears is the face of evil. He's manipulative, he's smart, but he is sadistic.

When he is not in prison, he is murdering and raping.

Authorities have already leaned Robert Eugene Bush ears to a trail of crime across the southeast.

But many questions remain, including how he came to choose the yogurt shop and those victims.

Was there a reason he was in Austin or was it a spontaneous side track from his original destination?

His father lived in Glendale, Arizona at that time. And so it makes sense it might be driving

through Texas. But that wasn't something that law enforcement had found when I was working with them.

Authorities do a search of Brush ears name in a criminal database and discover that his name

had been in the federal files for decades. Brush ears was stopped a little less than 48 hours

after the murders at a Border Patrol checkpoint near Los Cruces, New Mexico.

Border Patrol had to wear with all to think this guy is just not acting right and to pull him over.

The Border Patrol agent, he had a brush ear step out of the truck and he reached in to get the

registration. See who's truck it was and he saw a gun. He removed the gun.

Some help. Brush ears gets in the truck and takes off. This area is the middle of the desert.

So it's pitch black out there and then just stops, gets out and puts his hands up, gives him.

It was driving a stolen car and he was in possession of a 380.

So we can put him basically getting the hell out of his state right after the yogurt shop murders

occurred. We believe Brush ears throughout the 22 and possibly any other evidence he had kept

from the shop at the window when he was driving for a mile in the dark. Remember all four

girls in the yogurt shop have been shot with a 22 caliber pistol.

But only Amy was shot a second time with a different gun. There had been that spent 380

shell casing found in the yogurt shop drain but back in 1991 Border Patrol doesn't know any of this.

The way state and federal authorities shared information was limited back then and less

sophisticated. Border Patrol confiscates Brush ears 380 and nothing at the time links

Brush ears to this horrible Austin murder case. He ends up making bail. Please get stopped in

February and Georgia. Another stolen car and burglary tools police scanner ends up getting

charged federally for all this. Once these sentence is filed our petition to get the gun back

and it's released to him. Now we know why. The gun was pretty important to him.

I wish he wanted it back because it linked them to the yogurt shop.

Robert Brush ears is sentenced to 5 years in prison for stolen property and unlawfully possessing

a firearm. This was not a straightforward type of criminal who was following the exact same

pattern each time. He was in different locations, different MOs.

Brush ears seems to have been on the move for decades. After graduating high school he joined the

Navy in 1976. He was soon discharged and by 1980 was living in New Orleans, Louisiana.

One of the things that really intrigued me when I was researching Robert Brush ears was

that he faked his own death. He had two obituaries that were almost 20 years apart.

One of them was when he died in January 1999 and then the other was in November 1980.

It talked about how he lived in New Orleans. It named all his family members.

And so what I immediately thought was he was trying to hide from something.

This was a guy who was trying to cover his tracks.

And the more authorities investigate this case, the crazier it gets.

Not only did Brush ears appear to fake his own death, he was turning out to be one of the most

elusive serial killers of the entire 1990s. That's what's so scary about serial killers.

You can't spot him. It's not like TV. They are among us.

They have families. They have church groups. They have jobs. These are functional human beings.

I loved my father. I held him on a pedestal. There is nobody else in this world that could have

ever been better than my father. This family picture, this was in the summer of 1997.

He's smiling. You can see the teeth in the picture like he is happy. He has his girls and he's

taken him to another state. By 1997, Robert Brush ears is released from prison.

And by all appearances, he seems to be settling down. He's working in construction.

He moves to Arkansas with his longtime girlfriend Rose and the five-year-old daughter Deborah.

I remember that it being very muscular. Or if he wore a t-shirt, he'd have his t-shirt rolled

up while in the cigarettes in the shirt. Like, he just looked like a normal person.

Life was great at first. Life, we had about two acres of land.

The best part of my child was when my father was around. But I feel like it was all a lie.

Behind this all-American portrait, Brushier's dark past is lurking and it's about to catch up with him.

My grandmother said the moment my mother met my father, she met the devil. She let the devil in.

I look nothing like my father.

This is my baby picture. Growing up, I was told he was arrested the night that I was born.

That's why he couldn't be there. Deborah first learned about her father's history

as a serial killer in 2018 after authorities connected into unsolved murders in South Carolina

and Missouri. It gave me answers so I couldn't be mad. Just all of it, it made sense.

In 1998, when Deborah is just seven years old, her father disappears from home.

Going on the run for a series of crimes, including breaking into an Arkansas woman's home,

well armed with a gun. We went to see my father. He was staying in a hotel in

Kansas, Missouri. We went to sleep one night and woke up and the police were there. They were

looking at tags in the parking lot. He had a car in the parking lot of the motel that had

stolen plates. The police had no idea that this was a serial killer.

He was not willing to turn himself in, so he shot himself there in that motel room.

This is the note the police found in my father's pocket.

And in it, it says, in the event of you reading this, I am dead. Do not contact my father.

It will kill him if the cops tell him. Thank you.

I mean, it was very calculated when he chose to kill himself. He knew that it would overshadow

what could really come out.

The 380 that Perchiers used to shoot himself was the same model of gun used to shoot Amy

heirs in that Austin, Texas yogurt shop all the way back in 1991. Perchiers' death is

ruled a suicide and authorities don't confiscate his gun. Perchiers may have known that if they

did, the gun could have connected him to the yogurt shop murders. Authorities believe that Robert

Eugene Berchiers is responsible for at least eight murders in four different states,

but they are not ruling out the possibility that he could be connected to many more.

Tonight a major break in an unsolved murder case that made national headlines for decades in

this country. Let's begin today with a moment of silence for Amy, Jennifer, Sarah and Eliza

and for their dear families.

The September 2025 press conference was a remarkable moment for the city of Austin,

leaders from law enforcement and criminal justice communities. They believe they have finally

solved the yogurt shop murders. Robert Eugene Berchiers, he is a perfect match to our unknown

profile in yogurt shop. It has been so long and all we ever wanted for this case was the truth.

Our families are still too small, still missing and a central ingredient

and we are lesser for it.

My whole life has really been shaped by this experience. You know, I'm 47 now, I was 13 at the time.

What a relief it will be to get some distance.

The investigators also describe Berchiers' MO.

You know, all of his crimes we know of, he was alone in all of them.

He used ligatures to tie up his victims. He used a firearm, most often a 380 or a 22,

with gunshot wounds to the head of his victims. He sexually assaulted his victims often young girls

and sometimes as we've seen, he set fire to the crime scenes.

The evidence points to the innocence of Maurice Pierce, Michael Scott,

Robert Springsteen IV and IV is well-born. I am confident that Robert Berchiers is the only

person responsible for this crime and that is part of the responsibility that the district attorney's

office has now is to lift the cloud of guilt off of these men. Four lives were changed forever.

Prosecutors are holding a hearing to at last formally clear the names of the

four men originally charged with the yogurt shot murders. Over 25 years ago, the state prosecuted

four innocent men, teenage boys at the time of the crime. The state did all this believing we

were right, but we could not have been more wrong. In a rare move, the current Austin Police Chief

declares that the four men should be exonerated. The position of the Austin Police Department is

Robert Berchiers is responsible for these murders. It's time for the falsely accused and their

families to finally speak. A litany of emotional testimony about how this case and the aftermath

ruined so many of their lives. When the yogurt shot murders occurred, I was 17 years old.

No court ruling can return the years and the love that were taken from me,

but it can acknowledge the truth. I did not commit these crimes.

For his never confessed to this crime, nor did he say he knew others who were involved.

Robert Springsteen spit 10 years in prison. Let us not forget that he could be dead right now.

Executed at the hands of the state of Texas.

Robert Springsteen, who isn't at the hearing, has his attorney read his statement.

I have lived every single day since October the 6th, 1999, being seen as a monster for something I

did not do. Maurice Pierce died in 2010 during a confrontation with an Austin police officer.

His daughter speaks about growing up with a father who lived under constant suspicion for a crime he

did not commit. Accountability must come. Reform is coming. It has to. And finally,

the man who made me who I am today, my best friend, my daddy. Daddy, you have your name back.

And finally, the words these families have waited decades to hear.

You are innocent. After 34 years, four boys, now men, exonerated.

Today's decision is not an act of generosity. It is an obligation to the truth,

an obligation to the rule of law, an obligation to the dignity of the individual.

But it's the case of Robert Pierceier's truly closed.

The question is, what other murders has he committed? Where else has he been?

And that's where we're focusing now.

When people in Austin look back at the yogurt shop murders, it's a tragedy all the way around.

Of course, there were so many people impacted by the murders themselves, the families of the four

young victims. But at the same time, there's a cloud that four young men have lived with for decades

as well. The evidence is clear. Robert Eugene Rechiers committed the yogurt shop murders to Amy,

Eliza, Sarah, and Jennifer. We are so sorry that we have failed you for so long.

May you rest in peace knowing that the truth of that horrific night has been revealed.

To Mr. Forest, well-born, on behalf of the Office of the Travis County District Attorney,

I am sorry for what you have been through. You are innocent and you were wrongfully accused.

To Mr. Springstain and to Mr. Scott, you were wrongfully accused and you are innocent.

And I am so sorry for the role that our office played in that tragedy.

I am so sorry that Maurice isn't here today. He is innocent and he was wrongfully accused.

It's not a celebration. Just glad that they finally found the guy and then I could be

clear to all this. I'm sorry that this happened to their girls and it was a terrible thing.

And it's heartbreaking and I'm sorry that it took this long.

The case ultimately represents one of the biggest tragedies in

often this history. What we think we need, organizational, team wise.

Mindy and I and Sean would like to start a cold case foundation in order to be able to help

other families and bring law enforcement forensics and families and victims together in one spot.

I think that's a very excellent thing to have in here. No one else has had that and I think

people would respond to that very way. You know the fact that there's over 300,000 unsolved

homicides in the United States, I think that's important. We just need to get it out there

so people know about it. We need to scream it from the rooftops. It could have helped our case

had we had in earlier. And while the families of those young girls may now have a sense of justice,

they'll always wonder what their girls may have gone on to become.

Super 48. She probably still needs to do some of her with horses.

Doing some with animals for sure. And anything she wanted to do, she could have done.

Being finished with the case has let my heart open up that I could have more love.

And I wasn't expecting that because I thought I'd done a pretty good job of keeping it open.

But I felt a difference. I felt more love.

There's definitely a sense of relief that now we know what happened. I went to the

cemetery yesterday to see my sister's grave and I just in my mind I was telling her like I know

what happened to you now. After more than three decades, David, the families of those four murdered

girls finally have some answers. As for Robert Prechiers, law enforcement agencies across the

U.S. are now expected to continue to review unsolved cases for any possible connections to him.

In the meantime, that is our program for tonight. Thank you for watching. I'm David New York.

And I'm Deborah Roberts from all of us here at ABC News and 2020. Good night.

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