Who Killed These Girls — The Yogurt Shop Murders

Sometimes a homicide can rock a city to its core — this is what happened to Austin, Texas in 1991 when four teenage girls were murdered in a Yogurt Shop. The victims were as follows:

• Amy Ayers aged just 13.
• Eliza Thomas aged just 17.
• Jennifer Harbison is also aged 17.
• Sarah Harbison aged only 15.

This was a tragic event that shaped the future of the city. It should never be forgotten, but even more devastatingly, the crime was never solved. We are over thirty years since the murder and the case has grown cold.

Let’s ask the question: WHO KILLED THESE GIRLS?

It was December 6th 1991 in the I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S YOGURT! shop in Austin, Texas where the four girls lost their lives and the place was burned down with the bodies inside.

The victims were shot by a pistol (using a .22 calibre bullet), and one of the victims was sexually assaulted (confirmed by forensics) although it remains possible they all were assaulted in this manner.

This was a crime of horrendous proportions and scope. An act of utter evil.

The predators came, it seemed, from out of nowhere, like a hurricane on this quiet Texan city and hit a family-friendly yoghurt store, causing a ripple of fear that exists to this day.

As soon as the bodies were identified, and their names made public, the girls quickly merged in the minds of the public and the media, as if they were alike or the same — they represented a highly desirable kind of American girlhood that was taken at its prime. A billboard campaign ran in the city and the question it asked was WHO KILLED THESE GIRLS?

But it is important to know the girls separately and not as angels or symbols but as living human beings who never did any harm to anyone.

They were Amy, Eliza, Jennifer and Sarah.

Sarah and her sister Jennifer were both killed and placed atop one another while bound and gagged. Eliza and Amy were found separately and…