Who Killed These Girls: The Twenty-Five-Year History of Austin's Yogurt Shop Murders

From The Author Of Crossed Over, Another Masterful Account Of A Horrible Crime: The Murder Of Four Girls, Countless Other Ruined Lives, And The Evolving Complications Of The Justice System That Frustrated The Massive Attempts--for Twenty-five Years Now--to Find And Punish Those Who Committed It. The Facts Are Brutally Straightforward. On December 6, 1991, The Naked, Bound-and-gagged Bodies Of The Four Girls--each One Shot In The Head--were Found In An I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! Shop In Austin, Texas. Grief, Shock, And Horror Spread Out From Their Families And Friends To Overtake The City Itself. Though All Branches Of Law Enforcement Were Brought To Bear, The Investigation Was Often Misdirected And After Eight Years Only Two Men (then Teenagers) Were Tried; Moreover, Their Subsequent Convictions Were Eventually Overturned, And Austin Pd Detectives Are Still Working On What Is Now A Very Cold Case. Over The Decades, The Story Has Grown To Include Dna Technology, False Confessions, And Other Developments Facing Crime And Punishment In Contemporary Life. But This Story Belongs To The Scores Of People Involved, And From Them Lowry Has Fashioned A Riveting Saga That Reads Like A Russian Novel, Comprehensive And Thoroughly Engrossing-- The Crime -- The Paul Johnson Show -- The Courts: Law, Science, Blunders And Luck -- Unanswered Questions. Beverly Lowry. Includes Bibliographical References. "From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed it. The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged bodies of the four girls--each one shot in the head--were found in an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas. Grief, shock, and horror spread out from their families and friends to overtake the city itself. Though all branches of law enforcement were brought to bear, the investigation was often misdirected and after eight years only two men (then teenagers) were tried; moreover, their subsequent convictions were eventually overturned, and Austin PD detectives are still working on what is now a very cold case. Over the decades, the story has grown to include DNA technology, false confessions, and other developments facing crime and punishment in contemporary life. But this story belongs to the scores of people involved, and from them Lowry has fashioned a riveting saga that reads like a Russian novel, comprehensive and thoroughly engrossing"-- Provided by publisher “A true-crime page-turner.... Lowry exhausts every possible scenario behind the shocking, unsolved quadruple murder ... and offers a theory on what really happened.” — New York Post "Gripping, moving, and as good as any depiction of a murder case since In Cold Blood .... Brilliant." — Ann Patchett, award-winning, bestselling author The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged, burned bodies of four girls — each one shot in the head — were found in a frozen yogurt shop in Austin, Texas. Grief, shock, and horror overtook the city. But after eight years of misdirected investigations, only two suspects (teenagers at the time of the crime) were tried; their convictions were later overturned and detectives are still working on what is now a very cold case. The story has grown to include DNA technology, coerced false confessions, and other developments in crime and punishment. But this story belongs to the scores of people involved, and from them Beverly Lowry has fashioned a riveting saga that reads like a novel, heart-stopping and thoroughly engrossing.