Although there’s no term that could encompass the horror of what happened in the back room of a strip-mall store in Austin, Texas, on Dec. 6, 1991, “the yogurt shop murders” has always seemed almost absurdly inadequate to the task. There was no reason for 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison and Eliza Thomas to believe anything would go wrong that night as they closed down the I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! where they both worked, or when Jennifer’s 15-year-old sister Sarah and her 13-year-old friend Amy Ayers stopped by to wait for a ride home. But the four teenage girls would be bound and gagged, sexually assaulted (in at least one case), and shot in the back of the head, their bodies left to burn when the building was set on fire. I don’t think anyone who has heard the details of their deaths ha

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