AUSTIN, Texas — It has been decades since Ryan Howard was a student at Lanier High School, which is now Navarro Early College High School.

He still has his yearbook and on the front, there is a pin with the words, "We Will Not Forget." It references the loss of his four friends: Amy Ayers, Eliza Thomas, Jennifer Harbison and Sarah Harbison.

"Throughout that school year, even as the years went by, you still constantly always thought, you know about them," Howard said.

Howard knew the girls from the Future Farmers of America (FFA) program and he also dated Harbison for a few weeks when he was a sophomore and she was a freshman.

"All had you know pretty strong, spunky personalities, were kind of you know country strong, so to speak. Never afraid to speak their mind or give you some good a

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