Bob Ayers, the father of Amy Ayers, a victim of the Austin, Texas, yogurt shop murders in 1991, places a "We Will Not Forget" pin on Austin Police Detective Dan Jackson at a news conference on September 29. Amy's picture is above them, alongside photos of the other three victims. Eric Gay/AP

When Dan Jackson took the reins of the Austin, Texas, police department’s unsolved homicide unit in 2022, his boss approached the detective with a sense of urgency.

“My first day on the job, my supervisor asked me to come into his office and shut the door,” Jackson said. “I thought I was already in trouble, for some reason.”

Jackson wasn’t in trouble, but he was given serious marching orders: Solve the murders of four teenage girls in a yogurt shop that traumatized the community and shocked Texa

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