Yogurt Shop Girls Murders Still Unsolved - Part 2 -The Sound of Crime - Episode 19
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On Friday, December 6, 1991 when the fire trucks arrived at a fire at the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt shop near Northcross Mall in Austin, Texas, they found, not only a fire but the dead bodies of 4 teenage girls. In this episode we continue the investigation of this case. In 1999, a new detective named Hector Polanco took over the case and was determined to find the killers of these girls. In October of that year, Robert Springsteen, Michael Scott, Maurice Pierce and Forrest Welborn were brought in for questioning. Interestingly enough, Maurice was the teen that they questioned at the mall a week after the murders because he was suspicious and was carrying a 22 caliber gun. It did not match the ballistics of the gun that shot the girls, but Hector used that as a lead to arrest theses four that were brought in for questioning. Eventually, Hector coerced Michael and Robert to confess and those confessions were used to convict both of them for the murders. Both of the trials used their confessions and not much else to convict them because there was no evidence to link them to the crimes. Robert was sentenced to death and Michael was given life imprisonment. In 2008, DNA from Amy's body came back not matching either Robert or Michael or the other 2 boys. The two were released in 2009 but have never been declared innocent by the courts. Recently, a match was found for the DNA was found in a University of Central Florida database, but the FBI and the Florida facility state that they can't release the information due to privacy rights. The case is still unsolved but they now have a matching DNA for the crimes.
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