Over three decades ago, a trip to the frozen yoghurt shop in Austin, Texas turned fatal for four young girls. What was meant to be a fan trip on December 6, 1991, still haunts the families of Amy Ayers, Jennifer Harbison, Sarah Harbison, and Eliza Thomas, all teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17. The four girls were killed and stripped of their clothing in the back room of the shop before the place was set on fire. Now, HBO has brought back the chilling horrors of that day in a docuseries titled, The Yogurt Shop Murders.
The Yogurt Shop Murders is all set to make your blood run cold
Directed by Margaret Brown, The Yogurt Shop Murders explores all the possible theories surrounding the murder of the four girls. The show featured real interviews with investigators, suspects, the victims’ families and rare footage of the suspects filmed by a local Austin documentary filmmaker, Claire Huie. While why these four girls were murdered is still unknown, for Margaret, it hit too close to home as she herself is a native of Austin, and the murder story had become a collective memory in every local’s mind and conversation.
The first episode featured a clip of a man named ‘Robert Springsteen’ going shopping for a suit at a Macy’s. The man shared that he had just gotten off death row and was looking for an attire for his interview with CBS’s investigative show, 48 Hours and various court appearances. The scene teases that viewers will learn how ‘Robert’ became a free man in the next episodes. He was booked a week after the shooting, when the police arrested his friend, ‘Maurice Pierce’, carrying a loaded pistol in the waistband of his jeans in the Northcross Mall Plaza near the ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt!’ shop. ‘Maurice’ had the same type of gun as they found a bullet in a sink at the yoghurt shop.
However, he did not admit guilt and named three guys he was hanging out with: Michael Scott, Springsteen, and Forrest Welborn. He also shared how he had lent the gun to ‘Forrest’, the details will follow the storyline of how these men got linked to the murder of four innocent girls. The audience will get to hear the police recording, interviews from the girls’ families and get to know how they are still haunted by what happened almost 33 years ago, with the leading theory among law enforcement being that it was a robbery gone wrong, and the girls were just at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Netizens react to The Yogurt Shop Murders
Netizens are left horrified by the gutwrenching incident that happened 33 years ago. However, it is still a television masterpiece. A user penned, “The Yogurt Shop Murders doc on @HBO is stunning television.” Another wrote, “Been waiting for this since I first heard about it. I keep checking to see if it’s out yet. It finally popped up when I just searched it, so I added it to my list.”
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