On Dec. 6, 1991, Jennifer Harbison was working at I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! in Austin, Texas, alongside Eliza Thomas.
Amy Ayers and Sarah Harbison were at the shop waiting to catch a ride with Sarah’s older sister.
However, none of them ever made it home. Responding to a report of a blaze at the business shortly before midnight, firefighters discovered the bodies of the four teenage girls.
The 2025 HBO docuseries The Yogurt Shop Murders explored the haunting crime and the investigation that led to four men being charged with capital murder eight years later—after which they were released and ultimately exonerated.
“All of the family members always said to me, ‘There never is closure,’” series director Margaret Brown told the Austin American-Statesman in March 2025. “‘You learn how to live alongside it, but it never loses its potency.’”
Weeks after the show’s August premiere, however, police identified a new suspect in the case through DNA evidence. A new episode of The Yogurt Shop Murders, premiering May 22 at 9 p.m. on HBO, chronicles that shocking twist and what occurred next.
