On December 6, 1991, Jennifer Harbison was working at I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! With Eliza Thomas in Austin, Texas.
Amy Ayers and Sarah Harbison were waiting at the store to get into Sarah’s sister’s car.
However, none of them were able to return home. Firefighters found the bodies of four teenage girls after receiving reports of a fire at the store just before midnight.
The 2025 HBO documentary series The Yogurt Shop Murders delves into this haunting crime and the investigation that led to four men being charged, released and ultimately acquitted on death row eight years later.
“My whole family always told me, ‘It’s never over,'” series director Margaret Brown told the Austin American-Statesman in March 2025.
But weeks after the show premiered in August, police identified a new suspect in the case through DNA evidence. A new episode of “Yogurt Shop Murder,” premiering May 22 at 9 p.m. on HBO, chronicles that surprising turn of events and what happened next.
