Austin police on Monday outlined how a new, rapidly unfolding DNA and ballistics evidence trail led them to declare a dead man as the likely perpetrator in the killing of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop in 1991, a horrific crime that haunted the city for decades.
00:00I'm full of gratitude. It has been so long, and all we ever wanted for this case was the truth.
00:07We never wanted anyone to go to jail or be charged with anything that they did not do.
00:15Vengeance was never it. It was always the truth.
00:20Our reality doesn't change after today.
00:25Our families are still too small, still missing an essential ingredient, and we are lesser for it.
00:37We have been robbed of a life with nieces and nephews and grandchildren and with sisters to grow old with.
00:48This sort of mindless violence continues to steal from all of us.
00:52This day has been a long time coming.
00:57More than a quarter century ago, in a circumstance much like this today, I said that Austin lost its innocence the night those young souls became victims.
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