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The Yogurt Shop Murders Season 1 Episode 1
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00:00:34Do you have any more of this particular shirt?
00:00:38Because it jumps from a 16.5-34 to a 17.5-37.
00:00:43Okay.
00:00:4416.5-37.
00:00:49What kind of clothes are you supposed to get?
00:00:51I'm getting clothes for the 48-hour interview.
00:00:53And more extra clothes to go to court and nice dress clothes and stuff like that.
00:01:01Looks good.
00:01:02Looks good.
00:01:03The pants look long.
00:01:05Yeah, they are a little bit long.
00:01:06I think we need to go with the 29s.
00:01:08There you go.
00:01:10Did you want to go shorter?
00:01:11But that's basically where they should live.
00:01:13If that's the way they're supposed to be, then that's the way they're supposed to be.
00:01:16I'll go with that then.
00:01:17Yeah, anytime all your slacks you hit about right at the back of the hill.
00:01:20That's a little fun.
00:01:22Yeah, see, I'm so used to doing this with my mom, but all my family's out of state right now.
00:01:26Oh my gosh.
00:01:27You're on your own.
00:01:29Yeah, finally.
00:01:30And I'm sure you probably think it's really funny, but we're doing a documentary because I just got off death
00:01:35row.
00:01:36Oh, okay.
00:01:40Four young Austin girls dead.
00:01:42At the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt Shop, where two of them worked.
00:01:45Shot and killed during an apparent robbery.
00:01:47The bodies were found in the back of the shop badly burned.
00:01:51Authorities are sifting through the evidence, hoping to find some answers.
00:01:54The Lanier School community have been saddened by the tragic deaths of four young ladies for whom we mourn today.
00:02:02I can't believe it happened.
00:02:03Because I had to see for myself that it really did.
00:02:06You don't ever think anybody's going to come into a yogurt place.
00:02:10It's you, Jen, and all your friends.
00:02:11It just doesn't happen at a yogurt place.
00:02:15You sure have been most helpful and very generous today, so I'll definitely come back and do business with you.
00:02:24Because I used to be a salesman at Radio Shack myself, so I understand a little bit of what you're
00:02:28going through.
00:02:29Yeah.
00:02:29Yeah, I spent two years in a county jail, and then four years on death row, and then two years
00:02:35in population.
00:02:3617-year-old Jennifer Harbison, her 15-year-old sister Sarah, and 17-year-old Eliza Thomas all died from
00:02:43a single gunshot wound to the back of the head.
00:02:4513-year-old Amy Ayers was shot twice in the back of the head.
00:02:49Senseless is a word being used most often as police describe often the worst murder tape.
00:03:01First name?
00:03:02It's Robert.
00:03:02Robert.
00:03:03And your last name, Robert?
00:03:04Springsteen.
00:03:05Oh.
00:03:07Not related to Brewster.
00:03:09Well, as a matter of fact, I am.
00:03:10He's like my dad's sixth cousin, so I guess he would make him my seventh cousin.
00:03:15Wow.
00:03:16All righty.
00:03:17All righty.
00:03:17That's all set, guys.
00:03:18Good luck to you.
00:03:20Everything's going to work out okay?
00:03:21It sure seems that way, at least for right now.
00:03:24You're also a good start, man.
00:03:25Thank you, Jerry.
00:03:26I appreciate your assistance today.
00:03:28You bet.
00:03:28You have a good one.
00:03:29Thank you very much.
00:03:32I was living in a devil town.
00:03:39Didn't know it was a devil town.
00:03:45Oh, Lord, it really brings me down about the devil town.
00:04:17Is this okay?
00:04:20A little higher, please?
00:04:21A little higher, a little higher.
00:04:23There you go.
00:04:30Whenever you're ready, just tell me.
00:04:32Yeah.
00:04:32I think we're ready.
00:04:33You ready?
00:04:34Yeah.
00:04:36Let's go.
00:04:36Let's do it.
00:04:38Thank you, sir, for doing this.
00:04:40You're welcome.
00:04:41I am curious about what initially drew you to the story.
00:04:47Well, I just was curious about how you got involved in this, the yogurt shop.
00:04:51Okay.
00:04:52How does it feel to be part of this thing, 31 years later?
00:04:56What does that feel like?
00:05:03I'm interested in the trauma that surrounds this case because-
00:05:06The what?
00:05:07The trauma that surrounds this case, the depth that people like you cared about it.
00:05:13You know, I'm interested because Austin is where I live.
00:05:16I remember this case.
00:05:17I know how important it is.
00:05:18But also, like, is there a way that the story can help with healing?
00:05:26It's a very open question.
00:05:30At a point, it's just, do you want to be the weak person and just have this thing totally
00:05:41consume your life, or do you want to go ahead and live?
00:05:44People don't want to talk about their grief.
00:05:46That's private.
00:05:47It's just, I've learned to deal with it in different ways.
00:05:52People are afraid to share the brutality that they've been through.
00:05:58What comes up first when you think of her?
00:06:03For one, it's been 30 years, 7 months, 5 days, and I still can't believe it.
00:06:16There are a lot of details to the case.
00:06:18There are a lot of people with strong opinions.
00:06:21You think you know one thing, and then you talk to somebody,
00:06:25and they convince you of an entirely different thing.
00:06:29That's right.
00:06:30On this day in 1991, four teenagers were shot and murdered
00:06:34inside what was a yogurt shop in this strip mall.
00:06:37What you're reduced to is just people's experiences
00:06:41of the crime and its effects.
00:07:07Some will die in hot pursuit and fiery auto crashes.
00:07:10We're here in the drag in Austin, Texas,
00:07:13asking people about life on other planets.
00:07:17Whoa, check it out, check it out.
00:07:19Bam!
00:07:22What did you have for breakfast this morning?
00:07:24I don't remember.
00:07:25I was pretty wasted.
00:07:27Are you a student?
00:07:29No, actually, I'm just in a band, mostly.
00:07:34Someone with some big rocks had big plans to change the landscape.
00:07:39I feel bad about being displaced by all those people coming here, right?
00:07:44And it makes me wonder what's going to happen in the future.
00:07:51Austin used to be a little college town.
00:07:55And then it started to become a big city.
00:07:59And a big city crime happened here.
00:08:02Do you remember that time?
00:08:04Can you sort of tell us stories about that time?
00:08:07Well, it was one of the most shocking stories I've heard
00:08:09in the 20 years that I've lived here.
00:08:11People were scared to go out.
00:08:12People were scared to go get yogurt.
00:08:13I mean, how scary is that?
00:08:16I don't know that the city of Austin has ever been the same
00:08:18since the yogurt shop murders.
00:08:20I mean, that was a loss of innocence for this town, for sure.
00:08:26The yogurt shop murders was like a ghost story that people told.
00:08:30It was always told in hushed tones, this happened here.
00:08:37Partly because nobody has all the details.
00:08:40Also because it was never solved.
00:08:45This case was so big in Austin,
00:08:47it was exciting to work on a film about it,
00:08:51even if I didn't really know what I was doing.
00:08:55How many years ago since you filmed this?
00:08:58So that was in, I think,
00:09:00all of this filming took place around 2009, I guess.
00:09:05And I'm sure you probably think it's really funny,
00:09:07but we're doing a documentary
00:09:08because I just got off that road.
00:09:11Oh, okay.
00:09:12I was taking a video class,
00:09:14and I had access,
00:09:16because I had this friend
00:09:17who had worked on the case.
00:09:22Ed, can you see it from there?
00:09:24Hold it up.
00:09:25Hold it up like that.
00:09:28And then I didn't finish it.
00:09:31Of course, I had all this amazing footage
00:09:33to look back on.
00:09:36Tonight we're going out to the,
00:09:38where the yogurt shop used to be,
00:09:39the building to test the theory.
00:09:42This was the kind of case
00:09:43that never left anybody who worked on it.
00:09:45When these shootings happened,
00:09:48there were a bunch of boys drinking in a creek
00:09:50right behind the yogurt shop.
00:09:54It's where that cash advance store was.
00:09:57That used to be the yogurt shop.
00:10:02There were booths along the sides,
00:10:04and there were tables in the middle.
00:10:08And the cashier would be behind that,
00:10:11looks like a fika tree,
00:10:13but I think it's plastic.
00:10:16And that counter there,
00:10:18where people would come up and order yogurt,
00:10:22behind that,
00:10:23they had the refrigerators,
00:10:25and there's a separate room back there,
00:10:26and it was back there
00:10:29that the girls were killed
00:10:32and that the place was set on fire.
00:10:40It's a little chilling standing here like this.
00:10:43There's a terrible tragedy here.
00:10:46Let's go ahead down
00:10:48and we'll position the film crew.
00:10:52This case doesn't make any sense.
00:10:56And everybody who was touched by it
00:10:58can't get to the bottom of the narrative.
00:11:07Jonesy?
00:11:08Yeah.
00:11:09You hear about the call,
00:11:102900 West Anderson?
00:11:12Yeah, I'm headed over there.
00:11:13Okay.
00:11:14I'll meet you out there.
00:11:172900?
00:11:22Homicide 4.
00:11:27People ask me all the time,
00:11:28how long are you in homicide?
00:11:29And my response is 153 bodies,
00:11:33because that's how you measure time
00:11:34when you're a homicide detective.
00:11:38In some cities across the state,
00:11:40people are killing each other in record numbers.
00:11:43Tonight, we take a look at Austin,
00:11:44as crime reporter Lisa Kosolu continues
00:11:46her Channel 7 News co-sign...
00:11:48A Channel 7 reporter
00:11:49is doing a series on murder in Texas.
00:11:52They went riding around with me
00:11:54and then we made calls.
00:11:55There seemed to be a lot more
00:11:58random murders,
00:12:00random violence.
00:12:01And then while we were at the last call,
00:12:04they called me on my handheld radio.
00:12:08Okay, I'm copying the fire part
00:12:10you cut out on the first part of that.
00:12:14And I go,
00:12:15fire?
00:12:16That's what they need me for.
00:12:19Yeah, apparently we're all
00:12:20where you're on the side
00:12:21is free fatality.
00:12:25That's 10-4.
00:12:26We're in a round.
00:12:29A triple fatality.
00:12:32A murder.
00:12:33Great.
00:12:39Where do I need to come to in here?
00:12:41What place of business is this?
00:12:45This is the, uh,
00:12:46I can't believe it's you.
00:12:49Okay.
00:12:53By the time I got there,
00:12:54as I pulled into the parking lot
00:12:56was when they called me on the radio
00:12:58and said they found a fourth one.
00:13:09I had to go in through
00:13:11the party shop,
00:13:12which was the next door,
00:13:13because I couldn't go in the front door
00:13:15because the fire department
00:13:16was still in there
00:13:16knocking down the fire.
00:13:23It was still smoldering.
00:13:25They had pulled down the ceiling
00:13:27so there was water everywhere,
00:13:29there was steam everywhere,
00:13:31there was smoke everywhere.
00:13:34As it started to clear out,
00:13:37you could see the bodies,
00:13:40three together,
00:13:41and then one away from the others.
00:13:48I'm not at all afraid
00:13:50to go in the room
00:13:51and see a dead person.
00:13:53I don't want to see no dead child.
00:13:56That don't work with me.
00:14:05The obvious question
00:14:07when you got females
00:14:09that are stripped,
00:14:11shot, and burned
00:14:12is where they sexually assaulted.
00:14:16When a body's been declared dead,
00:14:18it belongs to the medical examiner.
00:14:19The medical examiner
00:14:21wanted to just load them up
00:14:23and take them down
00:14:24to the morgue
00:14:25to do an autopsy,
00:14:26but I wanted them
00:14:28to wait until DPS got there
00:14:30so they could do swabs
00:14:31because DNA was something
00:14:32fairly new then.
00:14:34But I knew and Huck knew
00:14:36that that was important.
00:14:37And if it hadn't been for Huck,
00:14:40you know,
00:14:40he's the one who talked him into
00:14:41waiting until DPS got there.
00:14:47We called the manager.
00:14:49She said there's only
00:14:50supposed to be two girls there.
00:14:52Only Jennifer and Eliza
00:14:54actually weren't there.
00:14:58It was my first day
00:15:00of my vacation,
00:15:00and my mother-in-law
00:15:02knocked on the door
00:15:04and said, you know,
00:15:05you got a phone call.
00:15:06The police are on the phone for you.
00:15:09And no phone call
00:15:10in the middle of the night
00:15:11is a good call.
00:15:12Never.
00:15:12I was just kind of like,
00:15:13yes, sir.
00:15:15He said, well,
00:15:15we've had a fire
00:15:17at the yogurt shop
00:15:17and I'm looking at the time
00:15:19and I'm like,
00:15:20okay, let it burn.
00:15:22You know,
00:15:22I was kind of kidding
00:15:23because I knew
00:15:24that the girls
00:15:25would have been finished.
00:15:26And he says,
00:15:27well, I need you to sit down.
00:15:28I'm like, I'm fine.
00:15:29What's wrong?
00:15:31And he said,
00:15:33no, no, no.
00:15:33I need you to sit down.
00:15:35And again,
00:15:36he tried to warn me.
00:15:38And I said,
00:15:39no, sir,
00:15:39what's wrong?
00:15:40And he said,
00:15:41well, we have four dead bodies.
00:15:44And my knees went,
00:15:46it just, boom.
00:15:54And he said,
00:15:55can you come up here?
00:16:01It's slow motion.
00:16:03It's literally slow motion.
00:16:05There was like this mist
00:16:07and I could see the yogurt shop
00:16:09and there was just lights
00:16:11flashing everywhere,
00:16:12sirens, fire trucks.
00:16:14And I remember
00:16:14sort of a panic hitting in,
00:16:16like, okay,
00:16:18this is real.
00:16:19This is real.
00:16:19This is real.
00:16:22We pulled up
00:16:23and I think it was Jones
00:16:25and Huckabee.
00:16:26One of them said,
00:16:28do you,
00:16:29do you think that
00:16:30if we went inside
00:16:31you could identify the bodies?
00:16:33Sure.
00:16:34I said,
00:16:35it'd be better for me
00:16:35to do it
00:16:36than the families.
00:16:41I was only 24.
00:16:43I wasn't thinking
00:16:45fire and burned people.
00:16:48I agreed to it
00:16:49because it was the right thing to do
00:16:51and I still feel that
00:16:52to this day.
00:16:54It was just best.
00:16:58There was fire trucks
00:16:59in the back alley
00:17:00and there was media everywhere.
00:17:03We wound up going
00:17:04through the front of the store.
00:17:08There's no lights.
00:17:10Dark.
00:17:12You know,
00:17:13you got the counter,
00:17:15the machines,
00:17:16and then there's the door
00:17:17that leads you to the back.
00:17:23The water was dripping down
00:17:25on you
00:17:25and it was dark.
00:17:26It was just ominous
00:17:29and there wasn't
00:17:31anything there
00:17:31to identify.
00:17:35So
00:17:39they didn't have faces.
00:17:42There's no clothing.
00:17:47Fire's very destructive.
00:17:50It's not forgiving.
00:17:55It's fine.
00:18:15It's alright.
00:18:23What we found in the back there was we found four victims, that's all we can comment on
00:18:29right now.
00:18:29Were the victims together or were they in different parts of the building?
00:18:33No, I can't.
00:18:34Can't give you that either.
00:18:35Were they bounded in any way?
00:18:37Can't give you that.
00:18:38Was there any sign of forced entry to this building?
00:18:41Can't give you that.
00:18:42What can you give?
00:18:43Just what I gave you.
00:18:44It's still very early in the investigation, okay?
00:18:48And there'll probably come a point that we need that information to solve this case.
00:18:54Put your hand.
00:18:56Hold on, put your hands right here.
00:18:56It's already turned online.
00:18:58I've got it.
00:18:58Right here.
00:18:59I know.
00:18:59She puts her hands right here.
00:19:00And look.
00:19:01Okay.
00:19:02Yay!
00:19:05I was 13.
00:19:07I was at my dad's house.
00:19:10And then in the middle of the night, there was banging on the front door.
00:19:15Let me kiss the door.
00:19:16And they didn't really know anything.
00:19:18I mean, that was like the confusing part about that night.
00:19:21You know, as they came in, they were like, there was a fire and said something happened
00:19:26to Eliza.
00:19:29Yeah, it was such a confusing scene.
00:19:31I just remember.
00:19:31And I, my body just started to have this really strong reaction and my, my teeth just
00:19:36started chattering.
00:19:38Yeah, and I remember at one point just putting my hand in my mouth to try to stop my teeth
00:19:42from chattering.
00:19:45My parents were the worst.
00:19:48So, at some point we had to go to tell my mom what was going on.
00:19:54And my mom wouldn't come out of the house to talk to the police officer.
00:19:58I just remember my dad, you know, saying, you know, take care of your mom and then leaving.
00:20:06My mom, like, went to her room and I just started cleaning the house.
00:20:14And at some point I turned on the TV and this story was on the news.
00:20:21The first sign that something was wrong came just after midnight last night.
00:20:25That's when a passing police officer noticed smoke coming out of the store.
00:20:28But once the smoke cleared, firefighters made a grim discovery.
00:20:33They found the bodies of four young victims.
00:20:36All had been shot in the head.
00:20:38The victims are identified as Eliza Thomas.
00:20:41And my sister's picture was on the news.
00:20:44I remember going to bed and just thinking, like, I've never woken up on a day that my sister
00:20:53wasn't alive, you know?
00:20:56There's no Sonora without Eliza.
00:20:58There's no Eliza without Sonora.
00:21:00She was 17 years old and a student at Lanier High School.
00:21:04Jennifer Harbison, also 17 years of age, and her 15-year-old sister, Sarah Harbison.
00:21:11Both girls were Lanier High School students.
00:21:13It was just unspeakable that someone did this on purpose.
00:21:20It was unspeakable.
00:21:22You know, you just have all those regrets of not protecting.
00:21:30Home videotapes give us intimate glimpses of the girls and their personalities.
00:21:36Jennifer was 17.
00:21:38Sarah was 15.
00:21:41Jennifer's athletic claim to fame was track.
00:21:44Sarah loved the game of basketball.
00:21:45These balloons here are from Sarah's last birthday.
00:21:49Barbara and Frank Sarasi spend a lot of time in their daughter's rooms.
00:21:52This is Jennifer's room.
00:21:54She, too, was a tomboy.
00:21:57Two weeks after the murders, a reporter came to our house and he said, you're not crying.
00:22:03And I said, I don't have anything left.
00:22:07As a matter of fact, this is Jennifer's pen from the yogurt store for her uniform.
00:22:11I just get to a point that I couldn't cry a lot anymore.
00:22:17Jennifer and Sarah shared a passion, FFA, raising sheep.
00:22:21They really just love those animals.
00:22:23They just love them.
00:22:25Frank and Barbara still do not believe their girls are gone.
00:22:28They know someday the killers will be caught.
00:22:30We chose to be public about this from the beginning, hoping that it would help solve our case sooner.
00:22:36And so any opportunity that we had to be in front of a camera at any time, most of us
00:22:43parents would do that.
00:22:45If there was ever anyone who was nearly born in the saddle, it was Amy Ayers.
00:22:50Happy birthday.
00:22:52Amy's birthday.
00:22:54At 12, she got her cutting horse, Copy.
00:22:57Her love of animals took her to the FFA.
00:23:00And it was through the FFA that she became friends with Jennifer and Sarah Harbison.
00:23:04You didn't have to worry about those two when they were together.
00:23:07You knew that they were going to be safe in what they did.
00:23:10That was until the night of December 6th.
00:23:13Amy and her three best friends were killed.
00:23:20The clearest memory I have of her is the first time I got to hold her.
00:23:23And I was sitting in a rocking chair.
00:23:25Her in my lap.
00:23:26I remember.
00:23:27Because I wanted a little sister so bad.
00:23:28I didn't want a little brother.
00:23:30So when I had a little sister, I was badmats.
00:23:33I got everything I wanted right there.
00:23:41Vacuumed a little bit there.
00:23:45There's not one day that I do not think of her.
00:23:47Or Sarah, Jennifer, or Liza, any of them.
00:24:06My dad's always ranched.
00:24:08We've always had animals, did cowboy stuff.
00:24:11I mean, that's how I was raised.
00:24:14The best way to live or raise kids is on a ranch.
00:24:18If you're on a ranch, you've got everything you want.
00:24:22We had our own milk cows.
00:24:23We had a garden.
00:24:24We had our own beef.
00:24:26I'd ride a horse to the mailbox.
00:24:28It's just the little things like that.
00:24:35The kids, they seen calves and horses be born.
00:24:39Seen them grow up.
00:24:41Seen them get fat.
00:24:42Seen some die.
00:24:43You know, it was real life.
00:24:44It was real.
00:24:49When I think of her, I think of horses.
00:24:53But ever since she was knee high to a duck, she liked the horses.
00:25:02Riding a cutting horse is riding a cutting horse.
00:25:04You're doing the same thing that the adults are doing.
00:25:07There's no kid version of riding a cutting horse.
00:25:10It's all the same thing.
00:25:14A lot of times I'd be riding some colts and I'd be having a problem.
00:25:17I'd just stick her on it for a couple of days.
00:25:20She'd ride them in the pasture, do this, do that.
00:25:22Come back and my problems were over.
00:25:24She just knew animals.
00:25:29She was happy.
00:25:30I mean, she could be very serious.
00:25:32She's kind of an old soul, but she was happy and most happy around animals.
00:25:37So when I see kids and animals together, it really reminds me of her.
00:25:44And after we'd moved to Austin, she got involved with the Junior FFA.
00:25:50Future Farmers of America.
00:25:52The farm was kind of like our little getaway.
00:25:59After school, everybody go to the farm.
00:26:01We raised animals and stuff together.
00:26:03That's how I got to know Jennifer and Liza and Amy and all them.
00:26:07To me, FFA teaches me to be a better person and to learn more about people and how things work.
00:26:37The thing that sucks is the older I get, the less I can remember about her.
00:26:46And I mean, I try to remember.
00:26:47I don't know why it's happening.
00:26:49It bugs me.
00:26:50But it's, I mean, it's weird.
00:27:14I've written a previous book about a murder.
00:27:19And I learned to deal with extreme behavior, the extremities of what people are capable of.
00:27:31What a human being can do to another human being.
00:27:37So we're going back to the day it happened and the 48 hours afterward.
00:27:41In your mind, what are the most pertinent thing of those first 48 hours?
00:27:48I think what really, if you want to get down to it, made this almost impossible to solve, was the
00:27:58fire and the water.
00:28:02Especially the water.
00:28:11When I got inside the yogurt shop, I was in water up here.
00:28:17That's how much the fire had come in there.
00:28:20Turns out a lot of the firemen were kind of worried that they had disturbed the crime scene.
00:28:26You know, there was soot everywhere.
00:28:28So much of the evidence was probably contaminated.
00:28:33So taking fingerprints was kind of pointless.
00:28:37Although we tried.
00:28:39We found a key left in the front door.
00:28:43But that was apparently part of the process of when they got ready to close to put the key in
00:28:49the front door.
00:28:49We went through the whole procedure front to back.
00:28:54First of all, if there was some customers in the store, you'd lock the door and they would sit and
00:28:59usually finish.
00:29:00There were some people that would stay and I know that there was regulars that they knew or felt comfortable
00:29:05with.
00:29:06We had a radio and they would dance in the back and giggle and they were always smiling, always happy.
00:29:13It was a job, but I don't know that it was work to them.
00:29:19They had a set order.
00:29:21I do believe the toppings were put away.
00:29:26Machines were cleaned, but the gaskets weren't put back on.
00:29:31I think there was a bucket still sitting there on a ladder.
00:29:35There was still water in the sink where they were washing the topping ladles.
00:29:41My guess is they were close to being finished.
00:29:45But they had extra help.
00:29:46The other two girls, I'm sure, were put to work.
00:29:50Earlier that night, Sarah and Amy, the two younger girls, had been walking around North Cross Mall.
00:29:57Jennifer picked them up when the mall closed and took them to the yogurt shop.
00:30:02North Cross Mall is blocks from the yogurt shop.
00:30:05I mean, it's walking distance, really.
00:30:07But, you know, safe side, she went and picked them up, brought them back, ordered pizza,
00:30:12and they may have been in the back helping clean up when the intruders came.
00:30:23We surmised the yogurt shop case was a robbery gone bad.
00:30:29That it went sideways because the bad guys, however many there were,
00:30:34weren't aware that there were two more girls in the back of the store.
00:30:37So they'd been casing it even for a short period of time.
00:30:40All they would have seen was the two girls out front.
00:30:44So they were up against four, four FFA girls on top of that.
00:30:50Who knows what all happened in there, but it didn't take long.
00:30:54Maybe they were in there 20, 25 minutes, and then it would have probably taken another 15 minutes for the
00:31:02fire to build up to the point to where it was noticeable to the guy next door in the party
00:31:06shop.
00:31:08I think the girls tried to get out the front door.
00:31:11They took off running.
00:31:13And they stopped them, took them back in the back, and thought,
00:31:18they're going to call the cops.
00:31:19So they killed them.
00:31:22And then the fire was started.
00:31:27The bodies were in two locations.
00:31:29The three girls were stacked near the back door.
00:31:31And then the fourth one, which was Amy, was 10, 13 feet away from the others.
00:31:39All four girls were tied with their own underwear, brassieres,
00:31:46and were shot in the back of the head with a .22 caliber pistol.
00:31:55There were two guns used, the .22 and the .380.
00:32:01The .22, the round is small and soft, and it's just about impossible to get ballistics off a .22.
00:32:09The .380 round that had been used on Amy.
00:32:13Found it in a drain.
00:32:15And it was perfectly preserved.
00:32:19The lands and grooves told us exactly what kind of gun it was.
00:32:24We knew what we were looking for exactly.
00:32:29It's the most wonderful time of the year.
00:32:36North Cross Mall was really beautiful and big and fun.
00:32:41And there was an ice skating rink.
00:32:43Christmas decorations were out and Santa Claus around.
00:32:48The movie theaters showed the Rocky Horror Show,
00:32:51and they did these dramas where they acted out the parts at midnight.
00:32:59That's where kids went to hang out, to walk around, not so much to buy anything.
00:33:08A week after the Yoga Shop murders,
00:33:12a boy named Maurice Pierce decides to go to North Cross Mall,
00:33:18the same mall that Sarah and Amy had been in the previous week,
00:33:23and walk around with a gun, a pistol, in the waistband of his jeans.
00:33:29And it was loaded, and he had bullets in his pocket.
00:33:35His young disciple, Forrest Welburn, just adored Maurice,
00:33:42and would do pretty much whatever he could do to be in his presence.
00:33:46Because he was magnetic, Maurice.
00:33:49And they were walking around the mall with this gun.
00:33:55Maurice got arrested with a .22 pistol at North Cross Mall,
00:33:58which was two blocks away from the Yoga Shop.
00:34:02And we'd put out that we were looking for a .22 and a .380.
00:34:05So they get a young kid over there who's got a .22 pistol, and he's two blocks away.
00:34:12They took him, and he was questioned by a cop named Hector Polanco.
00:34:19A homicide investigator for five years,
00:34:21Polanco has never had a murder case go unsolved.
00:34:28Hector interviewed him for three or four hours, I guess,
00:34:32before he called us in, and we came in.
00:34:36I just took down what he said, and I'd stop every now and then and ask him to clarify stuff.
00:34:42My name is Maurice Earl Pierce. I'm 16 years old.
00:34:46I am at the Austin Police Department giving this statement to Sergeant J. Jones
00:34:50concerning what I know about the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt murders last Friday night.
00:34:55I picked up Forrest Wellborn from McCallum High School.
00:34:59We rode around for a while, went to my house.
00:35:03Forrest said, let's get the gun.
00:35:05So I took it out of my closet where I kept it, and he put it in the glove box.
00:35:11Forrest and I went up to North Cross Mall.
00:35:14Forrest got out of the car with the gun.
00:35:17I went to the bathroom, and Forrest went somewhere else.
00:35:20We split up.
00:35:22So about 10.45, I just went and sat out in the car waiting for him.
00:35:27Forrest showed up at my car at about 11.30.
00:35:30He got in the car and handed me the gun, then said, I did something.
00:35:36I said, like what?
00:35:38But he never did answer.
00:35:41So Maurice gave up Forrest Wellborn and said Forrest had borrowed his gun and had disappeared for a while.
00:35:51And come back sweaty and the gun had been fired and he was smelling of hairspray.
00:35:59Which Maurice explained as the way to start a fire, to spray hairspray and throw a match in it.
00:36:07When asked who else was with him that night, Maurice said Rob Springsteen and Michael Scott.
00:36:19Forrest and I left the mall.
00:36:21We met Rob Springsteen and Mike.
00:36:24Then we went riding around, went up to the trails and shot the gun off because Mike and Rob said
00:36:30they wanted to.
00:36:32Michael Scott and Rob Springsteen, they were layabouts, they drank a lot of beer, smoked weed, like a lot of
00:36:41kids their age.
00:36:42They were looking for trouble.
00:36:45The day after the murders, those four guys stole a car and went to San Antonio to visit a girlfriend.
00:36:54Forrest and I saw a goldish tan colored pathfinder with keys in it.
00:36:59We took it and went and picked up Rob and Mike and went driving.
00:37:04They stole a car and went to San Antonio.
00:37:07And they drove around and did stupid stuff and then came back, parked it, stole a car where they had
00:37:13gotten it from.
00:37:15When we got back to Austin, I dropped Rob and Mike at Rob's house.
00:37:20Forrest asked me if he could borrow the gun.
00:37:23I told him no.
00:37:24I asked him why.
00:37:25He said because I want to go do what I did last night.
00:37:30Go kill some more girls.
00:37:36Don't drive so fast, okay?
00:37:38All right.
00:37:38And don't look around, don't look suspicious.
00:37:41Just do what you gotta do.
00:37:43Act normal.
00:37:44All right?
00:37:45We'll be close by, so...
00:37:48Later the next day, we wired him up and sent him out to Forrest.
00:37:53I'm scared, I'm nervous.
00:37:55He's coming, he's coming, he's coming, he's coming.
00:37:59And we listened to that, we were following him on the wire.
00:38:03What did you actually do that night?
00:38:05That Friday.
00:38:06Huh?
00:38:07That Friday.
00:38:08That Friday?
00:38:09When you, when you said that you wanted to use a gun.
00:38:13When I wanted to use a gun.
00:38:14Yeah, and you said that you'd kill those girls.
00:38:17Were you joking around or what?
00:38:21Were you joking?
00:38:25Don't, don't play like that, Forrest.
00:38:27Did you, or did you not kill those girls?
00:38:30Yeah, I'm joking.
00:38:31Then why'd you say that, Forrest?
00:38:34Did it mean you were just around that day, huh?
00:38:36Were you lying?
00:38:38No.
00:38:38When you said that?
00:38:40Did I kill them?
00:38:41Yes.
00:38:41I'm playing.
00:38:43Hope you're telling me, Forrest.
00:38:46I don't see.
00:38:47And I know you won't like him.
00:38:49Will you?
00:38:50No, no.
00:38:53Who else could have had possession of that gun?
00:38:55No, Forrest.
00:38:58How clear it was here?
00:38:59Mom, I was gonna do that night.
00:39:02One night?
00:39:04That's the one that's worked that one time.
00:39:06I don't care.
00:39:08I've never had a medical no, as long as any.
00:39:10Nothing left to the ground.
00:39:13That gun's on the field too.
00:39:15I don't know if they were very serious.
00:39:17There ain't no way that gun's good or anything.
00:39:20Where is nothing less?
00:39:21They need to call any love that you told them for girls.
00:39:24I'm wearing.
00:39:34He was trying to lead Forrest along
00:39:37and Forrest had no idea what he was talking about.
00:39:41And we got Forrest in to interview him.
00:39:44Forrest, he couldn't organize a two-car parade.
00:39:48I mean, he just, you know, he couldn't have held it in.
00:39:52And, you know, we had Sergeant Polanco
00:39:55and two other homicide investigators that had been there a while.
00:39:59They knew interrogation.
00:40:02So could they have done it? Yeah, they could have.
00:40:06Did they? I don't know. Where's the evidence?
00:40:13You get to a point
00:40:16where your inner body, soul and all that
00:40:21comes up and says, this is a guy.
00:40:24I felt that.
00:40:26Just the way he acted and reacted and all that.
00:40:32Something here, huh?
00:40:35But I had to prove it.
00:40:37You have to get a written confession
00:40:40signed by the guy to get him indicted, you know.
00:40:42If you don't have a confession,
00:40:44then you better have a bunch of good evidence
00:40:46to prove that he did it.
00:40:48Well, we didn't have that.
00:40:50We didn't have anything to prove, you know.
00:40:52I mean, we didn't know fingerprints.
00:41:09Good morning, it's 10 o'clock.
00:41:10I'm Larry Brill.
00:41:11The families of four girls murdered earlier this month
00:41:13at a yogurt store are making a plea for help this morning.
00:41:16The investigation has been moving along slowly,
00:41:19but police and the families need help to catch the killers.
00:41:21We are the parents and step-parents
00:41:25of the four young teenage girls
00:41:28brutally slain at the North Austin yogurt shop
00:41:33on December 6th, 1991.
00:41:38We've been told that the community
00:41:40is looking to us for leadership and advice
00:41:44on ways to handle this tragedy and what to do.
00:41:48The families are still having good days mixed with bad.
00:41:52So are the police.
00:41:54Under the close scrutiny of an angry and impatient public,
00:41:57investigators have been going full throttle now
00:41:59to turn up any new clues
00:42:01as to who might have killed the four girls.
00:42:04There's a lot of things that we did in this case
00:42:07that hadn't been done before.
00:42:09We sent undercover guys to the funerals
00:42:12and had it mic'd up just in case somebody showed up to apologize.
00:42:17We pulled every ticket that was written in that part of town.
00:42:22We called two or three times for all of the customers
00:42:25that had been in the yoga shop.
00:42:27Without video evidence,
00:42:29we're depending on people answering the call through the media.
00:42:33It's just going to take the right phone call,
00:42:35the right little piece of information.
00:42:37The ones that used credit cards, we knew.
00:42:40But we got quite a few in that had used cash.
00:42:44I think everybody wanted to help.
00:42:45Customers and friends of the victim have told us
00:42:47about what they consider to be suspicious people
00:42:51going in and out of the restaurant.
00:42:53Something else we did in the yoga shop
00:42:55because we hypnotized everybody that was in the shop.
00:43:00Maybe they had seen something the night they were in there
00:43:03that they all looked fairly unusual.
00:43:06That's how we got composites from several of them
00:43:09is we put them under hypnosis.
00:43:11Police are expected to release part of an in-depth psychological profile
00:43:15developed last week with help from the FBI.
00:43:18The assessment of the ICBY murders are as follows.
00:43:22Although the race of the offenders in this case
00:43:24is difficult to determine,
00:43:26it is probable that the killers are white.
00:43:29Although other races cannot be eliminated on this basis alone
00:43:33due to the fact that other races do frequent this commercialized area,
00:43:38the age of the offenders is also difficult to establish.
00:43:42But in all probability, they are in their late teens to mid-twenties.
00:43:45Likely unemployed or in a menial job,
00:43:48not requiring contact with the public,
00:43:50and likely we're dealing with residents of the area.
00:43:53One has a dominant personality
00:43:54and manipulates the weaker ones
00:43:56by forcing them to participate in some aspect of the crime.
00:44:00Police believe at least one of them has told someone else,
00:44:03and they're hoping this person will come forward.
00:44:06You have a person out there who wasn't there
00:44:08who knows he's standing there every day
00:44:10looking at a murderer
00:44:12who up to this point is getting away with it.
00:44:16The police need additional eyes and ears.
00:44:20If you think you have something to report,
00:44:23however seemingly insignificant,
00:44:26your tip may earn you a substantial reward.
00:44:30A daycare group that two of the murdered girls attended
00:44:33when they were in preschool, called Child Inc.,
00:44:36called for a community effort in solving the crime.
00:44:39A telephone company has paid to put billboards
00:44:41on more than 40 taxi cabs in Austin this week.
00:44:44Any information that anyone has
00:44:46that they think might be remotely helpful
00:44:47needs to be called in.
00:44:53We want those pictures up.
00:44:54We want people to know that these beautiful girls
00:44:57were alive, a part of this city,
00:44:59and we don't want anyone to forget
00:45:00that they lived, they were here,
00:45:02and they were murdered.
00:45:04Whoever did this is going to have to be caught,
00:45:05and they're going to have to be brought to justice.
00:45:09I always want someone watching me,
00:45:12because I know Eliza was my sister and my best friend.
00:45:17And half of me died when I heard the news.
00:45:27For somebody working around the clock on it,
00:45:30we're getting numerous calls still.
00:45:34And, you know, a lot of the information
00:45:36is just not any good.
00:45:38But we never know which piece of information
00:45:41is going to be the piece that we need to solve the puzzle.
00:45:45How close we were to the families.
00:45:47That's something else we did that was pretty unique.
00:45:50They were pretty much a part of the investigation.
00:45:52I mean, and they could come and go.
00:45:55They kind of walked in a couple times
00:45:57when we were jacking up some suspects.
00:45:59But, you know...
00:46:00John Jones and Mike Huckabee,
00:46:02they came to our house a lot.
00:46:04Of course, Mike Huckabee wore boots.
00:46:06He was kind of the cowboy of the police department
00:46:09when we got along.
00:46:11Bob was like me.
00:46:12I'm not really a cowboy,
00:46:14but I do a lot of cowboy stuff.
00:46:16Rodeos and stuff like that.
00:46:18We just sort of connected there.
00:46:21I didn't want to get real close,
00:46:24but it's hard not to.
00:46:26They would give us some tidbits
00:46:27or keep us up to date.
00:46:29You could see the stress on them,
00:46:31stress on us.
00:46:33I had full faith in them.
00:46:40Two months after the murders,
00:46:42members of the community came together
00:46:45to try and keep alive the memory
00:46:47of the four teenagers.
00:46:49We have the families over here, okay?
00:46:51A couple of Austin composers wrote a song
00:46:56we will not forget.
00:46:57Y'all, you ready to do one now?
00:46:59I know.
00:47:01I watch you lying there.
00:47:04You have my eyes and hair.
00:47:07I love your laughs,
00:47:09your coos and sighs.
00:47:11The answer to my prayer.
00:47:14We will not forget
00:47:20Time we had to share
00:47:25We will not forget
00:47:35Dreams you'll never dare
00:47:41We will not forget
00:47:44Several hundred people showed up
00:47:46to remember the girls.
00:47:49Some spent their time quietly reflecting,
00:47:52others reminiscing about the good times they'd had.
00:47:55We would walk together every day
00:47:56after the first period of the gym.
00:47:58We had to sit there packing.
00:48:00It was just me and her
00:48:00and we went down the hall.
00:48:01It helps to know that there are more people
00:48:04than just you going for an exact same thing
00:48:07and feeling an exact same thing.
00:48:15This is real painful stuff,
00:48:16so I really work hard
00:48:18to get back to the funny part of it
00:48:19because it's just too much.
00:48:22The thing I laughed about
00:48:24right after the girls died
00:48:25is that Americans,
00:48:26the way we deal with grief,
00:48:28let's see,
00:48:28we had t-shirts,
00:48:29we had coffee mugs,
00:48:30we had buttons,
00:48:31we had pins.
00:48:32We have to make a marketing opportunity
00:48:35out of everything.
00:48:36So we did.
00:48:37We sure did.
00:48:39We did all that too.
00:48:40So,
00:48:42isn't that funny?
00:48:43It's got their names on it.
00:48:52The deeper I got into it,
00:48:55the more incapable I felt
00:48:57of telling the story myself.
00:48:59This was Sarah's eighth grade,
00:49:02you can tell if she has glasses,
00:49:03and Jennifer's senior year.
00:49:07I would find myself
00:49:09talking about the case,
00:49:11the project that I'm working on.
00:49:13I'm working on this project.
00:49:16But the project's so dark.
00:49:18And I would talk about it
00:49:20as if this was
00:49:22like my path to professionalism.
00:49:28And they're both smiling.
00:49:29That's adorable.
00:49:30Oh my gosh.
00:49:33More white sands,
00:49:35more memories,
00:49:36more life,
00:49:36more...
00:49:37Oh yeah,
00:49:38that's very, very emotional
00:49:41to do that.
00:49:42So...
00:49:44Can we get a white shot
00:49:45of you looking through it?
00:49:47Yeah.
00:49:50People always say,
00:49:51oh, I just can't imagine.
00:49:52You don't need to.
00:49:53Don't even,
00:49:54don't even need to think about it.
00:49:56It's too much
00:49:56to think about,
00:49:58too much to carry with you forever.
00:49:59You'll have your own pain
00:50:00and your own way
00:50:01and your own time.
00:50:02You don't need to,
00:50:02you don't need to visit this one.
00:50:05It's enough.
00:50:09And then we have
00:50:11this sit-down interview
00:50:12with her.
00:50:13I don't remember it very well,
00:50:15but she was really open.
00:50:18Well, I guess,
00:50:19can we start off
00:50:21by your telling us
00:50:22how your daughter's
00:50:23were murdered?
00:50:24All right.
00:50:26So anyway.
00:50:28Why'd you turn it off?
00:50:29I am mortified
00:50:31by my own footage,
00:50:34which was,
00:50:35which made editing it difficult.
00:50:37But I think that's
00:50:39an insensitive way
00:50:40to start an interview.
00:50:45And what are you going to do?
00:50:47I mean,
00:50:47it is what it is.
00:50:48I wanted to get
00:50:49to that,
00:50:50um,
00:50:52that moment
00:50:53where
00:50:55you
00:50:58are sensitive
00:50:59to the terror
00:51:01that
00:51:02the girls faced.
00:51:04And
00:51:05I know that the families
00:51:06have thought about that.
00:51:07So I asked
00:51:09the question,
00:51:09but it sounds insensitive.
00:51:12I can see how she responds.
00:51:14Do you have a friend?
00:51:16Well,
00:51:17I guess,
00:51:18um,
00:51:18can we start off
00:51:19by your telling us
00:51:21how your daughters
00:51:21were murdered?
00:51:23Um,
00:51:26yeah.
00:51:27Uh,
00:51:28December the,
00:51:29the 6th
00:51:30was a Friday
00:51:31and,
00:51:32um,
00:51:33and I was at work
00:51:33and I talked
00:51:34to the girls
00:51:35on the phone
00:51:35and I was told
00:51:36them I was getting
00:51:36off early
00:51:37that day.
00:51:38And,
00:51:39uh,
00:51:39so I was supposed
00:51:40to get off
00:51:40at 4.30
00:51:42and,
00:51:42and when I came home,
00:51:44I was actually,
00:51:45actually it was 5.30
00:51:46when I got home.
00:51:46So,
00:51:47uh,
00:51:47uh,
00:51:48Sarah was sitting
00:51:48on the couch
00:51:49and she was peeling
00:51:50an orange
00:51:50and,
00:51:51uh,
00:51:52Jennifer,
00:51:53uh,
00:51:53wasn't high
00:51:53I asked her
00:51:54where her sister was
00:51:54and she said,
00:51:55she's over at Sam's.
00:51:56That was her boyfriend.
00:51:57That was Jennifer's boyfriend.
00:51:59And she,
00:51:59they had taken him
00:52:00home from school.
00:52:02and,
00:52:02but Sarah was,
00:52:03she said to me,
00:52:05she said,
00:52:05I'm going out tonight
00:52:05and I said,
00:52:06oh,
00:52:06you are.
00:52:08Interesting that she was
00:52:09telling me what she was
00:52:09going to do
00:52:10and,
00:52:12before she asked.
00:52:13And so,
00:52:14yeah,
00:52:14she said,
00:52:15I am,
00:52:15uh,
00:52:15we're going to,
00:52:16we're going to the mall.
00:52:18Uh,
00:52:19Amy's going to spend it
00:52:20out,
00:52:20we're going to the mall.
00:52:20I said,
00:52:20okay.
00:52:21And so,
00:52:23anyway,
00:52:24just,
00:52:24she was in such a good mood.
00:52:25She was such a good mood.
00:52:27That's the thing I remember
00:52:28the most about the last,
00:52:29that last evening.
00:52:36Jennifer was going to work
00:52:37at the yogurt shop that night
00:52:38and,
00:52:39I was so tired
00:52:40because my boss
00:52:41had been on vacation
00:52:41and Sarah wanted me
00:52:42to take her and Amy
00:52:43to the mall
00:52:44so they could do
00:52:45some Christmas shopping
00:52:46or whatever they were doing.
00:52:48And,
00:52:48uh,
00:52:49and I said,
00:52:49oh man,
00:52:50I just don't feel like it.
00:52:51And so,
00:52:52Jennifer,
00:52:53uh,
00:52:53I convinced Jennifer
00:52:54to take,
00:52:55uh,
00:52:56Sarah,
00:52:57uh,
00:52:57with her
00:52:58and to go pick up Amy
00:52:59before she,
00:53:00on her way to work
00:53:01and drop them both
00:53:01at the mall,
00:53:02which was just
00:53:03a block or two over
00:53:04from the yogurt store itself.
00:53:06And,
00:53:06uh,
00:53:07so,
00:53:08uh,
00:53:09I walked them out
00:53:10to the car
00:53:10and they were getting,
00:53:11you know,
00:53:12getting all their stuff together
00:53:12and,
00:53:13and,
00:53:14uh,
00:53:15you know,
00:53:15I got a hug
00:53:16from both of them.
00:53:17Of course,
00:53:18I told them I loved them
00:53:19and got to do that last,
00:53:22y'all be careful
00:53:23and I'll see you
00:53:25and,
00:53:26uh,
00:53:26I'll talk to you later.
00:53:27Y'all be careful.
00:53:28And off they went
00:53:29and that was the last time
00:53:31I saw them.
00:53:37My husband and I
00:53:38were at the house
00:53:38that night
00:53:39and,
00:53:39uh,
00:53:39he was watching TV
00:53:40and they had a special
00:53:41on Pearl Harbor
00:53:43and I just didn't want
00:53:44to watch it.
00:53:45It just upsets me
00:53:46so I didn't watch it
00:53:47so I went into the bedroom
00:53:48to watch TV,
00:53:50the Star Trek,
00:53:51I think,
00:53:51the reruns.
00:53:52And I was in there
00:53:53and I was laying
00:53:54across the bed.
00:53:55I still remember
00:53:56I had all my purple sweats
00:53:57of the day,
00:53:58you know,
00:53:58and I was all snugged
00:54:00but I fell asleep
00:54:01on top of the covers
00:54:02and he came to bed
00:54:04and sort of got in
00:54:05under his side
00:54:06and I never,
00:54:08uh,
00:54:08really got in the covers
00:54:09and then I heard
00:54:13the doorbell ring
00:54:14and it startled me
00:54:15because I wasn't
00:54:16exactly in bed
00:54:17and I wasn't exactly
00:54:18out of bed
00:54:19and I jumped up
00:54:20and he was in bed
00:54:22and I ran to the door
00:54:23and I didn't see the girls
00:54:25and I was,
00:54:25you know,
00:54:26things are running
00:54:26through your mind.
00:54:27It's not that many feet
00:54:28from my bed
00:54:29to the front door
00:54:29so I was looking
00:54:32and, uh,
00:54:33I turned the lights on
00:54:34and as soon as
00:54:35they opened the door
00:54:36there were two police officers
00:54:38and a lady
00:54:40with them
00:54:41and, uh,
00:54:42I said,
00:54:43Skip,
00:54:43the police are here.
00:54:44Something's wrong
00:54:45with the girls.
00:54:45They didn't tell me that.
00:54:47I knew.
00:54:48I knew.
00:54:49And he got up
00:54:50and they had us
00:54:51sit down on the couch
00:54:52and, uh,
00:54:53they said there had
00:54:54been a fire
00:54:55and, um,
00:55:07and that the girls
00:55:08were, uh,
00:55:09gone,
00:55:10that they were dead
00:55:12and, uh,
00:55:13and I kept trying
00:55:15to listen to that.
00:55:16I knew that didn't
00:55:17make sense.
00:55:19I knew that it
00:55:20didn't make sense
00:55:20because the girls
00:55:22wouldn't just burn up.
00:55:23they just wouldn't
00:55:23burn up in a fire
00:55:25and, um,
00:55:28and that they
00:55:28were both gone
00:55:29and,
00:55:33and, um,
00:55:36so you're,
00:55:37you're processing
00:55:38trying to
00:55:40make that work.
00:55:42How can someone be
00:55:43and then not be?
00:55:51and they wouldn't
00:55:52leave until we
00:55:52called someone
00:55:53to be with us.
00:55:54I didn't want
00:55:55anybody to know
00:55:56so I called,
00:55:57I'd slide.
00:55:58No, we don't have
00:55:58anybody.
00:55:59We don't know
00:55:59anyone.
00:56:00We can't tell
00:56:01that story.
00:56:02And finally,
00:56:03I admitted that
00:56:05I had a sister
00:56:06that lived
00:56:07in this town
00:56:09and, uh,
00:56:12um,
00:56:14so the,
00:56:15uh,
00:56:17the lady
00:56:18from the police
00:56:19department
00:56:19called my sister
00:56:21and it's so funny
00:56:22because we've laughed
00:56:23about this story
00:56:24since.
00:56:25She,
00:56:25she jumps
00:56:26out of bed
00:56:27and what does
00:56:27she put on?
00:56:28Her stupid blue sweats.
00:56:30So we're both
00:56:31dressed in these
00:56:32silly sweats.
00:56:34That's not funny,
00:56:35I know,
00:56:35but,
00:56:36uh,
00:56:38it's,
00:56:38it's just crazy.
00:56:39So she did get
00:56:41across town.
00:56:41She had to stop
00:56:42and get gas
00:56:42and she came
00:56:43across town
00:56:43in her blue sweats.
00:56:46And,
00:56:47um,
00:56:48and,
00:56:49and then I had
00:56:50to tell her
00:56:53the,
00:56:55what had really
00:56:55happened.
00:56:59I,
00:57:00uh,
00:57:03I,
00:57:04I had to tell her
00:57:05and I had
00:57:05to see her
00:57:05face.
00:57:08It was horrible
00:57:10to see her face.
00:57:13You don't want
00:57:13to tell people
00:57:14horrible things.
00:57:16And,
00:57:17and,
00:57:19that was,
00:57:21it was a really
00:57:22horrible thing.
00:57:25Acknowledging
00:57:26someone's death
00:57:26is just,
00:57:28it's just so
00:57:30very hard.
00:57:30hard.
00:57:32And,
00:57:32uh,
00:57:33so,
00:57:34um,
00:57:35of course,
00:57:36so then we have
00:57:37to call
00:57:38Mike
00:57:39Harbison,
00:57:40the girl's
00:57:41father,
00:57:43and hear
00:57:44his screams.
00:57:46And,
00:57:47uh,
00:57:50and his wife
00:57:51got on the phone
00:57:51and she was
00:57:53saying,
00:57:53tell me what
00:57:54happened.
00:57:54He's screaming
00:57:55and I don't know
00:57:55what happened.
00:57:56and we had
00:57:57to tell her.
00:58:01And,
00:58:02uh,
00:58:07so you have
00:58:08another person
00:58:09whose life
00:58:09is over
00:58:11and one more
00:58:12person whose
00:58:13life is over.
00:58:14And,
00:58:17I had to call
00:58:18my sister,
00:58:19my other sister,
00:58:22and tell
00:58:22them
00:58:24that life
00:58:24was over
00:58:26and,
00:58:27uh,
00:58:29and listen
00:58:30to the screams.
00:58:34And,
00:58:35uh,
00:58:37this was just
00:58:38our house.
00:58:38This was just
00:58:39my house.
00:58:40There were
00:58:41other houses.
00:58:42Bob and Pam
00:58:43had to go
00:58:44through this.
00:58:45Uh,
00:58:46Maria Thomas
00:58:47had to go
00:58:47through this.
00:58:48Of telling
00:58:49the families
00:58:50the news
00:58:51of the
00:58:52absence
00:58:53of souls.
00:59:23Jones
00:59:23I'm
00:59:24not
00:59:25of the
00:59:26Oh,
00:59:27well,
00:59:31oh,
00:59:31oh,
00:59:32Oh,
00:59:41oh,
00:59:44oh,
00:59:45oh,
00:59:45oh,
00:59:46oh,
00:59:47oh,
00:59:48oh,
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