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Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders (2016)

de Beverly Lowry

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"From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed it. The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged bodies of the four girls--each one shot in the head--were found in an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas. Grief, shock, and horror spread out from their families and friends to overtake the city itself. Though all branches of law enforcement were brought to bear, the investigation was often misdirected and after eight years only two men (then teenagers) were tried; moreover, their subsequent convictions were eventually overturned, and Austin PD detectives are still working on what is now a very cold case. Over the decades, the story has grown to include DNA technology, false confessions, and other developments facing crime and punishment in contemporary life. But this story belongs to the scores of people involved, and from them Lowry has fashioned a riveting saga that reads like a Russian novel, comprehensive and thoroughly engrossing"--… (més)
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    The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer de Skip Hollandsworth (schmootc)
    schmootc: This is a historical true crime novel about Austin. (Lowry actually mentions the case in passing in Who Killed These Girls?.)
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One of the most upsetting cold cases I've read about. Still unsolved after all these years, and most likely never will be. Nicely researched and sensitively presented. ( )
  readingjag | Nov 29, 2021 |
Who Killed These Girls was a readable and interesting True-Crime book, but in the end it failed to satisfy. The crime and case were so interesting but just like the leads in the case, the story fizzled for me. ( )
  klnbennett | Oct 7, 2020 |
A solid, thorough book about the Yogurt Shop Murders in Austin, Texas that has some aspirations to be something bigger than that but doesn't quite make it. In 1991, four teenage girls - two employees closing the store and the younger sister and friend of one of the employees - were murdered in an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! store in Austin, Texas, and the store set on fire. It was 1999 before any arrests were made: police zeroed in on a group of four young men, teenage boys at the time of the crime, who they believed were guilty. Of the four, three were indicted, two were tried and found guilty, and both of those convictions have been thrown out. DNA evidence later available doesn't match any of the accused, but police continue to insist that they had the right guys and that the indictments still stand - although it's been sixteen years since the original trials. The story of the Austin Yogurt Shop Murders is another frustrating entry in the ever-growing catalog of police incompetence (and over-focus) rendering tragedies unsolvable. (Content note: this book contains some fairly graphic descriptions of what happened to the girls, including sexual assault, gunshot wounds, and postmortem fire damage.) ( )
1 vota jen.e.moore | Sep 15, 2017 |
This is such a sad case for so many. Of course, foremost, the victims and their families, but also for the young men convicted and then released. What happened to these young girls is horrifying and the fact that killers have not been found is equally as horrifying. This books is about the crime, the police procedures that were flawed in many ways, and the four young men who were chosen to take the fall for this crime. Some parts of this book dragged a bit and I found myself skimming. Then, other parts were riveting and I didn't want to put it down. All in all a good book that leaves many questions still unanswered. ( )
  bnbookgirl | May 11, 2017 |
Examining this unsolved murder, Lowry goes into detail about what we know versus what we thought we knew. No one really knows exactly what happened in the 40-something minutes between the 11 o’clock closing time to the first report of fire at 11:48. In a masterful stroke, Lowry’s storytelling lets the mind do what it naturally wants to: fill in the narrative gaps. I have a great admiration for people who write about unsolved cases. At the heart of this narrative is the suspicion that professional pride hindered the investigation and is potentially keeping a dangerous killer at large to this day. From the slain young girls to the defendants and suspects, victims included everybody who counts on a functional criminal justice system. “Who killed these girls?” is only the first of the unanswered questions about this case. But until we can definitively answer the “who,” there is no possible way there will ever be an answer to ultimately more challenging “why.” ( )
  Jan.Coco.Day | Dec 31, 2016 |
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"From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed it. The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged bodies of the four girls--each one shot in the head--were found in an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas. Grief, shock, and horror spread out from their families and friends to overtake the city itself. Though all branches of law enforcement were brought to bear, the investigation was often misdirected and after eight years only two men (then teenagers) were tried; moreover, their subsequent convictions were eventually overturned, and Austin PD detectives are still working on what is now a very cold case. Over the decades, the story has grown to include DNA technology, false confessions, and other developments facing crime and punishment in contemporary life. But this story belongs to the scores of people involved, and from them Lowry has fashioned a riveting saga that reads like a Russian novel, comprehensive and thoroughly engrossing"--

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