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NYT Examines the Yogurt Shop Murders

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"New Evidence Opens Old Wound in 1991 Slaying of 4 Girls," is the title of James McKinley's report in today's New York Times. Seventeen years have come and gone. The yogurt shop where four teenage girls were raped and murdered has been replaced with a payday loan store. No sign remains of the fire the killers set to cover their tracks; no plaque marks the place where the girls died. Yet this city has been unable to put the horrific crime to rest. Last week, two men who were awaiting retrial for the murders walked out of jail on bond after new evidence surfaced suggesting that someone else might have taken part in the attack. The men, Michael Scott, 35, and Robert Springsteen, 34, had been convicted in one of the slayings years ago, but an appeals court overturned the verdict, ruling that the men?s confessions were improperly used against each other...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 01, 2009 (boomark / email).