Overview

• The four-part series premieres August 3 on HBO, chronicling the December 1991 execution-style killings of four teenage girls at a North Austin yogurt shop.
• Director Margaret Brown integrates interviews with survivors’ families and law enforcement, including previously unseen footage from Claire Huie’s unfinished 2000s documentary.
• The docuseries probes disputed confessions that led to wrongful convictions of two men who were released in 2009 after no physical evidence linked them to the scene.
• Victim relatives, notably Sonora Thomas and Barbara Ayers-Wilson, share the ongoing trauma of reliving the case and question the ethics of true-crime storytelling.
• Austin police continue to pursue an unidentified DNA profile uncovered in 2008, but no new arrests have been made in the decades-old investigation.