Overview

• On December 6, 1991, Amy Ayers, Eliza Thomas, Jennifer Harbison and Sarah Harbison were bound, shot execution-style and left in a North Austin yogurt shop that was set ablaze.
• Early police work was undermined by 1990s-era satanic panic and coerced confessions from four teenagers, two of whom were later convicted and released after DNA evidence overturned their cases.
• A 2008 advancement in forensic testing uncovered DNA from an unknown individual, and investigators are now pursuing new leads on that evidence.
• The four-part HBO/A24 series directed by Margaret Brown integrates local filmmaker Claire Huie’s archival footage with fresh interviews of survivors, exonerated suspects and veteran investigators.
• The documentary highlights decades-long grief experienced by the victims’ families, centering on Eliza Thomas’s sister Sonora Thomas and her efforts to transform trauma through therapy and storytelling.