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

by Beverly Lowry

"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"--

• ISBN10: 0307594114
• ISBN13: 9780307594112
• Publish Date: 11 October 2016
• Publish Status: Remaindered
• Imprint: Knopf Publishing Group
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

[thebookdisciple]

Overall this was good. There were times I was confused as to why an anecdote was included because it seemed only to confuse the story. Also, the author inserts herself into the story frequently and its clear the story is from her POV which I am not a fan of when it comes to true crime. The story didn't have a very cohesive goal. She basically just sums up what has happened. I would have liked more information about SOME aspect (either the false confessions, the cops methods, the crime, etc). The case has a lot of interesting pieces that could be further examined, and instead of focusing on one of these aspects, the author kind of skims them all.