The School of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Texas State University will present “The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders: A Cold Case Investigation” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 11 in the Alkek Library Teaching Theater.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Featured speakers at the event include Detective Dan Jackson of the Austin Police Department’s Cold Case Unit and a TXST alumnus, Pete Blair, Ph.D., a professor in the School of Criminal Justice and Criminology and executive director of the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center, and Kim Rossmo, Ph.D., a professor in the School of Criminal Justice and Criminology and director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation.
Each panelist was involved in aspects of the case and will co-present. They will discuss the crimes, the police investigation, false confessions, investigative failures and forensic advancements that ultimately led to cracking the case.
In December 1991, four teenage girls working at a strip-mall yogurt shop in Austin were shot and killed in a brutal attack that stunned the city. The murders became Austin’s most infamous cold case, involving multiple suspects, wrongful convictions and conspiracy theories. The case remained unsolved for more than a third of a century. In 2025, an APD cold case detective successfully identified the offender–a serial killer responsible for eight murders across the Southeast.