This episode was originally released in February 2019, and is one of seventeen episodes from the archives we’ll be bringing you every Thursday, now through top of next year... for good reason! ;) We highly recommend you listen to each episode and follow us on Instagram @crimejunkiepodcast so you're the first to know what's coming next! <3
Duration
56m
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17 Oct 2024
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This episode was originally released in February 2019, and is one of seventeen episodes from the archives we’ll be bringing you every Thursday, now through top of next year... for good reason! ;) We highly recommend you listen to each episode and follow us on Instagram @crimejunkiepodcast so you're the first to know what's coming next! <3
In the early 90’s, Austin, TX was turned upside down when four young girls were sexually assaulted, murdered, then set on fire inside an ICBY store. Four men were accused of the crime, but there have always been questions around their guilt. Those questions have only been amplified in recent years as new DNA technology revealed an unknown perpetrator’s DNA at the scene.
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Hi crime junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers, and today for our throwback episode, we're headed down to Good Old Texas to a city I've actually been to a few times, Austin. And I know Austin has a lot to offer, but if you are like me, if you have the crime junkie brain, then when you hear Austin, Texas, you probably think of one of its most infamous cases, one that has haunted the community in Austin for over 30 years. Hi crime junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers, and I'm Brett, and you guys, before we jump in, and I tell you about our case today, does anyone care if I give you like a little mini story before the story, and I'm like, that's totally, yeah, it's a rhetorical question. You guys are crime junkies. I don't know if you saw this, Brett, in the news. There was a girl named Olivia Ambrose, who was abducted, and her sister, I mean, I think she had an if I go missing folder, because her sister was able to find her and save her because she was able to do the find my iPhone and locate her. That's awesome, even more proof that everyone should have an if I go missing folder. Yes, that's literally like the whole crazy story. She was out one night, and there's like video surveillance of her getting like taken forcefully away by this guy, and police didn't know who this guy was or where she was, and again, I don't know if she actually had an if I go missing folder, but she had a sister who at least knew her information enough that she could track it down. They didn't have to wait for a warrant, and they were actually able to go and save her before anything really harmful physically happened to her, and so she is now safe. She's back with her family. It's an amazing story, and again, a reason everyone should have an if I go missing folder, even if you don't want to use all of the information, like there are some key pieces in there your family should have. So you can always go to our website, crimejunkiepodcast.com to download that free resource. Highly recommend. And now today is a special episode because it was picked for all of you by our patrons on Patreon. I decided to let them choose our next case because I let them pick our Halloween case on Patreon, which we did on a Lisa Liam, and it has by far been the most popular case we've ever done. People are still talking about it. So clearly they know how to pick good cases, and so I thought I'd let them do it again. This is the case of the Austin Yogorshop murders. On December 6, 1991, 17-year-old Liza Thomas got ready for work at her house, putting on her. I can't believe it's yogurt uniform and pulling her hair into a scrunchie. And she left to make it on time for her 7 o'clock shift. She, nor her family, had any way of knowing that she would never come home. Eliza got to work and was soon met there by her friend and co-worker Jennifer Harbison, who was also 17, and Eliza had actually helped Jennifer get the job there. And both girls were just trying to make some extra money. They were in high school. They wanted some spending cash, wanted gas money, paid for their cars. So on that night, it was just the two of them working that evening and their shifts were pretty short. The store actually closed at 11 o'clock, and if they could start cleaning up early, they'd be out of there pretty quickly. And they were pretty sure tonight would be a breeze because Jennifer and Eliza had extra
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This episode was originally released in February 2019, and is one of seventeen episodes from the archives we’ll be bringing you every Thursday, now through top of next year... for good reason! ;) We highly recommend you listen to each episode and follow us on Instagram @crimejunkiepodcast so you're the first to know what's coming next! <3
