It’s been over three decades since four girls, none of them older than seventeen, were assaulted, shot, and set on fire at a North Austin yogurt shop on an early-December evening. It was 1991, and the crime shocked the sleepy city, then just on the cusp of the expansive growth to come. Again and again in The Yogurt Shop Murders, a new four-part HBO documentary series about the cold case, the crime is referred to as the moment when “Austin lost its innocence.” That overarching sentiment is eclipsed in gravity only by a phrase displayed in each episode on signs and memorials in grainy archival footage: “We will not forget.” The new series, a thoughtful meditation on grief and trauma premiering this Sunday, August 3,…
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