HBO Docuseries Director On Rushing To Film After 34-Year-Old Yogurt Shop Murders Case Was Finally Solved
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Summary
A four-part HBO docuseries about the unsolved 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders in Austin, Texas — where four teenage girls were killed inside a frozen yogurt shop — unexpectedly saw the case cracked by detectives just weeks after the final episode aired. Director Margaret Brown discusses the race to get cameras rolling again after Austin police identified Robert Eugene Brashers as the prime suspect, 34 years after the crime. The series originally followed the affected families still seeking closure, and the sudden breakthrough added a dramatic new chapter to the story.
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· 3 pulledWhen Margaret Brown set out to direct a four-part docuseries about a horrific and then-unsolved quadruple homicide in Austin, Texas, she never expected that — just a few weeks after the final episode aired on HBO — detectives would crack the case.
The Yogurt Shop Murders, which premiered last summer, revisited the 1991 killings of four teenage girls inside a local frozen yogurt shop that sent shockwaves through the community for years as the investigation dragged on.
In the original four-part series, the affected families were still searching for closure about what happened to Amy Ayers
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