Four teenage girls in Austin were murdered in 1991, and their bodies were burned in a fire at the yogurt shop where two worked. The community rallied around the victims' families through marches, signs, and art, asking who killed the girls. Barbara Ayres-Wilson, mother of two victims, notes the irony of marketing grief. The docuseries "The Yogurt Shop Murders" explores the trauma suffered, flaws in the justice system, and the implications of true crime storytelling, resisting typical voyeuristic approaches while honoring the victims.
"Four teenage girls were viciously murdered in 1991, their bodies left to burn in a fire along with so much evidence that engulfed the Austin yogurt shop."
"The memories surrounding this case can be fraught and vivid for anyone who lived in the area at the time, not just because of the devastating nature of the crime, but also the seismic way the surrounding community rallied around the victims' families."
"Ayres-Wilson makes those comments in old footage appearing in The Yogurt Shop Murders, somehow seeing the big picture irony from a distance, while still in the throes of her anguish."
"Brown essentially made a layered and complex true crime masterpiece, largely by approaching the subject with so much resistance to what that genre typically entails, for instance, the voyeurism and near predatory fixation on the upsetting details."
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