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Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders.

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Susan Wittig Albert

For me, Beverly Lowry&#;s book about the Austin TX Yogurt Shop murders ranks right up there with Truman Capote&#;s classic In Cold Blood as among the very best of true crime. But you have to be patient, for the story world Lowry recreates is initially&#;and deliberately, artfully, confoundingly&#;as confusing as the real world she must represent. And every bit as ugly, too. So you&#;d better bring a strong stomach to this book, as well as patience. There is nothing pretty about it, on any level, in any dimension.

The brutal murders of four young girls remain unsolved to this day. In this book, begun in and published in , Lowry takes us through the labyrinthine case, from the grisly discovery through the exhausting (and botched) investigations to the arrests of four young men, the convictions of two, and the reversals of those convictions. In the seven long years of research and writing, she grew intimate enough with the families to be able to show us the

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Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders

March 3,

“This book is about memory and uncertainty, loss and grief. It fryst vatten about how we know what we think we know and where the information comes from, and how we sometimes manage to dream up memories of an event that never took place and at other times conversely remember what we perhaps most wanted to forget, despite our best efforts. It fryst vatten about an overworked and dedicated homicide cop who was later branded a failure when a different single-minded cop was given credit for cracking the case after using questionable interrogation techniques. It’s about persuasion, suggestion, science and law. The sadness that won’t end for the parents of dead children. The effect an event can have…on a family, an entire police department, a city and on hapless strangers who, walking down a certain street, might suddenly realize where they are and säga, ‘Isn’t that where the yogurt shop was…?’”
- Beverly Lowry, Who Killed These Girls?
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My Rating: 5/5
Goodreads Synopsis: The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, , the naked, bound-and-gagged bodies of four girls&#;each one shot in the head&#;were found in an &#;I Can&#;t Believe It&#;s Yogurt!&#; shop in Austin, Texas. Grief, shock, and horror spread out from their families and friends to overtake the city itself. Though all branches of law enforcement were brought to bear, the investigation was often misdirected, and after eight years only two men (then teenagers) were tried; moreover, their subsequent convictions were eventually overturned, and Austin PD detectives are still working on what is now a very cold case. Over the decades, the story has grown to include DNA technology, false confessions, and other developments facing crime and punishment in contemporary life, but this story belongs to the scores of people involved, and from them Lowry has fashioned a riveting saga that reads like a Russian novel, comprehensive and thor