David Muir

Austin breathed a collective sigh of relief.

The families were relieved to get to the truth of what happened the night of December 6, 1991.

My son, Michael, is a yogurt shop suspect.

They know the four boys didn't have anything to do with this.

There was no physical evidence linking them to the scene, no DNA, no fingerprints, nothing.

That is what this case is about, bringing to justice four individuals for the brutal murder of four little girls.

Michael Scott, Forrest Wellborn, Maurice Pierce, and Robert Springsteen arrested for the four yogurt shop murders.

I'm going to have to get my attorney to make a statement, or I don't know what else to tell you.

From the time of the murder to the arrests, the four men have had rather unremarkable lives.

Robert Springsteen is now living in West Virginia.

Maurice Pierce is married and a father.

Michael Scott, also a father.

Meanwhile, to the south of Austin, Forrest Wellborn has developed a business and is seemingly doing well.

District attorney obtained indictments against three of the four defendants.

Yet at the same time, two separate grand juries failed to bring an indictment against Forrest Wellborn.

Second Travis County grand jury refused to indict Forrest Wellborn, forcing the state to drop charges against him.

A ballistics report provided by the ATF also said the gun that Maurice Pierce had on him that night at North Cross Mall was not the firearm that was used in the commission of the murders.

There are now all of these cracks and misgivings in the case.

Additionally, the defense claims the interrogations were coerced using a controversial, high-pressure interrogation method called the Reed Technique, developed in the 50s and still used today, but criticized by many in the legal community for possibly leading to false confessions.

The Reed Technique, I view as sort of a form of psychological warfare.