David Muir
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To investigators, all the pieces seem to fit together.
They have the motive, they have the opportunity, according to them, and the .22 caliber murder weapon, all except for one thing.
They didn't have fingerprints, hair, DNA, nothing that tied any of these boys or anyone to this crime at all.
They had at the beginning a lot of gossip, teenage gossip.
And we're talking about boys that are 15, 16, and 17 years old.
administered polygraph exams of both Pierce and Wellborn, but essentially they decided that any information that they had was not legitimate and that they were likely not involved in the yogurt shop murders.
And then they test Maurice Pierce's .22 and it doesn't match.
For the families, this just added to their pain and turmoil and grief.
They were not able to get a simple, clear, direct answer about who killed their daughters.
Today, the families of the four teenage girls murdered in a Northwest Austin yogurt shop held their first joint news conference.
As police chase down every possible lead, the search for the killer or killers drags on from days to weeks and then finally to months and still nothing.
Billboards begin to go up all over Austin in a desperate effort to shake loose any clue.
On the six-month anniversary of the yogurt shop murders, people converged at the state capitol.