Mindy Montford

Thank you, Deborah.

I'm very happy to be here, and thank you for the coverage you've given this case.

Well, I actually have been in Austin, Texas since 1976 and grew up in that neighborhood.

I've been to the North Cross Mall.

I've been to the yogurt shop.

That is a neighborhood that it was a community.

And when this happened, I remember I was in college and seeing the news coverage of my neighborhood.

you know, this horrific crime.

I mean, back then too, if you recall, we would walk everywhere as a kid.

You didn't even have a phone.

Your parents trusted you on a bike for hours.

So that was the environment we grew up in.

And then to just fast forward, be in college, seeing this on TV unfolding in my community, it was horrible.

Then over the years, just following the case and going through law school, then I became a prosecutor.

But watching what these families went through through the justice system repeatedly and just being victimized over and over again by the system, I just it really broke my heart for them.

And I always had an interest in the case.

I don't think we've ever been the same since.

It just was when you talk to anybody in Austin, Texas, and if you say, you know, like years ago, I would say, oh, I'm a prosecutor.

Oh, have you ever heard of the yogurt shop murders?

I mean, it was just everybody knew about this case.