Killer Bound 4 Girls in Back Room - Then Tried to Burn It All Away | Yogurt Shop Murders
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What happened on the night of December 6 1991 at the Yogurt Shop?
It's an ordinary Friday night in December of 1991 in North Austin, Texas. Four teenagers are planning a sleepover. Two of them have to work until 11 p.m., so the younger two, only 15 and 13 years old, go to the mall for a little while to hang out, until they get picked up and taken a short distance to their friend's workplace in a strip mall. It's the last shift before the weekend, three weeks before Christmas. And the plan is simple. Wait until the cleaning and the locking up is finished and leave together for a fun night at one of their houses. But it wasn't that simple. Just before midnight, a patrol officer driving past sees flames coming from the building. He calls it in and the Austin Fire Department comes and they put the fire out.
When they go inside, what they find is beyond anything they could have ever imagined. Four bodies. all beyond help. And it was clear that this wasn't an accident.
Hi, everyone. Welcome back to my channel. And if you have never been here before, I am Kimberlea. It's nice to finally meet you. I am leaving for London with my family tomorrow. I can't believe it. And I'm looking forward to meeting so many of you at CrimeCon UK. Okay. Are you ready? Because this is the final episode. It's one of the most intense cases I've covered in a while. So if you just got here somehow without watching part one and part two, I would highly recommend going back. I have linked part one and two below, but as per usual, I'm going to give you a thorough but fairly quick recap of everything to catch you up to speed. If you don't need it, you can look below. There's chapter markers right here and you can click ahead.
But for those of you who want to know what's going on and maybe you don't even want to watch part one and part two, here goes. Portageville, Missouri. Saturday, March 28th of 1998, Tony Scherer and his 15-year-old son, Steven, come home around 10 past seven in the evening. They've been working all day. And they were out late because a truck had blocked the only road back to their farm. Stephen had called back home at 6.24 p.m. He talked to his mom. She said she was going to go pick up some pizza and run him into town afterward to see his girlfriend. And she sounded completely normal. About 20 minutes later, Tony called and got the answering machine. His wife wasn't answering. When they pulled in, Sherry's car was in the garage and the hood was cold.
Inside, Stephen found his mother and his 12-year-old sister on the living room floor. 38-year-old Sherry Scherer and Megan, who was in sixth grade. Sherry was still warm and Megan was cold. She'd been dead longer. What that implies is too much to even think about. Her poor mom watched her die. Both of them had been shot with a .22 caliber weapon. Both had socks taken from inside the house. and stuffed in their mouths Megan's hands were bound behind her back with an orange electrical cord she had also been tilted there was a bite mark on her breast and she had been deliberately posed sherry had been shot three times in the back of the head her hands were free when she was found but she had ligature marks on both of her wrists and there were no restraints anywhere in that house
He brought them with him when he left, or he might have actually used the electrical cord on Sherry before using it on Megan. There was no forest entry. Nothing was stolen from the home. They had a safe and it was open, but it was untouched. All of it happened inside a window of about 30 to 40 minutes. That's it. A highway patrol sergeant named Don Windham noticed a mark on Megan's chest, and he swabbed that mark. He couldn't even tell you why at the time. This swab is the reason this case ever got solved. And why I'm pointing out that he didn't know why he was swabbing it is because back then, DNA is not what it is today. They didn't usually swab those kind of things. Her autopsy also turned up traces of a chemical, which was called isopropylmyristate.
This is an ingredient that's in a lot of topical medicated creams, usually for infections down there, which was weird because Megan would not have been using anything like that.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened on the night of December 6 1991 at the Yogurt Shop?
0:00–13:39
2
Who were the four teenage victims and what were their backgrounds?
13:39–26:03
3
How did the fire and the discovery of the bodies change the investigation?
26:03–38:46
4
What early forensic clues (DNA swabs, chemical traces) pointed to a suspect?
38:46–53:03
5
Why did investigators initially focus on a teenage gang and how did that lead to false confessions?
53:03–1:05:58
6
How did advances in DNA technology and genetic genealogy finally identify Robert Brashears?
1:05:58–1:18:55
7
What new evidence linked the Austin murders to the later killings in Kentucky and Missouri?
1:18:55–1:32:47
8
What was the final outcome for the victims’ families and the convicted men?
1:32:47–1:46:25
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