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Jony yeah uh you hear about the call 2900 West Anderson yeah I'm headed over there
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2900 2900 that's that's a uh business I'm JN Jones I was a sergeant investigator I was working night watch
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out of homicide when this call comes out okay I'm copying the Fire part you cut out on the first part of that first
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it was uh you know firing a business I stand for then they called me on the radio and said we got three
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people de triple Fatality and I got about a mile down the road and they said make that
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four no that's a shopping center [Music] what place of business is this here this is the I can't
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believe and we got out there and uh it was just a seea a red more than 25 years ago I started
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reporting on what turned out to be the most horrific Crime Story I have ever encountered it happened here in Austin
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Texas in December 1991 I'll never forget how the lead detective described the crime scene for
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a long time I shed out what I saw this uh wholesale Carnage we knew immediately that they were
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kids Eliza Thomas Amy SS Jennifer Harbison and her sister Sarah at 3:00 that morning um some people were
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at my door and then they said there was a fire and um they told us that both of my girls were
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dead it wasn't just the fact that four young girls were killed it was how they were
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killed I've seen homicides but not four and not four all tied up and not four stripped down and not four burned
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they were stacked their bodies were stacked they were burned and they were stacked one of the toughest Parts about
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this was having to deal with those parents the next morning and try to look them in the eye and tell them we're
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going to do everything in our power to make sure we get the people that did it you have some suspects but none of these
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are ready to be arrested no it took years to come up with any answers but finally in 1999 there were suspects and
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arrests early this morning the Austin Police Department served four arrest warrants charging four individuals with
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capital murder are you one of the killers of those four little girls in that yogurt
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shop no no way not at all I'm Robert Springsteen and I'm just a normal guy four children dead in an area where you
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think they'd be say a Suburban shopping mall I never thought that tonight more than 25 years after these girls were
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murdered that I would still be reporting on this story but as it turns out that closed case wasn't closed after
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all it's the first time we have physical proof about who was there did authorities get it wrong did they put
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innocent men in prison they've been looking at the wrong people the entire time the killers are still out there I
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know for a fact I know one of them [Music]