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More on the Yogurt Shop Murders

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Austin American-Statesman reporter Steven Kreytak recaps the lengthy history of the controversial case in, "Yogurt shop trials to be a challenge for DA," in the Sunday edition.Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott walked out of the Travis County Jail last week on personal recognizance bonds after almost a decade behind bars. Given the state of the cases against them, it is unclear whether the men once convicted in the 1991 killings of four teenage girls at a North Austin yogurt shop will ever face re-trials. Serious questions about the prosecutors' theory of the slayings have arisen recently after DNA from an unknown male ? not defendants Scott or Springsteen ? was discovered in evidence taken from the bodies of at least two teenage victims...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 28, 2009 (boomark / email).