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John Jones, who was the original detective on the 1991 I Can\u2019t Believe It\u2019s Yogurt murder investigation, speaks to reporters after a news conference at Austin City Hall on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025.<\/p>\n
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On Monday, former detective John Jones wore a green and white shirt for just the second time in 34 years \u2014 signaling long-awaited closure to the families of the four teenage girls killed in the infamous\u00a0I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt case<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jones had been\u00a0the first investigator on the case, he explained to “48 Hours” correspondent Erin Moriarty in 2017.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n “I can see them, I can still see the inside of that place,” Jones said on the investigation show. “That stuff’s \u2026 indelibly burned in my mind.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Even after retiring from the Austin Police Department and moving out of Texas, Jones kept copies of some of the case files. But those weren’t the only items he’s held onto.<\/p>\n On the night of the 1991 murders, Jones had been wearing a new green-and-white-striped shirt. As the detective assured the victims’ families the killer would be found, he vowed to keep them informed.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n “I kind of made a promise to them,” Jones told Moriarty. “The next time they saw me with that green and white shirt on that that was a signal to them that, you know, we know who did it.”<\/p>\n (L-R) Fire agent Chuck Meyer w. homicide sgts. John Jones & Mike Huckaby checking out info charts on hood of car at night as they spearhead the investigation of 4 teenage girls shot to death & burned in fire set by the killer at yogurt shop where they wo.rked (Photo by Mark Perlstein\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n Mark Perlstein\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Jones kept the promise he made over three decades ago, appearing at Monday’s press conference in the shirt he’s longed to wear again.<\/p>\n “I told the families, ‘Well, when you see me in this shirt again, it’ll be because the case is solved,'” Jones told\u00a0Statesman\u00a0reporter Austin Sanders. “I made a pact with my kids:\u00a0If it doesn’t get solved before I pass myself \u2014 because I’m an old man \u2014 if it doesn’t get solved before I ‘check out,’ then you guys are in charge of finding the families.”<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Thanks to new DNA testing, Jones was able to wear the shirt himself, when he attended the news conference where the victims’ family members spoke.<\/p>\n John Jones, the first investigator on Austin’s1991 yogurt shop murders case, wears the same shirt after police identify suspect Robert Brashers at a press conference on Sept. 29, 2025.<\/p>\n Tony Plohetski\/Austin American-Statesman<\/p>\n “I dug it out, and I wore it,” Jones said of the shirt.<\/p>\n John Jones, the first investigator on Austin’s1991 yogurt shop murders case, wears the same shirt after police identify suspect Robert Brashers at a press conference on Sept. 29, 2025.<\/p>\n Tony Plohetski\/Austin American-Statesman<\/p>\n The retired detective explained he had flown into Austin Monday morning. Unable to secure a 5 a.m. United Airlines flight “on a day’s notice,” Jones opted to use Southwest.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n “I wanted to be here because \u2014 actually, because of the four boys,” he said, referring to the former suspects in the case<\/a>, two of whom served prison time before their convictions were overturned. “I wanted to hear someone take responsibility for that.”<\/p>\n Exclusive: ‘This is over:’\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>How authorities say they finally solved the Austin yogurt shop murders<\/a><\/p>\n What are the Austin yogurt shop murders?<\/p>\n The Dec. 6, 1991, murders of (clockwise from top left) Jennifer Harbison, Sarah Harbison, Amy Ayers and Eliza Thomas remain unresolved.<\/p>\n HANDOUT<\/p>\n Around midnight on Dec. 6, 1991, Austin firefighters responded to a blaze at the yogurt shop on West Anderson Lane and made a horrific discovery: the bound, gagged and burned bodies of Jennifer Harbison, 17; Eliza Thomas, 17; Sarah Harbison, 15; and Amy Ayers, 13. Officials say the shop had been doused with accelerants and set on fire to destroy evidence. Autopsies later show all four girls had been shot in the head, and at least one was sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Over the next several years, investigators pursued dozens of leads and questioned multiple suspects<\/a>. Several false confessions were recorded. While some physical evidence was collected, fire and water damage severely limit its forensic value. In 2017, however, new DNA-testing technology identified a single male profile. The profile didn’t match any of the previously convicted men, but it matched a sample the FBI uploaded to a database. That person, however, was not named.<\/p>\n One month after HBO Max released “The Yogurt Shop Murders<\/a>” docuseries in August, police announced a DNA match in the case.<\/p>\n \u2014 Andy Sevilla, Staff Writer<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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