New Evidence Opens Old Wound in 1991 Slaying of 4 Girls
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
New York Times
Published: June 30, 2009
AUSTIN, Tex. — Seventeen years have come and gone. The yogurt shop where four teenage girls were raped and murdered has been replaced with a payday loan store. No sign remains of the fire the killers set to cover their tracks; no plaque marks the place where the girls died.
Months after the slayings, a billboard sought information. A fire set by the killers destroyed most of the physical evidence, leaving investigators, prosecutors and residents frustrated years later.
Yet this city has been unable to put the horrific crime to rest. Last week, two men who were awaiting retrial for the murders walked out of jail on bond after new evidence surfaced suggesting that someone else might have taken part in the attack.
The men, Michael Scott, 35, and Robert Springsteen, 34, had been convicted in one of the slayings years ago, but an appeals court overturned the verdict, ruling that the men’s confessions were improperly used against each other.
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