[man 1] Heavy smoke was visible from the street.
I look down, and there was a body.
[dispatch speaking]
The burning of the bodies
was unimaginable.
The fire has split their thighs and split their arms.
And they were nude.
It was something that I couldn't really wrap my mind around.
DNA from multiple males is discovered on the swabs.
Witnesses talked about seeing a Latino man
inside a light-colored American car.
It all fits there four guys.
If there are monsters, in my head, he was one.
[theme music playing]
[Elaine Aradillas] The yogurt shop case is something
that I've known about most of my life.
It's one of the most well-known stories in Texas.
When I left for college, in Austin,
my parents even told me,
"You be careful.
"Don't forget what happened to those girls
"at the yogurt shop."
The city was upset.
They were outraged.
They wanted answers.
And there is a cloud over the entire city because of it.
[Sonora Thomas] What I remember, mostly, about growing up in Austin,
is that we felt safe.
Austin was a smaller city in the '80s and '90s,
and Dallas and Houston were, like, the big cities back then.
I'm Sonora Thomas.
I'm Eliza Thomas' younger sister.
I was 13 years old in 1991.
And Eliza was four years older than me.
She was very social. She just always had lot of friends.
And she was always going to gatherings.
Going out dancing with a big group of people on Friday night.
Eliza Thomas is a 17-year old high school senior
who loves make-up and clothes.
but also is really into fixing up cars.
[Sonora] My dad, really, kind of, enjoyed teaching Eliza
all about car repair.
But Eliza also always loved animals.
If it was some little being that she could take care of,
she was just loving up on it.
[Dennis] Eliza's dream is to be a veterinarian.
So, after her sophomore year,
she transfer to Lanier High School
and enrolls in their Future Farmers of America program.
She had a pig the first year that she was there
That was her junior year of high school.
At Lanier, Eliza makes friends with the Harbison sisters,
who are also in the FFA.
17-year-old Jenniefer and 15-year old Sarah.
[Aradillas] Jennifer works with Eliza at the local yogurt store,
I Can't Believe It's Yogurt.
The yogurt shop was our little community ice-cream store.
Her friends would stop by all the time,
and just hang out.
My name is Beverly Lowry.
And I spent eight years working on a book about this case.
Eliza and Jennifer went to work that day,
on December 6th, for the closing shift.
Jennifer's younger sister, Sarah,
asked her mother if she could go, as well.
And she wanted to invite her best friend
Amy Ayers, who was on 13, and still in Junior High.
[Dennis] Sarah and Amy get permission from their parents
and then, Jennifer is planning on driving everyone home,
for a sleepover at the Harbisons'
after she's wrapped up at the yogurt shop, that night.
[Sonora] Eliza called me and asked if I wanted to join her.,
but our dad was strict about not leaving the house without his permission.
Since he wasn't home, I couldn't leave.
So, I wasn't able to go.
[Aradillas] Then, at 11:47 pm,
an Austin police officer was on patrol,
and passed the strip mall with the yogurt shop,
and noticed a fire and called dispatch.
My name is Dave Deveau. I was the responding firefighter.
on December 6th, 1991.
The call came in, and when we arrived on scene,
heavy smoke was visible.
Looked like it was coming from the backside
of the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt shop.
I didn't know if there was somebody in the building, or not.
As soon as I got to the back storage room,
it was completely blackened out with smoke.
It didn't seem like it took all that long to knock the fire down.
A few minutes, at the most.
It was fairly hot, so, couldn't stand up.
Had to kneel down.
And my lieutenant pointed down,
and I looked down and there was a girl's body.
I stood up and found another one.
Then there was another girl.
The ceiling had kinda dropped down on 'em and they were covered up.
[Dennis] The firefighters are shocked to discover
that there are people
that have been caught in the building.
But then they notice something even more alarming.
They had all been shot.
And the state the girls were in, they were naked.
So there's nothing else to think
other than there was foul play.
Then I was pulled out, and it became a crime scene.
And the detectives took it over.
My name is John Jones.
I'm the original investigator on the yogurt shop murders.
That night, I had a local reporter riding with me.
He was doing a series on murders in Texas.
when I got the call.
Got about halfway to the yogurt shop,
and they call back again and say that they've found a fourth body.
Yo, we're the Hillside Shopping Center.
This is where the yogurt shop was.
When I got there, you could just see a red light.
When I went in there, there was still smoke in there
ad there was still water.
Everything was black and gray,
as you would expect in a fire scene.
Except for three of the girls were stacked together.
The last one was maybe another ten feet away from where I found the initial one.
And you could see the fire has split their thighs and split their arms.
[Daveau] It was kind of-- almost like you're looking at a doll.
You know they're human.
But it's just mind-boggling that you would find something like that.
I have seen a lot of death.
But never anything to compare to this.
[Jones] I thought, because they were nude,
maybe they were sexually assaulted.
The clock starts ticking then.
How long is it gonna take us to get this solved?
Conventional was to me--
is if it goes longer than 48 hours,
you really start going backwards.
[Dennis] After seeing the state of the crime scene,
Jones feels like he needs all the help he can get.
And he reached out to the Texas Department of Public Safety
to help collet evidence at the scene.
[Jones] We didn't find any weapons.
But near of the floor drains,
we did find a .380 round.
We needed to find out if they were sexually assaulted.
So,, we didn't want them touched
until DPS could get there.
[Dennis] After all four bodies are swabbed at the scene,
they're released to the medical examiner,
and transported to the morgue.
Meanwhile, the police speak to the manager of the yogurt shop,
and learn that two 17-year-old girls
Eliza Thomas and Jennifer Harbison were working that night.
My parents divorced soon after I was born
and I was with my dad.
It was maybe 1:00 in the morning.
We were all sleeping
and there's this banging on the front door of the house,
[Dennis] The police tell Eliza's father
that they believe Eliza is one of the victims.
But they can't be sure until the autopsy is completed.
I had never had the experience of being without her.
And it was something I couldn't really wrap my mind around.
I thought maybe they were somebody else,
and maybe he was kidnapped.
You think of all kinds of horrible things
that would have been better than what the truth was.
My dad's friend drove us to my mom's house,
with the police.
My mom was pretty hysterical.
[Lowry] At the Harbisons', Sarah and Jennifer's mother,
Barbara opened the door
and she was asked about her daughters.
And he aid, "They are upstairs, asleep."
Because she just assumed that Amy and Sarah were in Sarah's room,
and Jennifer was in hers.
[Dennis] But when Barbara checks the bedrooms,
she discovers that none of the girls are home.
Including Sarah's friend, Amy.
So the police head over to Amy's house
to see if she's there.
[Bob Ayers] We had a knock on the door at 5:15 in the morning,
and it's the cops,
telling us there was a fire at the yogurt shop.
They wanted to know if we were the parents of...of Amy Ayers.
[Pam] Our life changed forever,
that one night.
[Dennis] While the notifications are underway,
Jones and his team work through the night,
trying to piece together what happened.
I thought robbery was a motive.
Money was taken. 540 bucks.
[Aradillas] The placement of cleaning supplies
throughout the yogurt shop
indicated that perhaps their closing procedure was interrupted.
[Lowry] The police determined that the four girls
were probably shepherded into the storage room.
It seems they were made to take off their clothes.
One of the ways you control young kids,
and particularly, young females,
is to strip 'em down.
[Lowry] Then, it seems, they were forced to kneel,
they were gagged,
and tied up with their own underwear.
[Dennis] Once the girls had been tied up,
the perpetrator could have completed the robbery and left,
but that's not what happened.
We think, the perpetrator just panicked
and shot the girls.
And the perpetrator set the place on fire,
presumably, to get rid of any evidence.
[Jones] There was no accelerant.
The fire was started by paper products, napkins and such.
They were right there, next to them, on a shelf.
[Dennis] While the police are going through the crime scene,
very meticulously trying to understand what occurred,
the medical examiner is working to officially identify the victims.
The next day, I remember having to go to the police station.
My dad had to bring in dental samples.
[Dennis] Once the dental records are compared to the victim's,
they are officially identified as Eliza Thomas,
Jennifer and Sarah Harbison,
and Amy Ayers.
Then the swab results come back from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The swabs that DPS gathered and analyzed,
indicated sexual assault.
DNA from multiple males is discovered
on the swabs of 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison,
15-year-old Sarah Harbison,
and 13-year-old Amy Ayers.
But not Eliza Thomas.
That told us there had to be at least two perpetrators there.
[Dennis] But because DNA technology is still in its infancy,
and the bodies were consumed by fire,
then doused with water,
all the lab can really decipher is that
the profiles were male.
Police examine the autopsy results closely,
trying to understand
what could have happened in those horrific final moments.
[Jones] They were all shot in the head with a .22,
and then the bodies were all stacked together.
Amy got away. She crawled away about ten feet or so.
And then, she was shot a second time with a different caliber gun.
Apparently, they were dead before the fire started.
At the shop, one piece of evidence survived the fire.
And could be the key
to who was there that night.
[Lowry] There was of course a cash register tape
of the transactions of the night.
And the last one occurred at 11:03.
[Dennis] Jones and his team go to work trying to figure out
who the final customer was that night.
[Jones] We had gone on to asking for anybody
that was in that yogurt shop to come forward.
And a lot of people did.
Police get in touch with everyone,
who paid with a credit card the night of the murder.
And dozens of other people come forward to say
they were there and paid cash.
Firs thing we did was take statements from them.
And we thought we had everybody,
but there were a couple of guys that we're seeing that
weren't part of the witnesses that we knew about.
[Dennis] One couple that had purchased frozen yogurt around 10:45 pm,
tell cops about two males they had seen in the shop.
I'm Carlos Garcia, and I'm a defense lawyer in Austin, Texas.
The witness says, "There were two men seated behind me.
"They're kinda hunched over, talking really quietly.
"When we left, they were still there."
[Aradillas] Another customer, named Lucilla,
described the boys as teenagers.
They were white. Between 5'4" and 5' 7".
And she described them as wearing puffy vests or jackets.
And wearing boots and jeans.
One was thin, one not so thin.
Several customers also talked about
seeing a Latino man
inside a light-colored American car.
Just sitting there. And they were able to create a composite sketch.
I felt that sounded like a good lead.
So we looked into it.
While the search for the killers continues,
a funeral service at the St. Louis Catholic Church in Austin
is held for the four teenage girls.
The funeral was huge,
There were apparently a thousand people.
[Barbara] The absolute denial that you could be missing these people
that your whole life focused around for so long,
is just... There's just not enough words to express
that devastation.
It was a completely out of body experience.
Eliza was my sister and my best friend.
ANd half of me died when I heard the news.
[Dennis] While the families grieve,
the Austin Police Department sets up a tip line.
[Jones] After the second week that the story went nationally,
I think we were at almost 2,500 tips a week.
[Lowry] The city was crazed by this,
and in great need of a solution.
"Who killed these girls?"
We felt as lost as ever.
We needed to know who committed this crime.
[Aradillas] It had been more than a week
since the girls had been murdered,
And it was then that they thought, there's a break in the case.
[Lowry] A young man named Maurice Pierce,
was at Northcross Mall,
when he put his shirt aside and showed somebody that he had this gun.
The person who he showed it to,
got in touch with the security guard.
The security guard came and took the gun from Maurice,
who was only 17.
[Jones] We had let everybody know,
in the law enforcement community,
we were looking for a .380 and a .22.
Maurice had a .22.
As a result of getting caught with this gun,
Maurice Pierce gets taken to the juvenile center,
in Austin, Texas.
Sometime around 11:00,
a police detective began to interrogate Pierce.
Police learnt that Maurice was driving around
with three of his buddies, the night of the 6th.
Forrest Welborn, Robert Springsteen, and Michael Scott.
[Dennis] Springsteen, Scott and Pierce,
are all 17, and attend McCallum High School
with 15-year-old Forrest Welborn.
During the interview, police turn the conversation to the murders,
and what Maurice Pierce has to say,
shocks everyone.
[Jones] I got a call that Maurice Pierce was confessing.
And I went down to the station and I interviewed him.
During that interview, Maurice Pierce indicated that
Forrest Welborn, Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott
were with him that night.
And they were the ones that went inside the yogurt shop
and committed the robbery/homicide.
And set it on fire.
But Maurice did not implicate himself.
in the yogurt shop case
other than that he was the wheelman.
[Garcia] So, the police talk to Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen.
They say, "Look, we are not involved in this crime."
They talk about, on Friday night
they had been at the mall, they saw the firetrucks.
AT some point, Maurice Pierce went to a car lot,
and he steals a car.
And the four of 'em, headed off to San Antonio
on a joyride in the stolen car.
[Dennis] With Scott and Springsteen putting themselves near
the scene of the crime that night,
police send Pierce's .22 caliber firearm
in for ballistics testing.
And then they turn their attention to the youngest of the group.
Forrest Welborn.
We actually wired up Maurice,
and he went to talk to Forrest Welborn.
The idea was to get Forrest to talk about the crime
and his participation in it.
Together, Maurice and Forrest go to a laundromat known as the Washeteria.
And Maurice tries to get Forrest to talk about what happened that night.
Forrest doesn't seem to understand what Maurice is talking about.
He's trying to go along with the conversation,
but he's definitely not confessing to murder.
[Jones] It was pretty obvious listening on the wire, to us anyway,
that Forrest didn't have anything to do with it.
[Dennis] Because the two DNA profiles found during the autopsy were incomplete,
police can't test the boys' DNA against them for a match.
So, with no concrete evidence,
they begin to doubt if any of the boys are involved.
But that changes when a new piece of evidence come in,
from one of the witnesses.
[Aradillas] Police returned to Lucilla,
the woman who had the best description of the two guys,
sitting at the table.
They tape her a six-pack of photos.
And one of them catches her eye.
She points and says, "This one resembles on of the teens that I saw,
"at the yogurt shop."
And it turns out that that photo is Maurice Pierce.
[Dennis] With a possible witness identification,
investigators hope for positive news regarding the ballistic test...
-[gunshots] -...from Pierce's .22.
[Garcia] All the grooves on the--
the bullets that are fired from Pierce's .22 revolver are very sharp.
And Pierce's revolver was fairly new.
When you compare it to the bullets
that were extracted from the girls' bodies,
those bullets were fired by a gun that appears to be old.
The DPS firearms lab said, "Nah."
"We can't tie this gun to the crime scene."
So, all we had, really, was what Maurice was saying.
But there wasn't enough to charge anybody
So, we had nothing.
[Dennis] Then, in the fall of 1992,
almost a year after the murders,
tip comes in from within the Austin police department.
They have a suspected match for the composite sketch
of the man seen sitting in a car,
outside the yogurt shop.
[Jones] Austin PD sex crimes investigators came up and aid,
"Hey, we have this sketch. And your guy looks like our guy."
And we looked at 'em.
And they looked just like each other.
Sex Crimes said their sketch was a person
they identified as Alberto Cortez.
A suspect in an aggravated sexual assault.
The find out Alberto Cortez,
has been arrested in Mexico.
And that he has confessed to Mexican authorities,
that he committed the murders at the yogurt shop.
[Sonora] When my family heard that someone was confessing,
we thought, "Maybe this is it."
And, "Maybe we finally have some answers."
[Jones] The problem with this confession
is that Alberto Cortez is talking about using a .38 caliber gun in his crime
and pouring white gas all over the place and setting it on fire.
Caliber's wrong and there was no accelerant.
So he cannot be the one that did it.
And then, strangely enough, two days later,
he said he was coerced.
As 1992 comes to a close,
the lack of any viable leads
really takes a toll on the families.
There were no answers for so long.
I think it just ate away at my mom.
I think she was really in so much pain about it,
You know, that whoever committed this crime,
was able to just go about their life.
If they catch him tomorrow, I say hang him the next day.
They need to suffer. I'm sorry, but...
We're suffering everyday, it's...
And it's not getting any better.
[Aradillas] Years pass, and every years, on the anniversary,
there'd be a story about where does the case stand.
But, really, the story was,
police have not been able to solve this case.
Then on August 31st, 1999,
the FBI had developed a new criminal profile
to help detectives find a suspect in this case.
And the profile had the following descriptions.
The offenders were young, disorganized.
They would have left town after the killings.
Austin PD are immediately reminded
of the four boys from 1991,
who, at that time, had told police
they'd stolen a car, and gone joyriding in San Antonio.
[Garcia] So, Maurice Pierce, young, disorganized.
He picks up Welborn, Springsteen and Scott,
and they left town sometime
between the night of the murders and next morning.
So it all fits these four guys.
[Dennis] Since being investigated nearly eight years ago,
Maurice Pierce has been working at a warehouse in Texas.
And he has a 7-year-old daughter.
Forrest Welborn has opened a auto-repair business.
Michael Scott is married and has been working repair jobs
and Robert Springsteen has since moved to West Virginia,
gotten married and is the manager of a McDonald's.
[Lowry] Because of their behavior that night,
all four guys were brought in, and questioned.
Springsteen was questioned in West Virginia.
[Garcia] Austin police department got nowhere with Pierce.
And nowhere with Welborn.
And nowhere with Robert Springsteen.
However, over the course of the next five days,
there's this incredible interrogation
of Michael Scott
that ends up with him confessing.
Scott was questioned for about 22 hours total.
His testimony began
with, "I don't know what you guys are talking about."
Then, finally, he said, "Yes, I did that."
After Michael Scott confesses,
the Austin police use his confession
against Robert Springsteen
who, then, also confesses.
Soon, all four men are arrested.
[officer] Early this morning the Austin police department
with assistance from other law enforcement agencies,
served four arrest warrants charging four individuals
with capital murder.
I was kind of shocked. I think we had gotten our hopes up before.
And so, there was a question about,
"Are these real confessions?"
[Dennis] After getting confessions from Springsteen and Scott,
police continue to try and elicit a confession
from Welborn and Pierce.
Forrest Welborn kept saying, " I don't know what you're talking about.
"I wasn't there. I didn't do this."
My name is Tony Diaz. I'm a defense attorney in Austin, Texas.
Forrest had a very fine lawyer,
and they were helping him with that early stage.
And so, they did not prosecute him
because they had no case, no evidence.
[Lowry] Maurice Pierce, the person who had the .22,
was also questioned.
But they could not find evidence that connected him either.
[Dennis] After three and a half years of searching
for hard evidence to connect the boys to the case,
police have nothing.
So, the Austin DA dismissed the charges against Pierce and Welborn.
Leaving only two defendants.
[Lowry] The two guys that confessed,
Rob Springsteen and Michael Scott were tried.
As a capital case with a potential death sentence
hanging over them for killing the four girls.
I'm Judge Mike Lynch and I was the trial judge
in both the yogurt shop trials.
The bulk of the case against each defendant
was their own confessions.
Springsteen was the first guy to be tried.
I vaguely remember being there.
But I remember thinking, "Oh, they're just people."
You think about this heinous crime,
and then, like, somebody walks in,
two arms, two legs, this is so strange.
Robert Springsteen recants.
And say that he was coerced
and that, in fact, he did not commit these crimes.
The defense filed a motion claiming that Springsteen's confession was coerced,
and therefore false.
And it should be ruled inadmissible.
But it wasn't my job to determine whether or not
the statement was true or untrue.
That was up to a jury.
And I determined in this case his confession
and Michael Scott's statement was admissible.
During the case against Robbie Springsteen, the jury was buying the guilt.
Until they allowed the testimony
and the transcripts from the statement that Michael Scott made,
and that's where their decision probably had been made.
I did see the reaction of the jury.
To me, what I saw, was not gonna be a good thing.
Robert Springsteen was found guilty
and given the death penalty.
Mike Scott was then tried.
[Dennis] Scott's trial starts in September of 2002.
And just like Springsteen,
Scott claims that his confession was coerced.
[Garcia] Michael Scott was interrogated on September the 9th, 1999.
He was interrogated over five days.
And the crucial part of Michael Scott's interrogation is that first day.
This is when all the bad stuff happens.
What I am referring to is the Reid technique.
The Reid technique is infamous, if you will,
interrogation methods that can get false confessions from people.
It's very simple. I'm going to accuse you first,
that I know you committed the crime.
You're cornered. You cannot get out.
And the one thing that saves you is to confess.
Over the course of the next five days,
they write the confession for him, and he signs off on it.
It's like 20 questions. And, finally, he said,
"Their clothes?"
"Now, you got it Michael."
This is absurd that this served to prove
somebody committed a murder.
The defense tried to counter Scott's own statement.
When we went to trial, the legal strategy was
to compare the confession,
to the crime scene and show how it did not fit.
For example, there is a back room,
where the murders happened.
He makes all the action happen,
behind the cash register area.
So, it's not matching up.
[Dennis] Despite the defense doing its best,
to negate Michael Scott's own confession,
he's found guilty.
And is sentenced to life in prison.
We didn't have a jury willing to take a look at those details and say,
"You know what, that's reasonable doubt."
When you look at those bodies of those little girls, that overwhelms anything.
Somebody's gotta pay.
And these boys paid.
For the victims' families this really feels like justice has finally been served.
They both confessed, at great distance from each other,
on their own.
Their stories were very similar.
And with that, they were found guilty.
I was happy.
People finally felt that justice was being served
for a crime that has hung over the city
for nearly a decade.
There was relief that came with it.
Even though, there's more questions than answers in this case.
However, their relief is short-lived.
Springsteen's case appeals automatically.
And Scott's lawyers file an appeal as well.
And the attorneys for both men
are arguing that
their sixth amendment rights were violated,
because co-conspirators' confessions were allowed in the case.
In 2004, Supreme Court, at that time, said,
"We're gonna make a hard and fast rule.
"Statements made to police authorities,
during questioning by co-defendants
are hereby unreliable and inadmissible.
Because generally speaking,
a co-defendant will be trying to
maybe make an admission
but put most of the guilt off on the other party.
And so, the cases were reversed on that point.
And sent back for a new trial.
So, the judge told the District Attorney,
"You have to come up with a new case.
"You can't use the confessions."
[Dennis] For the next three and a half years,
while Scott and Springsteen remain in prison,
prosecutors delay motions for a new trial.
Until finally, in March 2008,
when there is a stunning revelation,
due to the advancement of DNA technology.
We got called to go up to Judge Lynch's office.
I remember thinking, "Oh, my gosh,
"like-- what are you saying?"
Male DNA profiles have always been present on the vaginal swabs
but it isn't until technology advances, in 2008,
that the police can retest the swabs,
and they are thrilled when, out of the two partial profiles,
discovered in 1991,
one actually comes back as a complete DNA profile this time.
So, the police took DNA samples from the boys.
[Dennis] Thinking, this will finally be the smoking gun,
that the DA and the Austin police have been looking for
for the past 20 years...
They compare the profile
to the profiles of the four men.
But the results are shocking.
[Diaz] Those boys had given their samples.
And they had run them against the full DNA profile
and they were not a match.
They excluded all the boys.
All four of the boys.
It showed that none of the guys who had been arrested
were involved.
All of a sudden, on TV I see, the district attorney.
And she says, "We're gonna drop the case,
"We're not gonna prosecute them."
I could not, in good conscience,
allow this case to go to trial.
before the identity of the male donor
in determined.
And the full truth is known.
That day that the boys were let out was...
...very upsetting.
Because I still don't know the people that did this.
[Pam] I feel like every time we think
we've made a little bit of headway,
we take steps backwards.
[Dennis] Authorities then run the DNA profiles through CODIS,
hoping for a match, but unfortunately, there isn't one.
And the case goes cold.
Thirty-two years later,
the yogurt shop case remains unsolved.
[Aradillas] I feel like police put all their eggs in one basket,
and really focused
on these four guys.
But nothing about them connects them to the crime.
And it's unbelievable that
we still don't have an answer.
The only way this case will ever be solved,
is to start from scratch.
You know that the witness in this yogurt shop
says, "There were two men, seated behind me.
"When we left, they were still there."
Just about every single customer
came in to give a statement.
Except for two.
Where are those statements? Who are they?
You can make a case for couple leaving,
the two guys there.
One of the gets up, he pulls out a gun.
And the whole thing begins.
[Garcia] So when you find those two guys,
the DNA is going to match.
Very simple.
In the meantime, the victims' families
are left still trying to understand,
what exactly happened
to Eliza, Jennifer, Sarah and Amy.
My dad thinks a lot about that night.
He thinks a lot about seeing her that last time.
Things he wished he could have said, or done differently.
I think we're all plagued with what-ifs.
"What if we had done this or what if we had done that?"
[Jones] Whether solved or not, it will always be a part of me.
I don't care how many times I gotta recount it.
It sticks with me all the time.
It just haunted anybody who had anything to do with it.
[Sonora] I have lost a lot of memories of my sister.
t's been so painful to talk about her.
that we don't talk about her.
But Eliza kept a journal.
That's taken me about 30 years to be able to look at the journals.
But when I started reading them, last year,
it was kind of a connection,
that I felt with her.
[girl] There's Eliza!
Just to remember this, kinda, carefree teenager.
[Bob] Everybody says, "You'll be better with time."
Uh-uh.
It don't get no better.
[Pam] We owe ourselves as a community a resolution to this case.
[Sonora] My mom died in 2015.
She felt that it was important that we keep talking
about what happened to Eliza.
My family-- the rest of the family still hope that
there may be some pieces of information
that will come forward,
and that things will be solved.
And I think there is hope,
that we'll finally have some answers.
I will not die until this is solved.
That's my little girl.
And I want justice.