Editor’s Note: The video above is from KXAN’s newscast on Sept. 30, 2025.
AUSTIN (KXAN) – An attorney representing one of the original suspects in the yogurt shop murders is calling for a full exoneration of his client.
Tony Diaz is representing Mike Scott, who spent years in prison after he was sentenced to life in 2002. Diaz said the breakthrough linking serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers to the murder should clear the names of all four original suspects.
“This case stole decades of my life, but the truth has finally come to light,” Scott said in a press release.
“We only pray that the families of Eliza, Jennifer, Sarah, and Amy may begin to heal, and that the heavy shadow cast over my family and others will finally lift,” Jeannine Casey, Scott’s former spouse, said.
Seventeen-year-old Jennifer Harbison, 15-year-old Sarah Harbison, 17-year-old Eliza Thomas, and 13-year-old Amy Ayers were shot and killed at a north Austin frozen yogurt shop, which was then set on fire. After 34 years of investigation, police said they’ve identified Brashers, who died by suicide in 1999, as a suspect in the case.
Before the Austin Police Department handed the case to its Cold Case Homicide Unit, its “Yogurt Shop Task Force” arrested four men in connection with the murders.
Diaz said his work will not conclude until his client, Scott, is exonerated.
“Mike Scott must be formally exonerated — and it must happen very soon. This is a long, hard battle for justice, and while the truth is finally out, the fight continues for Mike Scott,” he said.
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