Nearly 34 years after his 13-year-old sister died during the 1991 Austin, Texas, yogurt shop massacre, Shawn Ayers and his wife, Angie, have launched a national cold case effort while still seeking answers about the attack and whether an accomplice is out there.Angie, along with Shawn, whose sister Amy was among four girls killed in the attack, have joined former prosecutors Mindy Montford and Anne Marie Schubert to establish the National Cold Case Center.The decades-long search for answers in Amy’s case inspired the couple to help establish the nonprofit, which helps to fund unsolved homicide investigations, train investigators and support victims’ families.Angie and Shawn Ayers have launched a national cold case effort while still seeking answers about the yogurt shop murders in Austin, Texas, where Shawn's sister was one of four victims.(Courtesy of Angie and Shawn Ayers)FORENSIC GENEALOGY UNMASKS COLD CASE SUSPECT AS STRANGLER, SEXUAL PREDATOR DECADES LATER: OFFICIALS"Due to what we've gone through and seen, not only from our own experience, but from listening to other families struggle throughout this process," Angie told Fox News Digital.
"Years ago, we had wanted to start a nonprofit."Amy Ayers was one of four victims of the yogurt shop murders in Austin, Texas.(Courtesy of Angie and Shawn Ayers)Amy, Jennifer Harbison and Eliza Thomas, both 17, and Jennifer’s sister, Sarah Harbison, 15, died in the attack at the I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! shop on West Anderson Lane on Dec.
6, 1991.Photos of the "Yogurt Shop Murders" victims.(FOX 7 Austin)On the night of the killings, Jennifer and Eliza were working the closing shift, while Sarah and Amy waited for them to finish so the four could head to a sleepover.Shortly before midnight, authorities received a report of a fire at the shop.
The blaze and water from the sprinklers altered the crime scene and diluted evidence, according to FBI files.Inside, police discovered Sarah, Eliza and Jennifer stacked to...