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Sarah Harbison

Case from Austin, TX dated Dec 06, 1991

Victim Details

Sarah Louise Harbison

Female

White / Caucasian

Austin

TX

1991-12-06

15

Sarah

Harbison

07/16/2026

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White/Caucasian Sarah Harbison, age 15, finished her Friday shift on December 6, 1991, inside the I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! shop in North Austin with her older sister, Jennifer, and their friend Eliza Thomas, while 13-year-old Amy Ayers kept them company. Near closing time, an intruder or intruders turned the small storefront into a crime scene of unimaginable brutality; the girls were bound and gagged, shot in the head, and the shop set ablaze to destroy evidence. Fire crews uncovered th ...
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