The Yogurt Shop Murders

I've been watching & enjoying HBO Documentaries for over two decades. This was Not one of them.

Perhaps, one of the worst Documentaries I have ever watched, Ever.

Boring throughout, whoever thought this was a something that would be interesting to anyone, should Never be involved in any production ever again.

Does the viewer really need to know details of a shirt being kept in a closet for nearly 30yrs by one of the incompetent Investigators involved? No!

This was supposed to be a Docu about these Four Young Girls unsolved murder, but it was mostly a wasted opportunity to do so.

HBO, you should be ashamed to have broadcast this complete obscenity...

Near the end of the fourth episode, they open up a time capsule. That scene is emblematic of the entire series. This is a confusing mess. There is DNA evidence and no one does a 23 and Me test to determine basic information about the suspect. This should have been one 90 minute documentary. I do hope they find the actual people that did the crime in 1991.

The first episode was informative and the whole series could have been wrapped up in 2 hour long episodes. The next episodes became increasingly boring and hard to watch as there was no information after the DNA and the whole series is spliced together news clips, understandably emotional discussions with family members and cuts to the woman who did the original work that was shelved and revived. It should have been condensed. She is also looks strange, as if she just got out of bed, for all her on air segments. Hair messy, no make-up or decent clothing, and monotone answers. I would like to see a documentary on missing New England nurse Maura Murray next. Hopefully science will be able to determine the offender from the partial DNA sample in the future but many times, the criminal will have died.

I'm at a loss as to how-given the misery and loss blast zone around this crime, atop the intricacies and boondoggles of the investigation-HBO put forth such a listless, unfocused documentary.

The first episode did a tremendous job of bringing the girls and their families' loss to life. Barbara Ayres-Wilson (Sarah and Jennifer's mother) describing the anguish of family as she broke the news of lost souls to them, one by one, brought me to tears.

And then the doc went off a cliff...

Episode two gave us the spectacle of a private detective (with her posse of armchair vultures) directing grief-stricken parents to hang wind chimes in her tree ('Isn't it fun?') to represent their daughter's voice. And the school administrator showing us a plaque for a girl she never knew. This is vital, how?

Episode three illustrates the utter failure of the Austin PD-plus the judge who apparently flunked constitutional law-and the mind-blowing truth that anyone connected to law enforcement still believes Robert Springsteen or Michael Scott had anything to do with this.

I'm left wondering if the filmmakers had to pull punches to get the families' and Austin PD's cooperation. And why, three episodes in, we've yet to hear a theory of the crime, or see anything like a crime scene reconstruction.

Hard stuff, yes. But how else do you solve it?

I was hoping to see the case (as well the girls and their families) brought to urgent life. As in, something that might produce fresh leads?

What I hoped to see, and didn't, was any hint of a new investigative push.

A great documentary could've been made of the lives lost and unsettled aftermath for all affected. Or the volume and impact of false confessions. But TYSM is not that.

I can't stand to watch another episode.

This is a good documentary about a horrible crime and the investigation which followed. The problem with this show is that it is FOUR hours long for no good reason. This could have been a really good one hour show. Instead, they repeat the same things over and over. A good editor would have went a long way to make this a better documentary.