I just read this whole thread and did some research on a few articles. I'm going to share some things that really stood out that might be worth some conversation:
From:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2011-12-16/scene-of-the-crime/
"That timeline, Farrelly, Garcia, and Saw­yer believe, may very well have revealed the real killers: two men who were in the yogurt shop sitting at a booth as the girls cleaned the shop, stocked the napkin dispensers, and turned the chairs upside down onto the tops of the dining room tables. Farrelly, Sawyer, and Garcia declined to divulge any specific details about the customers or what they said about the two men they saw, because the customers were never called to testify in court, but other sources with knowledge of the case have confirmed a basic account of what the final two customers, a married couple, told police happened on Friday, Dec. 6, 1991, just before 11pm. (Contacted by the
Chronicle, the witnesses declined to comment for this story.)
According to police statements, the couple saw two men sitting at a booth and acting strangely; by watching their reflections in the plate glass shop front, the woman could see the men from where she was sitting. The woman said the pair made her uncomfortable, sources tell the
Chronicle. The couple left as the girls began to close up shop, leaving the two men alone with them.
Indeed, considered in sequence with the recollections of at least one other witness who did testify, it appears to the defense lawyers that more than one person at the shop might have come into contact with at least one of the men the couple had seen. According to Dearl Croft, a former police officer who in 1991 ran a security company, when he visited the shop around 10pm that evening to buy yogurt for himself and two friends, he was approached by a man wearing a military fatigue-style jacket. The man was loitering in the customer line, ushering other customers to order first; when Croft came in, the man asked if he was a cop and offered to allow Croft to also pass him in line. Croft refused, and when the man finally approached the counter, he ordered only a can of soda. After he paid, he moved around the counter and headed to the back of the store; Croft asked where he'd gone and was told by Eliza Thomas, who as the store's shift supervisor was operating the register, that she'd allowed him to go into the back to use the restroom.
Croft was uneasy and testified that he hung around the counter for a few more minutes to see if the man ever returned; according to Croft, he never did. "[T]here was just something that didn't feel right, you know," he testified at Scott's trial in 2002. With his yogurt beginning to melt, Croft said, he left the store."
The piece about the guy who went behind the counter is interesting. It seemed as if Eliza Thomas knew the individual who went behind the counter to use the restroom and let him go to the back room, which is also where the back door was. He probably hung out there a while until the officer left. Two men had been lingering for at least an hour before close. The front door was locked at close, which means they stayed behind, probably because the girls allowed them to. Did they meet them that night and befriend, or did they know them for a while? Either way, they didn't think they were a threat up until the murder took place. Did the 2 who went to the movies meet them and bring them back? Did these guys meet the girls in the shop that night and ask what they were doing after? Did they all know each other before this night? No matter what the answer is, it seems as if there were plans made for after close with these guys.
The can of soda was left unopened on the counter. After the door was locked and the shop was closed, the whole group would have gone to the back room, which is when this all took place, somewhere within a half an hour to forty-five minutes. All we know for certain is that one of these guys raped two of these girls. Probably the girls were stuck there at gunpoint, but the backdoor was also right there and no one was able to escape, though it's the way these two males exited, since the front door was still locked.
I want to also share a couple interesting comments that are on this article in the commentary.
One comment:
It was a guy that resembled Timothy Mcvie! I was at Dallas night club that night down the street from the yogart shop! Around 11:30 and 12:00pm a guy came into the club and sat next to me! He was wearing a army fatigue jack had red hair and unshaven scraggly red beard. He was acting very strange and was out of place. He started talking to me and I asked him what was wrong with him, he said he was nervous as he drank the bud Weiser beer really fast. He told me that he was fom Killeen and that he had been in the Gulf war! This guy was trying to hide something by his actions and I remember this guy till this day! I called tip line but was never called back by cops! I left Dallas nite club and headed north to Anderson ln and saw firetruck and police cars in yogart shop center when I turned right into Anderson ln from Burnet rd! I hope they catch these murderous s.o.b or at least get to the bottom of this crime.
Another:
I was 19 years old and working at the Northcross Movie Theater the night this happen. I probably sold tickets to the two younger girls who died that night because the report had said they had gone to see a movie earlier before they came to the shop. I lived and worked in that area. It is my belief that who ever murdered these young beautiful girls, who were close to my age at the time, knew them. I had a strange experience with a random guy who just showed up out of the blue a few weeks before it happened. He would ice skate at the rink and make friends with all the regular kids especially the girls. He was in his mid twenties, tall, medium build, light brown hair, high check bones, long nose. He asked me out and at the last minute I had a bad feeling about it and so I cancelled on him. He left me over a dozen messages on my answering machine that day. It freaked me out. I saw him one more time at the mall and then he disappeared right around the time of the murders. It haunts me to this day.