Austin judge clears 4 in 1991 yogurt shop murders after DNA

Thirty-four years after Austin’s 1991 yogurt shop murders shattered public trust, a Texas judge has now wiped four names clean—officially declaring them innocent based on new DNA evidence.

This is the kind of reversal that doesn’t just change a case file. It rewrites a city’s memory, reopens questions about how “truth” was manufactured the first time, and puts institutions on the stand alongside the crime itself.