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4 hours ago, Deej said:

The fire department sprayed thousands of gallons of water onto the crime scene before realizing it was a crime scene, and APD had tunnel vision when it came to who they suspected, and put their best, false-confession-forcing detective on the case. No surprise it was never solved. 

Its true was much tougher to solve back then. But they could’ve come a lot closer. Things got in the way. 

Its only gonna get tougher for them to not solve it now. They have dna from two suspects. Not only codis, which to my knowledge and understanding has never been checked, but now voluntary ancestral dna as well. Lots of potential leads there. They can probably solve it now if they want to. But do they? Haven’t heard much on it lately.

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8 hours ago, LongestHorn said:

Yeah, no shit.  My little sister was at UT at the time of the murders and worked two jobs - at Jazzercize and across the street at that ICBY shop.  She was scheduled to work that Friday night, but asked for the night off to attend a K98 promotional dance team tryout.  APD had failed to interview her in the weeks that followed, and I called them to ask them WTF kind of an investigation they were running if they were not interviewing people that worked there at the time.  Months passed before APD called me back.  When they finally did, they wanted to interview me.  I agreed.  

After an hour of being grilled by homocide detectives with questions like "we know it was you, but we want to know who was with you", I was in tears, and snapped.  I stood up from my chair and started screaming at them how fucked they were accusing citizens trying to help solve the crime, that they clearly had no fucking clue, and were never going to solve the murders, and ordered them to fuck off and arrest me or let me leave.  The APD psychologist in the room stood up and finally said she believed me and I could leave, but they were going to call my girlfriend, who lived with her parents, and check my alibi.  I honestly had no idea where I was that night, but I was sure I was with her on any given Friday night.  Her Mormon mother answered the phone when APD called, and she told them she keeps a detailed journal, and I was with her daughter at a church dance with 100 witneses at the time of the murders.

It scarred me and my family.  I've told that story to more than one judge over the years when asked for trial duty voire dire if I had any reason to not trust APD.  I would later learn that APD conducted hundreds of such interviews with many that included torturing subjects with pepper spray, pointing pistols at their head, etc.  In fairness, APD was under extreme pressure to solve the murders and were left with very little evidence after the fire and water damage to the crime scene.  But that does not excuse the fucked up investigation they conducted and how it shaped my fucked up view of LEO.  

I'm old now with teens of my own working in the immediate area and my thoughts go back to the families of the murdered girls and the justice denied to them 27 years and counting.  Fucking tragic not cool story, bro.

I’m sorry to hear about this and can definitely understand how this experience would color your opinion of APD and police in general. I can at least say that in my opinion APD isn’t like that at all anymore, and back then there were a whole lot of good cops in the force who wanted to solve this terrible crime, but for various reasons were not able to. It is a fact that back then in the 80s and 90s APD was at war with itself at a time when Austin was transitioning from a small college laid back town into a full blown city. It took awhile for the force to catch up. The whole thing is a tragedy. But I also believe they have the ability to solve it now. Or at least a much greater chance to anyway. I hope they finally do. 

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