Laura caught him with drugs and discovered he was buying them and delivering them to one of the teachers at the school, Kenneth "Kenny" Yates. Renaldo didn’t kill Laura, but provides the key to solving the crime. She points the finger at a troubled student, Renaldo Ramos who gave Laura a difficult time. Margaret says the gun was stolen before Laura’s murder and she never reported it because it was illegal. She had difficulties with fellow teacher Margaret Trudlow, whom our detectives discover illegally bought the gun that killed Laura. The initial theory was that she was the victim of a carjacking gone wrong, but since she left her car keys in the desk, it seems unlikely that’s where she was going. The students were difficult, but so were her fellow teachers. She thought she could make a difference, but she ended up finding resistance at every turn. Laura was an idealistic teacher who joined The Teach For America program right after college. Rush reopens Laura McKinney’s 1991 murder case when a former student of hers, Darnell Brent (now a teacher) brings in a set of car keys he found in an old desk at the inner-city school where she taught. This gives that right to the victims' families so they can petition the government to reopen the case, and it would be done by a cold case unit the DOJ with federal investigators.The team reopens the 1991 case of a young inner-city schoolteacher, originally thought to have been killed in a carjacking gone wrong, when her car keys are discovered in an old desk at the high school. "It's just law enforcement that has that right. "It does fundamentally change how the system operates," McCaul said. While the congressman's legislation would not apply to the "Yogurt Shop Murders" case because the case is still open, and the bill applies only to federal cold cases, he has been in touch with the families of the Yogurt Shop Murder victims to discuss the legislation. The new legislation requires the federal government to inform family members of cold case victims of their right to do so, the congressman explained The Homicide Victim Families' Rights Act would give families the opportunity to petition the federal government to reopen a federal case if it is still "cold" after three years and has probative leads. McCaul, former Texas deputy attorney general and former federal prosecutor, sent a letter to the FBI in 2019 asking the bureau to provide DNA samples from the case for a Y-STR matching test, but the FBI said the test would result in thousands of matches and be rendered inconclusive.įLORIDA MAN ARRESTED AFTER DNA ON BEER CAN LINKS HIM TO ‘GRUESOME’ 1996 COLD CASE MURDER No new suspects have been identified since then. LAS VEGAS POLICE SOLVE COLD CASE RAPE, MURDER OF 16-YEAR-OLDĬharges against two of the four were dropped, and prosecutors dismissed pending murder charges against the other two suspects in 2009 due to the revelation of new DNA evidence linked to an unknown male. Amy and Sarah were visiting the yogurt shop where Jennifer and Eliza were working at the time when suspects entered the store, bound and gagged the girls and shot each of them in the head before setting the yogurt shop on fire.įour men were arrested in 1991 in connection to the murders, according to FOX 7 Austin. The murder victims were 13-year-old Amy Ayers Amy's friend, 15-year-old Sarah Harbison Sarah's sister, 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison and Jennifer's friend, 17-year-old Eliza Thomas. It was very shocking, and it still is 30 years later, and part of it is because the families never got a resolution to the case."įLORIDA MAN ARRESTED FOR 1983 COLD CASE MURDER AFTER FINGERPRINT TECH LINKS HIM TO SLAYING, POLICE SAY "This brutal murder of four teenage girls, and the way it was done … that may happen in other cities, but not Austin. "I remember at the time how shocking it was because I think Austin, at that time, was still a relatively small town in Texas that kind of lost its innocence on that day," McCaul told Fox News.
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