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Men wrongly accused of grisly yogurt shop murders in Texas reach $35 million settlement with city

The Independent·Jim Vertuno·20 days ago
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The city of Austin will pay $35 million to three men and the family of a fourth who were wrongly accused of the 1991 rape and murder of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop, a case that initially sent one of the men to death row and another to life in prison, under a tentative settlement reached Tuesday. Robert Springsteen, Michael Scott, Forrest Welborn and Maurice Pierce had all insisted they were innocent of one of the city's most notorious crimes. They were finally declared innocent by a judge in February after investigators determined the crime was committed by a suspect who died in 1999. The settlement must still be approved by the city council at a later date. Details of the payments to the men and their families were not released. “This settlement closes the final chapter of a devastating story in Austin’s history," Austin City Manager T.C. Broadnax said in a statement.…

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