About Us
www.texas-justice.com
mailto: info@texas-justice.com
Robert may be contacted directly by writing to the followin address (Texas Department of Criminal Justice requires a valid return address)
- Travis County Jail
- 500 W. 10th St.
- Austin, TX 78701
- Robert Springsteen IV
- 11/26/74 #0729910
The Web Site
While Robert Springsteen, Jr's father developed and maintains this site, it would not be possible without the help of the families of all involved.
The reason for creating this site originated when my son and three other young men were charged and arrested for committing capital murder in Austin, Texas in 1991.
The families and friends of these young men believe in their innocence.
We continue to express our deepest sympathy to the families of the girls.
The "Yogurt Shop Murders" Case
In 1991, four girls, ages 13-17, were murdered in an "I Can't Believe It's Yogurt" shop in North Austin. Over the years, there have been hundreds of suspects, dozens of confessions and numerous official statements of "arrests expected soon". Despite the help of the Texas Rangers, FBI, and ATF, no one has ever been prosecuted for this crime.
We believe that developments in cases related to the yogurt shop during 1999 required the "Yogurt Shop" murders to be prosecuted and closed. And as soon as possible.
We believe that it is no coincidence that the "cold case" unit was re-activated in August 1999, just 5 months from the end of the millenium and during an important election cycle. And, in less than 30 days, this "cold case" unit extracted fresh "confessions" and within 21 days of that, the current suspects were arrested.
We believe the power of the state is being used to prosecute four innocent young men for political, personal, and/or financial reasons.
We believe these young men were selected because they were categorized as "easy targets" for psychologically intense interrogations if access to legal counsel could be avoided.
We believe these four young men were selected because they are "school dropouts" and would be easy to characturize as "disturbed" or "without character" to an uninformed public (and jury pool).
We believe that these four young men were selected because they would, most likely, not be able to provide proof of being somewhere other than the crime scene.
We believe APD, prosecutors, and city officials then intentionally tried to prejudiced the public by creating a "guilty until proven innocent" environment.
We believe witnesses associated with our sons are being selected because they can be categorized as "easy targets" for psychologically intense interrogations if refused access to legal counsel or will come from prisons where "deals" will guarantee negative testimony. [ed. the 5 identified witnesses have told the press or friends that they know nothing about the crime; but have been threatened with prison terms if they don't implicate the suspects]
We believe that the "manufacturing" of evidence to insure convictions is not beyond the realm of possibility. There is no physical evidence linking these four young men to the crime and what evidence there is does not match any of our sons.
Summary:
We believe these four young men were selected because someone in APD and/or the district attorney's office (or with influence over APD and/or the D.A.) thought this would be a "slam dunk" just before the elections and get this case "closed" before the year 2000.
Police, prosecutorial, and judicial misconduct and prejudice
Developing the information around these young men, it became apparent that police, prosecutorial and judicial misconduct and prejudice was a lot more common than I thought.
It seemed appropriate to expand coverage to other families and individuals in Austin, in Texas and in other areas of the country.
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