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Austin-after thirty-four years, the Austin Police Department penetrated in “I can’t believe it’s yogurt!” Cold Case gave the families of the victims a feeling of closing and an opportunity to think about those who helped them over the years.
Last Friday, police Robert Eugene Brashers set as the suspect connected to the famous Yogurt store for four teenage girls in North Austin.
KXAN’s Will Dupree, Avey Travis spoke with Austin Crench Center, Joclyn Chamra Barrara and Cathy Collins, the organization’s lawyer for the organization on Tuesday.
“It was good to hear that Sonora found a lot of comfort with our employees and agents …” Parira said. “It is really important to continue to obtain this support for people, especially at this time after losses like this.”
During the APD press conference on Monday, Sonora Thomas, the sister of Elisa Thomas, thanked the non -profit organization to help her family.
“Don and Susan Cox from the Christie center left my mother sleeping on the sofa when she was afraid of returning home,” Sonora said. “Millions of kindness that extended to me and my family have reached this moment.”
Parira said that Cox founded the Christie center after their daughter was killed by a driver on the campus of the University of Texas in 1985.
Collins, a victim advocate at the support center, explained Kasan about her personal relationships with families.
“I came to the Christie center in 1990 and it was time there was a number of prominent cases that occurred in Austin … then my father and I joined the Christie center,” Collins said. “We have been referred [to] By APD. “
Collins recalled the murders in the yogurt store, which later occurred that year and said that the families came to the center to receive help. Over the years of her presence there, Collins said that she and Maria Thomas, the mother of Elisa Thomas, became very close.
“Sonora became too close to me because she was teenager. I had teenagers who were sadly,” Collins said.
Collins’s brother was killed in 1990 and said that some investigators were himself in the case of killing the yogurt store.
“I had an invested relationship taking place in this case, and it was horrific that I felt, as a victim of the crime, with the knowledge of what it would be.”
The Christian Center provides support for free and continuous sadness for the families of the victims and anyone who is sad, according to what it said Website.