No DNA. No fingerprints. No forensic link. No witnesses. The only evidence against Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott in the yogurt shop murders was their own coerced words — confessions extracted after days of interrogation by detectives who blocked the door and screamed questions from inches away. Springsteen was sentenced to death. Scott got life. The jury never learned that the detective who shaped the early case had been found responsible for seven prior false confessions. They never saw the DNA evidence that would later prove someone else was in that yogurt shop.

Springsteen was 17 at the time of the crime. The state of Texas prepared to execute him for it. If the Supreme Court hadn’t ruled on juvenile executions when it did, he would be dead — killed by the state for a crime committed by a serial predator who was already deceased by the time anyone identified him.

Part 3 of the Yogurt Shop Murders series breaks open the trials, the confession psychology, and the constitutional failures that produced a death sentence from an empty evidence file. This is what happens when the system needs a conviction more than it needs the truth. And it came within one Supreme Court ruling of being irreversible.

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