Mexico Arrests and Will Try Mexicans for Rape and Murder of Texas Teenagers

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Thursday, October 1, 1992
Volume: 
8
Issue: 
10
Pg. 415
Abstract: 

On October 22, 1992, Mexican official arrested and charged Porfirio Villa Saavedra, 23, and Alberto Cortez, 28, with premeditated murder for the grisly murders that shocked Austin, Texas in December of 1991. The two Mexican citizens are being held without bail. In particular, Sarah Harbison, 15, her sister Jennifer Harbison, 17, and two friends, Eliza Thomas, 17 and Amy Ayers, 13, were bound, raped, shot in the head and set ablaze at an Austin, Texas yogurt shop…[more]