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Austin Police Identify Robert Brashers as Suspect in 1991 Yogurt Shop Killings Using DNA and Ballistics
Genetic genealogy linked Robert Eugene Brashers, a deceased serial killer, to the 1991 murders of four teenage girls in Austin, solving a decades-old cold case.
- Robert Eugene Brashers, an American serial killer who died by suicide in 1999, has been identified as the perpetrator of the 1991 killings of four girls at a yogurt shop in Austin, Texas using genetic genealogy technology.
- The victims were 13-year-old Amy Ayers, 15-year-old Sarah Harbison, 17-year-old Eliza Thomas, and 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison, who were bound, gagged, and killed at the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt shop on December 6, 1991.
- Brashers' DNA profile has previously been connected to other murders and a rape case in different states.
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