US EditionAustin Police Identify Robert Brashers as Suspect in 1991 Yogurt Shop Killings Using DNA and Ballistics
DNA evidence identified Robert Eugene Brashers as the suspect in the 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders after 34 years, linking him to multiple violent crimes across several states.
- 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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