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Timeline of the Texas Yogurt Shop Cold Case Investigation
Advanced DNA testing exonerated two men and identified Robert Eugene Brashers as the suspect in the 1991 murders of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop.
- Austin police announced Friday that DNA testing pointed to Robert Eugene Brashers as the perpetrator in the Dec. 6, 1991 `I Can't Believe It's Yogurt!` murders.
- After years of contested confessions, two men were convicted in the case, but Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott had their convictions overturned and faced retrial before new DNA evidence emerged.
- Forensic teams matched DNA from a bullet casing to Brashers, who died in 1999, and evidence shows the victims were bound, gagged, shot and the building set ablaze.
- Police announced the case is officially closed and no other suspects are being sought; Austin police will provide more details Monday about the breakthrough following the HBO docuseries The Yogurt Shop Murders last month.
- Deborah Brashers-Claunch told local stations she was surprised and sorrowful and said, `I am very sorry to every family that my father hurt`; investigators linked Brashers to a 1998 Missouri double killing near Portageville, about 155 miles southeast of St. Louis.
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