Texas yogurt store murders chilly case suspect recognized after 34 years

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Investigators have recognized a suspect in a Texas quadruple cold case homicide greater than three many years outdated.

Police in Austin stated on Friday that that they had linked Robert Eugene Brashers to the murders of 4 teen women at a yogurt store in 1991 by DNA.

Brashers, who dedicated suicide in 1999, was additionally suspected of being a serial predator on the time, in line with the Austin American-Statesman.

He was convicted of tried homicide after taking pictures a lady within the head in 1985, and was sentenced to 12 years in jail. He was launched in 1989, nonetheless, after solely serving three years in jail, the Statesman reported.

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Police in Austin stated on Friday that that they had linked Robert Eugene Brashers to the murders of 4 teen women at a yogurt store in 1991. (Missouri State Freeway Patrol)

He fatally shot himself following a police standoff at a motel the place he had been hiding together with his spouse, daughter and two stepdaughters, after releasing them from the motel.

DNA evidence additionally linked Brashers after his demise to 3 rapes and murders in Missouri and South Carolina – together with a mom and daughter – and a rape in Tennessee.

Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott, who had been youngsters on the time of the murders, had been charged and convicted of the killings in 2001 and 2002.

The placement the place 4 women had been killed at a yogurt store in 1991. (AP Photograph/Paul J. Weber)

They had been sentenced to demise and life in jail respectively, however their convictions had been overturned on enchantment, together with as a result of no DNA proof linked them to the crimes.

What turned referred to as the "Yogurt Store Murders" stays notorious in Austin as one in all its most violent instances, and continues to be open. HBO premiered a docuseries known as "The Yogurt Store Murders" final month in regards to the killings.

Amy Ayers, 13; Eliza Thomas, 17; and sisters Jennifer and Sarah Harbison, ages 17 and 15, had been sure, gagged and shot within the head on the "I Can’t Imagine It’s Yogurt" retailer the place two of them labored. The constructing was then set on hearth.

Tributes lay on a memorial Friday for 4 teenage women who had been killed in a yogurt store in 1991 in Austin, Texas. (AP Photograph/Paul J. Weber) (AP Photograph/Paul J. Weber)