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Researchers have identified a suspect in a quadruple case murder of Texas more than three decades.
The Police in Austin said Friday that they had linked Robert Eugene Brashers with the murders of four teenagers in a yogurt store in 1991 through DNA.
Brashers, who committed suicide in 1999, was also suspected of being a serial predator at that time, according to Austin American-Statesman.
He was sentenced for attempted murder after shooting a woman in the head in 1985, and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He was released in 1989, however, after he turned three years in prison, the statesman reported.
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Police in Austin said Friday that they had linked Robert Eugene Brashers with the murders of four teenagers in a yogurt store in 1991. (Missouri state road patrol)
He triggered fatally after a police confrontation in a motel where he had been hiding with his wife, his daughter and two steps, after freeing them from the motel.
DNA's evidence also linked Brashers after his death to three violations and murders in Missouri and South Carolina, including a mother and a daughter, and a rape in Tennessee.
Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott, who were teenagers at the time of murders, were accused and condemned by the murders in 2001 and 2002.
The location where four girls were killed in a yogurt store in 1991. (AP Photo/Paul J. Weber)
They were sentenced to death and life imprisonment respectively, but their convictions were annulled in appeal, even because no DNA evidence linked them with crimes.
What was known as the “murders in the yogurt store” remains infamous in Austin as one of its most violent cases, and is still open. HBO premiered a docuseries called “The Yogurt Shop Murders” last month about the murders.
Amy Ayers, 13; Eliza Thomas, 17; And the Jennifer and Sarah Harbison sisters, 17 and 15, were tied, gagged and shot in the head in the store “I cannot believe that it is yogurt” where two of them worked. The building caught fire.
Taxes are in a monument on Friday for four teenagers who were killed in a yogurt store in 1991 in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Paul J. Weber) (AP Photo/Paul J. Weber)
“Our team never stopped working in this case,” Austin police said in a statement on Friday.
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The department has a press conference planned Monday to discuss the new evidence in the case.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
