Yogurt Store Murders
Police Establish Killer After 3-Plus A long time …
However He is Already Useless
Revealed
Police in Texas have recognized the killer of 4 teenagers after greater than 3 many years with the assistance of DNA testing — however the suspect will not ever spend a day in jail as a result of he is already useless.
Austin PD officers introduced Friday they consider Robert Eugene Brashers gagged and shot to demise the 4 victims contained in the “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt” store on December 6, 1991. Every sufferer had been shot within the head.
The our bodies of Eliza Thomas, 17, Jennifer Harbison, 17, Sarah Harbison, 15, and Amy Ayers, 13, had been found after the killer set the shop ablaze. One of many women had been sexually assaulted and a partial male DNA profile was extracted from the sufferer.
The DNA profile didn’t match the genetic profiles of 4 males who had been initially believed to have dedicated the quadruple murder. Two of the boys had been tried in court docket and sentenced to jail earlier than their convictions had been overturned. All the males had been finally cleared of any wrongdoing.
Enter Brashers, who fatally shot himself throughout a 1999 standoff with police in Kennett, Missouri. Brashers was additionally related to a number of murders and sexual assaults in different states.
A devoted crew of investigators got here throughout Brashers extra just lately throughout their 34 yr probe. Police then matched the gun he used to kill himself to a bullet casing cops recovered from a drain within the yogurt store after the murders.
Cops then examined Brashers’ DNA with the partial DNA profile from one of many victims — and received a match!
Sadly, although, Brashers won’t ever see the within of a jail cell.
