Austin Police Make ‘Significant Breakthrough’ in Murders of 4 Teen Girls at Yogurt Shop, Name New Suspect 34 Years Later

Over three decades after four teenage girls were shot and killed inside an Austin, Texas yogurt shop, police say they have made a “significant breakthrough” in the case and identified a new suspect.

Austin police named the suspect as Robert Eugene Brashers in a statement released Friday, Sept. 26. Brashers died by suicide in 1999 during a standoff with law enforcement in Kennett, Mo. He was previously linked to multiple killings and rapes in other states, according to the Associated Press.

Brashers had not been considered a possible suspect during the 34-year investigation and had no known connection to Texas’ capital city, the Austin Statesman reported…

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