Twenty-six years after he died by suicide, DNA linked Robert Eugene Brashers to the quadruple homicide of four girls in Austin, Texas — as well as a number of other violent crimes.
For 34 years, a brutal crime haunted the city of Austin, Texas. The so-called Austin yogurt shop murders occured in December 1991, when an unknown assailant murdered four teenage girls at an “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt” outlet before setting the store on fire. But despite the brutality of the crime, the killer was not identified until 2025. Then, DNA evidence linked the murders to a man named Robert Eugene Brashers.
A violent criminal with a long rap sheet, Brashers was convicted of multiple crimes before he died by suicide in 1999. Yet the full breadth of his crimes was not fully understood until recent years. In addition to the Austin yogurt shop murders, DNA evidence also connected to Brashers to a number of other unsolved rapes and homicides which occurred across the South.
So who was Robert Eugene Brashers? This is the full story of the murderer and rapist whose terrible crimes went undiscovered for far too long.
The First Documented Crime Of Robert Eugene Brashers
Robert Eugene Brashers was born on March 13, 1958, in Newport News, Virginia. Not much is known about his childhood, but the Austin American-Stateman reported that he was known as “intelligent, manipulative, and skilled with tools and weapons.”…