“48 Hours’” exclusive: Correspondent @EFMoriarty has learned serial killer Robert Brashers, who is deceased, has been identified as a suspect in the 1991 murders of four teenage girls in an Austin, Texas, yogurt shop.
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Robert Eugene Brashers, who is deceased, has been identified through DNA as connected to the murder of four teenage girls in 1991, according to retired Austin detective John Jones.
On Dec. 6, 1991, 17-year-old Eliza Thomas, 13-year-old Amy Ayers, and two sisters, 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison and 15-year-old Sarah Harbison, were found gagged, tied up with their own clothing, and shot in the head in an I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! shop in Austin. The person responsible had also set the shop on fire, compromising much of the evidence. At least one of the victims had been sexually assaulted and investigators were able to get a partial DNA profile off one of the girls.
Brashers was a serial killer and rapist who committed at least three murders between 1990 and 1998 in the states of South Carolina and Missouri. He died in January 1999 by suicide during a standoff with police. The gun he used to shoot himself is believed to be consistent with a bullet casing found in a drain inside the yogurt shop.
Last month, HBO aired a documentary miniseries about the case, produced by Emma Stone.
