"Austin police revealed Friday that Robert Eugene Brashers had been identified as a suspect in the murders through a wide range of DNA testing. Brashers, who had a lengthy criminal history, died by suicide in 1999 at age 40 during a standoff with police in Missouri. The Austin police's announcement follows August's release of a widely watched HBO docuseries that was based on the quadruple homicide and garnered renewed attention to the case."
"According to investigators, someone snuck into the store through the back door around closing time, attacked the girls and set the store on fire. The girls, who were shot execution-style, were discovered by firefighters with their bodies bound by underwear and their mouths gagged with cloth. According to the autopsy report, Ayers was wearing small white earrings; Sarah had on a gold necklace and a Mickey Mouse watch; and Jennifer wore a high school ring as well as a Timex watch."
Robert Eugene Brashers has been identified posthumously as a suspect in the 1991 Austin I Can't Believe It's Yogurt quadruple homicide through comprehensive DNA testing. Brashers died by suicide in 1999 at age 40 during a standoff with Missouri police and had a lengthy criminal history. Four girls—Amy Ayers, 13; Eliza Thomas, 17; and sisters Jennifer (17) and Sarah Harbison (15)—were bound, gagged, shot in the head and set on fire; at least one victim suffered sexual assault. Evidence was limited by the fire and lack of surveillance, and investigators had previously arrested four men in 1999.
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