DNA evidence cracks cold case, connects dead suspect to murders of 4 teens at Austin yogurt shop

Investigators have identified a suspect in a Texas quadruple cold event murder more than three decades old Police in Austin declared on Friday that they had linked Robert Eugene Brashers to the murders of four teen girls at a yogurt shop in through DNA Brashers who committed suicide in was also suspected of being a serial predator at the time according to the Austin American-Statesman He was convicted of attempted murder after shooting a woman in the head in and was sentenced to years in prison He was published in however after only serving three years in prison the Statesman communicated BRYAN KOHBERGER SAYS HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH MENTAL DISORDERS BEFORE GUILTY PLEA REPORTHe fatally shot himself following a police standoff at a motel where he had been hiding with his wife daughter and two stepdaughters after releasing them from the motel DNA evidence also linked Brashers after his death to three rapes and murders in Missouri and South Carolina including a mother and daughter and a rape in Tennessee Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott who were teenagers at the time of the murders were charged and convicted of the killings in and They were sentenced to death and life in prison respectively but their convictions were overturned on appeal including because no DNA evidence linked them to the crimes What became known as the Yogurt Shop Murders remains infamous in Austin as one of its majority of violent cases and is still open HBO premiered a docuseries called The Yogurt Shop Murders last month about the killings Amy Ayers Eliza Thomas and sisters Jennifer and Sarah Harbison ages and were bound gagged and shot in the head at the I Can t Believe It s Yogurt store where two of them worked The building was then set on fire Our organization never gave up working this affair Austin police reported in a declaration on Friday CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe department has a news conference planned on Monday to discuss the new evidence in the occurrence The Associated Press contributed to this document