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9 minutes ago, immamac said:

My wife just said they solved this? 

Yup.  Apparently

After more than 3 decades, investigators believe the Yogurt Shop Murders have been solved

Nearly 34 years ago, four teen girls were killed at a yogurt shop in North Austin. Their murders have remained unsolved – until now.

https://www.kvue.com/mobile/article/news/crime/austin-yogurt-shop-murders-solved/269-10f97ed7-adc2-4514-84e5-341f18bfc8d4

Got the kvue notification at dinner at bufalina. My wife, born and raised austinite, cried.

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Its still on going? But they're sure enough to release this? But lets be mindful of the people impacted by this and keep it on the DL? Wtf is this? 

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I have so many questions. The presumed killer is a serial. His DNA would already have been on file? Right? Why would they need DNA genealogy tracing? The ballistics stuff I maybe could buy. My theory was that the killer was experienced and had done crimes of that nature before. I thought it was the I70 killer who has never been caught and was killing in the same time frame as the yogurt shop killings. Then the I-70 killer just stopped, weird, 

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22 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

I thought it was the I70 killer who has never been caught and was killing in the same time frame as the yogurt shop killings. Then the I-70 killer just stopped, weird, 

Maybe it’s the same guy. 

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46 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Maybe it’s the same guy. 

That’s what I’m hoping. The I-70 killer was also thought to have operated in Texas and his Mo was same caliber gun and he only targeted people working in small stores type deal. 

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was the bullet casing from the .22 or the .38?

I'd like to see if they were able to corroborate him being in Austin/Texas in 1991.  according to the wiki he was released on parole may 1989 and arrested in Georgia in Feb 1992.

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1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Maybe it’s the same guy. 

looks like Brashers was in jail from Feb 1992 to 1997 so it can't be him as the I-70 guy.

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That was the day we brought my newborn son back from the hospital and I had to bring some overdue videos back to the Blockbuster on Anderson Lane.  I didn't know what all the firetrucks were about.  I hope this development brings some peace to the survivors.

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31 minutes ago, ButtFumble said:

so 35 years from now we will find out who is dumping bodies in Lady Town Bird Lake 

 

6 bodies in the past two weeks pulled from the Houston bayous 

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1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

6 bodies in the past two weeks pulled from the Houston bayous 

yea I was just reading about that earlier today......they are trying to say "homeless people and high water".....which I do not remember any recent flooding in Houston and one of them was a UH student 

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8 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

That was the day we brought my newborn son back from the hospital and I had to bring some overdue videos back to the Blockbuster on Anderson Lane.  I didn't know what all the firetrucks were about.  I hope this development brings some peace to the survivors.

Did your wife pay you back for the $37 in Blockbuster late fees accumulated while you were in the hospital?

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I don’t know how I feel about this with no trial etc. I mean my austinite identity is kinda wrapped in the unsolved yogurt shop murders. I mean I’m glad they figured it out but I would have much preferred a live suspect and a trial. 

 

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11 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

I had to bring some overdue videos back to the Blockbuster on Anderson Lane. 

I worked at that Blockbuster in college. Was living off Greystone at the time of the murders.

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11 hours ago, dcar00 said:

was the bullet casing from the .22 or the .380?

I'd like to see if they were able to corroborate him being in Austin/Texas in 1991.  according to the wiki he was released on parole may 1989 and arrested in Georgia in Feb 1992.

the .22 was a revolver.   cops always said they only recovered the one casing which had to have come from an ejection

he must have either not started with a full cylynder on the .22 or had a misfire and the last girl was still moving when he used the .380.

 

in the recent hbo tv show thread  about the murders, a surlyite quit preciently said, they only way this ever gets solved is finding the gun that shot the .380

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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

I worked at that Blockbuster in college. Was living off Greystone at the time of the murders.

That’s cool … Did you kill Madeline Murray ohair?

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14 hours ago, dcar00 said:

was the bullet casing from the .22 or the .38?

I'd like to see if they were able to corroborate him being in Austin/Texas in 1991.  according to the wiki he was released on parole may 1989 and arrested in Georgia in Feb 1992.

I very much want it “solved” but don’t see how this alone gets us there unless 1 person managed the 4 girls by himself, carried both a 22 and 380, and successfully torched the place without having a history of arson.

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3 minutes ago, Degenerate Gardner said:

I very much want it “solved” but don’t see how this alone gets us there unless 1 person managed the 4 girls by himself, carried both a 22 and 380, and successfully torched the place without having a history of arson.

The DNA evidence is apparently slam dunk definitive. This guy's past crimes and the manner in which he committed them alone are consistent with the details of the Yogurt Shop murders.

I've followed this case closely since it happened and remember very well the publicity around the unsolved nature of the crime in the early/mid-90s, just like I remember the day the news broke that they had arrested four suspects in connection with the crime back in 1998 or whatever year it was. That was HUGE news but when the details started to eventually come out about the suspects, much of it from the dogged reporting in the Austin Chronicle and AAS, I was always skeptical at best about the dipshit teens cast as murderers. Especially after what happened with the Nancy DePriest murder case and the eventual exoneration of Richard Danziger and Christopher Ochoa. If the same crooked detective was involved in the initial interrogation, I knew that the cops could not be trusted that they had the right guys. They may have brought in new detectives but those mfers were using the same tactics as Ochoa. It was clear to me back then and there are a lot of law enforcement officials with rotten eggs on their faces this morning. I'd like the local reporters to stick a camera in Paul Johnson's face so we can hear him embarrass himself one more time with protestations that he had the right guys all along. 

TLDR version: I'm first in line when it comes to distrusting anything that comes out of APD's offices, but the changing of the guard means the current eyes on the case aren't solely fixed on Springsteen as Scott as the killers who got off. The DNA doesn't lie and if it's a rock solid match as being reported, this is the guy.

I can't believe this case is finally coming to a close. It's one of those lines of demarcation between the old Austin and the Austin of today. It was such a huge story that went on for sooo long and then all these hip hot young'ns moving here, the asshole billionaires and techbros, social media influencers, life marching on, and before we knew it those girls were mostly unknown to the New Austin but never forgotten by the old one.

 

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22 minutes ago, Degenerate Gardner said:

I very much want it “solved” but don’t see how this alone gets us there unless 1 person managed the 4 girls by himself, carried both a 22 and 380, and successfully torched the place without having a history of arson.

I mean, he didn’t successfully torch the place. They’ve had his DNA for 35 years.

4 teenage girls scared shitless in the face of an experienced serial killer, who already had one double homicide on his resume. It’s no stretch to me that he was able to control the situation.

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2 minutes ago, smuggs said:

I mean, he didn’t successfully torch the place. They’ve had his DNA for 35 years.

4 teenage girls scared shitless in the face of an experienced serial killer, who already had one double homicide on his resume. It’s no stretch to me that he was able to control the situation.

I get the DNA but I'm still a bit wary.  I'd like to see the photo match of the shells and some info about his whereabouts around the time of the murders.

convenient the guy committed suicide 25 years ago and we get the match right after the new interest with the docs.  

I'm not saying he isn't the guy.  how solid is the DNA they recovered? 

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3 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

I get the DNA but I'm still a bit wary.  I'd like to see the photo match of the shells and some info about his whereabouts around the time of the murders.

convenient the guy committed suicide 25 years ago and we get the match right after the new interest with the docs.  

I'm not saying he isn't the guy.  how solid is the DNA they recovered? 

Agree 100%. Id love if they could definitively place him in Austin at the time.

I also wonder if they have additional shell casing evidence from another one of his murders.

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DNA also linked him to the double murder of 38-year-old Sherri Scherer and her 12-year-old daughter Megan, both of whom were found shot to death at their home in Portageville, Missouri, on March 28, 1998.[6] Both victims had been tied up and Megan had been raped before Brashers shot and killed both of them. Approximately two hours later, he broke into another home in Dyersburg, Tennessee, where he attempted to assault a 25-year-old woman. That victim fiercely resisted, however, causing her assailant to flee the crime scene. There was no useful biological evidence left behind, but forensic ballistics were able to prove that the same gun had been used in this attack as with the murders of the Scherers. He was also linked to the March 11, 1997, rape of a 14-year-old girl in Memphis, Tennessee.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Eugene_Brashers

 

This is 100% the killer.

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7 minutes ago, smuggs said:

Agree 100%. Id love if they could definitively place him in Austin at the time.

they have. how else would his DNA end up in the vagina of a dead girl murdered and sexually assaulted?

the guy was a drifter type and probably was passing through Austin or took a short term construction job here. 

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22 minutes ago, smuggs said:

4 teenage girls scared shitless in the face of an experienced serial killer, who already had one double homicide on his resume. It’s no stretch to me that he was able to control the situation.

that has always bothered me and it underscores how stupid many men can be wrt how they expect women to respond in a life-or-death situation where a lack of compliance can get them killed. 

it's absurd to think that one person could not have possibly done this when it's an adult experienced criminal with a loaded gun and four terrified girls. 

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16 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

they have. how else would his DNA end up in the vagina of a dead girl murdered and sexually assaulted?

the guy was a drifter type and probably was passing through Austin or took a short term construction job here. 

I agree with you. I also know that after 35 years, multiple suspects, multiple shenanigans by investigators, and the general era of misinformation/conspiracy bullshit that exists today, it would be great if they have a pile of corroborating evidence to present along with the DNA revelation.

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https://www.kxan.com/news/what-to-know-about-the-yogurt-shop-murders-suspect-lengthy-criminal-history/amp/

I have seen it speculated he could have been posing as a law enforcement officer to get his victims to comply because of the information below. 

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In 1992, Brasher was arrested in Georgia for the possession of a stolen pistol and stolen vehicle. He also “had a scanner, police jacket, burglary tools and a fake Tennessee license when he was arrested

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