The ‘yogurt shop murders’ have been solved after more than 30 years, Texas authorities say

Authorities in Texas say that they solved the 1991 murders known as ‘Yogurt Store Murders’ ClosetA Austin is an ABC Participation Station. Genetic genealogy evidence was reported to be used to connect the American serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers, who died in suicide in 1999.

Before he found a link with the ‘Yogurt Store Murders’ case, he already attributed Brashers’ DNA to three other violence crimes: a killing in South Carolina, 1990, a young man in Tennessee in 1997 and a mother and 12 -year -old daughter in Missouri.

Four young girls on 6 December 1991 – Jennifer Harbison, 17; Sarah Harbison, 15; Eliza Thomas, 17; And Amy Ayers, 13 – I can’t believe it is yogurt! Shop in Austin. The girls were connected and shot before the shop was set on fire. Small evidence was found at the scene and the case was cooled until 1999, four men – Robert Springsteen, Michael Scott, Maurice Pierce and Forrest Welborn were only arrested and accused of murders only CBS News.

Springsteen and Scott confessed to the murders in 1999, but later withdrawn, claiming that their confession had been forced. Initially, 1999, against Pierce, who was arrested just a few days after carrying a weapon that matched the type used in the crime, was left in 2003 after confessing that prosecutors lacked enough evidence to convict. After the two great jury refused to blame him, Welborn was never accused.

Springsteen and Scott’s conviction were ultimately overthrown. After a ten -year imprisonment, he was released in 2009, when he was confirmed that the DNA evidence from the crime did not match both people.

Murders have recently been the subject of Margaret Brown’s HBO documentary series, Yogurt shop murdersHe made out this summer.