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The FOX True Crime Podcast

Judge Declares Four Men Innocent In 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders

The FOX True Crime Podcast

Fox News

True Crime

4.7826 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

More than three decades after four teenage girls were raped and murdered at an Austin yogurt shop, a judge has formally declared four accused men innocent following new DNA evidence identifying Robert Eugene Brashers — who died in 1999 — as the sole killer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Anna Eliopoulos with your Fox True Crime Minute, a saga lasting over three decades, coming to an end for four men, accused of being behind the 1991 rape and murder of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop, a judge formally declaring what the men had claimed all along, they were innocent. No court ruling can return the years and the love that were taken for me,

0:22.8

but it can acknowledge the truth. I am not guilty. Michael Scott was sentenced to life in prison.

0:31.3

Robert Springsteen sent to death row. Both their convictions overturned in the mid-2000s.

0:36.7

And the other two, Forrest Wellborn and Maurice Pierce, though never convicted, faced the stigma of being murderers.

0:42.8

It was only last year that new DNA analysis determined Robert Eugene Brasher's as the sole killer.

0:48.3

He died back in 1999.

0:50.4

There's more on this story at Fox News.com or subscribe to the Fox True Crime Podcast.

0:55.1

I'm Anna Eliopoulos with your Fox True Crime Minute.

0:59.8

This is Ainsley Earhart.

1:01.3

Thank you for joining me for the 52 episode podcast series, The Life of Jesus.

1:05.2

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1:10.0

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