UPDATE: Robert Brashers: Austin Yogurt Shop Killings

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

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UPDATE: When we first covered Robert Eugene Brashers back in April 2025, we never imagined he’d be tied to one of Texas’s most infamous crimes: the 1991 Austin Yogurt Shop Murders. Now, advanced DNA testing has confirmed his link to the horrific killings that haunted Austin for more than three decades. On December 6, 1991, four teenage girls, Jennifer and Sarah Harbison, Eliza Thomas, and Amy Ayers, were found bound, gagged, and shot inside an I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! shop that had been set on fire. The case became one of Texas’s deepest mysteries, spawning thousands of leads, false confessions, and the wrongful convictions of two young men later cleared by DNA evidence. Now stay tuned for episode 305: “Genetic Justice: Unmasking Robert Brashers.” From the original airdate: For years, Robert Brashers had managed to evade justice, slipping through the cracks repeatedly. But on January 13, 1999, his luck finally ran out in a modest motel room in Kennett, Missouri. What began as a routine police search quickly escalated into a tense, life-or-death standoff that would forever change the lives of those involved. Who was Robert Brashers? A man who his wife and children loved. What could have driven him to such a tragic end? The entire truth would remain hidden for years, with whispers suggesting that there were more victims out there. Join Jen and Cam of Our True Crime Podcast on this episode, "Genetic Justice: Unmasking Robert Brashers.” Listener Discretion by @octoberpodVHS Music is by our executive producer @theinkypawprint Sources: https://www.facebook.com/InvestigationDiscovery/videos/connected-by-murder-on-the-case-with-paula-zahn/2284387901877879/ https://greenvillejournal.com/tag/robert-eugene-brashers/ https://www.kait8.com/2018/10/05/killer-linked-murders-missouri-tennessee-south-carolina-paragould/ https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/murder-suspects-robert-brashers-body-exhumed-solve-two-1990s-cold-cases https://archive.today/20230115112055/https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/10/05/greenville-cold-case-robert-brashers-jenny-zitricki/1534079002/ https://archive.ph/20230115112155/https://www.kfvs12.com/2019/02/05/my-father-was-serial-killer-robert-brashers-daughter-speaks-out/#selection-811.21-1279.52 https://archive.ph/20230115112128/https://greenvillejournal.com/news/greenville-police-murderer-in-28-year-old-cold-case-identified/#selection-937.42-937.43 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Eugene_Brashers https://archive.today/20230115112038/https://www.fultonsun.com/news/2020/nov/19/fulton-resident-reminisces-homicide-investigation/ https://archive.ph/20230115112159/https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2019/01/13/daughter-serial-killer-rapist-tied-greenville-hes-still-my-father/2481586002/#selection-529.0-851.132 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31099977/robert-brashers-mo-from-1985/ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/54853022/robert-brashers-florida-crime-1985/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Erica. And I'm Elizabeth. We're sisters, wine lovers, and your host for the podcast, Spirits Uncorked.
0:08.7	In season two, we're leaving the haunted waters of Lake Lanier in Georgia and diving into all new spooky stuff.
0:15.0	Shadow people? I've seen them. Haunted military bases? I've served on one. Local restaurants with ghostly reputations.
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0:27.8	The paranormal is my normal.
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0:44.1	Get ready for Sips, Scares, and Sisterly Sarcasm. The Fall Line is a true crime podcast covering the coldest cases in the southeastern United States and occasionally beyond.
1:07.9	We focus on the missing persons, the unsolved murders, and the unidentified doze that don't get media attention.
1:15.1	Empathetic and intensively researched, the fall line will take you on deep dives into unsolved cases that you've never heard of and make you wonder why you haven't.
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1:29.4	Hey, Jen. Cam, hi.
1:32.3	Hey, I think this could be a first time for us. We have an update on one of our episodes that we have done.
1:39.1	One of your episodes. One of somebody that you covered. Yes. So big news here, big news here in the States.
1:46.3	You know, when we first covered Robert Eugene Brasher's, which is episode 305, we told the story
1:53.6	of a predator who left behind a trail of devastation before taking his own life in 1999.
1:59.6	But what we didn't know then and what has has just come to light, is that Brasher's,
2:05.6	has now been linked to one of the most infamous unsolved crimes in Texas history, or U.S. history,
2:12.0	for that matter, the 1991 Austin Yogurt Shop murders.
2:18.1	A horrible, horrible case.
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