Cold case 'Yogurt Shop' murders solved; connections to Missouri

Robert Eugene Brashers
Robert Eugene Brashers in 1998 Photo credit Missouri Highway Patrol

Texas authorities say they've identified the killer in the infamous Yogurt Shop Murders, featured in an HBO docuseries this summer.

Austin police say DNA has linked long-deceased Robert Eugene Brashers to the killings of four teenage girls on Dec. 6, 1991. The girls were found bound and fatally shot, and the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt shop was set on fire. The case went unsolved for 34 years.

Brashers was a serial killer and rapist connected to at least three other murders, two of them in Missouri. DNA linked Brashers to the murders of 38-year-old Sherri Scherer and her 12-year-old daughter Megan on March 28, 1998 in their home in Portageville, Mo. The following January, Brashers killed himself in nearby Kennett. Police believe he also murdered a woman in Greeneville, S.C., in 1990.

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