Overview

• Police say DNA testing and ballistics produced the breakthrough linking Brashers to the quadruple homicide.
• Brashers died by suicide in 1999 during a standoff with officers in Missouri, which forecloses criminal prosecution.
• The victims — Jennifer Harbison, 17; Sarah Harbison, 15; Eliza Thomas, 17; and Amy Ayers, 13 — were found bound, gagged and shot before the shop was set on fire.
• Two men once convicted in the case, Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott, were released in 2009 after new DNA pointed to a different male profile.
• Authorities say Brashers has been tied by DNA to other murders and a rape in South Carolina, Missouri and Tennessee, and a retired detective has described a possible ballistics match to a casing recovered at the scene.