Overview

• Detectives said DNA recovered from under 13-year-old Amy Ayers’ fingernails matched Brashers through modern Y-STR and genetic analysis.
• A .380 shell casing from the crime scene produced a NIBIN hit to an unsolved 1998 Kentucky case, reinforcing the link to Brashers.
• Records show Brashers passed a border checkpoint near El Paso less than 48 hours after the murders while driving a stolen vehicle and carrying a .380 pistol.
• Brashers died by suicide in 1999 during a Missouri standoff and has been tied by authorities to other murders and sexual assaults in South Carolina, Missouri and Tennessee.
• The district attorney said the evidence points to the guilt of one man and the innocence of four previously charged men, as the case remains open with no indication of an accomplice.