Overview

• At a Monday briefing, investigators detailed a South Carolina state lab’s full Y‑STR match to Brashers from a 1990 Greenville case, then rechecked Austin evidence against his profile.
• Autosomal STR from beneath Amy Ayers’ fingernails matched Brashers, and his Y‑STR profile was detected in sexual assault kits from three victims, according to APD.
• A .380 casing from the Austin scene produced a NIBIN hit to an unsolved 1998 Kentucky homicide, and records show Brashers was stopped within 48 hours carrying a .380 later verified by serial number as his suicide weapon.
• Travis County District Attorney José Garza said the evidence points to one perpetrator and the innocence of the four men once charged, whose convictions were overturned and dismissed by 2009.
• Authorities say Brashers died by suicide in 1999, no evidence currently indicates an accomplice, and the case remains open with further testing and cross‑jurisdictional reviews ongoing.