Overview

• Austin police said a wide range of DNA testing and ballistics analysis identified Robert Eugene Brashers as the suspect, and the investigation remains open.
• Brashers died by suicide in 1999 during a standoff in Kennett, Missouri, and has been linked by DNA to violent crimes in South Carolina, Missouri and Tennessee.
• Investigators leveraged preserved biological evidence, Y-STR methods and genetic genealogy, with family DNA and an exhumation used in related cases to confirm his identity.
• The victims — Jennifer Harbison, Sarah Harbison, Eliza Thomas and Amy Ayers — were found bound and shot on Dec. 6, 1991, after the yogurt shop was set on fire.
• Two men previously convicted in the case, Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott, were freed in 2009 after DNA pointed to another male profile, as an HBO docuseries recently renewed public focus.