How DNA Finally Cracked the Yogurt Shop Murders After 34 Years

How DNA Finally Cracked the Yogurt Shop Murders After 34
Years

This is the turning point. After 34 years of dead ends, the
infamous Yogurt Shop murders in Austin have
finally been cracked—not by a tip, not by a confession, but by
modern genetic genealogy and DNA testing. In
this first segment, I walk you through how investigators
resurrected crime scene evidence, plugged it into public DNA
databases, built family trees, and landed on Robert
Eugene Brashers as the killer.

It wasn’t easy. The crime scene was ravaged by fire. Early DNA
testing had limits. The wrong suspects had been tried. But in
2025, cold‑case teams used new techniques to extract male DNA
profiles, cross‑referenced distant relatives, and zeroed in on
Brashers. A former detective has even claimed a bullet
casing found in a drain matched the firearm Brashers
used in his suicide. (That’s not official yet — but it’s a
powerful piece of the puzzle.)
Why this matters: naming the suspect doesn’t end the story. It
shifts the burden to accountability, record integrity, and
transparency. This first part shows how science finally caught up
to a case that law enforcement once believed might never be
solved. If you thought cold cases were frozen in time—this
rewrites that myth.

Tune in to see exactly how the match was made—how one small
genetic lead led to the unthinkable: identifying a killer who
died 26 years ago. After you see the method, you’ll understand
the stakes of what comes next.

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