AUSTIN, Texas — Police named a dead man Friday as a new suspect in the 1991 unsolved killings of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop, saying DNA evidence led to a "significant breakthrough" in the brutal crime that has haunted Texas' capital and stumped investigators for decades.

In a statement, Austin police said DNA tests led investigators to Robert Eugene Brashers, who died by suicide in 1999 during a standoff with law enforcement at a motel in Kennett, Missouri. He has since then been linked to several killings and rape in other states including the killings of two in Portageville, Missouri.

In the years after his death, police were able to use advances in forensic DNA analysis to connect him to a string of unsolved killings.

In 2018, Missouri authorities implicated Brashers

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