Police in Texas on Monday outlined at a news conference how they linked a man connected to homicides in other states to 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 the state's capital and stumped investigators for decades.

Austin police said DNA tests resubmitted in June led investigators to Robert Eugene Brashers, who died by suicide in 1999 during a standoff in Missouri with law enforcement. He has since then been linked to several killings and rape in other states.

The murders stunned Texas' capital city and became known as one of the area's most notorious crimes. Austin police investigators and prosecutors had stumbled over the case for years as they waded throu

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