Texas investigators have finally identified a suspect in the infamous killing of four teenage girls in 1991, known as the “Yogurt Shop Murders.” Newly discovered DNA evidence tied the grisly crime to Robert Eugene Brashers, a serial killer, who died by suicide during a stand-off with police in 1999.

Officials revealed the news at a press conference Monday, Sept. 29, saying the breakthrough came after DNA samples — taken from belt buckles, an ice cream scoop, and one victim’s fingernails — and ballistic casings were resubmitted to national databases. It was a DNA profile match with a 1990 sexual assault and murder case in Greenville, South Carolina that finally linked Brashers to the crime.

Brashers’ DNA was ultimately found in sexual assault kits performed on three of the victims, an

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