AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Austin Police have linked a suspect to the 1991 deaths of four teen girls at the "I Can't Believe It's Yogurt!" shop off Anderson Lane in north Austin, according to a statement shared with KXAN from Austin Mayor Kirk Watson's office.

The note from the Austin mayor's office called the development a "significant breakthrough" in the cold case. Police identified the suspect through DNA and ballistics testing.

APD is expected to hold a news conference on Monday to provide a timeline of how the events unfolded.

The suspect was identified by officials as Robert Eugene Brashers, who is connected with several other violent crimes across the southeast U.S. Brashers died by suicide in 1999.

He was accused of murder in the 1990 death of a South Carolina woman. Brashers was also l

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