AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — 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.

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Austin police have identified a new suspect in the 1991 yogurt shop murders of four teenage girl

They announced Friday that DNA tests point to Robert Eugene Brashers, who died by suicide in 1999

The case remains open, and police plan to share more details at a news conference on Monday

Amy Ayers, Eliza Thomas, and sisters Jennifer and Sarah Harbison were killed at the "I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt" store. The murders shocked the city and became one of its most notorious crime

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