AUSTIN, Texas — On Monday, the Austin Police Department (APD) held a press conference detailing how advanced DNA testing led them to identify the suspect responsible for the 1991 murders of four girls in the infamous "Yogurt Shop Murders" case.

On Friday, Sept. 25, law enforcement sources confirmed that the 1991 case had been solved using genetic genealogy technology. The perpetrator was identified as Robert Eugene Brashers , an American serial killer who died by suicide in 1999.

Brashers’ DNA profile has previously been connected to a number of other serious crimes, including a 1990 murder in Greenville, South Carolina; the 1997 rape of a 14-year-old in Memphis; and the 1998 double murder of a woman and her 12-year-old daughter in Missouri.

The breakthrough in the case came after

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