AUSTIN, Texas — The suspect in a 1991 quadruple murder at a North Austin yogurt shop was a possible serial killer who used a similar MO in other cases across the country, investigators say.

On Friday, Austin police named Robert Eugene Brashers , who died by suicide in 1999, as a suspect in the Yogurt Shop Murders.

On Dec. 6, 1991, four teenage girls were bound, gagged and shot at the I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt shop on West Anderson Lane, which was then set on fire. Amy Ayers, 13, Eliza Thomas, 17, and sisters Jennifer and Sarah Harbison, 17 and 15, were found nude and tied up with their own clothing.

Austin Police Department Cold Case Det. Daniel Jackson said Brashers had come to the store around closing time. All four victims had been shot in the head with a .22 caliber pistol, whil

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