AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin police have linked a suspect to the 1991 “Yogurt Shop Murders.”
On Friday, APD announced the development a “significant breakthrough” in the cold case. Police identified the suspect through DNA and ballistics testing as Robert Eugene Brashers.
KXAN spoke to Deborah Brashers, who is the daughter of Robert Brashers, following him being named the suspect on Friday.
KXAN asked Deborah if she had ever heard about the yogurt shop murders before Friday.
“I am just finding out recently, today about them,” said Deborah. “And when I got the email about them I was cooking dinner and I seen it on my phone and I was like wait a minute. So, I googled my father’s name which I hadn’t done in a while, for the longest time I would google my name or my father’s name just to see if there were new things that came out. My first thought was I was born in 1991 August — where was he at then?”
Brashers said her father was involved in other crimes and murders through the years and she first found out about them in 2018, but before that she had no idea about anything.
“I held my father on a pedestal for a very long time because I did not think he was an evil person,” said Deborah. “I just thought he had mental health issues and he couldn’t deal with it anymore. I never knew that he had psychotic issues that he dealt with that we didn’t know about.”
In 2018, advancements in DNA evidence helped investigators link Brashers to three other murders. He was accused of murder in the 1990 death of a South Carolina woman.
“There are people in this world that you don’t touch and no matter how wrong you are and how much of a low down dirty pervert, person you can be you don’t just touch children and you don’t mess with women,” said Deborah. “There are standards for even the evilest people in this world and my father had to have been the seventh layer of Hades to be how he is and all of the things that are coming out.”
Deborah believes he could be tied to even more cases in the future.
She said it has been difficult over the years to be associated with her father, but she wants to make sure the families know she is sorry for the actions her father took.
“I am very sorry to every family that my father hurt,” said Deborah. “I know that it is not my place at all to tell you I am sorry, but someone has to because he was not sorry for it and half of my DNA is the person that hurt you the most so I want to tell you sorry, and I am so sorry for everything but I am finally glad that you are getting answers.
Deborah said she doesn’t know why her father was in Austin during the yogurt shop murders, but that he was a contractor and worked in construction for a while.
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