# Yogurt shop murders fuel family questions about accomplice as rage lingers over wrongfully accused

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/yogurt-shop-murders-fuel-family-questions-about-accomplice-as-rage-lingers-over-wrongfully-accused/
- Published: 2026-10-24T10:00:36+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-24T11:11:06+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Far right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/us/yogurt-shop-murders-fuel-family-questions-accomplice-rage-lingers-wrongfully-accused
- Topics: World

## Key points

- DNA and ballistics identified Brashers in 2025.
- Families still question whether he had an accomplice.
- The case inspired a national cold-case support centre.

## Summary

Nearly 34 years after four girls were killed in an Austin yoghurt shop, the family of one victim has helped launch a national centre to support cold-case investigations and victims’ families. The case’s DNA and ballistics evidence identified serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers in 2025, but relatives still question whether he acted alone.

Amy Ayers, 13, Jennifer and Eliza Thomas, both 17, and Sarah Harbison, 15, were killed on 6 December 1991; a fire and sprinklers damaged evidence at the scene. Investigators linked the case to two firearms, and Brashers had died by suicide during a police standoff in 1999, before he could face trial. The article also describes wrongful convictions in the investigation and says there has been no definitive answer about a possible accomplice.

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