Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast · Unresolved Productions

The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders (Update: September 2025)

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After 34 years, families finally have a credible answer about who killed their daughters, but justice remains impossible because the suspect is dead.
This episode details the 1991 Austin Yogurt Shop Murders where four teenage girls were bound, shot, and set on fire, following the case through wrongful convictions based on coerced confessions to a 2025 breakthrough using advanced DNA and ballistics technology that identified serial offender Robert Eugene Brashers as the likely killer.

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A late forensic breakthrough gives the Austin Yogurt Shop murders a name, while the cost of delay remains impossible to ignore.

The 2025 update treats the Austin Yogurt Shop murders as both a forensic breakthrough and a record of institutional failure. It opens with the December 6, 1991 fire at a northwest Austin frozen yogurt shop, then traces how retained swabs and cuttings, male DNA beneath Amy Ayer's…

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For your cold-case queue: the 1991 Austin yogurt shop fire, renewed DNA testing, and a NIBIN lead finally moving in the same direction.

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