March 13, 1958 - Robert Eugene Brashers
Brashers evaded identification entirely during his lifetime, dying in 1999 without ever being named as a suspect in any of his killings — a fact that shaped the long delay in understanding the full scope of what he had done. His crimes spanned multiple states over nearly a decade and targeted women and girls with particular violence. It was only through advances in investigative genetic genealogy, years after his death, that investigators were able to connect him to a series of cold cases, including the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders, which had remained unsolved for over thirty years.
From Wikipedia
Robert Eugene Brashers (March 13, 1958 – January 19, 1999) was an American serial killer who committed at least eight murders in Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina and Texas between 1990 and 1998. During his lifetime, Brashers was convicted of attempted murder for shooting a woman in 1985, as well as for various other offenses stemming from a 1992 case in which he stole a vehicle, but was not identified as a suspect in any of his murders and remained in relative obscurity. He died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1999 to avoid arrest for an unrelated crime after a standoff with police.
Decades after his death, due to advances in investigative genetic genealogy, Brashers was tied to a series of extremely violent crimes. Investigators linked him to several unsolved rapes and murders committed against women and young girls. In 2025 police in Austin, Texas, identified Brashers as the perpetrator in the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders, in which four teenaged girls were murdered.
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