AUSTIN (Nexstar) — After 34 years, Austin Police (APD) finally have a prime suspect in the 1991 yogurt shop murders.

"This is something that could not have happened until 2025," APD Detective Daniel Jackson said during a Monday briefing. "I'm sorry that it took 34 years for us to get here, but we're here now."

APD identified serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers as the likely sole perpetrator of the murders. However, Brashers wasn't known as a serial killer during his lifetime, which ended in 1999 when he took his own life.

"After he died, DNA linked multiple unsolved murders and sexual assaults across the country to him between 2006 and 2017. They knew they had a serial killer in these different jurisdictions, but they didn't know who he was," Jackson said.

After creating a profile of the identical but unidentified DNA at the various scenes, they reached out to Brashers' family to see if there was a genetic match.

"In 2018, that DNA testing confirmed........

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