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HBO Series Rekindles Leads, Helps Solve Yogurt Shop Murder Case Of 4 Teen Girls HBO Series Rekindles Leads, Helps Solve Yogurt Shop Murder Case Of 4 Teen Girls
HBO Series Rekindles Leads, Helps Solve Yogurt Shop Murder Case Of 4 Teen Girls DNA has finally given one of the nation's most haunting cold case a name: Robert Eugene Brashers. Police in Austin, Texas, said new DNA analysis identifies Brashers as the suspect in the 1991 slayings of four teenage girls at an I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! shop, a revelation that arrives more than three decades after the crime and years after earlier prosecutions collapsed. Brashers died by suicide in 1999 during a shootout with police and cannot be charged, authorities said. The Austin identification follows renewed attention from an HBO docuseries. The victims — 17-year-old Eliza Thomas…

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'More Playtime': Rex Heuermann Used 'Planning Document' To Guide Gilgo Beach Murders, DA Says 'More Playtime': Rex Heuermann Used 'Planning Document' To Guide Gilgo Beach Murders, DA Says
'More Playtime': Rex Heuermann Used 'Planning Document' To Guide Gilgo Beach Murders, DA Says New details are shedding light on the lengths that accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann went to in hopes of getting away with his alleged murder spree. The 60-year-old Long Island resident, of Massapequa Park, was arraigned on two more charges of second-degree murder in Suffolk County Court on Thursday, June 6, in the killings of Jessica Taylor and Sandra Costilla. Heuermann was previously charged with the murders of four Gilgo Beach victims: Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Amber Lynn Costello, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes. Earlier Report: Gilgo Beach Murders: Suspect …

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by Michael Mashburn