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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
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'Evil, Soulless Man' Left Woman's Body On Parkway In Westchester: Here's His Sentence 'Evil, Soulless Man' Left Woman's Body On Parkway In Westchester: Here's His Sentence
'Evil, Soulless Man' Left Woman's Body On Parkway In Westchester: Here's His Sentence A man who strangled a woman to death and left her body wrapped in a blanket alongside a parkway in Westchester County nearly 20 years ago will spend decades in prison.  Earlier Report - Man Admits Leaving Woman's Body On Parkway In Greenburgh Nearly 20 Years Ago: DA Florida resident Christopher Gonzalez, age 41, was sentenced to 20 years to life in state prison for the murder of Yonkers resident Angel Serbay in 2005, Westchester County District Attorney Miriam Rocah announced on Friday, March 17.  On the day of the murder, Sept. 3, 2005, Gonzalez strangled 25-year-…

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by Ben Crnic