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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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by Joe Lombardi
Police & Fire
3rd Arrest Made In Shooting Death Of Berks Teen: Report 3rd Arrest Made In Shooting Death Of Berks Teen: Report
3rd Arrest Made In Shooting Death Of Berks Teen: Report A third person was arrested for the shooting death of a Berks County teen on Friday, Nov. 8, according to an affidavit. Gavin Will, 17, of Reading, was charged for his role in the death of 19-year-old Christian Disla in the 1300 block of Muhlenberg Street on Monday, April 1, according to the  affidavit. Will; Brothers, Luis Santos-Cruz, 19, of Reading; and Jonielle Cruz, 17, of Doylestown, acted together to ambush an unnamed second victim who Disla happened to be getting into the same vehicle with, the affidavit states. The second victim was uninjured. A single bullet struck Disl…

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by Merriell Moyer
Police & Fire
Married Couple Charged With Homicide In Harrisburg: Police Married Couple Charged With Homicide In Harrisburg: Police
Married Couple Charged With Homicide In Harrisburg: Police A husband and wife have been arrested on homicide charges after an assault left a woman dead in the couple's Harrisburg apartment on Thursday, August 29, the police announced the following morning. Harrisburg Police were called to an active assault in the 100 block of Pine Street at 11 p.m.  Arriving officers were speaking with the residents of the apartment, Kyle and Chanise Burton, when they saw a dead woman inside, so "an investigation was immediately initiated," as stated in the police release, noting that "Detectives and forensics personnel responded to the apartment and cont…

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by Jillian Pikora
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2 Sets Of Human Remains Found On The Same Afternoon In Separate PA Woods: Authorities 2 Sets Of Human Remains Found On The Same Afternoon In Separate PA Woods: Authorities
2 Sets Of Human Remains Found On The Same Afternoon In Separate PA Woods: Authorities Two bodies where found separately in wooded area of Pennsylvania in the afternoon on Sunday, March 19, 2023, authorities say. The first body was found in the Harrisburg area, in the 1300 block of Crooked Hill Road near the US Postal Service shipping and sorting hub close to Elmerton Road by the Farm Show Complex, authorities explained.  The reported of "human remains" was called into the Susquehanna Township Police around 1:30 p.m. and officers, the Dauphin County Coroner's Office, and the Dauphin County Forensics Unit began to investigate the incident. No further details on that inci…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Berks DA: Authorities Probe Possible Murder-Suicide In Wernersville Berks DA: Authorities Probe Possible Murder-Suicide In Wernersville
Berks DA: Authorities Probe Possible Murder-Suicide In Wernersville Authorities in Berks County are investigating a possible murder-suicide that took place at a home in Wernersville on Wednesday. Officials responded to the 300 block of North Walnut Street on Wednesday afternoon after receiving a 911 call at 12:30 p.m. from a man who stated his name and address and immediately hung up, South Heidelberg police said at a press conference Friday afternoon. South Heidelberg police arrived at the home not long after failed attempts by emergency dispatchers to reconnect with the caller -- later identified as 44-year-old Christopher Baumener -- and were unable to s…

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
Remains Found In Bensalem In 1988 ID's As Missing Pregnant Teen Lisa Todd Remains Found In Bensalem In 1988 ID's As Missing Pregnant Teen Lisa Todd
Remains Found In Bensalem In 1988 ID's As Missing Pregnant Teen Lisa Todd An ongoing investigation determined that skeletal remains found at the old Publicker Distillery in Bensalem in 1988 are those of a 17-year-old woman reported missing three years prior, authorities said. Philadelphia's Lisa Todd was reported missing in October 1985. Three years later, remains were found in a well that used to be the Publicker Distillery along State Road in Bensalem, police confirmed. The remains were unidentified up until two months ago, when investigators extracted DNA from them, linking Todd to her family tree. Bensalem Police Det. Chris McMullin said he was onl…

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by Nicole Acosta