Overview
- Police said forensic testing ties the 1991 murders of four teenage girls to Robert Eugene Brashers, a serial predator linked to crimes in multiple states.
- Brashers died by suicide in 1999 during a Missouri standoff with law enforcement, which means no charges can be brought.
- The Austin Police Department said the investigation remains open, has notified families, and scheduled a press conference for Monday, Sept. 29, to detail the findings.
- Authorities and prior reports have connected Brashers by DNA to killings and sexual assaults in South Carolina, Missouri and Tennessee.
- Two men previously convicted in the case, Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott, were freed in 2009 after new DNA testing indicated a different male suspect.