A serial killer and rapist connected to violent crimes in Memphis and Dyersburg has been identified as a suspect in the 1991 unsolved murders of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop in Austin, Texas.

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For years, the unsolved killings of four teenage girls in an Austin yogurt shop in 1991 haunted investigators in the Texas capital. Two men were charged and convicted, only to have DNA evidence ...

The Texas Attorney General's Office estimates that the state has nearly 20,000 unsolved homicides. But there's a break in one ...

Texas AG Ken Paxton's Cold Case unit links Robert Brashers to the 1991 yogurt shop murders, a breakthrough in the long-unsolved Austin case.

ORANGE, Texas — Twenty-three years ago today, 4-year-old Dannarriah Finley vanished from her bedroom in Orange. Her body was found four days later on Pleasure Island in Port Arthur, marking the ...

Texas is a state known for its Wild West history - for the outlaws, the criminals and the bandits. People like Sam Bass, the ...

Police say DNA and ballistics have solved Austin’s infamous 1991 “Yogurt Shop Murders.” Four teenage girls — Jennifer ...

Forensic genetic genealogy is a rapidly evolving law enforcement tool for law enforcement to use DNA analysis and genealogical research to identify perpetrators of some of Central Texas' thousands of ...

t's Wednesday, Aug. 8, 1973, and Houstonians are settling into their living rooms for the regular ritual of dinner and ...

Texas lawmakers this year approved a pilot program to place Rapid DNA machines in two counties' jail booking stations.