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Yogurt Shop Murders: The Killer Nobody Suspected
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- May 15, 2026
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Summary
Robert Eugene Brashers committed at least eight murders across Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, and Texas. He assaulted women and girls. He restrained them with their own clothing. He set fires to destroy evidence. And he walked in and out of the criminal justice system without anyone connecting his crimes. He died during a police standoff in 1999 at the age of 40. For 26 years after his death, his name meant nothing to anyone. Then, in 2025, a cold case detective named Dan Jackson resubmitted a shell casing from the yogurt shop crime scene to a ballistics database with improved software. It hit. A DNA search matched the crime scene profile to Brashers through a lab in South Carolina. And biological material from 13-year-old Amy Ayers’ fingernails — evidence she created by fighting back in her final moments — confirmed the match at 2.5 million to one. The girl the system failed to protect ended up being the one who identified her killer. Part 5 of the Yogurt Shop Murders series reveals the man who actually committed the crime, the detective who refused to stop looking, and the exoneration that gave four innocent men their names back. “We could not have been more wrong.” Those words, from the state of Texas, arrived 34 years late. But they arrived. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available inf…