On the night of December 6, 1991, a small North Austin yogurt shop became the scene of a brutal attack that killed four teenage girls. Fifteen-year-old Sarah Harbison had finished her Friday shift working with her older sister Jennifer, friend Eliza Thomas, and 13-year-old Amy Ayers when an intruder or intruders bound and gagged the girls, shot them in the head, and set the storefront on fire. Fire crews found the bodies in the ashes before dawn.

Early investigations focused on a circle of local young men; by 1999 prosecutors had charged Robert Springsteen IV, Michael Scott, Maurice Pierce, and Forrest Welborn. Springsteen and Scott were tried—one jury recommended death for Springsteen and another sentenced Scott to life—while charges against Pierce and Welborn were dropped. Issues with confessions, lack of physical linking evidence, appellate reversals, and later DNA testing led prosecutors to dismiss the charges against Springsteen and Scott in 2009.

Advanced forensic reexamination years later produced trace male DNA under a victim’s fingernails and ballistics links to a .380 casing tied to a different, unsolved 1998 shooting. In late September 2025 Austin police named Robert Eugene Brashers, a drifter who died by suicide in 1999, as the likely perpetrator, saying the combined DNA and ballistic evidence points to him. Authorities say they still seek information that could place Brashers in Austin that night.

Did anyone in the Austin area know Brashers or remember sightings or activity in December 1991 that might help confirm his presence?