David Muir

It's the Paradise Podcast.

CC Moore is working to solve multiple cold cases using genetic genealogy and building this family tree that eventually will help detectives back in Austin solve the yogurt shop murders.

Robert Eugene Brashears, a name law enforcement had not heard up until the point she said it to them.

In just hours, she gave them the answer that they've been looking for this whole time.

They found out that they'd been chasing a ghost because Brashears had been long dead.

So we got a court order to exhume his body and take samples of his remains to have DNA tested.

And CeCe Moore was right, but it's going to take another seven years for this to come full circle back in Austin.

Detective Dan Jackson and his team decide to ask every single crime lab in the country that collects YSTR DNA data, which focuses only on the male Y chromosome, to manually search the sample collected from the yogurt shop crime scene.

I got an email that said that you've got a YSTR profile matched in Greenville, South Carolina, and it had an offense date.

So, of course, I Googled murder with that offense date, Greenville, South Carolina, and the name Robert Eugene Brashears pops up.

Well, what are the odds that the same Y profile comes back to a serial killer?

And when you start researching this guy, you find out that this M.O.

is very similar to a yogurt shop on more than one occasion.

Now we have a face.

Now we have a name.

So at that point, we decided, let's take the fingernail scrapings from Amy Ayers,

Amy Ayers was a fighter.

We knew that there had been a Y profile identified in those scrapings.

However, it just was a very small amount.

It was degraded.