David Muir
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By 1997, Robert Brashears is released from prison, and by all appearances, he seems to be settling down.
He's working in construction and moves to Arkansas with his longtime girlfriend, Rose, and their five-year-old daughter, Deborah.
Behind this all-American portrait, Brashear's dark past is lurking, and it's about to catch up with him.
Deborah first learned about her father's history as a serial killer in 2018 after authorities connected him to unsolved murders in South Carolina and Missouri.
In 1998, when Deborah's just seven years old, her father disappears from home, going on the run for a series of crimes, including breaking into an Arkansas woman's home while armed with a gun.
The .380 that Brashears used to shoot himself was the same model of gun used to shoot Amy Ayers in that Austin, Texas yogurt shop all the way back in 1991.
Brashears' death is ruled a suicide and authorities don't confiscate his gun.
Brashears may have known that if they did, the gun could have connected him to the yogurt shop murders.
Authorities believe that Robert Eugene Bershears is responsible for at least eight murders in four different states, but they are not ruling out the possibility that he could be connected to many more.
Tonight, a major break in an unsolved murder case that made national headlines for decades in this country.
The September 2025 press conference was a remarkable moment for the city of Austin.
Leaders from law enforcement and criminal justice communities, they believe they have finally solved the yogurt shop murders.
He is a perfect match to our unknown profile and yogurt shop.
All of his crimes that we know of, he was alone in all of them.
He used a firearm, most often a .380 or a .22.