Deborah Roberts

I am talking with Mindy Montford, a former assistant Texas attorney general who was just pivotal in helping solve a cold case called the Yogurt Shop Murders.

And it took the lives of four young girls, Sarah and Jennifer Harbison, Eliza Thomas and Amy Ayers.

And Mindy says that she will never forget them or their parents.

And Mindy, I

So much of what you did was skill, and then a lot of it, too, was sort of luck in the sense that you guys stayed on this case.

You stayed on this case, and DNA, modern DNA technology had changed so much.

But once you began to learn that Robert Beshears had been in Texas, he had committed crimes very similar to what had happened in Austin before.

you began to learn more.

I mean, this man's life had taken him really all over the country in a way.

And just the other crimes and murders that he had committed were just absolutely, not only just heart-wrenching, but mind-blowing, really.

Yeah, it is pretty remarkable.

And that happens a lot.

And of course, we've covered, sadly, stories of other serial killers.

He had been in prison for a while and then was out of prison.

And he had this sort of checkered past of all of these crimes, as you said.

I think you even said when he wasn't in prison, he was murdering and raping women and

Ultimately, the Kentucky Police Department announced that Brashears was responsible for a 1998 homicide fire that was so similar to the yogurt shop as we talked about.

His daughter spoke with us and she said something which I've heard before.

I actually interviewed the daughter of the BTK killer.

years ago.