Deborah Roberts

And then in summer of 2025, you get a phone call that changes everything.

A match all the way in South Carolina.

Which is exactly what had happened with the yogurt shop murders.

But meanwhile, you know something is happening.

Something is percolating here, which is so amazing when you think about it.

It's all about trying and trying and trying again, and you just actually happen to hit pay dirt.

Well, then ultimately you hear the name Robert Brashears.

And you Google and you start looking and what are you learning about this guy?

Because you talk about the one crime and now suddenly you're going to be looking at a lot of other crimes.

That was a moment for you, the aha moment.

You knew at that point you had the person.

Yeah.

At that point, you knew you had your killer.

You go and you share the news with the families actually in person because you want to tell them once you feel like you've got this crime solved.

That had to be a real moment for all of you.

So you finally get a match.

You are convinced you've got your killer.

And then devastating news in a way when it comes to sort of finding a day in court.

Robert Brashears had died in 1999 in a standoff with police.

So you know you've got your person, but you don't really have the person to be able to bring into court.