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DNA Match Solves Yogurt Shop Murders, $35M Settlement, Interrogation Ban

5/28/2026

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Detective Dan Jackson’s June 2025 retest of a .380 shell casing yielded a Y-STR DNA match to Robert Brashers on July 2, 2025, leading Austin police to announce on Sept. 29, 2025 that he was the 1991 Yogurt Shop murders perpetrator.
Austin paid $35 million to the wrongly accused suspects and Maurice Pierce’s family on May 13, 2026.
Austin banned unsupervised minor interrogations.
A February 2026 judge cleared the four original suspects.

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Story summary

Detective Dan Jackson’s June 2025 retest of a .380 shell casing yielded a Y-STR DNA match to Robert Brashers on July 2, 2025, leading Austin police to announce on Sept. 29, 2025 that he was the 1991 Yogurt Shop murders perpetrator.
Austin paid $35 million to the wrongly accused suspects and Maurice Pierce’s family on May 13, 2026.
Austin banned unsupervised minor interrogations.
A February 2026 judge cleared the four original suspects.