Austin, Texas – Police said on Friday that DNA guides helped to identify a man who died decades ago as a 1991 killing suspect of four teenage girls in Texas, after the authorities linked him to multiple killing in other states.
In a statement, Austin Police said it had achieved a “great breakthrough” and that DNA tests prompted the investigators to Robert Eugene Bershez. This advertisement came amid a new interest in the case with the last month’s release of “The Yogurt Shop Murders”, a HBO documentary series.
The police said that the case known as “yogurt murder” is still open and a press conference is scheduled to be held on Monday to detail their results.
“Our team has never abandoned the work of this issue,” said Austin police.
Amy Aires, 13; Elisa Thomas, 17; The sisters of Jennifer and Sarah Harbison, between the ages of 17 and 15, were bound, and stayed in his head in the store “I cannot believe that he is yogurt” where two of them worked. Then the fire was set in the building.
The murders of the capital in Texas surprised and became known as one of the most notorious crimes. Austin’s police and prosecutors have fallen into the case for years because they fought thousands of expected clients, and many misconceptions and evidence caused by severe damage to the burning crime scene.
In 1999, the authorities arrested four men for murder. Two of them, Robert Springstein and Michael Scott, were teenagers at the time of murders. They initially confessed and involved each other. But both men quickly retreated and said that their statements had made pressure by the police.
They are still trial and condemnation. Initially, Springstin was sent to their execution, but his sentence was reduced to life imprisonment.
Their convictions were overthrown and were appointed to be tried after a decade.
The judge ordered the two men to be released in 2009 when the prosecutors said that the new DNA tests that were not available in 1991 had revealed a male suspect.
In 2018, the Missouri authorities said that the DNA had shouted a screaming associated with the suffocation of South Carolina’s woman in 1990, and the shooting of the mother and daughter in Missouri in 1998. The evidence also linked to the rape of a 14 -year -old girl in Tennessee.
It was the bacterium He died in 1999 When he fired himself during a confrontation for hours with the police at a hotel in Kennett, Missouri.
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This story was corrected to show that Elisa Thomas was seventeen years old, not one year old.