SOLVED TX - Yogurt Shop Murders, Austin, 6 Dec 1991 - Robert Eugene Brashers (died by suicide in 1999)

[Richard]

New: Brasher now linked and identified as perp of a murder/fire in Lexington, KY

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Statement from Lexington, KY police in link above
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On November 7, 1998, around 7:40 am, the Lexington Fire Department was dispatched to the Nixon Hearing Aid Center in the 100 block of Malibu Drive for a structure fire. When crews arrived at the scene, they observed heavy smoke coming from the business and made entry. The fire was extinguished quickly, and a female victim was located deceased in the back hallway.
The Fayette County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as 43-year-old Linda Marie Rutledge. Ms. Rutledge’s cause of death was determined to be multiple gunshot wounds to the head."

Brashers shot himself in January 1999, only two months after the murder of Linda Marie Rutledge. Police were investigating his possession of a stolen car.

How many other victims were there?

 

[arielilane]

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Scripps News Lexington) — Lexington police have solved a 27-year-old homicide case, identifying the killer of Linda Marie Rutledge through advanced DNA and ballistic evidence that connected her 1998 murder to the infamous “Yogurt Shop Murders” in Austin, Texas.

Kentucky cold case solved, linked to Texas yogurt shop murders

Suspected serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers has been identified as the suspect in the cold case murder of Linda Marie Rutledge.

www.courttv.com

1/10/2026

FILE – Linda Marie Rutledge (Lexington Police Department)

 

[Betty P]

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Scripps News Lexington) — Lexington police have solved a 27-year-old homicide case, identifying the killer of Linda Marie Rutledge through advanced DNA and ballistic evidence that connected her 1998 murder to the infamous “Yogurt Shop Murders” in Austin, Texas.

Kentucky cold case solved, linked to Texas yogurt shop murders

Suspected serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers has been identified as the suspect in the cold case murder of Linda Marie Rutledge.

www.courttv.com

1/10/2026

FILE – Linda Marie Rutledge (Lexington Police Department)

Brashers was a real menace to society. One sick, evil person robbing young women of their lives in the most horrible ways.

 

[dotr]

'Yogurt shop murders suspect '100%' linked to more crimes, investigator says | Unsolved: Central Texas''​

Feb 5, 2026
Months after revealing a major breakthrough in one of the most infamous cold cases in Central Texas, there's little rest for the police detective and the former prosecutor leading the investigation into the deaths of four girls at a north Austin yogurt shop in 1991.