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More than 12 years since a skull was discovered in Shasta County, advanced DNA testing has revealed that the remains belonged to a Napa woman, officials said. In March 2013, brush cutting workers ...

A year after a USA TODAY investigation revealed that police around the country weren’t following up on DNA evidence from unsolved rape cases, the Justice Department has published a report urging them ...

The Yogurt Shop Murders were the subject of a four-part documentary released on HBO this year. On Friday, police said DNA evidence collected at the crime scene linked Robert Eugene Brashers to the ...

The suspected killer died by suicide in 1999. Police in Austin, Texas, said DNA technology has helped them finally identify the man who killed four teenage girls at a yogurt shop in 1991 in a crime ...

Old-fashioned detective work and advances in forensic science led to the identification of a suspect in the killings of four teenagers in Austin, Texas, in 1991, officials said. By Christine Hauser ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- DNA evidence has helped to identify a man who died decades ago as a new suspect in the 1991 killing of four teenage girls, after authorities linked him to multiple killings in other ...

Investigators believe they finally have solved the infamous and gruesome 1991 killings of four teenage girls inside an Austin frozen yogurt shop, known as “The Yogurt Shop Murders,” after 34 years. On ...

Police named a dead man Friday as a new suspect in the 1991 unsolved killings of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop, saying DNA evidence led to a “significant breakthrough” in the brutal ...

AUSTIN — DNA evidence has helped to identify a new suspect in the unsolved killing of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop in 1991, a man who died by suicide in 1999, police said Friday. In a statement ...