11 h. ago Break in 1991 Texas yoghurt shop murders sparks hope for cold cases: ‘There are other victims out there’

Advances in DNA testing led to a suspect in the deaths of four girls. Can lab results now link a serial killer to other violent crimes?On 6 December 1991, a Friday, Jennifer Harbison and Eliza Thomas, both 17, were closing the frozen yoghurt shop where they worked while Jennifer’s sister, 15-year-old Sarah Harbison, and 13-year-old Amy Ayers, her friend, waited for a ride from Jennifer.Moments before midnight, a fire at the shop drew first responders, who discovered the four girls had been bound and murdered, with signs of sexual assault. The fire destroyed nearly all evidence, save for a shell casing that had rolled into a drain and trace amounts of DNA, including under Ayers’ fingernails. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Quadruple murder at Austin yogurt shop was one of city’s most infamous cold cases. 30 years later police have a suspect

Serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers, who died by suicide in 1999, committed at least seven murders across multiple states between 1990 and 1998, prior to the Austin yogurt shop killings

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6 d. ago Yogurt Shop Murders' suspect identified by cops in stunning breakthrough after four teen girls killed in 1991

The girls were found naked, gagged, tied up and stacked on top of one another at the "I Can't Believe It's Yogurt" shop. Each had been shot in the back of the head.

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6 d. ago What to know about the new suspect identified in Texas’ infamous yogurt shop killings

Austin police have identified a new suspect in the 1991 yogurt shop murders of four teenage girls

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6 d. ago Police identify suspect in 1991 murders of four girls at Texas yogurt shop

Officials name Robert Eugene Brashers in brutal deaths of Amy Ayers, Eliza Thomas and Jennifer and Sarah HarbisonAfter more than three decades, police have identified a dead suspect in an infamous 1991 murder case in which four girls were slain at a yogurt shop in Austin, Texas.Austin police revealed Friday that Robert Eugene Brashers had been identified as a suspect in the murders through “a wide range of DNA testing”. Brashers, who had a lengthy criminal history, died by suicide in 1999 at age 40 during a standoff with police in Missouri. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Murder of sex shop manager strangled, doused in petrol & left in pool of blood may finally be solved 40 years later

THE murder of a sex shop manager who was brutally strangled, doused in petrol and left in a pool of blood may finally be solved 40 years later. Sandra Phillips, 37, was killed while at work in Swansea on June 14, 1985. An extensive re-investigation of the murder was launched in 2004, but all lines...

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6 d. ago DNA evidence helps solve yogurt shop murders of four teenage girls after three decades

Police announced Friday that Robert Eugene Brashers had been linked to the brutal 1991 killings

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6 d. ago Police name suspect in 'The Yogurt Shop Murders' 33 YEARS after four teens are killed

Police in Austin, Texas, say DNA evidence led them to the "significant breakthrough" in the case of the murders of Amy Ayers, Eliza Thomas, and sisters Jennifer and Sarah Harbison

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6 d. ago Full story of the savage Welsh sex shop murder police have never been able to solve

South Wales Police has confirmed it is carrying out a fresh forensic review of the brutal murder of Sandra Phillips after the last one in 2004 failed to find the killer

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6 d. ago DNA evidence links a dead man to the 1991 killings of 4 girls at Texas yogurt shop

Austin police have identified a new suspect in the 1991 yogurt shop murders of four teenage girls

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2 w. ago Teenage killer taunts victim's family yelling 'I'm still breathing' as he is jailed for vape shop murder

Abdurrahman Summers, 19, shouted at victim Reuben Higgins' family in court after he was told he would serve a minimum of 19 years in jail over the attack.

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2 w. ago Scots warned over bank card scam costing victims thousands as fraudsters offer home visits

Trading Standards Scotland said several people had recently been targeted by scammers who cold call victims to say they have been issued with a new bank card.

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2 w. ago Vape shop knife killers jailed for life over ‘heinous’ murder of 17

A judge said he had seen no real evidence of remorse as he sentenced 19-year-old Abdurrahman Summers and two 16-year-olds who cannot be named.

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2 w. ago Georgia Democrat defies odds in Trump country, sparking hope for a political shift

Debra Shigley gained nearly 40 per cent of votes in a deeply Republican Atlanta suburb

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3 w. ago Two brothers who worked in a chicken shop helped kidnap a popular Turkish DJ before he was murdered and his body dumped in woodland, court hears

Chicken shop workers Kabeer Iqbal, 31 and Zubair Iqbal, 32, are accused of helping their friend Tejean Kennedy, 34, in carrying out the kidnap of DJ Mehmet Koray Alpergin, 43 (pictured).

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4 w. ago US flight attendants push for boarding wages after Air Canada deal: ‘deserve to be paid’

Cabin crews across North America are not paid for work done before take-off, but a new Canada deal has sparked hopeAs you board the plane, the flight attendant welcomes you on board. They point you to your seat and help with your luggage, before giving the safety demonstration, and preparing the plane for take-off. And there’s a good chance they’ve done it all for free.But a tentative deal between Air Canada and thousands of flight attendants has sparked hope more airlines will end a little-known reality for many North American cabin crews – and pay flight attendants when planes are not moving. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago US flight attendants push for boarding wages after Air Canada deal

Cabin crews across North America are not paid for work done before takeoff, but a new Canada deal has raised hopeAs you board the plane, the flight attendant welcomes you on board. They point you to your seat and help with your luggage, before giving the safety demonstration, and preparing the plane for take-off. And there’s a good chance they’ve done it all for free.But a tentative deal between Air Canada and thousands of flight attendants has sparked hope more airlines will end a little-known reality for many North American cabin crews – and pay flight attendants when planes are not moving. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago US flight attendants push to be paid when planes aren’t in the air: ‘Most of our passengers have no idea’

Cabin crews across North America aren’t paid for work done before takeoff, but new Air Canada deal has raised hopeAs you board the plane, the flight attendant welcomes you on board. They point you to your seat and help with your luggage, before giving the safety demonstration, and preparing the plane for takeoff. And there’s a good chance they have done it all for free.But a tentative deal between Air Canada and thousands of flight attendants has sparked hope more airlines will end a little-known reality for many North American cabin crews – and pay flight attendants when planes are not moving. Continue reading...

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