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In the end, Dan Jackson was able to identify the truth and identify the real killer, who headed the investigation department of undisclosed killings at Austin’s police department in 2022.
He found out that at first the attacker tied the girls with their own clothes and then shot.
How did the detective manage – tells CNN.
Jackson grew up near Austin and knew about this case since childhood.
“I was about eight to nine months younger than Amy (the youngest of the four victims, who was 13 years old at the time of murder-ed.). So I remember everything that happened, I remember we grew up with this story,” – said the detective.
A few weeks before Christmas 1991, 17-year-old Eliza Thomas and Jennifer Garbison ended with yoghurts. The girls came to 15-year-old sister Jennifer Sarah and her 13-year-old girlfriend Amy Ayers.
An unknown man entered the store, tied the girls with their own clothes and shot. Three of four casualties found traces of sexual abuse, but almost all physical evidence was lost through the arson of the building.
Investigators had very few concerns, evidence or material evidence to investigate this crime and identify the suspect. In addition, DNA forensic examination has not yet been such a well -developed technology as it is today. Therefore, the case could not be revealed for many years.
Only in 2008, with the help of smears to collect evidence of sexual violence in the case, an unknown male DNA profile Y-STR (short tandem repetitions in the Y-chromosome) was established, but at that time, science could not have any answers.
This DNA Y-STR is exceptionally male and unique to everyone. Although it does not give a definitive confirmation of guilt, it helps law enforcement officers narrow the circle of suspects.
After 10 years, in 2018, law enforcement officers conducted repeated and more accurate analysis of unknown DNA Y-STR. Although it gave better results, the name of the suspect was still unable to establish.
In 2022, Detect Dan Jackson took up the undisclosed case and decided to re -test a single physical evidence found at the crime scene – a sleeve.
Although most of the victims were shot dead with .22 caliber, Amy Ayers was the only one that was also fired at .380. Jackson sent a sleeve to the National Ballistic Network (Nibin). He was later called and reported: found a coincidence.
“I was sitting on the beach while resting with my family. I was asked,” You have a drink in my hand? “I replied, ‘Yes’. We found a coincidence. “I just couldn’t believe it,” Jackson recalls.
It turned out that unique dents on a sleigh from Austin coincide with those left by weapons used in an undisclosed murder in Kentucky, which happened in 1998.
Kentucky’s authorities have not publicly announced any shifts in the case, but Jackson said the murder in Texas had similar details. He was convinced that these cases were interconnected.
In August, Jackson sent requests for identical Y-StR DNA profiles to law enforcement agencies across the country. He soon received confirmation from the laboratory in South Carolina: DNA there fully corresponded to an unknown profile from Austin. It was taken from the case of the revealed murder and sexual violence in Greenville in 1990.
Jackson began to look for a suspect on the Internet.
“I entered in Google a crime date, Greenville, South Carolina, and then the name Robert Brashers appeared as a serial killer”, Said the detective.
During a conversation with a detective from South Carolina, Jackson was struck by learning about the similarity between their undisclosed business and killings in Austin.
“I was asked if the offender tied the victims of their own clothes. Said Dan Jackson.
Subsequently, Jackson learned that 40-year-old Brashers had committed suicide in 1999 during a confrontation with the police. After his death, investigators, with the help of certain examinations, found that he committed a number of crimes in the 1990s-from shooting and sexual attacks to murders in Tennessa, Missouri and South Carolina.
According to Jackson, Brashcher’s criminal history reaches at least 1985 when he tried to kill a woman in Florida.
“He attacked the woman, sought her, and she refused. Then she shot her four times, and she survived somehow.
Brashers was sentenced to 12 years in prison for this case and received a parole in four years, “ – said the detective.
One of the reasons why he was never caught for crimes was that Brashers tried to deceive the system, using many false names and alias – a combination of family members.
In the end, the name of the probable killer Jackson learned thanks to genetic genealogy held in South Carolina in 2018. Then the DNA, collected in the 1990 murder case, pointed to Brashers as the suspect. In order to finally confirm the coincidence, the judge ordered the exhumation of his body in Arkansas and remove a sample of DNA from the bone.
In addition, Jackson checked Brashers’ biography and found that he was stopped by the Border Service 48 hours after the murder in Austin. He operated the stolen car and had a weapon of caliber .380 – the same model from which Amy was killed.
The data of the gun, which Brashers had with him in a yogurt shop, coincided with the ballistic data of the gun, which was later used in Kentucky. The same gun was used when he committed suicide in Missour.
In addition, Brashers’ DNA was found under the nails of the dead Amy.
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In the end, Dan Jackson was able to identify the truth and identify the real killer, who headed the investigation department of undisclosed killings at Austin’s police department in 2022.
He found out that at first the attacker tied the girls with their own clothes and then shot.
How did the detective manage – tells CNN.
Jackson grew up near Austin and knew about this case since childhood.
“I was about eight to nine months younger than Amy (the youngest of the four victims, who was 13 years old at the time of murder-ed.). So I remember everything that happened, I remember we grew up with this story,” – said the detective.
A few weeks before Christmas 1991, 17-year-old Eliza Thomas and Jennifer Garbison ended with yoghurts. The girls came to 15-year-old sister Jennif Er Sarah and her 13-year-old girlfriend Amy Ayers.
An unknown man entered the store, tied the girls with their own clothes and shot. Three of four casualties found traces of sexual abuse, but almost all physical evidence was lost through the arson of the building.
Investigators had very few concerns, evidence or material evidence to investigate this crime and identify the suspect. In addition, DNA forensic examination has not yet been such a well -developed technology as it is today. Therefore, the case could not be revealed for many years.
Only in 2008, with the help of smears to collect evidence of sexual violence in the case, an unknown male DNA profile Y-STR (short tandem repetitions in the Y-chromosome) was established, but at that time, science could not have any answers.
This DNA Y-STR is exceptionally male and unique to everyone. Although it does not give a definitive confirmation of guilt, it helps law enforcement officers narrow the circle of suspects.
After 10 years, in 2018, law enforcement officers conducted repeated and more accurate analysis of unknown DNA Y-STR. Although it gave better results, the name of the suspect was still unable to establish.
In 2022, Detect Dan Jackson took up the undisclosed case and decided to re -test a single physical evidence found at the crime scene – a sleeve.
Although most of the victims were shot dead with .22 caliber, Amy Ayers was the only one that was also fired at .380. Jackson sent a sleeve to the National Ballistic Network (Nibin). He was later called and reported: found a coincidence.
“I was sitting on the beach while resting with my family. I was asked,” You have a drink in my hand? “I replied, ‘Yes’. We found a coincidence. “I just couldn’t believe it,” Jackson recalls.
It turned out that unique dents on a sleigh from Austin coincide with those left by weapons used in an undisclosed murder in Kentucky, which happened in 1998.
Kentucky’s authorities have not publicly announced any shifts in the case, but Jackson said the murder in Texas had similar details. He was convinced that these cases were interconnected.
In August, Jackson sent requests for identical Y-StR DNA profiles to law enforcement agencies across the country. He soon received confirmation from the laboratory in South Carolina: DNA there fully corresponded to an unknown profile from Austin. It was taken from the case of the revealed murder and sexual violence in Greenville in 1990.
Jackson began to look for a suspect on the Internet.
“I entered in Google a crime date, Greenville, South Carolina, and then the name Robert Brashers appeared as a serial killer”, Said the detective.
During a conversation with a detective from South Carolina, Jackson was struck by learning about the similarity between their undisclosed business and killings in Austin.
“I was asked if the offender tied the victims of their own clothes. Said Dan Jackson.
Subsequently, Jackson learned that 40-year-old Brashers had committed suicide in 1999 during a confrontation with the police. After his death, investigators, with the help of certain examinations, found that he committed a number of crimes in the 1990s-from shooting and sexual attacks to murders in Tennessa, Missouri and South Carolina.
According to Jackson, Brashcher’s criminal history reaches at least 1985 when he tried to kill a woman in Florida.
“He attacked the woman, sought her, and she refused. Then she shot her four times, and she survived somehow.
Brashers was sentenced to 12 years in prison for this case and received a parole in four years, “ – said the detective.
One of the reasons why he was never caught for crimes was that Brashers tried to deceive the system, using many false names and alias – a combination of family members.
In the end, the name of the probable killer Jackson learned thanks to genetic genealogy held in South Carolina in 2018. Then the DNA, collected in the 1990 murder case, pointed to Brashers as the suspect. In order to finally confirm the coincidence, the judge ordered the exhumation of his body in Arkansas and remove a sample of DNA from the bone.
In addition, Jackson checked Brashers’ biography and found that he was stopped by the Border Service 48 hours after the murder in Austin. He operated the stolen car and had a weapon of caliber .380 – the same model from which Amy was killed.
The data of the gun, which Brashers had with him in a yogurt shop, coincided with the ballistic data of the gun, which was later used in Kentucky. The same gun was used when he committed suicide in Missour.
In addition, Brashers’ DNA was found under the nails of the dead Amy.