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West Anderson Lane, Austin Texas, just before midnight, December the 6th, 1991. A patrol officer driving down the strip saw smoke rising from the roof of a yogurt shop. He called it in. Firefighters [music] broke down the front door. Inside, four teenage girls, stripped, bound with their own clothing, shot in the head, stacked on top of each other, three burned [music] beyond recognition. Jennifer Harbison was 17. She worked the closing shift to help pay for her car. Her sister Sarah was 15. Her friend Eliza was 17. Amy Ayers [music] was 13. She had stopped in to get a ride home. The fire had [music] been set deliberately to destroy what was done there. The water used to fight the fire destroyed what was left. Dozens of people [music] walked through the crime scene before investigators could protect it. The evidence [music] that should have closed this case in 1991 was gone. In 1999, a task [music] force arrested four men. Two were convicted, sentenced to death and life. In 2008, >> [music] >> both convictions were overturned. Prosecutors had used co-defendants confessions in ways that violated [music] the Constitution. All four men were eventually released. The families had watched the justice system convict two men and free them. They still had nothing. Then, [music] in September 2025, Austin police announced a DNA match. The profile from the crime scene belonged to Robert Eugene Brashers, a serial killer and rapist who identified [music] through investigative genetic genealogy. He had never been investigated for this case. He had never been charged. He had been alive through every arrest, every trial, every appeal. Robert Eugene [music] Brashers died in 1999 in a standoff with police, by his own hand, six years before [music] the first arrest in this case. He died without ever facing what happened on West Anderson [music] Lane. Today, a nail salon operates at 2949 West Anderson Lane. Outside, beneath an oak tree, a bronze plaque carries four names. The workers [music] inside place something beside it every single day, so the girls are not forgotten. Jennifer, Sarah, >> [music] >> Eliza, Amy. If you have any information about this case, please contact Austin police. Follow Grave Files TV, because the cases that get [music] shared are the ones that don't get forgotten.
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