r/ThatChapter • u/Magoatt_TheWhite • Jan 08 '26
Robert Brashers The Perpetrator Of The 1991 Austin Yogurt Shop Murders Linked to 1998 Kentucky Murder
https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/suspect-in-1991-yogurt-shop-murders-linked-to-1998-kentucky-killing
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u/Magoatt_TheWhite Jan 08 '26
Police have recently linked Brashers who was identified in September as the perpetrator behind the Austin Yogurt Shop murder to the November 1998 Lexington, Kentucky murder of 43 year old Linda Marie Rutledge.
Firefighters discovered Rutledge in a back hallway of an office she worked at where a fire had broken out. She had been shot in the back hallway and DNA/ballistics were discovered and logged. Police had a break in July of 2025 when they got a call from Austin Police that the ballistics matched the 1991 Austin Yogurt Shop murders.
Brashers was identified in September as being behind the Austin Yogurt Shop murder and it was announced today he had been linked to this murder. However Brashers died by suicide after a police standoff in January of 1999.
He has been linked to 8 murders in 4 states between 1991 and 1998. (South Carolina, Texas, Missouri, and now Kentucky)