Latest / Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast / 159. [Texas] Serial Killer: Robert Eugene Brashers
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- 0:20Speaker 1: Everyone, welcome. Plus it's missing at your crumbodcast. I don't care.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Here's Stu sie Hasty. All right, we're back this week
- 0:25Speaker 1: and we are covering some breaking news. If you have
- 0:31Speaker 1: not heard, the yogurt shop murders has been solved, they
- 0:36Speaker 1: say allegedly, they claim, they say they have the person
- 0:40Speaker 1: behind this. He is dead. However, he was a serial killer.
- 0:47Speaker 1: He was very active for about looks like about ten
- 0:50Speaker 1: ten years. He killed himself in nineteen ninety nine.
- 0:55Speaker 2: Well maybe fifteen years. Maybe it was fifteen, fourteen or
- 0:58Speaker 2: fifteen years because he did that one.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Oh that wasn't eighty five. So yeah, so I was
- 1:02Speaker 1: thinking when he got out of jail for that one. Anyway,
- 1:05Speaker 1: so we decided we would do We're not doing the
- 1:07Speaker 1: whole yogurt shop murders again, We're going to do We're
- 1:11Speaker 1: going to cover this guy. This guy's crimes is what
- 1:15Speaker 1: we're going to do. So the structure will be a
- 1:17Speaker 1: little bit different because it's not just one story where
- 1:21Speaker 1: we are going to touch on the yogurt shop murders
- 1:23Speaker 1: briefly go over it. But this is going to cover
- 1:26Speaker 1: the life and crimes of Robert Eugene Brashers. Bobby Eugene.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Bobby Eugene anyway, So uh, if you are on Patreon,
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- 2:17Speaker 1: one because it doesn't take up that much space, but
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- 3:13Speaker 1: job anyway. So yeah, we're gonna go ahead and cover
- 3:17Speaker 1: this Robert Eugene Brasher's because there wasn't a lot of
- 3:21Speaker 1: information about him up until all of a sudden, the
- 3:24Speaker 1: big news broke on Friday, and now everybody's like, who's
- 3:28Speaker 1: who is this guy?
- 3:29Speaker 2: Who is this fella even got his own Wikipedia page
- 3:31Speaker 2: went up over the weekend.
- 3:33Speaker 1: All right, so on we're going to start with, like
- 3:36Speaker 1: I said, this isn't We're just kind of go through
- 3:39Speaker 1: his crime. So starting on November twenty second, nineteen eighty five,
- 3:43Speaker 1: twenty five woh, twenty four year old Michelle Wilkerson was
- 3:48Speaker 1: hanging out at a bar when a man approached her
- 3:50Speaker 1: and struck up a conversation. She's like, hey, he's cute, Hey,
- 3:55Speaker 1: let's let's let hang out. He convinced her to take
- 4:00Speaker 1: make a ride with him, so they head off near
- 4:02Speaker 1: a grove. Well, they're sitting in the back of the
- 4:05Speaker 1: pickup truck in the cab and they're drinking a six
- 4:08Speaker 1: pack of Budweiser. Once the bear was gone, they began
- 4:11Speaker 1: talking about sex. Well, this turned into an argument when
- 4:16Speaker 1: the man started making advances at Michelle and she's not
- 4:20Speaker 1: She's like, hey, you just bought me a pack of
- 4:22Speaker 1: six pack of Bud watch the bear. Yeah, I'm not
- 4:26Speaker 1: prepared for whatever you are. So anyway, so when she
- 4:30Speaker 1: refuses his advances, he begins to attack her. Well, Michelle,
- 4:34Speaker 1: she fights back and was able to receive the man's
- 4:37Speaker 1: twenty five caliber pistol out of the back of his truck. Well,
- 4:43Speaker 1: she's trying to fight him off and during this time,
- 4:44Speaker 1: he's able to grab the gun out of her hand.
- 4:47Speaker 1: He then turns around he shoots her in the neck
- 4:50Speaker 1: and once in the head. Amazingly, Michelle was able to
- 4:54Speaker 1: escape the manach so she jumps out of the truck.
- 4:56Speaker 1: She starts running through a muddy ditch while that the
- 4:59Speaker 1: man was running after her. Well, somehow she's able to evade,
- 5:05Speaker 1: invade him. Well, he gives up, and he heads back
- 5:09Speaker 1: to his truck and drives off. Well, Michelle was able
- 5:12Speaker 1: to make it to a house, where she asked the
- 5:14Speaker 1: residents to call police. When police arrived, she was barely
- 5:18Speaker 1: making it. That said she had she had passed out
- 5:20Speaker 1: at that not passed out, but she'd.
- 5:22Speaker 2: Fall into the ground consciousness.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Yes, they said she was a fighter though she wanted
- 5:26Speaker 1: to live. So she's covered in blood and she's covered
- 5:29Speaker 1: in mud and lying in the carport. She was taken
- 5:32Speaker 1: to the hospital where she was treated for her injuries,
- 5:35Speaker 1: and I believe it was just like twenty minutes later.
- 5:37Speaker 1: She's like, I'm telling you about this motherfucker.
- 5:39Speaker 2: I'm stabilized. I'm good.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Yes, So she gives them a description of the man
- 5:45Speaker 1: and a description of the truck down to like he
- 5:47Speaker 1: had marble Marlborough, Marlborough. I can't say that. That's a
- 5:52Speaker 1: hard word. I feel like I should have had speech therapy.
- 5:55Speaker 2: Asm you probably should have some other podcasters I've heard so.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Anyway, so she like he knew she knew he had
- 6:03Speaker 1: a red red hat or a red shirt, he had
- 6:06Speaker 1: the Marlboroughs. She gives a description of a brown truck. Well,
- 6:13Speaker 1: while Michelle was being treated in the hospital, a deputy
- 6:16Speaker 1: named Angela Darling she finds a man wandering along South
- 6:20Speaker 1: A one A in South Beach. They had already put
- 6:24Speaker 1: out this description of this man that they're looking for
- 6:26Speaker 1: in this truck. Well, she looks at him. She's like,
- 6:29Speaker 1: this guy looks just like he's wearing the red shirt.
- 6:31Speaker 1: He looks just like the bolo that was put put
- 6:35Speaker 1: out just a while ago. So she cautiously. So the
- 6:39Speaker 1: man said, he asked her. I mean, he's asking a
- 6:41Speaker 1: police officer too. He's like, absolute idiot, he is, he's
- 6:45Speaker 1: asking So I would have just kept walking instead of like.
- 6:47Speaker 2: The fact that this guy was not in jail after
- 6:50Speaker 2: I mean, and he wasn't locked up for life. It's
- 6:53Speaker 2: just dumb luck on his part.
- 6:54Speaker 1: Yes, So anyway, he's not that bright. So he tells
- 6:57Speaker 1: this deputy that he needs help because his truck was
- 7:01Speaker 1: stuck in the sand on the beach. So she cautiously
- 7:06Speaker 1: goes with him because she's thinking this is the man
- 7:08Speaker 1: that they're looking for, so she wants to keep an
- 7:10Speaker 1: eye on him. She goes back. Well, when she gets there,
- 7:12Speaker 1: she sees the truck it's the same exact it's a
- 7:14Speaker 1: brown truck like the inscription. She's like, okay, this is
- 7:16Speaker 1: definitely definitely our guy. So he is arrested and they
- 7:22Speaker 1: find out that the man's name was Robert Eugene Brashers.
- 7:26Speaker 1: Now Robert was charged with attempted first degree murder, aggravated battery,
- 7:30Speaker 1: and using a firearm during the commission of a crime.
- 7:34Speaker 1: He would go on trial a year later and was
- 7:36Speaker 1: found guilty. Apparently they did find out from him or
- 7:41Speaker 1: in some fashion the reason he got stuck on the
- 7:43Speaker 1: beach because he drove his truck out to the beach,
- 7:46Speaker 1: he waded out into the water and then threw the
- 7:48Speaker 1: gun into the water so he didn't have the gun
- 7:50Speaker 1: on him anymore. He was sentenced to twelve years. However,
- 7:54Speaker 1: he was released from prison on May the fourth. Be
- 7:57Speaker 1: with you, nineteen eighty nine.
- 8:00Speaker 2: Good behavior, twelve years when you get out.
- 8:02Speaker 1: And for almost killing a woman. And I'm sure he
- 8:06Speaker 1: would have raped her, had he if she hadn't escaped him,
- 8:09Speaker 1: you know, and then he would have killed and then
- 8:11Speaker 1: he would have killed her. He he's like a monster.
- 8:14Speaker 1: And they let him out on good behavior after it
- 8:17Speaker 1: was like less than four years total by the time
- 8:19Speaker 1: he went behind bars.
- 8:22Speaker 2: In April of nineteen ninety in Greenville, South Carolina, police
- 8:26Speaker 2: received a phone call from an apartment complex. A maintenance
- 8:29Speaker 2: man had entered an apartment and found twenty eight year
- 8:31Speaker 2: old Genevieve, who went by Jenny z it Tricky, dead
- 8:36Speaker 2: in her bathtub. She had been bludgeoned, raped, and strangled
- 8:40Speaker 2: with pantyhose. It appears she had been there at least
- 8:42Speaker 2: two days, submerged in water in her bathtub. It appeared
- 8:46Speaker 2: that the killer had dragged her to the bathroom after
- 8:49Speaker 2: murdering her to try and cover up any evidence. Despite
- 8:53Speaker 2: efforts of the killer, they were able to recover genetic
- 8:55Speaker 2: evidence for later testing. On the bathroom mirror, the perpetrator wrote,
- 9:00Speaker 2: don't fuck with my family. This made it appear that
- 9:03Speaker 2: it was a personal crime. Investigators tried to solve the
- 9:06Speaker 2: murder of Jenny. However, the case went cold, and it
- 9:09Speaker 2: wasn't until nineteen ninety five that they were able to
- 9:12Speaker 2: isolate enough of the DNA to upload into the CODA system. However,
- 9:16Speaker 2: there were no matches and no new evidence to find
- 9:19Speaker 2: Jenny's killer.
- 9:20Speaker 1: Yes, so unfortunately for that one, they did focus in
- 9:24Speaker 1: on the personal side of it because of what the
- 9:26Speaker 1: person wrote, and then later on they would find out
- 9:29Speaker 1: that there was nothing personal. They was like just to
- 9:33Speaker 1: throw the copy throw and it worked. So maybe he's
- 9:36Speaker 1: not that dumb, I mean, he's bud.
- 9:38Speaker 2: I mean, he ain't got to be that smart to
- 9:40Speaker 2: try and throw the cop coffee trail to try and
- 9:42Speaker 2: do things to do that anyway.
- 9:44Speaker 1: All right, So this takes us to December sixth, nineteen
- 9:48Speaker 1: ninety one in Austin, Texas. All Right, So seventeen year
- 9:51Speaker 1: old Jennifer Harbison and seventeen year old Eliza Thomas were
- 9:55Speaker 1: working at the I can't believe it's yogurt shop place. Well,
- 10:00Speaker 1: Jennifer's younger sister, fifteen year old Sarah Harbison, and her
- 10:04Speaker 1: thirteen year old friend Amy ER's were also at the
- 10:06Speaker 1: store after closing. The two young girls did not work
- 10:09Speaker 1: at the shop, but they were there to, you know,
- 10:11Speaker 1: hang out with Eliza and Jennifer. Well, later that evening,
- 10:16Speaker 1: I think it was around midnight, police officers were driving
- 10:20Speaker 1: by and they see that the shop is on fire. Well,
- 10:24Speaker 1: the fire department arrives on the scene and begins putting
- 10:27Speaker 1: out the flames. So at this time when they're putting
- 10:29Speaker 1: out this fire, they are in an impression that this
- 10:31Speaker 1: building is completely empty. They think something in there, like
- 10:35Speaker 1: there should not.
- 10:35Speaker 2: Be anybody to electric it's a yo.
- 10:38Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a yogurt shop, not a strip.
- 10:40Speaker 2: Mall, not a uh for an arson.
- 10:44Speaker 1: Yes, they're they're thinking something has like an electrical fire
- 10:47Speaker 1: or something has started. To their surprise, as they enter
- 10:53Speaker 1: the building, they find four bodies burnt in the flames.
- 10:57Speaker 1: In one room they find three of the girls, and
- 11:01Speaker 1: this would be Jennifer, Eliza, and Sarah. They had all
- 11:05Speaker 1: been shot execution style in the head with a twenty
- 11:09Speaker 1: two caliber gun. They were all nude. And then in
- 11:13Speaker 1: another room they found Amy, who was she was so
- 11:19Speaker 1: she was like separate from the other three. She was
- 11:22Speaker 1: shot twice. She also had like a sock type thing
- 11:27Speaker 1: tied around her neck. They also in this they also
- 11:31Speaker 1: found a thirty eight caliber casing. So there was actually
- 11:34Speaker 1: two gun, two guns used in this, so two investigators.
- 11:38Speaker 1: That initially is gonna look like there were two people
- 11:41Speaker 1: involved if there's two different guns. So Amy's body wasn't
- 11:47Speaker 1: burnt quite as badly because it looked like the fire
- 11:49Speaker 1: had been started in the other area with the other
- 11:52Speaker 1: three girls. All four, however, did appear to have been
- 11:56Speaker 1: sexually assaulted. Now, due to the fire in the and
- 11:59Speaker 1: the water damage from the sprinklers and the fire hose
- 12:03Speaker 1: from the fire department, everything, the evidence at the scene
- 12:06Speaker 1: was extremely hard to collect. They were, however, able to
- 12:09Speaker 1: collect DNA. This was from the rape kits as well
- 12:13Speaker 1: as some DNA under Amy's fingernails. It seemed like she
- 12:18Speaker 1: was able to scratch somebody, the person in the midst
- 12:22Speaker 1: of this crime. So anyway, so they were able to
- 12:25Speaker 1: collect this DNA. However, it wasn't until later they're able
- 12:28Speaker 1: to actually enter it into a national database. This was
- 12:32Speaker 1: a huge case for the Austin area and even today,
- 12:35Speaker 1: I mean they just did that HBO documentary again about it,
- 12:40Speaker 1: because I mean it's four young girls being murdered at
- 12:42Speaker 1: a yogurt shop. I mean, it's absolutely insane. So within
- 12:46Speaker 1: a week of the murders, they arrest Maurice Pearce. Now
- 12:51Speaker 1: Maurice was only fifteen years old at the time, but
- 12:54Speaker 1: he did have the same caliber handgun as one of
- 12:58Speaker 1: the murder weapons. He had a twenty two I believe.
- 13:01Speaker 2: Yeah, they were riding around brandishing in it or something.
- 13:03Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, they were acting fuls being fifteen years old. Yeah,
- 13:08Speaker 1: I remember it was something at that. I didn't write
- 13:09Speaker 1: all the information about this.
- 13:11Speaker 2: Is what I recall from that. So we did a
- 13:13Speaker 2: couple of years ago. Yes, they were being stupid at
- 13:16Speaker 2: the met.
- 13:16Speaker 1: And stupid at the male, like waving it around and
- 13:19Speaker 1: everything like that. So they bring this fifteen year old
- 13:21Speaker 1: to interrogate him. At the time, he implicated his three friends,
- 13:25Speaker 1: Robert Springsteen, Michael Scott, and Forrest Wellborn. Well, all four
- 13:30Speaker 1: were brought in and interrogated, but in the end they
- 13:33Speaker 1: were released. They didn't confess anything. They didn't really have
- 13:36Speaker 1: anything on him except for that they had the twenty
- 13:39Speaker 1: two caliber gun and were being idiots that around that time. However,
- 13:45Speaker 1: they kept their eyes on them, and in nineteen ninety
- 13:47Speaker 1: nine the four were arrested as adults and they were
- 13:51Speaker 1: put into lengthy interrogations and I think one of them
- 13:55Speaker 1: you said was sixteen hours or something like that.
- 13:57Speaker 2: Yeah, it was something ridiculous, yeap.
- 14:00Speaker 1: So during these interrogations, two of them, Robert Springsteen and
- 14:04Speaker 1: Michael Scott, confessed. Well, soon after they recant their statements,
- 14:08Speaker 1: cleaning that they were coerced. Now, one of the detectives
- 14:12Speaker 1: that did the interview with them had previously been accused
- 14:16Speaker 1: of fossely coercing a person and then that person actually
- 14:20Speaker 1: spent thirteen years in prison before he was exonerated.
- 14:23Speaker 2: Yes, this cop, he needs to be it was Polonko. Yeah,
- 14:27Speaker 2: he needs to be put in prison for the shit
- 14:30Speaker 2: he's done. Yeah.
- 14:31Speaker 1: So he's already runned one person's life and then he
- 14:34Speaker 1: proceeded to kids. Well he almost got one of them
- 14:38Speaker 1: put to death. So due to these confessions by Robert
- 14:41Speaker 1: and Michael, they were charged with the rape and murders.
- 14:43Speaker 1: The other two were let go. Robert, who was seventeen
- 14:47Speaker 1: at the time of the murder, was sentenced to death
- 14:50Speaker 1: and Michael was sentenced to life in prison since he
- 14:52Speaker 1: was only fifteen at the time, because I guess two
- 14:55Speaker 1: years is the difference between the.
- 14:57Speaker 2: Maturity levels of being yeah.
- 14:59Speaker 1: Being put to death. Now, during this time, the two
- 15:03Speaker 1: maintain their innocence, and in two thousand and five, Governor
- 15:05Speaker 1: Rick Perry commuted robert sentence to life in prison. And
- 15:09Speaker 1: this was due to a change in I think it
- 15:12Speaker 1: was federal law where you had to.
- 15:15Speaker 2: Be an adult. Yeah, you can't to get the death penalty.
- 15:17Speaker 1: So his sentence was commuted by the governor. Now in
- 15:22Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, so they're still fighting this. They
- 15:24Speaker 1: got lawyers, they still claim their innocence all this time.
- 15:27Speaker 1: So they've been in prison for ten years fighting this
- 15:30Speaker 1: and like everybody hates them, like they think I think
- 15:33Speaker 1: they did it. Yeah, for all this time they think
- 15:35Speaker 1: they did it and stuff. So in two thousand and nine,
- 15:38Speaker 1: it was determined that there were constitutional issues with the
- 15:41Speaker 1: trial and their verdicts were overturned. And this had to
- 15:45Speaker 1: do with them something about recording the confessions and using
- 15:49Speaker 1: those confessions in court. There was some sort of legal
- 15:55Speaker 1: legality that they.
- 15:57Speaker 2: I think they had one testifying against the other or something, and.
- 16:00Speaker 1: It wasn't them testifying in court against each other, it
- 16:02Speaker 1: was the confessions confused against them in court. And that's
- 16:07Speaker 1: probably has something to do with not being able to
- 16:10Speaker 1: your accuser or something like that. Anyways, they're let out, Well,
- 16:14Speaker 1: the prosecution's like, well no you're not. We're going to
- 16:16Speaker 1: try you again because we think you did it, like
- 16:19Speaker 1: the Crosscusians like gun Ho.
- 16:20Speaker 2: They're like we're not, these are the ones that did it.
- 16:22Speaker 1: Yeah, we're not going to look at anybody else.
- 16:24Speaker 2: How this whole time, though, they have this DNA and
- 16:26Speaker 2: they know it doesn't match either one of these suspects.
- 16:29Speaker 1: Well, no, they didn't know. I didn't. They had the DNA, Yes,
- 16:33Speaker 1: they had the DNA. The lawyers of the two had
- 16:35Speaker 1: to push for them to be to test the DNA.
- 16:39Speaker 1: They had to get them to the state to go
- 16:43Speaker 1: and test the DNA and put it in the system,
- 16:45Speaker 1: or test this DNA sample they had against it.
- 16:47Speaker 2: Oh, they hadn't tested it against the suspects.
- 16:49Speaker 1: No, it wasn't until two thousand and nine that they
- 16:52Speaker 1: actually ran the DNA test and were able to rule
- 16:57Speaker 1: out Robert and Michael and Forrest and Maurice as well.
- 17:01Speaker 1: During that time because Forest and Maurice, Yes they were
- 17:03Speaker 1: not arrested for this, but they were still lumped into
- 17:05Speaker 1: this whole situation.
- 17:06Speaker 2: They they didn't confess, but they were still that the
- 17:10Speaker 2: community thought they'd done it. Yes, they all did it together.
- 17:13Speaker 1: And then the fate of one of them the next
- 17:15Speaker 1: year in twenty ten, the Maurice Pierce was at a
- 17:18Speaker 1: traffic stop. He panicked, I guess, yeah, and.
- 17:23Speaker 2: He I guess he thought they were there to get
- 17:25Speaker 2: him for the jogtshots.
- 17:27Speaker 1: Yeah, anyways, he ran off, well, he grabbed a knife.
- 17:30Speaker 1: He stabbed an officer in the throat and the officer survived,
- 17:34Speaker 1: but he ended up. The officer did shoot and killed
- 17:37Speaker 1: the Maurice guy because he was a threat to him obviously.
- 17:41Speaker 1: But anyways, that it all stems from them being paranoid
- 17:45Speaker 1: about being thrown in jail. They did not commit because
- 17:50Speaker 1: I don't even know how you go about your life
- 17:52Speaker 1: when the whole town thinks you, you know, killed and
- 17:55Speaker 1: raped four young girls.
- 17:57Speaker 2: And the until you got thrown in prison for one
- 18:00Speaker 2: of you was up from.
- 18:00Speaker 1: The death bay almost Scott. Yeah. So anyway, so with
- 18:03Speaker 1: them being exonerated after twenty years, they now have this
- 18:09Speaker 1: cold case again that they don't have. They don't know
- 18:11Speaker 1: who did this.
- 18:12Speaker 2: Yeah, so it remained they never.
- 18:13Speaker 1: Knew who did it. They just threw somebody in jail,
- 18:15Speaker 1: but they officially don't have anybody.
- 18:17Speaker 2: Of course, the couple of confessions try to put a
- 18:21Speaker 2: bow on it and move on from it. On March
- 18:24Speaker 2: twenty eighth, nineteen ninety eight, police in Portageville, Missouri, arrive
- 18:27Speaker 2: at the home of Sherry Sharer at around seven pm
- 18:31Speaker 2: upon entering the home, they find thirty eight year old
- 18:33Speaker 2: Sherry and her twelve year old daughter, Meghan, tied up
- 18:37Speaker 2: and shot. It appeared that twelve year old Meghan had
- 18:40Speaker 2: been sexually assaulted and that the gun used to kill
- 18:43Speaker 2: both Meghan and Sherry was a twenty two caliber handgun.
- 18:47Speaker 2: While investigators are processing this horrific scene, just across the
- 18:52Speaker 2: border in Dyersburg, Tennessee, a twenty five year old woman
- 18:56Speaker 2: contacted police. A man attempted to break into her home
- 18:59Speaker 2: where she with her children alone, and he did shoot
- 19:03Speaker 2: the woman. However, she was able to shove him out
- 19:06Speaker 2: of her house, close and lock the door, and then
- 19:09Speaker 2: call police. The man took off, but she was able
- 19:12Speaker 2: to give them a very good description of what he
- 19:14Speaker 2: looked like. Police were also able to recover ballistics from
- 19:18Speaker 2: that scene for testing.
- 19:20Speaker 1: Now, as investigators looked at both crime scenes, they did
- 19:24Speaker 1: not realize that there was a connection until they ran
- 19:27Speaker 1: the ballistics because he shot both the mom and the daughter,
- 19:31Speaker 1: and he shot that woman who survived with the same
- 19:33Speaker 1: hand YEP, So they're looking and it's the bullet is
- 19:36Speaker 1: from the same gun. So now they had two crimes
- 19:39Speaker 1: connected and a description of the suspect. Because the one
- 19:41Speaker 1: woman survived, they were able to collect DNA evidence from
- 19:45Speaker 1: the Sure crime scene and a partial DNA profile was
- 19:49Speaker 1: created that would be put into CODIS. I remember when
- 19:52Speaker 1: they're collecting this DNA, they're working with the technology at
- 19:55Speaker 1: the time. As you can imagine, technology has advanced a
- 19:59Speaker 1: lot the where they can pull DNA from a much
- 20:01Speaker 1: smaller sample and get a complete dnaprils. So whenever there's
- 20:07Speaker 1: not hits on it, it's because they didn't have as
- 20:09Speaker 1: much the DNA markers that they would in the future
- 20:14Speaker 1: to be able to hit. So it might be in
- 20:15Speaker 1: CODIS and his sample might be from another crime in CODIS,
- 20:17Speaker 1: but it's not matching up because they don't have the
- 20:19Speaker 1: same There was a lot of DNA TI file. Yes,
- 20:23Speaker 1: not that they don't match, It is just that the
- 20:25Speaker 1: technology is not there to look at all those markers.
- 20:29Speaker 1: So despite having a connection between the two crime scenes
- 20:32Speaker 1: in a partial DNA profile and a description of the suspect,
- 20:35Speaker 1: both cases went cold, with no new leads or suspects
- 20:39Speaker 1: as to who would commit these crimes. The Sure murders
- 20:43Speaker 1: were featured on America's Most Wanted, but it would not
- 20:45Speaker 1: be until two thousand and six until any new leads
- 20:48Speaker 1: or information came about.
- 20:50Speaker 2: In two thousand and six, DNA evidence from the murder
- 20:53Speaker 2: of Sherry and Megan were sent back to the crime
- 20:55Speaker 2: lab and a profile was created and entered into the
- 20:58Speaker 2: CODA system. When this was done, they had a match
- 21:01Speaker 2: to an unsolved murder in Grenville, South Carolina, and that
- 21:05Speaker 2: was the murder of twenty eight year old Jenny. Please
- 21:08Speaker 2: now know that they are working with a serial killer
- 21:10Speaker 2: who has been active in at least two states. However,
- 21:14Speaker 2: they still did not know who they were looking for
- 21:17Speaker 2: until another link. Well they didn't even know then, but
- 21:20Speaker 2: another link to the serial killer happened in May of
- 21:23Speaker 2: twenty seventeen when a hit was made on a March
- 21:27Speaker 2: nineteen ninety seven rape of a fourteen year old girl
- 21:30Speaker 2: in Memphis, Tennessee. They were able to obtain a composite
- 21:34Speaker 2: sketch because whenever the girl was raped, there were four
- 21:37Speaker 2: other people on the home. So this is a brave,
- 21:40Speaker 2: brave perpetrator. He actually forced his way into the home
- 21:44Speaker 2: at gunpoint, tied the other four people up before raping
- 21:48Speaker 2: the fourteen year old girl. Finally, in twenty eighteen, in
- 21:52Speaker 2: an attempt to solve these murders and rapes. Investigators reached
- 21:55Speaker 2: out to a company called Parabon Nano Labs, which combines
- 21:59Speaker 2: DA testing with genetic genealogy analysis. They provided the DNA
- 22:04Speaker 2: sample to the lab and then went and obtained additional
- 22:08Speaker 2: d DNA samples from relatives as they tried to work
- 22:11Speaker 2: their way through the family tree, eliminating members of this
- 22:16Speaker 2: family as they went.
- 22:18Speaker 1: Similar to our other case, remember they had to go
- 22:20Speaker 1: get all the yes from last week.
- 22:22Speaker 2: Yes, they discovered that the person when they when they
- 22:26Speaker 2: finally got to the person they thought it was, they
- 22:28Speaker 2: discovered that he was already deceased, so they exhumed his
- 22:32Speaker 2: body to obtain a DNA sample from the corpse.
- 22:36Speaker 1: Yes, he was buried in Arkansas, Arkansas.
- 22:40Speaker 2: This resulted in a match, a positive match, and they
- 22:44Speaker 2: were able to identify the murderer of Jenny Sherry and
- 22:48Speaker 2: Megan as Robert Eugene Brasher's.
- 22:52Speaker 1: Okay, so now they knew the name of this serial killer.
- 22:55Speaker 1: They now looked at his life in crimes. Well, they're
- 22:59Speaker 1: started with that tempted murder back in Florida in nineteen
- 23:01Speaker 1: eighty five, where he only served those three and a
- 23:04Speaker 1: half years or so in prison, way to go Florida.
- 23:07Speaker 2: Well, they didn't have no codus back then, I'm guessing,
- 23:09Speaker 2: so he wouldn't put in the dataway.
- 23:10Speaker 1: But if he had, if he had done his.
- 23:12Speaker 2: Twelve years, yeah, he would have done his page.
- 23:13Speaker 1: He probably would have been murdered in prison because he
- 23:16Speaker 1: seems like a fucker, and then all his crimes happened
- 23:20Speaker 1: over that time. He should have been in jail. Yeah,
- 23:23Speaker 1: So I mean, I would he have gotten out and
- 23:25Speaker 1: probably tried to do something again. But maybe it would
- 23:28Speaker 1: have been further into the two thousands when we could
- 23:31Speaker 1: have caught him better there, you know, I don't know.
- 23:33Speaker 2: It would have been older, and they would he might
- 23:35Speaker 2: have gotten, yeah, beat up by the girl.
- 23:37Speaker 1: Yes, all right, So they with this evidence, they know
- 23:41Speaker 1: that he has gone on a crime scene scene crime
- 23:45Speaker 1: spree through multiple states and ended whenever police. This all
- 23:49Speaker 1: ended whenever police in Missouri were investigating a stolen vehicle
- 23:53Speaker 1: at a Super eight motel in Kennett, Missouri, kin It.
- 23:57Speaker 1: So they find this car in the parking lot, and
- 23:59Speaker 1: so they go speak to the motel personnel and they
- 24:02Speaker 1: find out that the person driving the vehicle was Robert
- 24:05Speaker 1: Brasher's and his family Now he was staying at the
- 24:09Speaker 1: motel with his wife, his two step daughters, and his daughter. Well,
- 24:13Speaker 1: so police go knock on his hotel, not hotel. We
- 24:17Speaker 1: wait till he's motel door, and he immediately is like, no,
- 24:23Speaker 1: I'm not doing that.
- 24:24Speaker 2: So well, I mean, I'm picturing this as the drive
- 24:27Speaker 2: in motor motel where the doors are on the outside FACEK.
- 24:30Speaker 1: Yes, this is a yeah. Well that's the difference between
- 24:32Speaker 1: a motel and a hotel, is you drive up? Yes,
- 24:37Speaker 1: a hotel has hose in it? No, yea motel hotel holiday.
- 24:46Speaker 2: I don't know what that means.
- 24:47Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, you wouldn't anyway. So he when police tried
- 24:52Speaker 1: to arrest him, he takes his four family members hostage
- 24:56Speaker 1: and threatens to harm them at please get any closer.
- 24:58Speaker 2: What a great guy.
- 25:00Speaker 1: So this was just a single or like one or two,
- 25:03Speaker 1: like a patrol car coming to pick him up over
- 25:05Speaker 1: a stolen vehicle. This was not a big thing until
- 25:09Speaker 1: this happened. Next thing, you know, we got swat. We
- 25:11Speaker 1: got the whole Super eight motel surrounded there.
- 25:15Speaker 2: By the three cop cars in this town.
- 25:16Speaker 1: Yes, they had to call in back, severe back.
- 25:19Speaker 2: What a lot, guys.
- 25:21Speaker 1: Yes, we got the the desk clerk is out there,
- 25:24Speaker 1: you know, running running calms.
- 25:28Speaker 2: I make jokes. I don't know how big. I don't
- 25:31Speaker 2: think that might be large enough.
- 25:34Speaker 1: They definitely had to get back up to try to
- 25:36Speaker 1: deal with this. So after a four hour standoff, he
- 25:40Speaker 1: finally decides to release his wife and children. Thank god. Well,
- 25:43Speaker 1: then he shoots himself in the head. But the idiot
- 25:46Speaker 1: didn't get killed himself. He actually survived for six days
- 25:49Speaker 1: in the hospital and then afterwards he died of his
- 25:53Speaker 1: injuries on January nineteenth. That was nineteen ninety nine.
- 26:00Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, thank you, Kara.
- 26:02Speaker 1: It just clarifying. I think they might have thought January nineteen,
- 26:05Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, this guy was just running around out
- 26:07Speaker 1: there at the Super Great Motel, just this.
- 26:09Speaker 2: Why didn't I see this on TikTok In twenty twenty two,
- 26:12Speaker 2: there was another link to the yogurt shot murders whenever
- 26:15Speaker 2: they ran the ballistics on the thirty eight caliber bullet
- 26:18Speaker 2: ca scene and it matched a case in Kentucky. This
- 26:23Speaker 2: case involved an unsolved murder with similar details to the
- 26:27Speaker 2: yogurt shot murders.
- 26:28Speaker 1: Yeah. See, I couldn't find anything on this case about
- 26:33Speaker 1: this case and I ran out of time. Sorry, guys,
- 26:36Speaker 1: we're going on a trip.
- 26:37Speaker 2: So would you quit telling people what? So?
- 26:40Speaker 1: Anyway, so I ran on time, but it would have
- 26:43Speaker 1: taken a lot of digging. So I'll try to figure
- 26:45Speaker 1: it out and then I can post it in Facebook
- 26:47Speaker 1: or something. But that bullet was and so I don't
- 26:51Speaker 1: know if it's a different purse, if he had some.
- 26:53Speaker 1: He seemed to work alone though, Yes, so I think
- 26:55Speaker 1: he just had two guns probably, And so that.
- 26:58Speaker 2: Thirty sounds like the guy I would have a backup.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Yeah. And for there to be an unsold murder similar
- 27:03Speaker 1: to the yogurt shot murders in terms of like hism
- 27:06Speaker 1: was kind of like the using the gun, tying them up,
- 27:09Speaker 1: raping things.
- 27:10Speaker 2: Like that murder, and so bathtub or fire to try and.
- 27:14Speaker 1: Guess something to destroy the evidence. So for it to
- 27:17Speaker 1: be in Kentucky, which is in this all the southern region,
- 27:20Speaker 1: and with the same gun, it probably is linked to him.
- 27:23Speaker 1: But I couldn't find anybody that mentioned I found this
- 27:27Speaker 1: in an ABC News article. Nobody mentioned this connection to
- 27:31Speaker 1: this Kentucky.
- 27:32Speaker 2: It might not even be real.
- 27:33Speaker 1: No, it is real. No, A law enforcement announced it
- 27:39Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two that they had this connection to
- 27:42Speaker 1: this unsolved murder in Kentucky. I'm saying nobody's putting any
- 27:46Speaker 1: of this murder in his I guess because it's not
- 27:48Speaker 1: connected via DNA like the other ones were. But this
- 27:53Speaker 1: could be part of his. He could have another. It
- 27:56Speaker 1: could be eight that he has on his for his
- 27:59Speaker 1: number on murders.
- 28:01Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean if that can tie his DNA to it.
- 28:03Speaker 2: Otherwise it could have just pitched the gun and somebody
- 28:05Speaker 2: else picked it up. And yeah, somebody's willing to pick.
- 28:09Speaker 1: Somebody else who's murdering people and not turn it into.
- 28:11Speaker 2: The place be like, hey, I found this gun anyway,
- 28:14Speaker 2: getting back to this. Finally, in September twenty twenty five,
- 28:17Speaker 2: they had a major breakthrough in the Ogret Chot murders case.
- 28:20Speaker 2: With the advancements of the DNA technology, they were able
- 28:24Speaker 2: to build a YSTR profile and sent that out for
- 28:28Speaker 2: testing to other labs and other states.
- 28:30Speaker 1: And this was a manually ran test, so they had
- 28:34Speaker 1: to wait for this wasn't just send it up into cyberspace.
- 28:39Speaker 1: They had to wait for other labs to have the
- 28:42Speaker 1: time to manually And it's a why because it isolates
- 28:46Speaker 1: the y chromosome DNA specifically is what I'm not a
- 28:50Speaker 1: DNA ologist, whatever they are. Still most I know about
- 28:54Speaker 1: DNA is what I saw in Jurassic Park.
- 28:55Speaker 2: Okay, got it from the mosquito. Yes, and then they
- 29:00Speaker 2: supplemented with frogs and the next thing you know, the
- 29:04Speaker 2: Robert Brasher's the dinosaurs can breed. The South Carolina Lab
- 29:08Speaker 2: connected it to the murder of Jenny's is it ricky?
- 29:12Speaker 2: It's a Treacky's a treacky, which again linked it to
- 29:16Speaker 2: the murders of Sherry and Megan and Missouri. They matched
- 29:19Speaker 2: the DNA two and a.
- 29:22Speaker 1: Half million to one? Can you not read?
- 29:26Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know.
- 29:27Speaker 1: I have a two and a half mark and then
- 29:29Speaker 1: the word million trying to figure out that two and
- 29:31Speaker 1: a half million to one to the sexual assault kits
- 29:35Speaker 1: and the DNA found under Amy Ayre's fingernails.
- 29:39Speaker 2: Yes, then there was also a link between the twenty
- 29:41Speaker 2: two caliber pistol that he used in his crimes and
- 29:44Speaker 2: that he and the one that he used in the suicide.
- 29:47Speaker 1: As well as the one that he used in the
- 29:48Speaker 1: It's all linked, It's everything's linked. So, yes, they finally
- 29:52Speaker 1: got their guy. Could there be another person that helped
- 29:54Speaker 1: him didn't seem like that was his you know. Mo, No,
- 29:59Speaker 1: he seemed to just walking with four or five people
- 30:01Speaker 1: in a house and just take him hostage. I mean,
- 30:05Speaker 1: he just didn't seem to care. So anyway, So that's
- 30:08Speaker 1: our story on the yogurt shop murders and how finally
- 30:14Speaker 1: after thirty four years, they allegedly have the killer.
- 30:18Speaker 2: So well, I think we had been saying that that
- 30:20Speaker 2: they're gonna have to find that DNA. The DNA was
- 30:23Speaker 2: the only thing that was going to solve this. Yeah,
- 30:26Speaker 2: and I guess we had said previously yep.
- 30:29Speaker 1: So eventually technology will catch up with you. So don't
- 30:32Speaker 1: be killing people.
- 30:33Speaker 2: Don't be an asshole.
- 30:34Speaker 1: Yeah, what I was going to say, Oh, your theory
- 30:40Speaker 1: was it was the man that was sitting in the yogurt.
- 30:43Speaker 2: The mysterious man that nobody could ever seem to identify.
- 30:46Speaker 1: Was sitting in the yogurt shop. Yes, they always when
- 30:49Speaker 1: was he in there? He was in there before they closed.
- 30:51Speaker 2: Yeah, he was in there right before they closed. And
- 30:52Speaker 2: there was this mysterious man that nobody can seem to identify.
- 30:57Speaker 1: And it might be him, Yeah, because this guy had
- 30:59Speaker 1: zero ties to the Austin area. They this was the
- 31:03Speaker 1: only thing, so he could have just been passing through.
- 31:07Speaker 2: And stop to get a yogurt.
- 31:09Speaker 1: Stop to get a yogurt.
- 31:10Speaker 2: I'm gonna kill these girls.
- 31:11Speaker 1: Yes, anyways, that happenstance possibly just yeah, it just happened
- 31:15Speaker 1: to stop stop by.
- 31:17Speaker 2: All right?
- 31:18Speaker 1: Well, Stu, do you have a y'all need Jesus?
- 31:21Speaker 2: I always have one there.
- 31:22Speaker 1: Okay, let's go.
- 31:23Speaker 2: Come and know us from news Channel eight NBC. I'm
- 31:27Speaker 2: not sure where it's at of Posted by Caitlin Fernandez
- 31:33Speaker 2: September twenty nine, twenty twenty five. Video suspect takes off
- 31:38Speaker 2: running after officer jokes about his narcotics sniffing horse. Florida,
- 31:46Speaker 2: not Florida, Not Florida, Lubbock, Texas.
- 31:51Speaker 1: I was thinking Texas or something because of the horse.
- 31:56Speaker 2: You don't think they have horses in Florida.
- 31:57Speaker 1: No, they have horses. But if I was gonna think
- 32:00Speaker 1: of a police on horseback, I would either think Texas
- 32:03Speaker 1: or possibly like New York or something.
- 32:07Speaker 2: I don't know. Life he had has them New Orleans, hasm.
- 32:09Speaker 1: Yes, Stuart, I know other places have them. I'm just
- 32:11Speaker 1: telling you what comes to mind. Top of mind.
- 32:15Speaker 2: Yeah, off of mind what Boudio. Body camera video released
- 32:19Speaker 2: last week showed a suspect taking off running after a
- 32:22Speaker 2: Texas officer joked about a narcotics smelling horse. NBC affiliate
- 32:28Speaker 2: reported that officers with a Lubbic Police Department's Mounted patrol
- 32:31Speaker 2: unit stopped a man for walking in the road. News
- 32:34Speaker 2: station set. Officers believe the man was acting suspiciously and
- 32:37Speaker 2: began to whether began to wonder whether he had illegal
- 32:42Speaker 2: drugs or not. Bodycam video shows an officer asking the
- 32:46Speaker 2: man if they could check his pockets, but he refused.
- 32:49Speaker 2: I mean, why would you.
- 32:52Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not gonna let you check my pocket.
- 32:54Speaker 2: Why Yeah, unless you got a reason to stop me,
- 32:55Speaker 2: you know. And then even then, no, I was going
- 32:59Speaker 2: to make a joke because it seemed like it was
- 33:01Speaker 2: going to break some tension, you know. It seemed like
- 33:04Speaker 2: it was kind of stiff for a second there. Officer
- 33:08Speaker 2: William Trotter, of the prod of the mounted horseback he was.
- 33:12Speaker 1: Like, there's no other option for me. I must be
- 33:15Speaker 1: on the mountain. That's how I ended up in Lubbock, Texas.
- 33:19Speaker 2: Soon after, Trotter is heard telling the suspect that he
- 33:21Speaker 2: had a narcotics sniffing horse. That's when the man took
- 33:25Speaker 2: off running. He kind of took off down the alley
- 33:27Speaker 2: and we thought he was joking, but he kept running.
- 33:30Speaker 2: Officer Bryce and Lewis said he took it seriously, and
- 33:33Speaker 2: the chase was on. Video shows officer catching up to
- 33:36Speaker 2: the man, who was later identified as forty two year
- 33:39Speaker 2: old Joseph Ramirez. He was arrested and charged with evading arrest,
- 33:44Speaker 2: tampering with physical evidence with the intent to impair. Not
- 33:49Speaker 2: sure what all that means.
- 33:50Speaker 1: So just for the future criminals, there are no narcotic
- 33:54Speaker 1: sniffing horses that I'm aware.
- 33:57Speaker 2: Do you think we got a big criminal? I don't know.
- 34:01Speaker 1: Maybe maybe they're like, uh, how to get away with it?
- 34:06Speaker 1: Sometimes we do. Sometimes we tell you how what a
- 34:08Speaker 1: stupid thing was and the smart thing they should have done.
- 34:11Speaker 2: Like not run from the narcotic sniffing horse. Yes that
- 34:15Speaker 2: does not a real thing.
- 34:16Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well I think that's it for us,
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- 34:28Speaker 1: I've got I'm on the dirty soda wagon. Okay that
- 34:31Speaker 1: the Mormons. Well, the Mormon ladies up there, they can't
- 34:35Speaker 1: drink they don't drink coffee or yes, so they instead
- 34:41Speaker 1: of there they have like soda shops. So in the
- 34:43Speaker 1: morning they so we learned all.
- 34:44Speaker 2: This from I don't think they could have caffeine either.
- 34:47Speaker 1: Well there's caffeine free, doesn't matter, all the rules are
- 34:52Speaker 1: made up. Anyways, the uh, the the Secret Wives of
- 34:58Speaker 1: Mormon Wives. Whenever their show premiere, like two years ago,
- 35:03Speaker 1: they were talking about their soda shops and so they
- 35:05Speaker 1: go and they have all these different types of like sodas,
- 35:07Speaker 1: and that's what they go get in the morning instead
- 35:09Speaker 1: of their coffee. Well then the dirty soda trend kind
- 35:13Speaker 1: of took off because they do all these things with
- 35:15Speaker 1: soda and so anyways, or at least that's where I
- 35:18Speaker 1: first heard of it, and now it's finally two years later.
- 35:21Speaker 2: I'm like, Facebook, you watch the show.
- 35:23Speaker 1: I watched part of it, The Secret Wives of Mormon Wives.
- 35:27Speaker 1: It's on Hulu. I watched part of the first season,
- 35:30Speaker 1: but I don't remember this. I've my reality TV Q
- 35:34Speaker 1: is already packed so with real housewives, so I don't
- 35:37Speaker 1: really have a lot of time for an additional show.
- 35:41Speaker 1: So between that and like Sister Wives, I'm I'm pretty booked. Okay,
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- 35:54Speaker 1: And I.
- 35:56Speaker 2: Think that's it's too Are you sure that's it?
- 35:58Speaker 1: Yes? Some things my sound out of order because we
- 36:01Speaker 1: actually recorded a different episode that we were going to
- 36:03Speaker 1: release this week and then this happened, and so this
- 36:06Speaker 1: is so we probably will talk about should we do
- 36:09Speaker 1: an episode about that serial killer in next week's episode,
- 36:13Speaker 1: but just keep in mind.
- 36:15Speaker 2: That it was really like when they have a writer
- 36:16Speaker 2: strike in Hollywood and then they got to move the
- 36:18Speaker 2: episodes around.
- 36:19Speaker 1: Yes, we're moving the episodes around.
- 36:21Speaker 2: To cover the laps.
- 36:23Speaker 1: And yeah, so some things we might have said and
- 36:28Speaker 1: you'd be like, we just turned the whole story last week.
- 36:30Speaker 2: They're having a stroke. Now we're not. We might be
- 36:32Speaker 2: a bit.
- 36:34Speaker 1: Anyways, all right, well Stu, do you have anything else?
- 36:37Speaker 2: No?
- 36:37Speaker 1: All right, I think that's it. By everyone say bye to.
- 36:42Speaker 2: Don't you know.
- 36:43Speaker 3: It's bad to be SUPERSTI shots by mapping else it's workings,
- 37:00Speaker 3: I how to leave, I can to
- 37:04Speaker 1: H