Robert Eugene Brashers: The Serial Killer Behind the Yogurt Shop Murders
In this final segment of our press conference reaction on Hidden Killers Live, we turn the focus to the man at the center of it all: Robert Eugene Brashers.
Authorities say Brashers was a serial predator who used multiple aliases, traveled the country under false identities, and committed at least eight murders and rapes—possibly more. His DNA was never in CODIS. He faked an obituary. He convinced his own daughter to call him by a different name. And despite a violent criminal record and a known history of sexual assault, he was never on the radar for the Yogurt Shop Murders.
So how did they finally get him? A shell casing in a floor drain. A DNA hit from a South Carolina case. And the fingernail clippings of a 13-year-old girl who fought back.
We discuss the criminal profile of Brashers, the investigative blind spots that let him slip through, and why he was never caught in real time. This segment gets into the psychology of a killer—and the systemic breakdowns that let him go on killing for years.