Deborah Brashers, the daughter of the man police say carried out the 1991 yogurt shop murders, has offered more details about her father’s behavior in a new episode of HBO’s hit documentary series.
HBO’s four-part documentary The Yogurt Shop Murders, which holds a 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score, reignited public interest in the devastating Austin, Texas case involving the deaths of four teenage girls.
The show debuted in August 2025 and revisited the long-running investigation into the killings of 13-year-old Amy Ayers, 17-year-old Eliza Thomas, and sisters Jennifer and Sarah Haribson, aged 17 and 15.
Following the series, authorities closed the case after 34 years, identifying Eugene Robert Brashers as the man responsible for the sexual assault and murders.
Brashers had an extensive criminal history, but he will never face sentencing in connection with the murders, as he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1999.
That meant he could not appear in the newly released episode of HBO’s The Yogurt Shop Murders, but his daughter did.
Deborah spoke with the filmmakers about what it was like growing up around her father and described unsettling details about what she called his “kill kit.”
Beyond the yogurt shop case, Brashers is also suspected of ties to at least eight other killings.
In the episode, Deborah revisited a 1998 crime in which Brashers was linked to a break-in at a woman’s home, including allegations that her phone line was cut. She said he was evading police around that time, when she was still a child.
“It was Easter morning when he was caught in her house,” she shared. “Why were you not at home? You have three children at home. It’s Easter.”
Deborah went on to says of the 1998 break in: “He broke into her house and cut her phone line. He had a kill kit on him. He was going to kill this woman. Why? I don’t know. She didn’t do nothing to him.”
When producers asked what she meant by a “kill kit,” Deborah described items she said were found with him: “He had black gloves, zip-ties, a gun. He had multiple of those kits.
“He left he gun [at the house he broke into], got arrested, and told my mother where the gun was. My mother then got my grandpa and my grandfather went to go pick up the gun.”
“My mother and grandfather had to have known something,” she added.
Before Brashers was identified, four young men were accused in connection with the murders, and two—Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott—were convicted.
They spent a decade in prison before being freed, after their convictions were overturned in 2009. Springsteen and Scott, along with Maurice Pierce and Forrest Welborn, were later declared innocent and formally exonerated by a Texas judge in February 2026.
Welborn, Springsteen, and Scott have since received a $35 million settlement from the City of Austin tied to their wrongful accusations.
A portion of the payout will also go to Pierce’s family. Pierce was killed in 2010 after being shot by a police officer following an altercation.
The Yogurt Shop Murders: The Final Chapter will be available to stream on HBO Max on Friday (May 22) in the US, and will drop on the steaming platform in the UK and Ireland on Saturday (May 23).