{"id":290860,"date":"2026-05-13T07:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/290860\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:01:12","slug":"city-of-austin-reaches-35m-settlement-with-4-men-exonerated-in-yogurt-shop-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/290860\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Austin reaches $35M settlement with 4 men exonerated in Yogurt Shop Murders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AUSTIN, Texas (KFVS) &#8211; Four young Texas men were wrongly accused of committing the Yogurt Shop murders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Now, the city of Austin has reportedly reached a multi-million dollar settlement with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-reaches-35-million-settlement-with-men-exonerated-in-1991-yogurt-shop-murders\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-reaches-35-million-settlement-with-men-exonerated-in-1991-yogurt-shop-murders\">CBS Austin is reporting<\/a> an attorney involved in the case puts the total settlement at $35 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A judge declared Michael Scott, Robert Springsteen, Forrest Welborn and Maurice Pierce innocent of the crime back in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At their exoneration hearing, Austin Detective Dan Jackson testified the evidence shows serial killer Robert Brashers alone committed that devastating crime.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KFVS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (KFVS) &#8211; Four young Texas men were wrongly accused of committing the Yogurt Shop murders. Now,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,223,106334,6080,106333,27,106335,69028],"class_list":["post-290860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-news","tag-robert-brashers","tag-settlement","tag-southeast-missouri","tag-texas","tag-wrongly-accused","tag-yogurt-shop-murders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}