{"id":291760,"date":"2026-05-13T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/291760\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:42:07","slug":"how-much-money-are-the-yogurt-shop-murders-men-getting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/291760\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Money Are The Yogurt Shop Murders Men Getting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"609\" width=\"1083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/yogurt-shop-murders-austin-texas.jpg\" alt=\"yogurt-shop-murders-austin-texas\" class=\"wp-image-24035088\"  \/>Getty Image<\/p>\n<p>The men wrongly accused of the 1991 murder of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop in Austin, Texas, are set to receive a large payment from the city. Under a tentative settlement reached on Tuesday, three men and the family of a fourth who were wrongly accused will receive a total of $35 million in restitution once it is approved by the city council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis settlement closes the final chapter of a devastating story in Austin\u2019s history,\u201d Austin City Manager T.C. Broadnax said in a statement. \u201cWe are pleased to have reached an agreement with those who were wrongly accused and wrongly convicted in this case and hope that this settlement brings a sense of closure to everyone affected by this horrific event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The almost 35-year-old \u201cYogurt Shop Murders\u201d were the subject of a 2025 HBO documentary. The series documented the brutal murders of Jennifer Harbison (17), her sister Sarah (15), Eliza Thomas (17), and Amy Ayers (13). The documentary also highlighted how authorities wrongfully arrested four young men for the crime, one of whom, Robert Springsteen IV, received a death sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Due in large part to confessions that Springsteen and Michael Scott claimed the police forced, juries found both guilty of the murders. In the mid-2000s, an appeals court reversed both convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors also charged Forrest Welborn, but never put him on trial because two grand juries declined to indict him. Authorities imprisoned Maurice Pierce for three years before they dropped the charges. During a traffic stop in 2010, he died as a result of an officer-involved shooting after a traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p>A judge finally found all of them innocent after investigators concluded that <a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/culture\/article\/suspect-identified-austin-yogurt-shop-murders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a suspect who shot himself and died<\/a> in 1999 during a standoff with police in Kennett, Missouri, committed the crimes.<\/p>\n<p>DNA evidence revealed the real murderer<\/p>\n<p>New evidence and ballistics analyses determined that Robert Eugene Brashers was the murderer in the Austin case, connecting him to the crime using a DNA sample taken from a victim\u2019s fingernail. Additionally, authorities have connected Brashers to the shooting of Sherri Scherer and her daughter, Megan, in Missouri in 1998, the rape of a 14-year-old girl in Tennessee in 1997, and the strangulation death of South Carolina woman, Genevieve Zitricki, in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the conclusions of APD\u2019s investigation are confirmed, as it appears that they will be, I will say: I am sorry, though I know that that will never be enough,\u201d Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza said in Sept. 2025 about the four men who had been charged with the crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Image The men wrongly accused of the 1991 murder of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,27,69028],"class_list":["post-291760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-texas","tag-yogurt-shop-murders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291760","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=291760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}