The Yogurt Shop Murders: Inside HBO's Final Episode (With Detective Dan Jackson)

Rae Review featuring Detective Dan Jackson — the Austin Police cold case detective who solved the 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders.

For 34 years, the murders of Amy Ayers, Sarah Harbison, Jennifer Harbison, and Eliza Thomas went unsolved. The case landed on Dan Jackson's desk on his very first day in the cold case unit. He never imagined he'd be the one to answer the question on the billboards: who killed these girls?

Three years later, using DNA and ballistics, he identified serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers as the man who did it.

Detective Jackson joins Rae to talk about the science that finally cracked it, who Brashers really was, the promise he made to one victim's mother, and the phone call he made to the original 1991 detective before the news broke.

Following our conversation with director Margaret Brown, whose HBO series The Yogurt Shop Murders just aired its final episode, The End of Wondering.

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