By Editor,Emma Richter

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The daughter of the man linked to the horrific deaths of four teenagers who were brutally killed inside a Texas frozen yogurt shop said her father had two very different sides to him.

Deborah Brashers, the child of Robert Eugene Brashers, has broken her silence after her dad was identified as the suspect tied to the execution-style killings of the teenagers in December 6, 1991.

Eliza Thomas, 17, Amy Ayers, 13, Jennifer Harbison, 17, and Sarah Harbison, 15 were found charred beyond recognition inside the storage room of the I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt shop in Austin.

On Friday, police announced Robert, who died by suicide in January of 1999, is linked to the unsolved murders ‘through a wide range of DNA testing’.

The blockbuster news has sparked reaction across the nation, including from Deborah, 34, who was just four-months-old when the murders occurred.

After hearing of his involvement in the case, which saw the girls found naked, gagged, tied up, stacked on top of one another, each shot in the back of the head, and at least one of them raped, Deborah said she was devastated.

‘It really is hard to figure out that I come from that. But I’m my mother’s daughter, true and true, and I know what’s right and wrong,’ she told KVUE.

She described her father as an intelligent man who was also very deceptive – similar to the story of Jekyll and Hyde, where a respected doctor was able to separate his good and evil sides.

‘My father was very, very, very strange,’ she recalled. ‘My father was a business man. My father was a con artist.’

The Alabama native said she only began uncovering details surrounding her dad’s involvement in the slayings in 2018, which left her with many unanswered questions.

‘My mother’s not here to ask all these questions. I don’t know who I can go to to ask all these questions. I don’t know who I can trust to ask all these questions,’ Deborah explained.

Despite not knowing the answers to her questions, Deborah said she is deeply sorry for the victims and their families who have been hoping for answers all these years.

‘I’m sorry for the pain and everything that my father has put everyone through,’ she said before making one wish.

‘And I wish my father was here today to be able to be punished for his crimes.’

Although her father can’t face consequences for the heinous crime, Deborah hopes their families will be able to start to heal because of the recent development.

Robert died by suicide during a standoff with law enforcement in 1999. He had an extensive criminal history including attempted murder, burglary, impersonating a cop and unlawful possession of a weapon.

Investigators managed to link a bullet casing found in a drain inside the yogurt shop to the gun he used to shoot himself, CBS News reported.

The yogurt shop murders stunned Texas’ capital city and became known as one of the area’s most notorious crimes.

Austin police investigators and prosecutors had stumbled over the case for years as they waded through thousands of leads, several false confessions and badly damaged evidence from the burned-out crime scene.

In November 1986, Brashers was convicted of attempted second degree murder stemming from a 1985 incident in Saint Lucie County, Florida.

About two years later, Brashers was arrested in Paragould, Arkansas, for attempting to break into ‘a residence of a single female.’

On January, 13, 1999, Brashers killed himself in Kennett, Missouri, during a four-hour standoff with police.

Austin law enforcement had looked at more than 1,200 possible suspects over the last 34 years and secured dozens of confessions.

The case remains an open and ongoing investigation, Austin police said and are set to host a press conference on Monday outlining the latest breakthrough.

Their announcement happened about one month after the release of The Yogurt Shop Murders, an HBO documentary series focusing on the killings.

Two of the girls – Jennifer Harbison and Thomas – worked at the Austin yogurt shop, while the other two had stopped by to catch a ride to a slumber party after the store’s closing at 11pm.

Some of them were sexually assaulted before being shot in the back of their heads.

The shop was then set on fire, which destroyed much of the evidence and soot-covered fingerprints.

Authorities originally centered their investigation around four teenage boys: Robert Springsteen, Michael Scott, Maurice Pierce and Forrest Welborn.

Springsteen and Scott confessed to the murders while in custody. Springsteen was tried, convicted and sentenced to death in 2001. Scott was also sentenced to life in prison after being convicted in 2002.

However, the pair’s convictions were ultimately dismissed by the Texas Court of Appeals on constitutional grounds. The two were freed in October 2009.

Separately, two Mexican nationals were also arrested in connection but were later ruled out as suspects.

Mexican authorities took Porfirio Villa Saavedra and Alberto Jimenez Cortez into custody in October 1992.

Saavedra apparently matched the description of a man who was seen in a vehicle outside the yogurt shop on the night of the murders.

The Mexican attorney general’s office claimed the men confessed to the killings.

However, Saavedra – a member of the Mierdas Punks motorcycle gang – recanted two days later and claimed that Mexican police had coerced him into confessing.

Daily Mail has reached out to Deborah Brashers for further comment.