Two days’ notice is all director Margaret Brown had to figure out how to give her true-crime docuseries “The Yogurt Shop Murders” an ending. The original four-part series, chronicling the brutal 1991 murders of four young women in Austin, Texas, denied audiences what the victims’ families had similarly been robbed of for 35 years: closure.A killer had never been identified, and the four men some investigators believed were involved in the murders spent the last 20 years fighting the false accusations. It was hardly the kind of satisfying ending audiences often hope for in their true crime.But after the series aired on HBO last fall, Brown learned there had been a break in the case. She had two days to delay the planned start of another project and gather her crew to be on the ground when lead investigator Dan Jackson made the announcement that known serial killer Robert Brashers’ DNA had been linked to the crime. Brashers died by suicide in 1999, meaning families and friends finally had a name but not all the answers.“As soon as it was leaked, I called our producer Alice [Henty] and said, ‘We have to rally now,’” Brown says. “I turned back around…
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