Judge says yogurt shop DNA needs fuller analysis
A judge today denied a request for a bail reduction by Robert Springsteen, accused of killing four teenage girls in 1991 at a North Austin yogurt shop.
Springsteen’s lawyers argued to state District Judge Mike Lynch last week that testing of evidence conducted in the past 15 months found the presence of DNA from three unknown males in vaginal swabs taken from three victims and from clothing used as a wrist ligature on the fourth.
They argued that none of the DNA matched Springsteen, co-defendant Michael Scott or two previous co-defendants, proof they say that longtime claims of innocence by Scott and Springsteen are true.
Prosecutors argued that the DNA from only one unkmown male was discovered in biological samples taken from the girls, discounting the other results as unreliable.
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