#277 Going Postal

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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A mail carrier in trouble with his supervisors opened fire in a crowded post office on August 21st 1986, killing 14 workers and injuring 7 others before killing himself with a bullet in the head. The police said the carrier, Patrick Henry Sherrill, of Oklahoma City, burst into post office around 6:45 A.M., pulled at least three pistols from a mail pouch and, without a word, started shooting at his fellow employees. It was the nation's worst shooting since July 18, 1984, when 21 people, including the gunman, died at a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, California, and it helped coin the term "going postal". Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS: https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/21/us/mail-carrier-kills-14-in-post-office-then-himself.html https://www.reddit.com/r/masskillers/comments/f3yuwh/one_mans_massacre_an_extremely_thorough/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to True Crime Guys podcast.
0:07.5	I'm your host Michael, and I drug Andy in here today.
0:10.0	Kicking and screaming.
0:11.2	But Andy, we took last week off.
0:13.4	I know.
0:14.4	We got to get back.
0:15.4	We had our break.
0:16.4	I feel all relaxed, and my flip-flops on.
0:16.6	It's terrible weather out today.
0:18.8	Did you forget we were recording?
0:20.1	No, I just did not look at the weather report.
0:23.6	Wearing a shirt with a weather report on it, ironically.
0:26.1	It's fictional.
0:29.3	Anyways, guys, thank you for joining us.
0:31.9	We're glad to be back.
0:33.1	Next week, I think we'll do headlines and shenanigans, Andy.
0:36.1	So make sure you check that out, guys, here on the free platform where we talk about all what's current and strange.
0:43.6	Yeah, for real.
0:44.6	In the news.
0:45.7	And before we get into this old news story today, it took place in 1984.
0:51.5	But this is a very interesting case.
1:09.7	Okay. It's what coined the term going postal. You know? You ever wondered that? It's like, oh, this guy's going postal. It's nuts. Yeah. Apparently that came from multiple acts of violence in post offices. Yeah. There's a reason they coined the term.
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