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Going Postal - August 20 2020 - Daily True Crime

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Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

August 20th: Patrick Henry Sherill Kills (1986) We have all heard the term “going postal” but, do you know the chilling story that goes along with it? On August 20th 1986 the man who coined the term took the lives of 14 co-workers before taking his own life. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Information for this episode collected from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_post_office_shooting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.7

We have a electricity line.

0:05.5

We're described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

0:09.5

We have all heard the term going postal.

0:14.5

But do you know the chilling story that goes along with it?

0:18.0

On August 20, 1986, the man who coined the term took the lives of 14

0:23.6

co-workers before taking his own life. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled,

0:29.4

sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. Patrick Henry Sherrill, born on

0:36.7

November 13, 1941, left Watonga, Oklahoma to serve in the United States Marine Corps.

0:43.5

He served a long and well-established military career and was considered an expert marksman and went on to become a member of the National Guard Pistol Team.

0:52.9

But with his military service over, he needed to find a new way to make a member of the National Guard pistol team. But with his military service over, he needed

0:56.1

to find a new way to make a living. That's when, in 1985, he took the United States Postal

1:02.1

Service entrance exam and was hired to work in the Edmond, Oklahoma offices. He worked extremely

1:08.1

hard, constantly making sure he brought the same work ethic to his job as he did to his military career.

1:14.3

He passed the 90-day probationary period and began his new career, a career he was extremely proud of.

1:21.9

But no matter how much he gave, his supervisors always wanted more.

1:26.3

If he gave 100%, they wanted 150. And on August

1:31.3

19, 1986, that's exactly what the supervisors brought to his attention. Bill Bland and Richard

1:37.9

Esser Jr. brought Patrick into the office and took turns verbally berating him in a well-rehearsed

1:43.3

act. They knew he was a good worker,

1:46.3

but they were evaluated by how much male they moved. So this form of motivation was not new

1:52.0

to the men in charge. One of the last things said by Bill Bland was that he would fire Patrick

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