Happy New Year listeners, this is Mike Morford host of The Murder of My Family.

If you're a fan of shocking true crime podcast, I have your next obsession for you.

It's called Families Who Kill the Donut Shop Murders.

It's a story about the mercuraries, a family who terrorized small town America,

committing murders, robberies,

abductions, and general mayhem everywhere they went.

Led by the criminal duo of Sherman and his son-in-law Coral,

this disturbed family targeted people working in donut shops.

On Families Who Kill the Donut Shop Murders,

you'll hear the details of their crime spree for the first time from one of the mercuraries,

and the detective who tracked them across the country as they left death and destruction in their wake.

I'm about to play a brief preview of this show,

but while you're listening, make sure you follow Families Who Kill on Apple Podcast, Amazon Music,

where we can binge all six episodes ad-free when you subscribe to The Wondery Plus,

in Apple Podcasts, or The Wondaria.

Like I say, like I say, I created this situation unconsciously.

A store itself sits kind of out of the way,

let them around, it is open,

I stopped, I went in to get some cigarettes,

and then boss struck me when I walked through the door,

she was in there by herself.

I looked around, and there comes Sherman through the door,

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