Introducing Families Who Kill: The Donut Shop Murders

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In the era of some of the most heinous serial killers of all time, one murderous family went curiously unnoticed: The McCrarys. Led by a psychopathic patriarch and his cunning son-in-law, this Texas clan roamed the country robbing, kidnapping, and killing up to 20 people, most of them taken from donut shops. “Families Who Kill: The Donut Shop Murders” recounts the wild and deeply disturbing story of an unhinged American family and the terrible brutality they unleashed. The podcast features the taped confessions of one of the killers, given when he was serving a life term in Colorado.

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0:00.0	Hi, campers.
0:02.9	If you're a fan of shocking true crime podcasts, I have your next obsession for you.
0:07.6	It's called Families Who Kill, The Donut Shop Murders.
0:11.3	It's a story about the Macraries, a family who terrorized small-town America, committing
0:16.0	murders, robberies, abductions, and general mayhem everywhere they went.
0:20.6	Led by the criminal duo of Sherman and his son-in-law, Carl, this disturbed family-targeted
0:25.4	people working in donut shops.
0:28.0	When Families Who Kill, The Donut Shop Murders, you'll hear the details of their crimes
0:32.2	brief for the first time from one of the Macraries, and the detective who tracked them across
0:36.5	the country as they left death and destruction in their wake.
0:39.5	I'm about to play a brief preview of this show, but while you're listening, make sure
0:44.2	you follow Families Who Kill on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or you can binge all six episodes
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1:20.3	Like I say, I created this situation, unconsciously.
1:25.0	A store itself sits kind of out of the way and let them around.
1:29.0	It is open, I stopped, I went in to get some cigarettes and the box struck me when I walked
1:35.4	through the door. She was in there by herself. I looked around and there comes Sherman through
1:41.2	the door and I just looked around and I pulled out my gun and she looked and started laughing.
1:48.3	I told her this ain't no toy girl and she looked a hell longer than she was. I think she was about
1:55.3	25 years old. At that time, there ain't no way she looked over 25. Well, she was a happier than
2:02.3	the day is long and she's laughing like hell. Now I told her, now they're saying no toy.
2:09.3	She said, I know it's not a toy. She said, you know, she said, when you drove up, she said,
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