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Mens Rea: A true crime podcast

Introducing Families Who Kill: The Donut Shop Murders

Mens Rea: A true crime podcast

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Society & Culture

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 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. Listen Here: http://wondery.fm/DSM_MensRea

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0:00.0

Hey men's rail listeners, if you are a fan of shocking true crime podcasts I have your

0:12.2

next obsession for you, it's called Families Who Kill, The Donut Shop Murders.

0:18.2

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

0:24.0

murders, robberies, abductions, and general mayhem everywhere they went, led by the criminal

0:29.8

duo of Sherman and his son-in-law Carl, this disturbed family targeted people working

0:36.0

in donut shops.

0:38.0

On Families Who Kill, The Donut Shop Murders, you'll hear the details of their crime

0:42.6

spree for the first time from one of the Macraries, and the detective who tracks them across

0:48.3

the country as they left death and destruction in their wake.

0:52.4

I'm about to play a brief preview of this show, but while you're listening, make sure

0:56.6

you follow Families Who Kill on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or you can binge all six episodes

1:03.6

ad-free when you subscribe to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or on the Wondery app.

1:26.6

I might have hesitated, but I wasn't thinking like I should have been, and it's kind of

1:31.6

raining, less like I say, like I say, I created this situation unconsciously.

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The store itself sits kind of out of the way, lengthened around, it is open, a stop, I went

1:45.6

in to get some cigarettes, and the boss struck me when I walked through the door, she was

1:50.2

in there by herself.

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I looked around, and there I started to turn through the door, and I just looked around,

1:57.1

and I pulled out my gun, and she looked and started laughing, and I told her, this ain't no toy,

2:02.3

girl.

2:03.3

And she looked a hell longer than she was, I think she was about 25 years old, at that time,

2:09.3

there ain't no way she looked over 25.

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