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Southern Fried True Crime

Introducing Wondery's "Families Who Kill: The Donut Shop Murders"

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.610.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 6 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

Hey 7 Fried listeners, I have your next True Crime Podcast obsession for you.

0:06.8

It's called Families Who Kill, The Donut Shop Murders.

0:11.0

It's a story about the Macriories, a family of criminals who terrorized small town America,

0:17.6

committing robberies, abductions, and even murders everywhere they went.

0:21.8

Led by Sherman and his son-in-law Carl, this disturbed family-targeted people working

0:27.1

in donut shops.

0:29.0

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

0:33.8

spree for the first time from one of the Macriory family members and the detective who tracked

0:40.0

them across the country through their wake of death and destruction.

0:43.8

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

0:48.8

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

0:55.6

at free when you subscribe to Wendry Plus and Apple Podcasts or on the Wendry app.

2:25.6

I said, is that right?

2:28.6

So I said, let's not sit around here all night talking about it then.

2:33.0

So she put all the money in a sack, you know, and Sherman tells her, get your coat.

2:37.8

She looked around at him and she said, okay, she walked out the door and the car we got,

2:43.2

well I don't know what Sherman was thinking, but this is one of the few times I've ever

2:48.1

seen in my life.

2:49.1

I've seen him laugh a few other times, but this ain't no time in my life.

2:55.4

And it seems he was laughing at the wrong time, but he was laughing, going to the car and

3:01.6

said, I don't believe it.

3:03.0

I just don't believe it.

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