The Coin Shop Murders
Criminology
Emash Digital
4.7 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In the 1980s and early 1990s, a terrifying series of murders occurred connected to the so-called "Coin Shop Killer," believed to be longtime suspect Charles Thurman Sinclair. Multiple coin shop owners across several states were targeted using a chillingly consistent method: a friendly, knowledgeable customer would gain trust before returning to rob and murder the shop owners.
Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the "Coin Shop Killer." An interstate investigation linked the crimes at a time when cooperation between agencies was far less common than today. But there are still many unanswered questions involving these cases. Although a lot of evidence was found against Sinclair, he never made it to trail, and he took his secrets with him when he died.
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| 0:00.0 | Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics. |
| 0:05.9 | Listener discretion is advised. Hello, everyone and welcome to episode 4.11 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson. |
| 0:43.2 | And this is Mike Morford. Mr. Morford, how are you doing this week, buddy? |
| 0:47.3 | Doing good, a little bit tired. I was just talking to you before we started. I wake up super early, |
| 0:52.2 | usually between 3.30 and 4.30 every morning. And |
| 0:55.1 | by 9 o'clock when we record, I'm getting a little bit ready for a nap. So that's what I'm, |
| 1:01.0 | I'm thinking, is on the slate for today. How about you? I'm doing great. But yeah, we just |
| 1:06.6 | discovered that you're waking up pretty close to the time that I'm actually going to bed. |
| 1:13.2 | So we have very different schedules. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah, I definitely can't handle that anymore at my age. |
| 1:20.3 | You're lucky you still can. |
| 1:22.3 | Yeah, we're just about a week out from CrimeCon Vegas. |
| 1:26.3 | This episode actually drops the weekend before CrimeCon |
| 1:30.6 | in Vegas at Caesar's Palace. So we wanted to give one final mention to listeners that we're |
| 1:36.2 | going to be on Creators Row. So if you're there, please stop by. Say hi. We also want to remind |
| 1:42.8 | everyone that we're having our annual joint |
| 1:44.6 | criminology T-Cat CrimeCon meetup, and that's Saturday night, May 30th at 8 p.m. |
| 1:50.2 | At the Vista cocktail lounge. So if you want to come by and hang out for a bit, that should be |
| 1:54.4 | a lot of fun, and we hope to see you there. So now that we have all of that out of the way, |
| 1:58.7 | let's jump into this week's episode. |
| 2:06.8 | And we're exploring a series of murders that happened in the 1980s and early 1990s that targeted a bunch of different coin shop owners, all of which were killed in their shops. |
| 2:13.8 | Although the murders happened in several different states, the cases were so similar that authorities began to work together to see if the cases were connected. |
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