Content warning. This episode contains discussion of murder, rape, violence, and addiction.

I debated with myself over opening with this quote. Because it's such a famous quote,

it's almost a cliche. Plus, my only foray into the works of Leo Tolstoy was Hodgy Murad in college.

But Kevin has read Anna Karinina, so I'll let him take it away.

All happy families are alike. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I'm not a psychologist, so I'm not going to debate the merit of Tolstoy's musings here.

But I will say, it's a line that popped into my head when I first began reading old newspaper

clippings about the family behind the donut shot murders. We are going to be talking about the

Macrary Taylor clan once more today. Unless we end up landing a big interview or uncovering

something remarkable, this will be the last episode on the case for a while. Last week,

we heard from Jerry Nations, the son of Ginger Macrary Taylor, and the grandson of Sherman Macrary.

Jerry and his brothers got hold around the country during the murderous spree

helmed by their grandfather and stepfather.

And that got us thinking, how did this even happen?

If each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, then how unhappy did these people have to be?

To not only commit robberies, rapes, and murders, but drag their kids along for the ride.

My name is Ania Cain, and I'm Kevin Greenley, and this is the murder sheet, a weekly true crime

podcast. Ania and I connected over the Bergerchev murders, a 1978 unsolved case involving the

killings of four young restaurant employees. Now we're looking to track restaurant homicides.

To help us understand the patterns of these crimes, we created a spreadsheet of nearly a thousand

eatery related killings, the murder sheet. We'll be drawing on that data throughout season one

to give you a deep dive into undercover crimes. We don't just rely on skimming the headlines.

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