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🗓️ 11 May 2021
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This week on the Murder Sheet, we speak in-depth with Don Williams, a retired Santa Barbara detective who helped capture the infamous Donut Shop Killers. If you haven't already, make sure to go back and listen to "The Donut Shop Killers," episode 23 of our first season.
Williams spoke with us about the multi-state investigation into the case, the tragic aftermath of the grocery shop shooting that put a halt to the killers' reign of terror, and the experience of being played by true crime icon Robert Stack on Police Story.
Special thanks to Don and his wife Kathi!
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0:28.6 | Good morning. This episode contains discussion of murder, rape and suicide. |
0:36.0 | This week we're doing something a little bit different on the murder sheet. We recently |
0:40.9 | covered the case of the McCrary Taylor family, a clan of itinerant serial killers who largely |
0:46.9 | targeted young women working alone at donut shops. Some of you let us know that you were |
0:52.2 | especially interested in the case, and so we decided to dig a little deeper. We reached |
0:58.1 | out to Don Williams, a retired lieutenant with the Santa Barbara police force. He is one |
1:03.8 | of the last surviving law enforcement officers to have worked the case. At first, he wasn't |
1:10.3 | sure what to think about us, but like any good detective, he did his research. |
1:15.3 | I have never watched a podcast in that one. I find the old-fashioned guy with a good belly. |
1:22.1 | It can barely do my emails, but when I googled, well, Kathy googled, she showed it to me. |
1:34.8 | There was a list of showers that she had done, and they looked very interesting. Then when |
1:41.4 | I hit that one about the windshield donut shop, it just banged. There I was right back |
1:50.7 | in to the case again. This week on the murder sheet, Don, and his wife, Kathy, returned to |
1:58.4 | the McCrary Taylor case and take us all with them. My name is Anya Cain, and I'm Kevin Greenley, |
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2:18.0 | Bergerchev murders, a 1978 unsolved case involving the killings of four young restaurant |
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