The Donut Shop Killers
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🗓️ 20 April 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On early autumn night in 1971, two creepy men visited Winchell's Donut Shop in Salt Lake City. Sherman McCrary and Carl Taylor sipped on coffee, and directed profane remarks at other customers. Then, when the shop had cleared out, they kidnapped Sheri Martin, the young clerk on duty.
It was the beginning of a multi-state robbery and rape and murder spree for the men and their families. At times, McCrary and Taylor even brazenly committed their sexual crimes on women as their own wives sat by, quietly watching.
Law enforcement figured out relatively quickly that the binge of violence and sexual sadism was the work of one group of perpetrators. But how many innocents would suffer and die before detectives identified the killers?
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| 0:28.0 | Content warning, this episode contains discussion of rape, murder, and violence against women. |
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| 0:42.9 | It was around 10 p.m. on August 12, 1971, when the customer decided to make a quick stop at |
| 0:49.8 | Winchell's donut house. She found what she wanted easily enough and made her purchase. |
| 0:56.2 | The clerk on duty was Sherry Martin, a friendly 17-year-old who planned head-off soon to study at |
| 1:02.3 | Dixie College. But it wasn't an entirely pleasant experience for the customer. |
| 1:09.8 | She saw two men there, sitting at a table, drinking coffee. One of the men said something profane, |
| 1:17.4 | and she turned and glared at them. And then she walked out, leaving the men alone with a teenage girl. |
| 1:25.1 | This was the moment they had been waiting for. |
| 1:29.5 | About half an hour passed before anyone noticed something was wrong. |
| 1:33.8 | A police officer happened to notice that Winchell's donut house was dark and looked closed, |
| 1:39.9 | even though it was supposed to be open all night. He investigated and found Sherry's car in the |
| 1:45.7 | parking lot, but she was gone. And so was all the money in the cash register, about $83. |
| 1:54.6 | But the coffee cups the men used were still there, and one of them had fingerprints. |
| 2:01.2 | They found Sherry a few weeks later on September 4th. |
| 2:05.7 | She had been shot eight times with a 32-calibre weapon while she was naked. Then inexplicably, |
| 2:13.6 | her assailants had dressed her and wrapped her in a blanket. Her hands were tied together with |
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