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Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Wondery Presents: Families Who Kill: The Donut Shop Murders

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

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True Crime

4.68.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 5 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. Listen Here: http://wondery.fm/DSM_MomsAndMurder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, we already know you're a fan of shocking true crime podcasts. And so we have your next

0:04.8

obsession for you. It's called Families Who Kill, the donut shop murders. This is the unbelievable

0:10.6

yet totally true story of the Macquaries, a family who terrorized small town America by committing

0:16.0

murders, robberies, abductions, and overall general mayhem everywhere they went. This family was

0:21.8

led by the criminal duo of Sherman and his son and little Carl, who along with their family went

0:27.1

on to target people working in donut shops. On Families Who Kill, the donut shop murders,

0:32.0

you'll actually hear the details of that crime spree for the first time from one of the Macquaries,

0:36.8

as well as the detective who tracked them across the country as they left death and destruction in

0:40.6

their wake. We're about to play a brief preview of this show, but while you're listening,

0:44.8

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

0:50.0

episodes at free when you subscribe to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.

0:59.0

I thought I've gotten sharpened off this kidnapped cake and, you know, I don't have to worry about that.

1:05.2

So this particular night, I'm not even thinking. If I didn't think I'm right, I think I might

1:11.2

have hesitated, but I wasn't thinking like I should have done. And it's kind of raining,

1:16.7

less like I say, like I say, I created this situation, uh, unconquiously. A store itself sits kind

1:26.1

of out of the way, let them around. It is open, a stop, a went in to get some cigarettes,

1:33.6

and the boss struck me when I walked through the door. She was in there by herself. I looked around,

1:39.6

and there comes Sherman through the door, and I just looked around and I pulled out my gun,

1:44.9

and she looked and started laughing. I told her the same no toy girl. And she looked a hell

1:52.3

low younger than she was. I think she was about 25 years old. At that time, there ain't no way she

1:58.4

looked over 25. Well, she was a hitier than the day is long, and she's laughing like hell.

2:06.0

Now I told her, now they're saying no toy. She said, I know it's not a toy. She said, you know,

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