True Crime Campfire - Introducing Families Who Kill: The Donut Shop Murders

Episode Date: January 4, 2022

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: wondery.fm/DSM_TCCampfirePodBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-campfire--4251960/support.

Hi, campers. If you're a fan of shocking true crime podcast, I have your next obsession for you. It's called Families Who Kill, the Donut Shop murders. It's a story about the McCrary's, a family who terrorize small-town America, committing murders, robberies, abductions, and general mayhem everywhere they went. Led by the criminal duo of Sherman and his son-in-law Carl, this disturbed family targeted people working in donut shops. on families who kill the donut shop murders you'll hear the details of their crime spree for the first time from one of the McCrary's and the detective who tracked them across the country as they left death and destruction in their wake I'm about to play a brief preview of this show but while you're listening make sure you follow Families Who Kill on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music

or you can binge all six episodes ad-free when you subscribe to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app I thought I've gotten Sherman off this kidnap kick, and, you know, I don't have to worry about that. So this particular night, I'm not even thinking if I'd be thinking right. I think. I might have hesitated, but I wasn't thinking like I should have been. And it's kind of raining unless, like I say, I said, I created this situation, untaunctions. A store itself sits kind of out of the way.

Nothing around is open. I stopped. I went in to get some cigarettes. And the thought struck me when I walked through the door. She was in there by herself. I looked around and there comes Sherman through the door. And I just looked around and I pulled out my gun. And she looked and started laughing.

I told her, this ain't no toy girl. And she looked a hell a lot younger than she was. I think she was about 25 years old. And at that time, there ain't no way she looked over 25. Well, she was a hippier than the day is long. And she's laughing like hell. Now, I told her, now this ain't no toy. She said, I know it's not a toy.

She said, you know, she said, when you drove up, she said, I thought my mind you were going to rob me. And I said, is that right? And so I said, let's not sit around here all night. talking about it then, so she put all the money in a sack, you know, and Sherman tells her, get your coat. She looked around at him and she said, okay, she walked out the door and in the car we got. Well, I don't know what Sherman was thinking, but this is one of the few times I've ever seen him laugh. I've seen him laugh a few other times, but this ain't no time to be laughing.

And it seems he was laughing at the wrong time, but he was laughing going to the car. He said, I don't believe it. I just don't believe it. And she just opened the door and jumped in, you know, and we rattled off 90 miles an hour, you know. And she put her hand in her purse. She comes up with a couple of joints. I don't know, well, what I'll do.

Well, she lit up a joint. She's driving along. She's getting higher than a Georgia pine. Sherman's sitting there shaking his head, you know. This is the one time I think that it's getting to them because she was so non-concerned about the whole damn thing. And she asked me, you know, she said, you're married? I said, no. She asked Sherman, you married?

He said, no, no, he said. So we're driving along and talking, you know, and we're getting near Washington. So we went on across into Washington back up to the other side of. of Woodland back up in the mountains. I don't know. I fully believe I didn't know whether Sherman was thinking

about shooting her or not. She was sitting in the car and me and Sherman was out standing out there talking and he said, what do you think? And I told him, we got to cool it. I think she's cool. I said she'll go

walking off this mountain and ain't nobody going to pay it to any attention to her. He says, that's what I was thinking to. So we sit around there for a few minutes talking. And I went to the back seat. I opened the back door. I had my gun. Sherman standing in front of the car, and I didn't know he had his gun under his arm.

And he was just standing there like that. And she was standing between us. Sherman looked at me and said, nope, just can't do it. After we killed the girls, we never talked about it. He said nothing and rode along in the car and just tried to ignore it and had it back into town. You just heard a preview of families who kill the donut shop murders. New episodes are available wherever you listen to podcasts. Or you can binge the entire series early and ad-free when you subscribe to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.