Susan Darlene Shaw, 16, was abducted on October 20, 1971, from the Sweet Cream Donut Shop in Mesquite, Texas, where she worked. Her body was recovered on October 24, 1971, near Lake Ray Hubbard; two other victims, Forrest Covey, 24, and Jena Covey, 19, were found the same day in an abandoned barn in Quinlan. All three had been shot multiple times with both .32 and .22 caliber weapons.

Investigators linked the killings to the McCrary-Taylor crime family of Athens, Texas, led by Sherman McCrary and his wife Carolyn and involving their children Danny and Ginger and son-in-law Carl Taylor. Federal kidnapping charges were filed against Sherman McCrary and Carl Taylor in connection with Shaw’s abduction. Everett Clinton Harris of Quinlan was briefly arrested and held in Hunt County Jail but released and had charges dropped on December 2, 1971, for lack of evidence.

The group’s pattern reportedly included high-speed interstate trips to rob businesses, abduct female employees of donut shops or similar establishments, then kill them. Does anyone have additional information on Shaw’s case or memories of the Sweet Cream Donut Shop in Mesquite?