Ginger Taylor

Serial Killer

Ginger Taylor and the McCrary-Taylor Crime Family

Background

Ginger Taylor, born Ginger McCrary, was a member of the McCrary-Taylor family, a nomadic criminal group connected to a series of robberies, kidnappings, sexual assaults and murders across the western and southern United States during the early 1970s. The principal offenders were Ginger's father, Sherman McCrary, and her husband, Raymond Carl Taylor, who was commonly known as Carl Taylor. Other members included Ginger's mother, Carolyn McCrary, and her brother, Daniel "Danny" McCrary. Although Ginger has frequently been included in serial-killer databases and accounts of the family's crimes, the available record does not establish that she personally carried out the killings. Contemporary reporting generally portrayed Sherman McCrary and Carl Taylor as the principal kidnappers and murderers. Ginger and Carolyn were accused of accompanying the men, helping sustain the family's criminal activities and, in at least one case, witnessing the abuse and murder of a victim without intervening.

The Family's Criminal Pattern

The McCrary-Taylor family traveled from state to state, supporting itself through theft, fraud and armed robbery. Their crimes became increasingly violent in 1971. Sherman McCrary and Carl Taylor began targeting businesses that remained open late at night, particularly doughnut shops, cafes, convenience stores and small restaurants staffed by a lone female employee. The men would enter a business near closing time, steal money and abduct the employee to eliminate her as a witness. Victims were taken in vehicles to remote fields, ranches or isolated stretches of countryside. Investigators found that several women had been sexually assaulted, strangled or shot with small-caliber firearms. Ballistics examinations eventually connected the same weapon to multiple killings in different jurisdictions. The family's constant movement made the investigation unusually difficult. Individual murders initially appeared to be unrelated local crimes. Only after police departments and the Federal Bureau of Investigation compared witness statements, weapons evidence and the circumstances of the disappearances did authorities begin to recognize a multistate pattern. ...

Confirmed Victims: (3)

Sheri Lee Martin Age: (17), Date of Death: 1971-08-17

Suspected Victims:

Susan Darlene Shaw Age: (16), Date of Death: 1971-10-20

Cynthia Glass Age: (25), Date of Death: 1972-02

Forrest Covey Age: (24), Date of Death: 1971-10-17

Jena Covey Age: (19), Date of Death: 1971-10-17

Barbara Joan Moorman Age: (22), Date of Death: 1971-02-09

Bobbi Jo Sanders Age: (26), Date of Death: 1971

Bobbi Jean English Age: (18), Date of Death: 1971

Bobbie Turner Age: (38), Date of Death: 1971-11-30

Pat Marr Age: (22), Date of Death: 1971-11-30

Valerie Turner Age: (16), Date of Death: 1972-06-25

Jake Green Age: (69), Date of Death: 1972-03-02

Mabel Manley Age: (68), Date of Death: 1972-03-02

JoHanna Leatherbury Age: (18), Date of Death: 1971-08-21

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